Social discrimination and social justice

Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums.

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain.

The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century.

An insider's account of the negotiations which ended the Rhodesia conflict and of the British role in South Africa in the period leading up to the release of Nelson Mandela.

In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America.

This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceanera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States.

What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present?

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women's movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn elegant meditation on the complexities of the American Southand thus of Americaby an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time.

Robert Fröwein erzählt von den Erfahrungen, die Lenker des Fahrtendienstes Uber mit ihren Kunden in der Metropole Wien machen.

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.

The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South.

This book examines in depth post-Soviet Jews'' attitudes toward religion, intermarriage, emigration, anti-Semitism and rebuilding Jewish life.

The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.

For many soldiers, the end of military service signals a cruel and new beginning.

This title was first published in 1991: This collection focuses on the concepts and measurements of inequality, poverty, the concentration of wealth, and the implications of these issues for social policies.

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideNow in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.

A collection written by a who's who of antifascist researchers and theorists in the US, including Tal Lavin (Culture Warlords); Kim Kelly (Fight Like Hell), Hilary Moore (No Fascist USA!

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system.

The entire Italian American experience-from America's earliest days through the present-is now available in a single volume.

A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius - a land of no one - when the white man arrived.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

What can experiences of misogyny and classism teach us about the forces of patriarchy and inequality within the university?

This book examines representations of Muslim women as speakers of English in the context of a language ideological debate in the UK in 2016.

The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The very important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 20th century.

In Against Extraction Matt Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St.

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle.

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences.

One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology-the role of oral tradition in scientific research.

There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

As indigenous populations are invited to participate in cultural heritage identification, research, interpretation, management, and preservation, they are faced with a variety of challenges, questions that are difficult to answer, and demands that must be carefully navigated.

Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study.

The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'.

'The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan is a tour de force - combining erudite analysis, historical research, atmospheric story-telling, page-turning prose and above all, profound passion.

Why do people hate one another?

Central America is an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, with sweeping panoramic vistas of tropical vegetation, towering mountains, and striking ethnic and racial diversity.

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels.

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government.

James es un libro fascinante.

How do people think about their identities?

Philosophically addresses the problems of racism and the legacy of past racial discrimination in the United States.

Globalizing through the Vernacular analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth.

This book, on Jimi Hendrix's life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix's relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation.

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism.