The compelling, little-known story of golfer Charlie Sifford and attorney Stanley Mosk who together made history by taking on the PGA and their Caucasians Only by-law.
This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.
An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring-and what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty.
Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence.
Die Forschung zur Weimarer Republik konzentriert sich vor allem auf die Städte, insbesondere Berlin; die Forschung zum Stifterwesen insbesondere auf das deutsche Kaiserreich.
Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders.
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations.
Es ist der dritte Fall des Ermittlerteams um Carmen Siebert, diagnostizierte Autistin und Polizistin aus Überzeugung und mit Herzblut, und Bernadette Pohlmann.
Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence.
Choice Outstanding Academic TitleTo many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers.
A Legacy of Purpose offers an inspiring and timely exploration of how the Leadership Alliance has transformed academic diversity through its three-decade mission to support underrepresented students in pursuing research careers.
Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about "e;Africa,"e; as Westerners love to refer to the many countries that make up that huge continent, as if Africa were a single nation state.
It is now widely recognised that rising inequality of income and wealth on the one hand and a slowdown in the rate of economic growth on the other are two of the most important challenges faced today by the global economy as well as by most of the developing economies.
En Argentina la implementación de programas fundados en la educación inclusiva de estudiantes con discapacidad en los niveles de escolaridad obligatoria sigue siendo una deuda del sistema educativo.
¿Cómo es habitar Buenos Aires en lo que va del siglo XXI, en especial para sectores populares que no siempre tienen asegurado el acceso a una vivienda en condiciones ambientales sanas?
En los últimos años el estudio sobre las desigualdades se ha transformado en uno de los temas centrales de la agenda de investigación de las ciencias sociales.
En los últimos quince años, América Latina mejoró en muchos aspectos, mediante la implementación de políticas públicas incluyentes que lograron disminuir la pobreza y ampliar las oportunidades de los sectores más postergados.
La intolerancia, asiento de fundamentalismos, recorre nuestro mundo, donde la marginación y el racismo potencian una cultura del miedo a la diferencia, de pavor por aquello que se percibe como distinto.
A través de un recorrido histórico rigurosamente documentado de las luchas del pueblo comechingón por los derechos sobre sus territorios, Tulián actualiza los reclamos y explica las diferencias de cosmovisión entre su pueblo y la civilización occidental.
The book investigates the impact of the market-oriented economic reform in China on a unique aspect of the labor market outcomes - individuals' access to different employment sectors, that is, the state and collective sector, the private sector, and the sector of family contract farming in the 1990s.
'Essential reading' DIVA MAGAZINE'Highly accessible and important' EUGENCE ELLIS'A deeply helpful and engaging read' MEG-JOHN BARKERProviding an accessible and authoritative introduction to issues around People of Colour (POC) trans inclusion, this book uses case studies, tips, checklists and anonymous survey results to set out best practice for any professionals working with trans people to create safer spaces, support and awareness.
Mark Whitaker ';writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet' (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity, expressed in the slogan ';Black Power,' challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c.
En el texto subexámine se evidencian dos situaciones: 1) la especial sensibilidad del autor sobre la vida como hecho biológico y, sobre todo, por el ejercicio de ella, realizada por los seres humanos en un medio ambiente concreto; en efecto, pareciera que el autor concibe el vivir humano como experiencia histórica relacionada con otros seres vivos, tanto racionales como irracionales, en un entorno de regulación; es decir, en el texto estudiado se infiere, sin hesitación alguna, que el profesor Echeverry Restrepo es un defensor de la vida como hecho y como relación, pero, 2) objetivamente normativizada, conformado este último ejercicio como un medio para su propia conservación.
