Social discrimination and social justice

From modern pop culture to anti-Blackness, faith and family, politics, education, creativity and working life; this anthology gives visibly Muslim women a space to speak.

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence.

In 2008, the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only 22 percent of white people in the US believe that racism is a major societal problem.

Despite over four hundred years of slavery and intimidation, the Black man continues to be dehumanized, delegitimized, degraded, and destroyed.

Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation.

One night after midnight social workers brought a baby girl to the authors home, and her life as a foster mother began.

In this timely book, journalist Lisa Benson shares her journey from the newsroom to the courtroom in her fight for justice at a local television station.

In 2008, the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only 22 percent of white people in the US believe that racism is a major societal problem.

Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descentboth within Mexico and in the United Statessince the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.

"e;When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work.

Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of societys body outlawsindividuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body.

In February 1954, President Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Warren to dinner at the White House.

These lessons and stories of truths take root in Eli, and as he grows into a young adult, he begins to place his thoughts onto paper in the form of controversial poems and creative writings.

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods.

Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descentboth within Mexico and in the United Statessince the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.

Why are so many of today's supermen super-clueless?

Much has been written about America and what it has meant, not only to the North American region but to the world as well.

The goal and motivation for publishing this book is to promote pride, faith, importance of goals, education, and achievement.

From the roots of a spiritual theory, the major objective of this book is intended to prove no race is superior over another.

In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated.

Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a 'trans tipping point', while American Vogue named 2015 'the year of trans visibility'.

This book delves into the complexity of the exclusion of multiple minority identities against the backdrop of anti-Black racism, linguistic discrimination, slavery, and colonialism and neo-colonialism, along with resilience against identity exclusion.

Real conversations about racism need to start now Let's Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do it for us.

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Hailed by The Washington Post as "e;mandatory reading,"e; and praised by Fareed Zakaria as "e;intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,"e; a powerful journey to help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.

Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the Guide for Blind Rovers by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies.

Walk with Me is a story about the transformative power of friendship.

Since the early 1990s, close to 250,000 children born abroad have been adopted into the United States.

An acclaimed author "e;argues .

Voices Cry Out: Postprison Mind-Set identifies how power is perpetuated through prison systems in terms of policies and economics.

Redefining the face of the American farmer The growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing the way the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, and yet, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture.

This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.

"e;With this book, Twiza has succeeded in causing a crack in the fortress built by certain obsolete educational practices that tend, more often than not, to buckle from the inside, a community of practice that is eager and ready to develop collaborative outreach programmes.

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What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge?

This sports book, memoir, and manifesto from a Super Bowl Champion elucidates racism in the United States.

America's Corrupt and Discriminating Judicial System Against Black, Hispanic, Female, and Low Income Americans, is designed for the common people to compete with America's corrupt Judicial System, and win or alleviate lost!

Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men.

It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all.

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived?

The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement were extraordinary acts of dissent in an age marked by protest.

"e;Offers critical insights into the whirlwind pandemic and racism have reaped .

Understanding Alice Walker serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifaceted canon.

The ongoing war on terror, instability in the Middle East, and a faltering world economy are capturing headlines everywhere.

In modern Britain, what does it mean to be queer and religious?

This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.