Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father.
The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "e;racist monuments"e; we call freeways.
Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup.
Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century.
This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives of students.
Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans.
How Americans learned to wait on time for racial changeWhat if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness has entrenched it further?
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America-the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status.
Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of decolonization.
Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine.
This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century.
This book is about the psychological and mental effects of Black people being under the domination, regulation and covert influence of the white Europeans for more than four hundred years!
This book presents some very raw facts about the negative aspects of racism and the devastating effects it has on individuals, municipalities, States, the Nation and indeed the world.
This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be able and active anti-racist allies.
Finding the courage to give voice to stories of trauma, oppression, and internal shame is often difficult, but also is the first step to healing and freedom.
This volume by a Cherokee teacher, former pastor, missiologist, and historian brings Indigenous theology into conversation with Western approaches to history and theology.
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another.
This is a narrative guide that takes current and prospective homeowners/investors by the hand, helping them understand the sometimes complex concept of association dwellings.
Filled with religious quotes, lists, and personal stories, Damaged Goods in Black and White examines the underlying racial tensions that exist between black and white males in particular and men of color in general.
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces what she believes is humanity's racial bottom line with a compelling account of her personal experiences growing up in 1950's and 60's segregated New Orleans.
This book will cover everything from a brief history of hidden messages that have been written and misinformed by western education, medicine, psychiatry, education and religion.
