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  • Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders

    Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century

    by Yvette M Alex-Assensoh, Prof. Rodney E. Hero Sr., Ph.D., Prof. Ronald Schmidt Sr., Ph.D., Prof. Andrew L. Aoki, Ph.D. ...
    Series series The Politics Of Race And Ethnicity
    "The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."---James Jennings, Tufts UniversityOver the past four decades, the United States has experienced the largest influx of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Asian Pacific American Politics

    Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi

    Edited by Andrew Aoki, Pei-te Lien ...
    Asian Pacific American Politics presents some of the most recent research on Asian American politics, including both quantitative and qualitative examinations of the role of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in some of today’s major political controversies.In the highly polarized politics of the United States in the early 21st century, non-Black racial minorities such as Asian Americans and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial ... Read more

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  • Family Properties

    Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

    by Beryl Satter ...
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  • The Hardest Working Man

    How James Brown Saved the Soul of America

    by James Sullivan ...
    The untold story of the night a divide nation turned to James Brown—and he delivered hope and calm in the form of an immortal concertSince James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received many stirring tributes. Yet few have addressed his contribution in the darkest hour of the Civil Rights movement. Telling for the first time the story of his historic Boston Garden concert ... Read more

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  • Fractured Identities

    Changing Patterns of Inequality

    by Harriet Bradley ...
    The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world recession and neoliberal policies of austerity. Within a framework of intersectionality, Bradley ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Red Star Over Malaya

    Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946

    by Boon Kheng Cheah ...
    Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards ... Read more

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  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Why Don't American Cities Burn?

    by Michael B. Katz ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the ... Read more

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  • Love on Trial

    An American Scandal in Black and White

    by Heidi Ardizzone, Ph.D., Earl Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "Too important to be ignored…A fascinating look at America's obsession with race, pride, and privilege." —EssenceA modern Cinderella must defend her fairy-tale marriage in a scandal that rocked jazz-age America. When Alice Jones, a former domestic, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest ... Read more

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  • The Body in Society

    An Introduction

    by Alexandra Howson ...
    In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the size, shape, smell and demeanour, reveal about the social organization of everyday life and how the body is crucial to the way we ... Read more

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  • Everyday Forms of Whiteness

    Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World

    by Melanie E. L. Bush ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the election of Barack Obama, racism is still very much a factor in everyday life. The second edition ... Read more

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