Author: Gargi Bhattacharyya Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136352562 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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Reviewing cutting-edge debates around racial politics and the culture and economy of globalization, this book draws together a wide range of important contemporary debates in a clear and concise way for undergraduate students. Far from concluding that racism is over, the authors contend that the forces of globalization inhabit older cultures of racial division in order to safeguard the economic interests of the privileged. Arguing that the unspoken culture of whiteness informs much that passes in the name of globalization, the book suggests that we are witnessing a reformulation of economic relations around global racisms. Alongside these shifts in economic relations, racialized identities evolve to encompass mixed heritages and mixed cultures both in personal identities and in lifestyle choices. This is one of the few texts that concentrates on the theory of race rather than politics. It looks at race in global terms, and at 'whiteness' as a part of ethnic studies.
Author: R. Khari Brown Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472129090 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 181
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This book examines the intersection of race, political sermons, and social justice. Religious leaders and congregants who discuss and encourage others to do social justice embrace a form of civil religion that falls close to the covenantal wing of American civil religious thought. Clergy and members who share this theological outlook frame the nation as being exceptional in God’s sight. They also emphasize that the nation’s special relationship with the Creator is contingent on the nation working toward providing opportunities for socioeconomic well-being, freedom, and creative pursuits. God’s covenant, thus, requires inclusion of people who may have different life experiences but who, nonetheless, are equally valued by God and worthy of dignity. Adherents to such a civil religious worldview would believe it right to care for and be in solidarity with the poor and powerless, even if they are undocumented immigrants, people living in non-democratic and non-capitalist nations, or members of racial or cultural out-groups. Relying on 44 national and regional surveys conducted between 1941 and 2019, Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics explores how racial experiences impact the degree to which religion informs social justice attitudes and political behavior. This is the most comprehensive set of analyses of publicly available survey data on this topic.
Author: John Dower Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0307816141 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 411
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Author: Gerald Markowitz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136692924 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations, this important work captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the story of the civil rights movement.
Author: Elaine Pinderhughes Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0029253411 Category : Ethnic attitudes Languages : en Pages : 294
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foreword by Alvin Pouissant.505::Introduction--Culture, social interaction, and the human services--Understanding difference--Understanding ethnicity--Understanding race--Understanding power--Assessment--Treatment--Afterword: Beyond the cultural interface--Appendix: Teaching methods--Notes--References--Index.
Author: Anita Hill Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 344
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The shock waves from Anita Hill's testimony at the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas continue to reverberate. Race, Gender, and Power in America is a powerful and deeply felt collection of essays that examines the context and consequences of that controversy. Edited by Hill andEmma Coleman Jordan, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and including the first published essay on the episode written by Hill herself, these essays explore the volatile politics of race and gender, and the unique challenges faced by African American women. Among the distinguished contributors are Eleanor Holmes Norton, playwright and actress Anna Deveare Smith, Chief Judge Emeritus A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals, and four members of Hill's legal team during the Thomas hearings: her lead counsel, Harvard's Charles J.Ogletree, Jr.; Judith Resnik of the University of Southern California Law Center; Susan Deller Ross, a sex discrimination expert at Georgetown Law Center; and volume co-editor Emma Jordan. Jordan's essay probes the cultural mindset of African Americans who accused Hill of "airing dirty linen" inpublic, as though by not remaining silent she had betrayed her race. In "She's no lady; she's a nigger," Adele Logan Alexander scrutinizes the devastating, centuries-old stereotypes of African American women as mindless, untrustworthy, and sexually insatiable. Hill examines the institutions ofpatronage and marriage, demonstrating how, as a professional African American woman with no official Senate sponsor, she confounded the assumptions by which lawmakers are accustomed to assigning credibility and status. "In going before the Committee, I came face to face with a history of exclusionfrom power," she writes. Charles R. Lawrence views the controversy as Act One in a three act morality play starring Clarence Thomas, William Kennedy Smith, and Mike Tyson, and Harvard's Orlando Paterson maintains that it is black men, even more than black women, who suffer the consequences ofstrained gender relations. Looking to the future, Robert L. Allen describes his encouraging work with the Oakland Men's Project, and offers a prescription for ending sexual harassment and the system of sexism that underpins it. Penetrating, bold, and ultimately empowering, Race, Gender, and Power is provocative reading for everyone concerned about the fault lines of race and gender threatening to rupture our society.
Author: Theo Gavrielides Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000449939 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 305
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We are living in a world where power abuse has become the new norm, as well as the biggest, silent driver of persistent inequalities, racism and human rights violations. The COVID-19 socio-economic consequences can only be compared with those that followed World War II. As humanity is getting to grips with them, this timely book challenges current thinking, while creating a much needed normative and practical framework for revealing and challenging the power structures that feed our subconscious feelings of despair and defeatism. Structured around the four concepts of power, race, justice and restorative justice, the book uses empirical new data and normative analysis to reconstruct the way we prevent power abuse and harm at the inter-personal, inter-community and international levels. This book offers new lenses, which allow us to view power, race and justice in a modern reality where communities have been silenced, but through restorative justice are gaining voice. The book is enriched with case studies written by survivors, practitioners and those with direct experiences of power abuse and inequality. Through robust research methodologies, Gavrielides’s new monograph reveals new forms of slavery, while creating a new, philosophical framework for restorative punishment through the acknowledgement of pain and the use of catharsis for internal transformation and individual empowerment. This is a powerful and timely book that generates much needed hope. Through a multi-disciplinary dialogue that uses philosophy and critical theory, social sciences, criminology, law, psychology and human rights, the book opens new avenues for practitioners, researchers and policy makers internationally.
Author: Frédérick Douzet Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813932815 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 508
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This book examines the contemporary politics of race in Oakland California with a detailed study of conflicts over issues like education, elections and political representation, and crime.
Author: Pauline Lipman Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791437698 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 356
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Explores the intersection of two central issues in American education today: school reform through restructuring and alienation from school of many children of color. A tough look at the impact of teachers' and administrators' beliefs and practices.
Author: Gargi Bhattacharyya
Author: R. Khari Brown
Author: Neil Kraus
Author: John Dower
Author: Gerald Markowitz
Author: Elaine Pinderhughes
Author: Anita Hill
Author: Theo Gavrielides
Author: Frédérick Douzet
Author: Pauline Lipman