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Social scientists for social justice Social scientists for social justice John P. Jackson Kenneth Clark's demonstration that Black children preferred white dolls to black ones was one of many studies to show the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. Clark and other… OL12344259W
Redemption Redemption Nicholas Lemann A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Jour… OL15839444W
Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico Jay Kinsbruner "Based on examination of housing patterns in San Juan and demographic data from four of its 19th-century barrios, work provides a much-needed exploration of racial prejudice in Puerto Rico. Challenge… OL19540961W
Discrimination and human rights Discrimination and human rights Sandra Fredman This set of essays provides an important contribution to the debate about the role of human rights law in combating racism. The first essay examines the right to equality in the context of racism, dr… OL20891666W
The international politics of race The international politics of race Michael Blanton,Michael Banton "In this new book, Michael Banton recounts key events in the international politics of action against racial discrimination in recent decades. He discusses the difficulties in defining race and racis… OL20896806W
Racism Racism George M. Fredrickson "Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteen… OL2671407W
The evidence of things not seen The evidence of things not seen James Baldwin This edition of a classic work by one of America’s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was w… OL2683353W
Minderheid of medelander Minderheid of medelander Nico J. van Vliet Inventarisatie van de diverse facetten van het verschijnsel discriminatie. OL27676485W
Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father FERNANDO MIRANDA MURO,EVARISTO PAEZ RASMUSSEN,EVARISTO PAEZ RASMUSSEN,Barack Obama,Canongate Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama's remarkable memoir. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many y… OL3246382W
The death of Reconstruction The death of Reconstruction Heather Cox Richardson "Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on the South and on white Americans' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was crit… OL3348608W
The anatomy of racial inequality The anatomy of racial inequality Glenn C. Loury Why are black Americans so persistently confined to the margins of society? And why do they fail across so many metrics—wages, unemployment, income levels, test scores, incarceration rates, health ou… OL3525828W
American apartheid American apartheid Douglas S. Massey Traces the development and consequences of white society's attempts to segregate and isolate blacks as they migrated from the South to other parts of America during the 20th century. OL4286645W
Jefferson's pillow Jefferson's pillow Roger W. Wilkins "As a black man, Roger Wilkins feels at times unwelcome in America. Although an outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, the assistant attorney general during the Johnson administration, a… OL4458298W
The Nazi Conscience The Nazi Conscience Claudia Koonz The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic communi… OL5265263W
Colored pictures Colored pictures Michael D. Harris "In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses… OL5954019W