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How real is race? How real is race? Carol Chapnick Mukhopadhyay How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a “colorblind” or “postracial” society, or when we say that race is a “social construction… OL12088969W
SISTERHOOD QUESTIONED?: RACE, CLASS AND INTERNATIONALISM IN THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH WOMEN'S MOVEME… SISTERHOOD QUESTIONED?: RACE, CLASS AND INTERNATIONALISM IN THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH WOMEN'S MOVEME… CHRISTINE BOLT This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements … OL13628459W
Race Race Marc Aronson Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgm… OL15150114W
What shall we do with the Negro? What shall we do with the Negro? Paul D. Escott Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, publications of citizens' organizations, letters, diaries, and other sources, Paul D. Escott… OL15300925W
The Savage City The Savage City T. J. English The safest big city in America? That would be the question a certain generation of New Yorkers would ask someone who praises New York for it's safety and prosperity. A generation that has experienced… OL15695648W
Race after the Internet Race after the Internet Lisa Nakamura "Digital media technologies like the Internet create and host the social networks, virtual worlds, online communities, and media texts where it was once thought that we would all be the same, anonymo… OL15941596W
Doris Free A Harvest of Friends Doris Free A Harvest of Friends Cara Brookins Life on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s isn’t easy. Doris Free and her family are struggling because of the Great Depression, and the whole town is on edge as they work to survive. When a new family mo… OL16232686W
The roots of humanity The roots of humanity Jim Ollhoff Discusses the origins and issues surrounding people of different skin color, particularly those of African origin. OL16724099W
Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue Cynthia R. Nielsen Through examining Douglass's and Fanon's concrete experiences of oppression, Cynthia R. Nielsen demonstrates the empirical validity of Foucault's theoretical analyses concerning power, resistance, an… OL16820289W
'Sleepwalking to segregation'? 'Sleepwalking to segregation'? Nissa Finney This book explores contemporary claims about race and migration, combining an overview of the subject with new research. The authors argue that the myths of race and migration are the real threat to … OL16983060W
Modern Romance Modern Romance Eric Klinenberg,Aziz Ansari From NYU Wagner: At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share… OL17366804W
Ready Set Race Ready Set Race Kyla Steinkraus The fox is confident he will win the forest foot race, but he soon regrets relaxing and eating ice cream before the race while the other animals were practicing. Todos los animales se preparan par… OL17455164W
Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Barbara A. Koenig (ed.) With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, the debate over the existence of a biological basis for race has been revived. In Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, historians, anth… OL17755173W
Ontological terror Ontological terror Calvin L. Warren,Calvin L. Warren The author intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. The author use… OL17893080W
Story of the Negro Story of the Negro Arna Wendell Bontemps A history of the Negro race, from the early tribes of Africa and empire of Ethiopia, through the practice of slavery in many areas, especially the United States, to early twentieth century achievemen… OL1946472W
Race, gender, and the activism of Black feminist theory Race, gender, and the activism of Black feminist theory Suryia Nayak "Beginning from the premise that psychology needs to be questioned, dismantled, and new perspectives brought to the table in order to produce alternative solutions, this book takes an unusual trans-d… OL19662496W
Bury my clothes Bury my clothes Roger Bonair-Agard "Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect. Art-specifically in oppressed communities-is about survival, Roger Bonair-Agard asserts, and establis… OL19708607W
The Fateful Triangle The Fateful Triangle Stuart Hall Identities are not something we are born with, Hall argues, but are formed and transformed in the discourses of nation, ethnicity, and race. Casting his glance over the modern age, he shows how the i… OL19726208W
The great Han The great Han Kevin Carrico "The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing movement (Hanfu yundong), a neo-traditionalist and majority racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants … OL19754183W
The new Black The new Black Guy-Uriel E. Charles,Kenneth Walter Mack The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this volume, some of the country's most celeb… OL19970460W
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