Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, medieval practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise...
85) The Victorian reinvention of race: new racisms and the problem of grouping in the human sciences
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build...
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family."--Container.
90) Crash
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Nice Racism asserts that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of color"--
DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. She explains how spiritual white progressives seek community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups' rituals create separation, not connection. Challenging the ideology of individualism,...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call "racecraft." And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Many well-intentioned organizational diversity programs do little to create a lasting culture of equity and belonging that can transform your organization and outpace your industry. Wilkinson, a racial justice facilitator, provides leaders with a replicable structure to foster a diverse culture of belonging within your organization. She helps readers to better understand today's racial climate and its negative impact on your organization and team,...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A vital and vibrant book answering real children's questions about racism, giving them the confidence and the tools to work towards a fairer society for all. Using questions canvassed from children around the UK as her framework, writer, engineer and broadcaster, Yassmin Abdel-Magied gives clear context to the racism that persists today and shows how to recognize, resist and disrupt racist conversations and attitudes. Yassmin creates a safe space...
Author
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Featuring essays by noted anthropologists and photos from the American Anthropological Association's "RACE: Are We So Different?" project, this book explores how the notion of race has changed throughout history, as well as contemporary experiences of race and racism in the United States; how race and racism have influenced laws, customs, and social institutions; and how current scientific understanding is often inconsistent with popular beliefs about...