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“hernan vera”

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  • White Racism

    The Basics

    by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Pinar Batur ...
    This book incorporates a range of new material on racist events and incidents across the United States. It includes a few new concepts and some of the original concepts about individual and institutionalized racism in the United States. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Screen Saviors

    Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness

    by Hernán Vera, Andrew M. Gordon ...
    Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies-by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical 'white studies,' offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century's worth of American film, from Birth of Nation (1915) through ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Agony of Education

    Black Students at a White University

    by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Nikitah Imani ...
    The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Liberation Sociology

    by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Kimberly Ducey ...
    Many people of all ages today continue to be attracted to sociology and other social sciences because of their promise to contribute to better political, social, and moral understandings of themselves and their social worlds-and often because they hope it will help them to build a better society. In a world of new movements and deepening economic inequality following the Great Recession, this new ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hitler in the Movies

    Finding Der Führer on Film

    by Sidney Homan, Hernán Vera ...
    In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing the Hitler character in the movies. How have directors, actors, film critics, and audiences accounted ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Radicalizing Learning

    Adult Education for a Just World

    by Stephen D. Brookfield, John D. Holst ...
    Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult education stands for and how adult educators should assess their effectiveness. Arguing that major changes in society are needed to create a more just world, the authors set out to show how educators can help learners envision and enact this radical transformation.Specifically, the book explores the areas of adult ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Can Education Change Society?

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now. The question was perhaps put most succinctly by the radical educator George Counts in 1932 when he ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Moral Political Economy

    Present, Past, and Future

    by Federica Carugati, Margaret Levi ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    Economies - and the government institutions that support them - reflect a moral and political choice, a choice we can make and remake. Since the dawn of industrialization and democratization in the late eighteenth century, there has been a succession of political economic frameworks, reflecting changes in technology, knowledge, trade, global connections, political power, and the expansion of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • 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

    $55.99 USD

  • How to Be an Antiracist

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York TimesONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Th... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD