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“john brittain”

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  • Charles H. Houston

    An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership

    by Derek W. Black, John Brittain, Malachi Crawford, Katherine Bankole Medina, Julius E. Thompson, L. Darnell Weeden, Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Christel N. Temple, Cary D. Wintz ...
    This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When compiling scholarly articles for this volume, the challenge was examining not just legal precedents ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • We Gon' Be Alright

    Notes on Race and Resegregation

    by Jeff Chang ...
    A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation."The Smartest Book of the Year" ( The Washington Post)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang ( Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the ... Read more

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  • Howard Zinn on Race

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In "The Southern Mystique," he tells of how he was asked to leave Spelman in 1963 after teaching ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cuz

    An American Tragedy

    by Danielle Allen ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf AwarenessA School Library Journal "In the Margins" Recommendation“An elegiac memoir and social jeremiad,” Cuz is “a literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle A... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
    Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

    by Wendy Chan, Dorothy Chunn ...
    Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional analysis, Chan and Chunn explore how the connection between race and crime is further affected by ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Understanding Inequality

    The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...
    As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Race in Another America

    The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

    by Edward E. Telles ...
    This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The New CEOs

    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

    by Richard L. Zweigenhaft, G. William Domhoff ...
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Racisms in a Multicultural Canada

    Paradoxes, Politics, and Resistance

    by Augie Fleras ...
    In acknowledging the possibility that as the world changes so too does racism, this book argues that racism is not disappearing, despite claims of living in a post-racial and multicultural world. To the contrary, racisms persist by transforming into different forms whose intent or effects remain the same: to deny and disallow as well as to exclude and exploit.Racisms in a Multicultural Canada is ... Read more

    $37.49 USD