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  • Brown Threat

    Identification in the Security State

    by Kumarini Silva ...
    What is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that “brown” is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11, the Patriot Act, and the wars in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it has also become a concept ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics

    The Past and Future of Political Access

    by Arshia Anwer, Rachel D. Davidson, Catherine A. Dobris, Katherine Hampsten, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Andre E. Johnson, Chandra A. Maldonado, Hinda Mandell, Marylou R. Naumoff, Richard D. Pineda, Rochelle Robertson0, Nathan Rousseau1, Elaine Schnabel2, Kumarini Silva3, Jonathan Smith4, Antonio de Velasco5, Dianna Watkins-Dickerson6, Diana Zulli7, Rebecca Kern-Stone8, Lori L. Montalbano9 ...
    Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
    Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work examines how representations in the media and larger culture can establish and diminish the status of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Migration, Identity, and Belonging

    Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland

    Edited by Margaret Franz, Kumarini Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how these boundaries are made and sustained, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois is a seminal collection of essays written during the late 19th century. This work addresses the multifaceted struggles and experiences of African Americans in the post-Civil War United States, focusing on themes of race, identity, and the quest for equality in an era plagued by systemic racism and inequity. Du Bois artfully captures the deep-seated ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Johnson ...
    The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double ... Read more

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  • Dear White America

    Letter to a New Minority

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority ... Read more

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

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
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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

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    Homeless Families in America

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  • Black Power

    Politics of Liberation in America

    by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton ...
    An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans ... Read more

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  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
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  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

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