Social discrimination and social justice Books

The story of two young lovers was used to set the scene and make a point about the theme of this book. They experienced a heartbreak resulting from love frustrated by discrimination, stigma and taboos from a people's culture. It later became the great...

2019 Reprint of 1938 Edition.  First Volume of this scarce Automobile Guide from African Americans.  The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African American road trippers. It was originated and published by African American...

Operation Mural chronicles a brave 1961 Mossad mission, based on the recently declassified minutes. A spellbound and often chilling account of what it took to smuggle 530 Moroccan Jewish children to Israel via a holiday-camp in Switzerland, re-counted by...

Born in Bucharest, Romania after World War One to a poor Jewish family, exposed to the virulence of pre-World War Two Romanian antisemitism, Baruch Cohen experienced directly the advent of fascist antisemitism in the pogrom he terms the Bucharest...

An anthology of speeches providing eloquent evidence of the powerful contribution women made to the struggleHistorians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such...

Have We Overcome? Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979Edited by Michael V. NamoratoEssays by Lerone Bennett, Jr., Vincent Harding, Morton J. Horwitz, William E. Leuchtenburg, Henry M. Levin, C. Eric Lincoln, and Robert H. WiebeOn May 17, 1954, the...

Anatomy of Four Race Riots: Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa and Chicago, 1919-1921by Lee E. Williams and Lee E. Williams IIAnatomy of Four Race Riots is a study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different...

What Was Freedom's Price?Edited by David G. SansingEssays by Willie Lee Rose, Joel Williamson, Richard Sutch & Roger Ransom, George M. Fredrickson, and C. Vann WoodwardThe political and economic instability of the post-Civil War South prompted Congress...

The Age of Segregation: Race Relations in the South, 1890-1945Edited by Robert HawsEssays by Derrick Bell, Mary Frances Berry, Dan Carter, Al-Tony Gilmore, Robert Higgs, and George TindallIn the decade of the 1890s, the southern states of the...

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York. He was kidnaped by unscrupulous slave hunters and sold into slavery where he, endured unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A...

Translated from the Russian by Victor Marsden. The Protocols supposedly outlines a plan of action by elders of the Jewish Nation to rule the world -- to take control over key organizations, including assets, in order to manipulate world affairs in their...

Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays shows that for many African Americans it was the world...

Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn't bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the...

In 1898 after the murder of a white woman, two young Seminoles were chained and burned alive. Hiding behind a wall of silence and fearing reprisal for identifying their executioners, virtually the entire white community became involved with the ghastly...

This volume expands the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the old South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from...

Written as an autobiography for the author's heirs, An Exploration of Conscience: On Becoming A Woman In The Twentieth Century And Beyond serves as a wake-up call for anyone of good conscience to confront the bigotry and discrimination that began in the...

Not since Jimmy the Greek's statement on race has there been a book this edgy! This book says what everyone would like to say but are scared to say. Straight out of the projects of Bronx New York, this author has traveled down many roads and has...

In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors...

This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the...

This book is based on the premise that understanding fascism is crucial for defeating it. Rejecting centrist paradigms that see fascism as "extremism" or "accelerationism," Braune argues that fascism must be addressed in its specificity and uniqueness as...

In the last few decades, the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. Here is an account of these social movements in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and the...

**Winner of the 2009 Biennial Prize for Ecocriticism from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment!**Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance examines a neglected but centrally important issue in critical...

The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this book explores how to face current challenges to multiculturalism without reifying...

This book examines race, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice in the Americas and moves beyond the traditional focus on North America to incorporate societies in Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

This book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims.

Since the turn of the millennium, European societies have been shaken by the re-emergence of religion as a contested factor in public life. Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies...

With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in...

The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the...

Cancelando o cancelamento: como o identitarismo da militância tabajara ameaça a democracia trata-se de uma investigação jornalística e filosófica sobre esse novo movimento da esquerda progressista, o identitarismo cancelador. Aliando anos de estudos e...

The Bahutu Manifesto was penned at a volatile moment in the history of Rwanda. Though the genocide of the 1990s was still far off, the Manifesto reveals that the seeds were already sown. In 1957, the Hutus were enjoying a reversal of fortune at the...

This unique and original compilation of Work Progress Administration slave narratives contains 145 slave narratives from the states of Oklahoma and Texas. Slave narratives from Oklahoma are difficult to obtain in print format and this title contains all...

Today, well over 100 million Europeans embrace a satanic view of the State of Israel. They believe that Israel is exterminating the Palestinians, despite their major population growth in recent decades. This current widespread demonic view of Israel is a...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. The importance of his work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be...

Exploring four Dimension of an African descent mans life in America. I'm writing to inform you of one common theme: racism. It is a constant reminder in pursuit of the American dream. From every stage of his life, he will, at some point, experience some...

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

This book, A Common Sense Approach to Racism and Other Exclusivities, will encourage peoples of all cultures to step outside their culturally defined boxes, remove their cultural blinders, and understand the evil nature and function of their social...

Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy, professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma, distress or grief.Amid a growing demand and need for guidance, this...

One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark...