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A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis, author Anne Pollock takes listeners on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare.

Das weiße Denken ist weit mehr als das Denken der Weißen. Weißsein als unsichtbare Norm strukturiert unsere Gesellschaft und unseren Alltag – weltweit. Es ist der blinde Fleck des Rassismus, den der ehemalige Fußballspieler Lilian Thuram sichtbar macht. "Das weiße Denken" appelliert daran, eingeschliffene Denkmuster zu hinterfragen, damit wir einander endlich wieder als Menschen begegnen können.

Some of baseball's rebels are widely recognized, but most of them are either little known or known primarily for their baseball achievements—not their political views and activism. Many players, owners, reporters, and other activists challenged both the baseball establishment and society's status quo. Baseball Rebels tells stories of baseball's reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movements, making the game—and society—better along the way.

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert."  

"Wir sind die Kinder der kleinen Mehrheiten. Unsere Stimmen müssen in der Gesellschaft gehört werden." Was für eine Geschichte! Gianni Jovanovic hat mit 43 Jahren mehr erfahren als andere in ihrem ganzen Leben: 1978 in Rüsselsheim geboren, erlebten er und seine Familie immer wieder rassistische Anfeindungen. Mit 14 verheirateten seine Eltern ihn. Mit 17 war er bereits zweifacher Vater, Anfang 20 outete sich Gianni Jovanovic als schwul. Inzwischen ist er seit 18 Jahren mit seinem Ehemann zusammen, zweifacher Großvater und die wohl bekannteste Stimme der Rom:nja und Sinti:zze in Deutschland.

Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams' landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the 18th and 19th centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision.

What's Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of mass incarceration. Our prisons remain a shameful waste of lives and money, feeding a pathological cycle of poverty, community dysfunction, crime and hopelessness. What is the alternative? This book makes the case for better...

Colorblindness ignores the realities of race and the history of injustice. On the other hand, antiracism centers racial concerns and in so doing often alienates people who need to be involved in the process. Sociologist George Yancey offers an alternative approach to racial relations where all parties contribute and are mutually accountable to one another for societal well-being. He provides empirical rationale for how collaborative conversations in a mutual accountability model can reduce racial division.

Identitätspolitik zwischen Vernunft und Exzess. Wer gendert, das Z-Wort meidet und im Schlaf aufsagen kann, wofür die Buchstabenwürmer LGBTQIA* und BIPoC stehen, gilt in seinen Kreisen als "woke". Die Mehrheitsgesellschaft dagegen fragt: Haben wir keine anderen Sorgen? Petra Gerster und Christian Nürnberger führen durch das Minenfeld, das die deutsche Sprache durch identitätspolitische Forderungen geworden ist.

In 2010—long before the release of Lemonade—Professor Kevin Allred created the university course "Politicizing Beyonce" to both wide acclaim and controversy. He outlines his pedagogical philosophy in Ain't I a Diva?, exploring the process of teaching Beyonce and what it means to use a superstar to blow up the canon. Allred brings his syllabus to life by pairing music videos and songs with historical and academic texts, and combines analysis with classroom anecdotes.

Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of "fugitive pedagogy"—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. 

*Named one of TIME magazine's Most Anticipated Titles of 2022* From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race. In the midst of civil unrest in the...

Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of ‘relations between two racial groups within a single field of life’ has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence.

Alina guarda la esperanza de que algún lunes las cosas mejoren. Sin embargo, no esperaba que ese lunes su vida cambiara para siempre. Daniel, su mejor amigo, se suicidó a causa del bullying que sufría por parte de Mauricio y otros compañeros. Una noticia que, para ella, modifica todo...

Apenas uma abordagem multidimensional permite efetivamente perceber como o racismo racial sempre esteve no comando da iniquidade da sociedade brasileira, da escravidão até hoje. Ao desvendar todas as máscaras de que o afeto racista se recobre para continuar vivo fingindo que morreu, podemos enfim perceber o racismo racial como a verdadeira causa de todo o atraso social, econômico e político do Brasil. Este livro veio para levar a outro patamar de sofisticação teórica a discussão sobre o racismo no Brasil.

On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward girls, Demerson was then transferred (along with forty-six other girls) to Torontos Mercer Reformatory for Females. The girls were locked in their cells for twelve hours a day and required to work in the on-site laundry and factory.

Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen Black soldiers stood at attention in front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had been convicted of participating in one of America’s most infamous Black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as the 1917 Houston Riots

Ohne Kippa geht Levi Ufferfilge nicht aus dem Haus. Tagtäglich bestreitet er mit dem kleinen Stück Stoff auf dem Kopf seinen Alltag. Doch das Sichtbarsein als Jude bleibt nicht ohne Folgen: Antisemitische Anfeindungen, Beleidigungen und kuriose Begegnungen aller Art. Eine erhellende wie schockierende Erzählung über das Jüdischsein in Deutschland heute.

Naomi and Natalie Evans, founders of Everyday Racism, share their experiences of growing up mixed race in Britain, how they process, understand and learn about their identity and use their privilege to advocate for change, as well as addressing the privileges and complexities of being mixed race in Britain today.

An eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support the status of those in power at the destructive expense of those without it. From 1958, China declared war on sparrows, contributing to the deaths of more than 10 million people. In the 19th century, the Shuar people of Ecuador were driven by economic need to wage bloody wars to procure shrunken heads for the Western curio market, which nearly destroyed their society. There have been 55 prime ministers of Great Britain, of whom 48 have been privately educated, creating a society built for and by the privileged.