Showing titles in Racism & Discrimination

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry “Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple act of running has never been so simple. It is a declaration of the right to move through the...

Neues von der Autorin von "exit RACISM". Wir alle sind rassistisch sozialisiert. In dieser Minute erleben hunderttausende Schwarze Menschen und People of Color in Deutschland Alltagsrassismus: Sie bekommen den Job oder die Wohnung nicht, ihre Kinder erhalten schlechtere Noten. Rassismuskritik ist kein Trend und keine Phase. Es ist ein Kampf für Gerechtigkeit und Freiheit, der seit vielen Jahrhunderten gekämpft wird. Schließe dich den Kämpfenden an! Entscheide dich jeden Tag bewusst dafür, das System Rassismus Stück für Stück zu dekonstruieren. Tupoka Ogette ist DIE deutsche Expertin für Antidiskriminierung.

Tim Wise is one of America's most prolific public intellectuals. His critically acclaimed books, high-profile media interviews, and year-round speaking schedule have established him as an invaluable voice in any discussion on issues of race and multicultural democracy. In Under the Affluence, Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need.

Als Tochter koreanischer Einwanderer wächst Cathy Park Hong voller Scham, Misstrauen und Melancholie auf. Erst später versteht sie, dass diese "Störgefühle", wie sie sie nennt, eine Bandbreite negativer Emotionen, immer dann aufkommen, wenn sie anti-asiatischen Rassismuserfahrungen ausgesetzt ist. Mit Sinn für Komik und cooler Intelligenz liefert sie ausgehend von ihrer eigenen Lebensgeschichte eine eingehende Betrachtung davon, wo Menschen mit asiatischen Wurzeln heute stehen.

In Unwelcome Guests, Harold S. Wechsler and Steven J. Diner argue that discrimination in college admissions has a long and troubling history in the US. Institutions of higher learning have vigorously sought to shape their mission and the experiences of their undergraduate students by paying careful attention to race and religion in admissions decisions. Wechsler and Diner explore how American colleges and universities sought to restrict enrollment of students they considered undesirable.  

The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking "honor killing" of the author's classmate and friend, Israa Ghrayeb. Her alleged crime? The simple act of going out, in broad daylight, with her fiancé and his sister - an act Ghrayeb's cousin maintained was unacceptable in a conservative society. While Ghrayeb's killers may be free, their manner of thinking is anything but. Tamar Haddad seeks to open minds to diverse perspectives and to give voice to those who are commonly marginalized in conservative Palestinian society.

"This book has the important element that is missing in most of the books and articles on Garvey - a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about." (John Henrik Clarke, The Black Scholar) A classic study of the Garvey movement, this is the most thoroughly researched book on Garvey's ideas by a historian of Black nationalism.

Etan Thomas, an eleven-year NBA veteran and lifelong advocate for social justice, shares his personal experiences with police violence and white supremacy, weaving them together with interviews of athletes, entertainers, media figures, and retired police officers, as well as family members of victims of police brutality.

On December 4, 1931, a mob of White men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a 23-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the Deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole.

An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of 2022 'Essential reading' - The Guardian 'Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour' - The i 'Makes a powerful case' - Rt Hon Lady Hale ‘Revealing and beautifully written’ - David Harewood ________ Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a...

The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform. It is a long way from being a place of Black flourishing.

Dieses Hörbuch richtet sich an alle Menschen mit gutem Gewissen. Natürlich sind sie gegen Homophobie, Rassismus und andere Arten der Diskriminierung. Sicher sind sie auch gegen Antisemitismus in jeder Form. Aber zählen Juden wirklich genauso in den Debatten der Gegenwart? David Baddiel ist in Großbritannien berühmt als politischer Kommentator und Comedian. Als prominente jüdische Stimme stellt er bohrende Fragen: Gelten Juden wirklich als handfest bedroht, genau wie andere Minderheiten? Und falls nicht - warum?

Sabrina Pace-Humphreys is a 43-year-old mother of four and grandmother of two, an award-winning businesswoman, an ultrarunner, a social justice activist and a recovering alcoholic. She is a mixed-raced woman, the daughter of a white Scottish Roman Catholic woman and a Black Church of England man. When she was two, her parents separated and Sabrina, her mother and her white-presenting younger sister moved to a small market town where no one looked like her. From as young as she can remember, she was the subject of verbal and physical racist abuse.

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office, Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation's founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress.

Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to succeed in these exclusive, usually all-White, academic and professional realms. The book provides searing accounts of racism inscribed on campus, in the lab, and on the job, and portrays learning and work environments as arenas rife with racial stereotyping, conscious and unconscious bias, and micro-aggressions.

 In Black Reconstruction W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, "The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." His words echo across the decades as the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights laws in the '60s, has seen those gains steadily and systematically whittled away. 

O audiolivro "Tratado de Direito Antidiscriminatório", do celebrado autor Adilson José Moreira, reflete a necessidade da análise e sistematização dos diversos conteúdos de uma disciplina jurídica de extrema relevância para a consolidação e avanço de uma cultura democrática no nosso país.

De autoria da jornalista e escritora pernambucana Jaqueline Fraga, o livro Negra Sou: a ascensão da mulher negra no mercado de trabalho, traz uma série de reportagens especiais com cinco mulheres negras que atuam em algumas das profissões mais valorizadas do país.

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of fifteen activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities - using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children at disproportionate rates.

America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that’s the story many Americans have long told themselves. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Prizewinning historian Thomas A. Guglielmo draws together more than a decade of extensive research to tell sweeping yet personal stories of race and the military.