Showing titles in Racism & Discrimination

Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google. An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton. Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book...

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, Hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community.

For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism. “Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken...

Journalisten Dicte Svendsen og veninderne Anne og Ida Marie fejrer Dictes 40-års fødselsdag på en restaurant ved åen i Århus. Stemningen bliver brat afbrudt, da Dicte får øje på en balje i åen. I baljen ligger et dødt spædbarn indsvøbt i håndklæder. Få uger efter føder Ida Marie...

The Law of Injustice Repetitive AccountabilityBy Raven F. BlackwoodWhen injustice repeats, accountability escalates. This doctrine is not philosophy — it’s correction. It exposes how systems hide repetition behind procedure, how roles disguise contradiction as duty, and how authority...

How far is the gulf between you and your enemy? Too wide to cross? Too far to bridge? Or too deep to heal? All over the world, there are divides: victims and perpetrators; cops and robbers; neo-Nazis and queer communities; Hutus and Tutsis. Whether it is over class, race, sexuality, faith or...

Efter Japans angreb på Pearl Harbor i december 1941 havner 120.000 amerikanske borgere med japanske rødder bag pigtråd. Officielt skyldes interneringen, at japanerne måske vil spionere for kejserriget før en kommende invasion af USA, men i realiteten bunder beslutningen i racisme...

Bloomsbury presents Sway by Pragya Agarwal, read by Aysha Kala. ‘Passionate and urgent.’ Guardian, Book of the Week ‘A must-read for all.’ Stylist, best new books for 2020 ‘Cogently argued and intensely persuasive. Groundbreaking Work.’ Waterstones, best new books of April...

Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period; Sometimes You’re Going to Be a Crazy Bitch: and Other Advice from Mom,” and even an open letter to Trump. This is the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity. 

In this startling group memoir, four friends - Black and White, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance.

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma from the toxic stress of—discrimination, racialized violence, racial stigmatization, traumatic grief, legacies of intergenerational trauma, poverty, sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, or the remnants of colonial and historical trauma—you may struggle with feelings of anger, rage, mistrust, fear, anxiety, depression, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or find it difficult to build and keep close relationships. Sometimes you may feel alone in your pain. But you are not alone.

Seit Jahrhunderten werden Frauen unterdrückt. Frauen, die in irgendeiner Weise Stärke ausgestrahlt, sich selbst ermächtigt und zur Wehr gesetzt haben, werden belächelt, verurteilt und dämonisiert. Auf der Suche nach den Ursprüngen von Female Rage taucht Tara-Louise Wittwer (Sorry, aber …) in die europäische Geschichte ein und erzählt die ungehörten Geschichten der Frauen, die sich gegen das männliche Narrativ der Schwäche und Passivität gestemmt haben. Von den Sagen der Antike, bis zur Realität des 21.

When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helen's peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness.

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response...

The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead, genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built and we are still living under this system today: America is now at the helm.

当森严的航天选拔制度与精英主义壁垒被彻底打破，一代跨学科先驱者如何重塑人类迈向太空旅行的未来法则？这不仅是一场关于重力与速度的技术博弈，更是一次对抗组织内部文化惯性、推翻传统阶层限制的生存突围。...

Doorbreek onzichtbare patronen van racisme en ontdek hoe koloniale psychologie ons moderne zelfbeeld dagelijks stuurt. Deze leerzame ontdekkingstocht biedt diepgaande antwoorden voor iedereen die zoekt naar persoonlijke groei en maatschappelijke gelijkwaardigheid. Wanneer je de straat op stapt...

看似温和的家庭教养与私密信仰，竟是主导西方两百年社会法则与权力结构的隐形推手。如果你正对当下习以为常的道德规范感到困惑，这部发人深省的历史纪实将带你直击性别、种族与信仰交织的核心现场。...