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Critical Perspectives on Social Science: American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract: A Historical Perspective on Race-Based Politics (Paperback)

The issue of race is often a scab Americans choose to ignore. However social science has a responsibility and an obligation to examine not simply the amenable subjects but also the controversial. This work in a word is controversial. Thomas Franks... more

Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology: Race and Affluence: An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture (Paperback)

An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material historical and ethnographic resources from Annapolis Maryland during the period 1850 to 1930 the author probes distinctive... more

Pre-Owned Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Rethinking the Great White North : Race Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada (Paperback)

Rethinking the Great White North : Race Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada more

Pre-Owned Americans All: Race and Ethnic Relations in Historical Structural and Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover - Used) 1931719543 9781931719544

The second edition of Peter Kivisto and Wendy Ng s Americans All introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today s college student population. The text combines both... more

Social Theory - A Historical Analysis of Canadian Socio-Cultural Policies Race and the Other : A Case Study of Social and Spatial Segregation in Montreal (Hardcover)

Canadian society differs from the US - in particular a central theme is the problem of reconciling Quebec nationalist aspirations within the economic union of Canada and its English speaking majority. While the U.S solution to ethnic diversity has... more

New Suns: Race Gender and Sexuality: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

Writers and critics explore Afrofuturism as both a historical and a global phenomenon. more

New Historical Perspectives: Gender Emotions and Power 1750–2020 (Paperback)

A timely intervention into contemporary debates on emotions gender race and power this collection of essays interrogates how emotional expectations are established as gendered racialised and class-based notions. It then explores the ways these... more

Pre-Owned Race and Ethnicity in the United States (Paperback) 0136030343 9780136030348

This concise topical introduction to race and ethnicity in the U.S. explores prejudice discrimination immigration ethnicity and religion in their historical and current contexts. Based on the opening chapters of the best-selling Racial and Ethnic... more

Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life - Studies in Race Culture and Tradition (Hardcover)

An intensive study of Scotland s folklore and a detailed evaluation of the characteristic features that brought Celtic lore into prominence. This volume includes comparative notes and historical summaries of stories of alien intrusions settlements and... more

Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Hardcover)

Kay Anderson s provocative account traces how the nineteenth century ideas of race arose. Including historical understandings of humanity . This original contribution will be of interest to academics of diverse social and humanities backgrounds. more

The Psychoanalysis of Race (Hardcover)

Are divisive political forces the source of the historical persistence of racism and its alarming reoccurence in contemporary society? Or are there more subtle and more intractable causes? This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology (Paperback)

This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology discusses the tensions between regulation and promotional... more

Race Panic and the Memory of Migration (Traces 2) (Paperback)

The second volume of the Traces series “Race� Panic and the Memory of Migration explores complex relations between violence historical memory and the production of “ethnicity� and “race.� Some essays analyze the panicked “othering� that... more

Routledge International Handbooks: The Routledge International Handbook of Race Culture and Mental Health (Paperback)

This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race ethnicity and culture in mental health - historical origins subsequent transformations and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness... more

An Account of the Polynesian Race V1 : Its Origin and Migrations and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I (Hardcover)

An Account of the Polynesian Race is a historical book written by Abraham Fornander. It is the first volume in a series that explores the origin and migrations of the Polynesian people as well as the ancient history of the Hawaiian people up until the... more

Pre-Owned Dictionary of Race Ethnicity and Culture 9780761969006

The Dictionary of Race Ethnicity and Culture provides the historical background and etymology of a wide number of words related to the concepts of race ethnicity and culture and looks at them from a broadly multicultural perspective. CONDITION –... more

Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000 (Hardcover)

This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies such as geography history and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education... more

Race Class Power and Organizing in East Baltimore : Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (Hardcover)

Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America their structural causes and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of... more

Race and Social Policy (Hardcover)

Social policy is not blind. It has been at the forefront of perpetuating structural inequality in many of the systems charged with serving and protecting. The impact of race on social policy is linked to historical (intended and unintended) patterns of... more

Pre-Owned Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (Routledge Student Readers) Paperback

An important and innovative collection this book brings together the work of scholars who have helped to shape the study of race and racism as a historical and contemporary phenomenon. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition.... more

Routledge Student Readers Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (Paperback)

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital and ever-evolving field of scholarship and research. Combining contributions from seminal thinkers leading scholars and emergent voices this... more

Studies in the Psychosocial: Race Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial PRAXIS (Hardcover)

Race Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis draws on a psychosocial approach that is uniquely suited to the socio-historical and psychical analysis of racism. The book relies mainly on the memories stories and... more

Key Approaches to Criminology: Race & Crime: A Critical Engagement (Paperback)

In this original and cutting-edge new textbook Mike Rowe explores the key topics in race and crime. Examining the main issues from a historical and comparative approach the book fully situates arguments and ideas in a global context with contemporary... more

Pre-Owned Race Space and Riots in Chicago New York Los Angeles Hardcover Janet L. Abu-Lughod

This book weaves together historical narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space politics and economic conditions all structure the form and virulence of urban rebellions in the 60s.... more

Tragic No More : Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity (Paperback)

This book examines popular representations of biracial women of black and white descent in the United States focusing on novels television music and film. Although the emphasis is on the 1990s the historical arc of the study begins in the 1930s.... more

New Suns: Race Gender and Sexuality: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

Writers and critics explore Afrofuturism as both a historical and a global phenomenon. Finalist 2021 Locus Award In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic... more

Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity Immigration Assimilation and the Cultural Construction of American National Identity (Paperback)

Over the course of the 20th century there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot Anglo-Protestantism and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what... more

Race Space and Riots in Chicago New York and Los Angeles 9780199936557 Used / Pre-owned

Race Space and Riots in Chicago New York and Los Angeles weaves together historical narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space politics and economic conditions - not simply an abstract race... more

Pre-Owned Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Paperback) by Arnold R Hirsch N D B Connolly

9780226728513. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Enlarged ed. Language: English. Pages: 400. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Historical Studies of Urban America. First published in 1983 and praised by the... more

They Called Them Greasers : Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas 1821–1900 (Paperback)

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas. more

Power Play: Games Politics Culture: Made in Asia/America : Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Hardcover)

The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games Asia and America showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire race and coalition. more

Research and Practice in Social Studies: Civic Engagement in Communities of Color: Pedagogy for Learning and Life in a More Expansive Democracy (Paperback)

Situated at the intersection of race and civics this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian... more

Pre-Owned They Called Them Greasers : Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas 1821-1900 9780292780545

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to... more

Pre-Owned Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women s Equality in African American Communities (Paperback 9780345454133) by Johnnetta B Cole Beverly Guy-Sheftall

9780345454133. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 336. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. As scholars feminists and intellectual leaders the authors examine the historical conflict between race and gender... more

Pre-Owned: Racial and Ethnic Groups: Census Update (Hardcover 9780205800513 0205800513)

Racial and Ethnic Groups: Census Update ISBN-10 0205800513 ISBN-13 9780205800513 Schaefer Richard T. 12 edition 480 pages Publisher: Pearson Binding: Hardcover This best-selling Race & Ethnic Relations text is grounded in a socio-historical perspective... more

Pre-Owned America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible (Hardcover 9780684809335) by Stephan Thernstrom Abigail M Thernstrom

9780684809335. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 704. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 704 p. In the first major work on race and social policy from a historical perspective in more than 100 years Bancroft Prize-winning... more