New Critical Viewpoints on Society
To Understand Race in America: Start Here
1st Edition
By Sue Kiefer Hammersmith, Bob-e Simpson Epps
September 01, 2026
This book gives readers the context they need to understand America’s racial system and how it affects all Americans today. It explores the hidden history of race and white supremacy in the USA. It covers the creation of a mythological “White race” in North America; the complex array of policies, ...
American Antiblackness: Examining the Fields of Contemporary Racism
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Ewell, Joe Feagin
July 15, 2026
American Antiblackness: Examining the Fields of Contemporary Racism details how, from its founding, antiblackness has been axiomatic for the United States. The goal of antiblackness is the delegitimization and dehumanization of actual blackness, from its oral and written resistance narratives to ...
Racism in the Neoliberal Era: A Meta History of Elite White Power
2nd Edition
By Randolph Hohle
August 22, 2025
Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest Black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Racial ...
Violent and Verdant: Systemic Injustice in Public Parks in the U.S.
1st Edition
By KangJae Jerry Lee
March 20, 2025
Public parks in the U.S. are one of the most contentious and paradoxical places. Many Americans believe public parks are encapsulations of nature, promoters of health, and embodiments of egalitarianism and democracy, providing a wide range of health, economic, cultural, and social benefits to users...
Race, Class, Gender, and the Struggle for Social Justice in Higher Education: Unveiling the Unnamed Elite
1st Edition
By Angela D. Calise
November 11, 2024
Offering readers an insightful exploration of the challenges faced by leaders in higher education as they navigate the complexities of promoting social justice and caring for minoritized populations, this book delves into their untold stories to reveal the triumphs and struggles of these ...
Recolonizing Africa: An Ethnography of Land Acquisition, Mining, and Resource Control
1st Edition
By Mariam Mniga
March 19, 2024
Received an honorable mention at the Wallerstein Memorial Book Awards Explaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping Africa poor and dependent, this book explains how trade liberalization, ...
Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring
1st Edition
By Noel A. Cazenave
September 15, 2023
Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities. Cazenave conceptualizes kindness ...
Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790
1st Edition
By James V. Fenelon
April 28, 2023
This book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system. Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native (and ...
The Spanish Language in the United States: Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By José Cobas, Bonnie Urciuoli, Joe Feagin, Daniel Delgado
February 25, 2022
The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers’ resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their ...
Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era
1st Edition
By Edna Chun, Joe R. Feagin
August 24, 2021
Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era offers a probing and unvarnished look at the causes of the substantial state defunding of public higher education over the last six decades. With the pandemic and cuts to social services, these challenges have only ...
Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership
1st Edition
By Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru
July 16, 2021
African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership. This book explains the motivations for pursuing homeownership amongst working-class African Americans despite the structural conditions that make it less economically and socially rewarding for this group. Fervent...
Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization and Racialization of Jews and Political Dissidents During the Third Reich
1st Edition
By Willa Johnson
June 01, 2021
This book offers visual, social-historical analyses of paintings and drawings of the renowned German Communist artist Karl Schwesig. It follows the course of Schwesig’s internments, but is dedicated primarily to the plight of foreign Jewish persons and Christians (of Jewish descent) who were ...