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Racism in the Neoliberal Era A Meta History of Elite White Power

Racism in the Neoliberal Era: A Meta History of Elite White Power

2nd Edition

Forthcoming

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

1st Edition

By Edna Chun, Joe 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

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

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 ...

Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Higher Education

Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Higher Education

1st Edition

By Edna Chun, Alvin Evans
April 20, 2021

The higher education literature on workplace diversity has overlooked the development of multigenerational workforce strategies as a key component of an inclusive talent proposition. While race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and other demographic attributes have gained considerable ...

Love Under the Skin Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

Love Under the Skin: Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

1st Edition

By Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
May 05, 2020

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics, or in public spaces where peoples of African descent are under the public gaze. This comparative study seeks to de-center the ...

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