New Critical Viewpoints on Society
Got Solidarity?: Challenging Straight White College Men to Advocate for Social Justice
1st Edition
By Jörg Vianden
November 26, 2019
The 21st Century in the United States continues to be marked by persistent disparities between members of different classes, races, genders, and sexual orientations. Influencers of this society seem bent on polarizing citizens along their diverse identities, often blaming those already ...
Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education
1st Edition
By Edna Chun, Joe Feagin
July 29, 2019
With the goal of building more inclusive working, learning, and living environments in higher education, this book seeks to reframe understandings of forms of everyday exclusion that affect members of nondominant groups on predominantly white college campuses. The book contextualizes the need for a...
Women and Inequality in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Brittany Slatton, Carla Brailey
June 05, 2019
Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuses on gender inequality in the family and its effect on women’s career and family choices. While an important topic, these works are critiqued for ...
Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By José A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado, Maria Chávez
December 04, 2018
"Latinos" are the largest group among Americans of color. At 59 million, they constitute nearly a fifth of the US population. Their number has alarmed many in government, other mainstream institutions, and the nativist right who fear the white-majority US they have known is disappearing. During the...
When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery
1st Edition
By Rachel A. Feinstein
August 14, 2018
When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that ...
Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism
1st Edition
By Noel A. Cazenave
May 30, 2018
Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave’s well-researched and conceptualized ...
Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education: Comprehensive Organizational Learning Strategies
1st Edition
By Edna Chun, Alvin Evans
January 25, 2018
Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education offers a practical and timely guide for launching, implementing, and institutionalizing diversity organizational learning. The authors draw from extensive interviews with chief diversity officers and college and university leaders to reveal the ...
Racism in the Neoliberal Era: A Meta History of Elite White Power
1st Edition
By Randolph Hohle
November 21, 2017
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. Hohle ...
Violence Against Black Bodies: An Intersectional Analysis of How Black Lives Continue to Matter
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, Elwood Watson
April 12, 2017
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world. Through the voices of scholars from different academic disciplines, this book gives readers an opportunity to put the cases ...
Exploring White Privilege
1st Edition
By Robert Amico
November 17, 2016
Exploring white privilege is an enterprise few of us who identify as white have attempted. White privilege is a foreign territory to us, although an unpleasantly familiar territory to people of color. At first the exploration can seem threatening, frightening and uncomfortable because, like any ...
Redskins?: Sport Mascots, Indian Nations and White Racism
1st Edition
By James V. Fenelon
September 01, 2016
This book assesses the controversies over the Washington NFL team name as a window into other recent debates about the use of Native American mascots for professional and college sports teams. Fenelon explores the origin of team names in institutional racism and mainstream society’s denial of the ...
Racial Theories in Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique
1st Edition
By Sean Elias, Joe R. Feagin
April 14, 2016
Racial Theories in Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique provides a critique of the white racial framing and lack of systemic-racism analysis prevalent in past and present mainstream race theory. As this book demonstrates, mainstream racial analysis, and social analysis more generally, ...