New Critical Viewpoints on Society
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, ...
Anti-Racist Teaching
1st Edition
By Robert P. Amico
January 29, 2016
"Antiracist Teaching" is about awakening students to their own humanity. In order to teach about this awakening one must be in the process of awakening oneself. The author shares personal anecdotes to illustrate the kinds of changes he experienced as a result of his antiracist teaching. His book ...
What Don't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger: African American Women and Suicide
1st Edition
By Kamesha Spates
January 29, 2016
A close look at black women’s physical, mental, and social circumstances reveals harmful social disparities. Yet, for decades, black women’s suicide rates have remained virtually nonexistent compared to the rest of the American population, baffling social scientists. In this book, black women speak...
Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World
1st Edition
By Sharon Chang
December 07, 2015
Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and ...
Mythologizing Black Women: Unveiling White Men's Racist Deep Frame on Race and Gender
1st Edition
By Brittany C. Slatton
October 30, 2014
In this book Brittany C. Slatton uses innovative internet research methods to reveal contemporary prejudices about relationship partners. In doing so she thoroughly refutes the popular ideology of a post-racial America. Slatton examines the 'deep frame' of white men found in opinions and emotional ...