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In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their
definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the
field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins,
principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this
important movement in legal thought. Since then, critical race
theory has gone on to influence numerous other fields of
scholarship, and the Delgado and Stefancic primer has remained an
indispensible guide for students and teachers. Delgado and
Stefancic have revised the book to include material on key issues
such as colorblind jurisprudence, Latino-Critical scholarship,
immigration, and the rollback of affirmative action. This second
edition introduces readers to important new voices in fields
outside of law, including education and psychology, and offers
greatly expanded issues for discussion, updated reading lists, and
an extensive glossary of terms.
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and
the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most
captivating personalities 'Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful
... a story of incredible triumph fuelled by love and compassion'
Osher Gunsberg 'Brooke Blurton is an icon for people of all
generations and backgrounds. I love seeing her star shine.'
Clementine Ford My story is about the one thing that I never went
without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like
there was a future for me. The kind of love that's unconditional,
and that lasts across time and space ... From the moment Brooke
Blurton appeared on Australian television, she dazzled audiences
with her authenticity, self-knowledge, generosity and honesty. As a
proud young Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke's connection to her
culture and country is deep, and as an openly queer woman, she
knows that love is simply love. Most of all Brooke knows the
importance of family, and the uplifting power of unconditional
connection. But behind the public persona Brooke presents to the
world is a story of epic proportions and awe-inspiring resilience -
she had to grow up fast from a very young age, surviving an
extremely challenging childhood and youth, and overcoming the
shocking legacy of intergenerational trauma, abuse and
homelessness. She's also had to defy labels and perceptions about
who she is, and her worth, all her life. But through it all, Brooke
didn't just survive, she found her voice and thrived, and in this
raw, heartbreaking, often funny and ultimately life-affirming
memoir, Brooke lays her journey bare about how she refused to allow
the past to define her and reclaimed her own identity - and
realised the power of love, for herself, for her family, and her
community.
In the long shadow of a presidential election rife with charges of
sexist actions, this book explains how very common such behavior is
among executives, why law doesn't protect victims, and how female
professionals can bring change. Who do you report sexism to when
the offender owns the company? "Overt and intentional sexism"
against women by powerful men in politics, business, and academia
and across the white-collar world in public and private
institutions is common, according to author Elizabeth C. Wolfe, a
conflict analysis and resolution specialist. Female executives,
even at the pinnacle of their careers, remain vulnerable to their
male colleagues. In this book, Wolfe details how men treat women at
the highest levels and the result of their actions. Women
executives from nine countries explain how their career advancement
and earning potential are continuously harmed though overt sexism,
sexist social behavior, and microaggressions--those damaging
behaviors that are in a gray area but are not legally actionable.
She further examines why law does not protect these women: sexism,
like racism, is a way of thinking and so cannot be legislated. Each
"-ism" has legal protections against documentable actions, but ways
of thinking, socializing rituals, and microaggressions are not
actionable by law. Wolfe details the minds of sexists and describes
how sexism is "socialized," and then explains how to name each
sexist behavior, address it, and take action to stop it. Spotlights
the emotional and career fallout for female professionals targeted
by executive men's "locker room talk" Considers why onlookers don't
intervene, known as the "bystander effect" Reveals why female
victims remain silent and how speaking out can be fatal to their
career Details why successful action to stop sexism demands an
alliance of women and men who support their cause
Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of
interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best
known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging
from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously
unpublished interview conducted in 2009, these twelve interviews
give insight to Campbell's unique religious beliefs and highlight
pivotal moments of his career. Will D. Campbell (1924-2013) was
born poor in rural Mississippi and became an ordained minister when
he was barely seventeen years old. After serving in the Army during
World War II, Campbell ministered in a variety of positions,
including a pastorate in Louisiana, as religious director at the
University of Mississippi, and as a race relations consultant for
the National Council of Churches. Along the way, Campbell worked
with civil rights figures, Klansmen, Black Panthers, and country
music icons, believing all were equal in the eyes of God.
Throughout his career, Campbell drew attention for criticizing the
institutional churches and supporting women's rights, gay rights,
and school desegregation. From 1962 through 2012, Campbell
published over fifteen books including novels, biographies, and
memoirs. His first book, Race and the Renewal of the Church,
introduced his theories of reconciliation and the failures of
institutional churches. His best-known work, Brother to a
Dragonfly, was a National Book Award finalist.
In Rock | Water | Life, Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
Green analyses conflicting accounts of nature in environmental sciences that claim neutrality amid ongoing struggles for land restitution and environmental justice.
Offering in-depth studies of environmental conflict in contemporary South Africa, Green addresses the history of contested water access in Cape Town; struggles over natural gas fracking in the Karoo; debates about decolonising science; the potential for a politics of
soil in the call for land restitution; urban baboon management, and the consequences of sending sewage to urban oceans.
The transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has
highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of its
influence in present-day South Africa. This is particularly so in
education, where the past continues to play a decisive role in
relation to inequality. Between Worlds: German Missionaries and the
Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa
scrutinises the experience of a hitherto unexplored German mission
society, probing the complexities and paradoxes of social change in
education. It raises challenging questions about the nature of
mission education legacies. Linda Chisholm shows that the
transition from mission to Bantu Education was far from seamless.
Instead, past and present interpenetrated one another, with
resistance and compliance cohabiting in a complex new social order.
At the same time as missionaries complied with the new Bantu
Education dictates, they sought to secure a role for themselves in
the face of demands of local communities for secular
state-controlled education. When the latter was implemented in a
perverted form from the mid-1950s, one of its tools was textbooks
in local languages developed by mission societies as part of a
transnational project, with African participation. Introduced under
the guise of expunging European control, Bantu Education merely
served to reinforce such control. The response of local communities
was an attempt to domesticate - and master - the 'foreign' body of
the mission so as to create access to a larger world. This book
focuses on the ensuing struggle, fought on many fronts, including
medium of instruction and textbook content, with concomitant
sub-texts relating to gender roles and sexuality. South Africa's
educational history is to this day informed by networks of people
and ideas crossing geographic and racial boundaries. The colonial
legacy has inevitably involved cultural mixing and hybridisation -
with, paradoxically, parallel pleas for purity. Chisholm explores
how these ideas found expression in colliding and coalescing
worlds, one African, the other European, caught between mission and
apartheid education.
The gap between various social classes occurs due to inequality in
various social categories arising from lack of opportunities and
exclusion from resource distribution due to various attributes of
these societal classifications. The social problems of poverty and
inequality created by economic uncertainty become a compelling
force for states to introduce welfare programs. Reshaping Social
Policy to Combat Poverty and Inequality is a critical scholarly
publication that delivers extensive coverage of policy practice and
a unique emphasis on the broad issues and human dilemmas inherent
in the pursuit of social justice. The book further explores how the
economic fluctuations and political change interact with shifting
social values to shape and re-shape social policies. Highlighting a
range of topics such as economics, discrimination, and sustainable
development, this book is essential for policymakers, academicians,
researchers, social psychologists, sociologists, government
officials, and students.
Toleration is one of the most studied concepts in contemporary
political theory and philosophy, yet the range of contemporary
normative prescriptions concerning how to do toleration or how to
be tolerant is remarkably narrow and limited. The literature is
largely dominated by a neo-Kantian moral-juridical frame, in which
toleration is a matter to be decided in terms of constitutional
rights. According to this framework, cooperation equates to public
reasonableness and willingness to engage in certain types of civil
moral dialogue. Crucially, this vision of politics makes no claims
about how to cultivate and secure the conditions required to make
cooperation possible in the first place. It also has little to say
about how to motivate one to become a tolerant person. Instead it
offers highly abstract ideas that do not by themselves suggest what
political activity is required to negotiate overlapping values and
interests in which cooperation is not already assured. Contemporary
thinking about toleration indicates, paradoxically, an intolerance
of politics. Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics argues for
toleration as a practice of negotiation, looking to a philosopher
not usually considered political: Michel de Montaigne. For
Montaigne, toleration is an expansive, active practice of political
endurance in negotiating public goods across lines of value
difference. In other words, to be tolerant means to possess a
particular set of political capacities for negotiation. What
matters most is not how we talk to our political opponents, but
that we talk to each other across lines of disagreement. Douglas I.
Thompson draws on Montaigne's Essais to recover the idea that
political negotiation grows out of genuine care for public goods
and the establishment of political trust. He argues that we need a
Montaignian conception of toleration today if we are to negotiate
effectively the circumstances of increasing political polarization
and ongoing value conflict, and he applies this notion to current
debates in political theory as well as contemporary issues,
including the problem of migration and refugee asylum.
Additionally, for Montaigne scholars, he reads the Essais
principally as a work of public political education, and resituates
the work as an extension of Montaigne's political activity as a
high-level negotiator between Catholic and Huguenot parties during
the French Wars of Religion. Ultimately, this book argues that
Montaigne's view of tolerance is worth recovering and reconsidering
in contemporary democratic societies where political leaders and
ordinary citizens are becoming less able to talk to each other to
resolve political conflicts and work for shared public goods.
The assertion that empathy is an essential characteristic of equity
work in higher education demands educators operate from a place of
justice, fairness, and inclusive practice. Empathy is a personal
quality that allows educators to consider another's perspective to
inform the decision-making process about policy, procedures,
program and service design, and teaching pedagogy. Thus, engaging
empathy in everyday practice supports the potential to create more
equitable and inclusive environments as well as standards for
serving a diverse student population. Achieving Equity in Higher
Education Using Empathy as a Guiding Principle explores what
empathy is, how empathy can be developed, and how empathy can be
applied in an educator's practice to achieve equity-mindedness and
mitigate inequitable student outcomes in and out of the classroom.
The book also argues that self-examination and engaging empathy is
a way to thoughtfully examine differences and uphold the values of
humanity. Covering topics such as intercultural listening and
program development, this reference work is ideal for
administrators, practitioners, academicians, scholars, researchers,
instructors, and students.
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have
focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their
respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public
accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to
this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center
of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports
embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and
cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When
segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and
blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit,
they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into
sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to
intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil
rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and
airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping
aviation's legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the
struggles of black travelers-to enjoy the same freedoms on the
airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin-in the
context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and
political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both
spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation
over the re-negotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study
situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted
entanglements of "race" and "space."
The Washington Redskins franchise remains one of the most valuable
in professional sports, in part because of its easily recognizable,
popular, and profitable brand. And yet "redskins" is a derogatory
name for American Indians. Prominent journalists, politicians, and
former players have publicly spoken out against the use of Redskins
as the name of the team. The number of grassroots campaigns to
change the name has risen in recent years despite the current team
owner's assertion that the team will never do so. The NFL, for its
part, actively defends the name and supports it in court. Redskins:
Insult and Brand examines how the ongoing struggle over the team
name raises important questions about how white Americans perceive
American Indians, about the cultural power of consumer brands, and
about continuing obstacles to inclusion and equality. C. Richard
King examines the history of the team's name, the evolution of the
term "redskin," and the various ways in which people both support
and oppose its use today. King's hard-hitting approach to the
team's logo and mascot exposes the disturbing history of a
moniker's association with the NFL-a multibillion-dollar entity
that accepts public funds-as well as popular attitudes toward
Native Americans today.
'An instant classic. Sabir is an inspiration' Arun Kundnani, author
of The Muslims are Coming! What impact has two decades' worth of
policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims
in Britain? The Suspect draws on the author's experiences to take
the reader on a journey through British counterterrorism practices
and the policing of Muslims. Rizwaan Sabir describes what led to
his arrest for suspected terrorism, his time in detention, and the
surveillance he was subjected to on release from custody, including
stop and search at the roadside, detentions at the border,
monitoring by police and government departments, and an attempt by
the UK military to recruit him into their psychological warfare
unit. Writing publicly for the first time about the traumatising
mental health effects of these experiences, Sabir argues that these
harmful outcomes are not the result of errors in government
planning, but the consequences of using a counterinsurgency warfare
approach to fight terrorism and police Muslims. To resist the
injustice of these policies and practices, we need to centre our
lived experiences and build networks of solidarity and support.
'Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She
reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not
all in the same boat.' - Greta Thunberg No matter your age,
location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist.
Devastating flooding, deforestation, extinction and starvation.
These are the issues that not only threaten in the future, they are
a reality. After witnessing some of these issues first-hand,
Vanessa Nakate saw how the world's biggest polluters are asleep at
the wheel, ignoring the Global South where the effects of climate
injustice are most fiercely felt. Inspired by a shared vision of
hope, Vanessa's commanding political voice demands attention for
the biggest issue of our time and, in this rousing manifesto for
change, shows how you can join her to protect our planet now and
for the future. Vanessa realized the importance of her place in the
climate movement after she, the only Black activist in an image
with four white Europeans, was cropped out of a press photograph at
Davos in 2020. This example illustrates how those who will see the
biggest impacts of the climate crisis are repeatedly omitted from
the conversation. As she explains, 'We are on the front line, but
we are not on the front page.' Without A Bigger Picture, you're
missing the full story on climate change. 'An indispensable voice
for our future.' - Malala Yousafzai 'A powerful global voice.' -
Angelina Jolie
The abuse of Asian workers in the oil-rich Gulf countries, the
trafficking of undocumented latinos at the US border, the
exploitation of African sans papiers in France and the attacks on
Sub-Saharan farmhands by the mob in Italy. All these events show
how migrants, especially those without legal documents, can be an
easy target for violence and discrimination, often with impunity.
At least, until they decide to fight back. In this original,
accessible book, Vittorio Longhi, a journalist who specialises in
international labour matters, describes an emerging phenomenon of
social conflict, in which migrants are not conceived as passive
victims of exploitation. Instead they are portrayed as conscious,
vital social actors who are determined to organise and claim better
rights. With a global perspective, The immigrant war highlights the
'struggle for human rights, citizenship and equality', in the
context of a policy vacuum within the international community
towards migration. He demonstrates how these emerging conflicts can
break the chain of exploitation and contribute to rethinking
failing migration policies and the role of migrants in contemporary
societies. The book will be of interest to labour and migration
specialists, students of social sciences, trade unionists and human
rights activists, as well as a general readership interested in
migration.
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