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Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism - Flint, MI in Context (Hardcover): Terressa A. Benz, Graham... Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism - Flint, MI in Context (Hardcover)
Terressa A. Benz, Graham Cassano
R8,202 Discovery Miles 82 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI in Context examines the malfeasance and mismanagement that poisoned a city's water. The authors emphasize the structural forces that engendered the water crisis, and, especially, the long history of racial oppression, racist government policies, and everyday forms of inequality, that shape the life chances for Flint's residents.

The ABC of the Projectariat - Living and Working in a Precarious Art World (Paperback): Kuba Szreder The ABC of the Projectariat - Living and Working in a Precarious Art World (Paperback)
Kuba Szreder
R441 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide. In an accessible ABC format, the book strikes a unique balance between the practical and the theoretical: the analysis is backed up by lived experience, the arguments are rooted in concrete examples and there are suggestions for constructive action. Roughly half of the entries expose the structural underpinnings of projects and circulation, isolating traits such as opportunism, neoliberalism, inequality, fear and cynicism at the root of the condition of the projectariat. This discussion is paired with a practical account of different modes of action, such as art strikes, productive withdrawals, political struggles and better social time machines. Just as proletarians had nothing to lose but their chains, the projectarians have nothing to miss but their deadlines. -- .

Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality (Hardcover): Nazmunnessa Mahtab,... Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality (Hardcover)
Nazmunnessa Mahtab, Sara Parker, Farah Kabir, Tania Haque
R4,649 Discovery Miles 46 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Today, gender and gender identity is at the forefront of discussion as the plight of women around the world and issues of gender equality and human rights have become an international concern for politicians, government agencies, social activists, and the general public. Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality provides a thorough analysis of what language use and linguistic expression can teach us about gender identity in addition to current discussions on topics related to women's rights and gender inequality. Focusing on issues related to women in developing countries, workplace inequalities, and social freedom, this publication is an essential reference source for researchers, graduate-level students, and theorists in the fields of sociology, women's studies, economics, and government.

Sexual Equality in an Integrated Europe - Virtual Equality (Hardcover): R Elman Sexual Equality in an Integrated Europe - Virtual Equality (Hardcover)
R Elman
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What role does "Europe" have in defining, maintaining, constructing, or remedying sex discrimination? This question guides an investigation into the origins, institutions, and policies associated with the European Union and its recent efforts to stem violence against women, sex trafficking, racism and heterosexism.
Exploring the politics of the EU and the integration process through a lens of social (in)equality, "Sexual Equality in an Integrated Europe" keeps us current while offering an innovative means of addressing state sovereignty, transnational power, intergovernmental prowess, transparency, and social change.

"Race" and Racism - The Development of Modern Racism in America (Hardcover, New): R. Perry "Race" and Racism - The Development of Modern Racism in America (Hardcover, New)
R. Perry
R3,115 Discovery Miles 31 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

'Race' and Racism examines the origins and development of racism in North America. It addresses the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and discusses the biology of human variance, addressing the fossil record of human evolution, the relationship between creationism and science, population genetics, 'race'-based medicine, and other related issues. The book explores the diverse ways in which people in a variety of cultures have perceived, categorized, and defined one another without reference to any concept of 'race.' It follows the history of American racism through slavery, the perceptions and treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow laws, attitudes toward Irish and Southern European immigrants, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the civil rights era, and numerous other topics.

Howard Zinn's Southern Diary - Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism (Hardcover): Robert Cohen Howard Zinn's Southern Diary - Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism (Hardcover)
Robert Cohen; Foreword by Alice Walker
R2,960 Discovery Miles 29 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participating in sit-ins in the local community. A young Howard Zinn (future author of the worldwide best seller A People's History of the United States) was a professor of history at Spelman during this era and served as an adviser to the Atlanta sit-in movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zinn mentored many of Spelman's students fighting for civil rights at the time, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. As a key facilitator of the Spelman student movement, Zinn supported students who challenged and criticized the campus's paternalistic social restrictions, even when this led to conflicts with the Spelman administration. Zinn's involvement with the Atlanta student movement and his closeness to Spelman's leading student and faculty activists gave him an insider's view of that movement and of the political and intellectual world of Spelman, Atlanta University, and the SNCC. Robert Cohen presents a thorough historical overview as well as an entree to Zinn's diary. One of the most extensive records of the political climate on a historically black college in 1960s America, Zinn's diary offers an in-depth view. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the student movement.

Class and Contemporary British Culture (Hardcover, New): A. Biressi, H. Nunn Class and Contemporary British Culture (Hardcover, New)
A. Biressi, H. Nunn
R1,841 Discovery Miles 18 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or newly-minted to categorise the insiders and outsiders of the new 'age of austerity'? Drawing on examples from the 1980s to the present day this book investigates the changing landscape of class and reveals how it has become populated by a host of classed figures including Essex Man and Essex Girl, the 'squeezed middle', the 'sharp-elbowed middle class', the 'feral underclass', the 'white working class', the 'undeserving poor', 'selfish baby boomers' and others. Overall, the book argues that social class, although complicated and highly contested, remains a valid and fruitful route into understanding how contemporary British culture articulates social distinction and social difference and the significant costs and investments at stake for all involved.

Voices of Sharpeville - The Long History of Racial Injustice (Paperback, 3rd Edition): William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark Voices of Sharpeville - The Long History of Racial Injustice (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity."

Voices of Sharpeville brings to life the destruction of Sharpeville’s predecessor, Top Location, and the careful planning of its isolated and carceral design by apartheid architects. A unique set of eyewitness testimonies from Sharpeville’s inhabitants reveals how they coped with apartheid and why they rose up to protest this system, narrating this massacre for the first time in the words of the participants themselves. Previously understood only through the iconic photos of fleeing protestors and dead bodies, the timeline is reconstructed using an extensive archive of new documentary and oral sources including unused police records, personal interviews with survivors and their families, and maps and family photos. By identifying nearly all the victims, many omitted from earlier accounts, the authors upend the official narrative of the massacre.

Amid worldwide struggles against racial discrimination and efforts to give voices to protestors and victims of state violence, this book provides a deeper understanding of this pivotal event for a newly engaged international audience.

Antiblack Racism and the AIDS Epidemic - State Intimacies (Hardcover): A. Geary Antiblack Racism and the AIDS Epidemic - State Intimacies (Hardcover)
A. Geary
R3,565 Discovery Miles 35 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the US is shown to be created by the violent intimacy of the state.

Income Inequality Around the World (Hardcover): Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Solomon W. Polachek Income Inequality Around the World (Hardcover)
Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Solomon W. Polachek
R3,599 Discovery Miles 35 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Research in Labor Economics 44 takes another in-depth and focussed look at Inequality. This time however it is tied in with well-being of the workforce. Research in Labor Economics volume 44 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality and well-being of the work force.

Black Popular Culture - A Project (Paperback): Wallace Black Popular Culture - A Project (Paperback)
Wallace
R500 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R74 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The latest publication in the award-winning Discussions in Contemporary Culture series, Black Popular Culture gathers together an extraordinary array of critics, scholars, and cultural producers. 30 essays explore and debate current directions in film, television, music, writing, and other cultural forms as created by or with the participation of black artists. 30 illustrations.

Girl On The Edge - A Memoir (Paperback): Ruth Carneson Girl On The Edge - A Memoir (Paperback)
Ruth Carneson
R95 R88 Discovery Miles 880 Save R7 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Ruth was four years old when her father was arrested for high treason and her world was turned upside-down. She grew up in constant fear of Special Branch policemen knocking on the door to arrest her mother or father, prominent South African communist. Ruth learned how to keep her mouth shut, to look out for microphones in the walls and to beware of friends who could betray her trust.

At fourteen, Ruth left South Africa, clutching her teddy bear in one hand and her drawings in the other. A plan to England carried her into exile, a new world where she struggled to reconstruct a life fractured by fear.

With an artist’s eye for detail and colour, Ruth recalls her life with unflinching honesty: the Treason Trial; her struggle to conform; Friern Barnet Asylum for the ‘hopeless insane’; LSD, protests, and free love in London, art school and motherhood; communes and camping- all steps in a journey that finally brought her home to South Africa on the brink of change.

Heart- wrenchingly sad one minute, bursting with life and vigour the next, seamed throughout by strength and courage, girl on the edge allows us to look deep into one woman’s life and travel with her to the brink and back again.

American Justice On Trial - People v. Newton (Hardcover): Lise Pearlman American Justice On Trial - People v. Newton (Hardcover)
Lise Pearlman
R978 R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Save R121 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Shot In The Head (Hardcover): Lee Varon Shot In The Head (Hardcover)
Lee Varon; Contributions by Sunshot Press
R542 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R44 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Racial Violence on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Christopher Waldrep Racial Violence on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Christopher Waldrep
R1,735 Discovery Miles 17 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An examination of the historical experience of African Americans as a case study of America's legacy of racial violence. In this comprehensive overview of how the law has been used to combat racism, author Christopher Waldrep points out that the U.S. government has often promoted discrimination. A veritable history of civil rights, the story is told primarily through a discussion of key legal cases. Racial Violence on Trial also presents 11 key documents gathered together for the first time, from the Supreme court's opinion in Brown v. Mississippi to a 1941 newspaper account entitled The South Kills Another Negro, to a 1947 New Yorker piece, Opera in Greenville, about a crowd of taxi drivers who killed a black man. Also included are a listing of key people, laws, and concepts; a chronology; a table of cases; and an annotated bibliography. Four narrative chapters examine the history of black-white relations since America was founded A-Z entries cover important people, laws, events, and concepts and a special documents section includes court decisions, magazine stories, and personal accounts

Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): M. McLaughlin Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
M. McLaughlin
R1,421 Discovery Miles 14 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the construction of white identity and racism. He illuminates the "world of East St Louis," life in its factories and neighborhoods, its popular culture, and City Hall politics, to place the race riot in the context of the city's urban development.

Taking the Fight South - Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Hardcover): Howard Ball Taking the Fight South - Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Hardcover)
Howard Ball
R724 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Taking the Fight South provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial justice is to be fully realized. Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball has written dozens of books during his career, including the landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life, and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi, chronicling the Mississippi Burning killings. In Taking the Fight South, arguably his most personal book, Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when, against the advice of friends and colleagues in New York, he and his Jewish family moved from the Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where he received a tenured position in the political science department at Mississippi State University. For Ball, his wife, Carol, and their three young daughters, the move represented a leap of faith, ultimately illustrating their deep commitment toward racial justice. Ball, with breathtaking historical authority, narrates the experience of his family as Jewish outsiders in Mississippi, an unfamiliar and dangerous landscape contending with the aftermath of the civil rights struggle. Signs and natives greeted them with a humiliating and frightening message: "No Jews, Negroes, etc., or dogs welcome." From refereeing football games, coaching soccer, and helping young black girls integrate the segregated Girl Scout troops in Starkville, to life-threatening calls from the KKK in the middle of the night, from his work for the ACLU to his arguments in the press and before a congressional committee for the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Ball takes the reader to a precarious time and place in the history of the South. He was briefly an observer but quickly became an activist, confronting white racists stubbornly holding on to a Jim Crow white supremacist past and fighting to create a more diverse, equitable, and just society. Ball's story is one of an imitable advocate who didn't just observe as a passive spectator but interrupted injustice. Taking the Fight South will join the list of required books to read about the Black Lives Matter movement and the history of racism in the United States. The book will also appeal to readers interested in Judaism because of its depiction of anti-Semitism directed toward Starkville's Jewish community, struggling to survive in the heart of the deep and very fundamentalist Protestant South.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change (Paperback, 1st Madison Books ed): John J. Ansbro Martin Luther King, Jr. - Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change (Paperback, 1st Madison Books ed)
John J. Ansbro
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Examines his contribution as a philosopher and theologian to issues of racial and social justice and his drive to eradicate oppression through the doctrine of nonviolence.

Unlikely Brotherhood (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Larry Anderson, Wendell Birkland Unlikely Brotherhood (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Larry Anderson, Wendell Birkland; As told to Ken Koopman
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mediterranean Racisms - Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Mediterranean Region (Hardcover): I. Law Mediterranean Racisms - Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Mediterranean Region (Hardcover)
I. Law
R1,976 R1,805 Discovery Miles 18 050 Save R171 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book to provide an analysis of racism in the Mediterranean region. Ian Law reassesses contemporary processes of racialization, employing theoretical tools including polyracism, racial Arabization and racial Nawarization and drawing on new evidence on racism in North Africa, Lebanon, Cyprus, Greece and the Roma campland in Italy.

Refugees in a Global Era (Hardcover): Philip Marfleet Refugees in a Global Era (Hardcover)
Philip Marfleet
R4,961 Discovery Miles 49 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This topical new book offers an authoritative analysis of forced migration in the age of globalization. It looks critically at histories of migration, exploring the constructed nature of the refugee. The book then goes on to consider the changing patterns of migration and the refugee experience of displacement, flight and the search for asylum, identifying the conflicts and contradictions inherent in the global system. Offering a critical analysis of refugee policy in Europe, North America and Australia, Refugees in a Global Era is critical reading for all students seeking to understand the position of refugees today.

The Logic of Black Urban Rebellions - Challenging the Dynamics of White Domination in Miami (Hardcover, New): Daryl B. Harris The Logic of Black Urban Rebellions - Challenging the Dynamics of White Domination in Miami (Hardcover, New)
Daryl B. Harris
R2,529 Discovery Miles 25 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The urban rebellions that rocked Miami in 1980, and other large cities in the United States during the 1960s, can be looked at as contributory components of the Black freedom movement. This new study argues that they are, on one level, a tactical response to contemporary forms of White domination and, on another level, an act in which key core values of the African American experience are sustained. The book provides an overview of racial violence in America, from the slaveocracy of the 18th and 19th centuries, to the urban rebellions of the late 20th century. It shows that in Black-White intergroup relations, Whites have used violence and the threat of violence to repress and intimidate Blacks. Blacks have used violence as a way of resisting White domination. The form that violence has taken has been shaped by prevailing societal conditions.

Importantly, the book concentrates on the essence of Black-White intergroup relations. In doing so, the thematic and cultural propensities that pattern the reality of those relations are clearer. Foremost is the practice of White domination and the Black response of resistance, which seeks to end that domination and encourage freedom and justice. The book ends by going beyond current thinking and looks to African American core values as key referents to examine Black violence.

Black Sailor, White Navy - Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era (Hardcover): John Darrell Sherwood Black Sailor, White Navy - Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era (Hardcover)
John Darrell Sherwood
R1,851 Discovery Miles 18 510 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

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aThis riveting account of racial turmoil in the U.S. Navy will be of immense interest to any student of the Navy, the Vietnam War, the All-Volunteer Force, or race relations in the United States.a
--Eugenia C. Kiesling, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early 70s: the Vietnam War or Americaas turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.

John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy and conducted scores of interviews with Vietnam veterans -- both black and white -- and other military personnel to reveal the full extent of racial unrest in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, as well as the Navyas attempts to control it. During the second half of the Vietnam War, the Navy witnessed some of the worst incidents of racial strife ever experienced by the American military. Sherwood introduces us to fierce encounters on American warships and bases, ranging from sit-down strikes to major race riots.

The Navyas journey from a state of racial polarization to one of relative harmony was not an easy one, and Black Sailor, White Navy focuses on the most turbulent point in this road: the Vietnam War era.

Immigration Matters - Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future (Paperback): Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bhargava,... Immigration Matters - Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future (Paperback)
Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bhargava, Penny Lewis
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A provocative, strategic plan for a humane immigration system from the nation's leading immigration scholars and activists During the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation's foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset. Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called "future flows" that have bedeviled policy makers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation's identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change. Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement. The perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age, Immigration Matters makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.

Challenging the Status Quo - Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century (Hardcover): David G. Embrick, Sharon M.... Challenging the Status Quo - Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
David G. Embrick, Sharon M. Collins, Michelle S. Dodson
R5,553 Discovery Miles 55 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century, David G. Embrick, Sharon M. Collins, and Michelle Dodson have compiled the latest ideas and scholarship in the area of diversity and inclusion. The contributors in this edited book offer critical analyses on many aspects of diversity as it pertains to institutional policies, practices, discourse, and beliefs. The book is broken down into 19 chapters over 7 sections that cover: policies and politics; pedagogy and higher education; STEM; religion; communities; complex organizations; and discourse and identity. Collectively, these chapters contribute to answering three main questions: 1) what, ultimately, does diversity mean; 2) what are the various mechanisms by which institutions understand and use diversity; and 3) and why is it important for us to rethink diversity? Contributors: Sharla Alegria, Joyce M. Bell, Sharon M. Collins, Ellen Berrey, Enobong Hannah Branch, Meghan A. Burke, Tiffany Davis, Michele C. Deramo, Michelle Dodson, David G. Embrick, Edward Orozco Flores, Emma Gonzalez-Lesser, Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Matthew W. Hughey, Paul R. Ketchum, Megan Klein, Michael Kreiter, Marie des Neiges Leonard, Wendy Leo Moore, Shan Mukhtar, Antonia Randolph, Victor Erik Ray, Arthur Scarritt, Laurie Cooper Stoll.

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