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In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle - The Poles, the Holocaust and Beyond (Hardcover): L. Cooper In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle - The Poles, the Holocaust and Beyond (Hardcover)
L. Cooper
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The behavior of many Poles towards the Jewish population during the Nazi occupation of Poland has always been a controversial issue. Although the Poles are supposed not to have collaborated with the invaders, there is evidence to show that in respect of the Jewish population, the behavior of many Poles, including members of the underground, was far from exemplary. Poland is also the only European country where Jews were being murdered after the end of the war and where strong anti-Semitic tendencies are still present. This book analyzes this question in an historical context and attempts to offer an explanation for the phenomenon of Polish anti-Semitism during and after the end of the war. The work is based on recently uncovered documents as well as on personal accounts of witnesses to the events during the war.

Growing the Elephant - Increasing earned advantage for all (Paperback): Chris Altizer, Gloria Johnson-Cusack Growing the Elephant - Increasing earned advantage for all (Paperback)
Chris Altizer, Gloria Johnson-Cusack
R454 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R69 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Amazing book: Clever, insightful, relevant, and actionable.' Dave Ulrich If you find discussions of inequality painful, aggravating, exhausting, or even scary, it's time to explore the elephant. Growing the Elephant is the story of Advantage - Earned and Unearned. Earned Advantage is the part of the Elephant we know. Work hard - get rewarded; form relationships - get opportunities. But while anyone can earn Advantage, some have more opportunity than others. That's the story of Unearned Advantage. Unearned Advantage is the part of the Elephant we avoid. It is so hard to talk or even think about that those with it ignore or deny it while those without it are exhausted or incensed by it. Growing the Elephant is for anyone working to increase innovation, performance, and inclusion by building practices and mindset to meet and stay with what's difficult. It is for leaders and contributors at any level and those who help them build and sustain diversity, equity and inclusion. A seasoned human resources executive, CHRIS ALTIZER, MBA, MA consults and coaches executives and lectures on business, management. and inclusive leadership. He has led teams and worked with senior leaders across industries around the globe. His research and work have been published in journals and covered by Forbes Magazine. Chris practices and teaches mindfulness, yoga, and martial arts. GLORIA JOHNSON-CUSACK, MPA, is a servant leader and changemaker who consults to leadership teams and boards of public and private foundations committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in education, financial security, and health. She lectures at Columbia University and serves as Board Chair of the Firelight Foundation supporting communities in Africa. She holds degrees from American University and Columbia University.

Diversifying Diversity - Your Guide to Being an Active Ally of Inclusion in the Workplace (Hardcover): Poornima Luthra Diversifying Diversity - Your Guide to Being an Active Ally of Inclusion in the Workplace (Hardcover)
Poornima Luthra
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison (Hardcover, New): Annabel Robinson The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison (Hardcover, New)
Annabel Robinson
R5,475 Discovery Miles 54 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 - 1928), who spent most of her life at Newnham College, Cambridge, was renowned for her work on Greek art and religion. In her application of anthropology to classical studies, she stirred up controversy amongst her academic colleagues, while, at the same time, influencing many writers, including Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Despite many difficulties, both academic and personal, her brilliant mind and strength of character enabled her to open up new possibilities for academic women.

Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference - Whose House is This? (Hardcover, First): B Petersson, K Tyler Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference - Whose House is This? (Hardcover, First)
B Petersson, K Tyler
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically "other," this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority "self" and the minority "other"?

Race and the Enlightenment - A Reader (Hardcover): Ec Eze Race and the Enlightenment - A Reader (Hardcover)
Ec Eze
R3,527 Discovery Miles 35 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gathers into one volume the most provocative philosophical writing on race produced by the luminaries of the European Enlightenment. There is no anthology that has so focused itself on exploring through primary texts the alliance between philosophy, anthropology and race.

It is an attempt to show, through primary texts on matters of race, the "dark" sides of the Enlightenment philosophy. The book is an indispensable tool for students and researchers interested in exploring the race-inflected nature of eighteenth-century philosophy and science on the one hand, and the systematics relations between philosophy and anthropology and race, on the other.

Saint X (Paperback): Alexis Schaitkin Saint X (Paperback)
Alexis Schaitkin
R250 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R23 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'I read Saint X in a night, captivated by its mystery but also by the smart, evocative way Schaitkin writes about race, loss and place.' - Maggie Shipstead, The Guardian, 'The 30 best holiday reads' 'Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial bonds and community . . . I devoured Saint X in a day.' - Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of My Sister, the Serial Killer), New York Times Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family's vacation. Several days later Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. It's national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire's family, there is only the sad return home to broken lives. Years later, riding in a New York City taxi, Claire recognizes the name on the cab driver's licence: Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. The fateful encounter sets her on an obsessive pursuit of the truth as to not only what happened on the night of Alison's death, but the no-less-elusive question of exactly who was this sister she was barely old enough to know: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will uncover the truth, an unlikely intimacy develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by a tragedy. Alexis Schaitkin's Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that hurtles to a devastating end.

Paths to Genocide - Antisemitism in Western History (Hardcover): L. Steiman Paths to Genocide - Antisemitism in Western History (Hardcover)
L. Steiman
R4,705 Discovery Miles 47 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Paths to Genocide examines the development of antisemitism from the beginnings of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, Reformation, Enlightenment and nineteenth century liberalism, nationalism and racism to the Holocaust. Focusing on major periods, places and problems in the history of European civilization, the book highlights historical contexts as it shows how religion, science, and socioeconomic forces all played a role in the evolution of antisemitism to its genocidal climax.

Blacks and Crime - A Function of Class (Hardcover): James A. Chambers Blacks and Crime - A Function of Class (Hardcover)
James A. Chambers
R2,816 R2,550 Discovery Miles 25 500 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text examines the social forces that influence Black responses to differential conditions in American society. It raises the issue of differential social status and its effect on whites who are similarly situated at the low end of the class spectrum. Chambers identifies the elements that contribute to the fluctuations in maintaining the status quo and analyzes the attempts made to control dissidence. The standard functional approach is taken so students can interpret the data within a traditional theoretical framework. Chambers' book is an excellent introductory work in criminology on America's most challenging issue, racism.

A Dark View From The Tower - Prison Barz and Poetic Warz (Hardcover): Alshaun Dixon A Dark View From The Tower - Prison Barz and Poetic Warz (Hardcover)
Alshaun Dixon
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
# Take A knee - A Collection of Essays Influenced By The Political Awakening of Colin Kaepernick (Hardcover): Delroy... # Take A knee - A Collection of Essays Influenced By The Political Awakening of Colin Kaepernick (Hardcover)
Delroy Constantine Simms
R2,954 R2,430 Discovery Miles 24 300 Save R524 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Combat Zone - Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice (Paperback): Jan Brogan The Combat Zone - Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice (Paperback)
Jan Brogan
R620 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R32 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than thirty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district. Starting with this brutal murder, The Combat Zone tells the story of the Puopolo family's struggle with both a devastating loss and a criminal justice system that produced two trials with opposing verdicts, all within the context of a racially divided Boston. Brogan traces the contentious relationship between Boston's segregated neighborhoods during the busing crisis; shines a light on the overtly racist court system that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based on their ethnic identity; and lays bare the deep-seated corruption within the police department and throughout the Combat Zone. What emerges is a fascinating snapshot of the city at a transitional moment in its recent past.

The Digital Divide - The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective (Paperback): Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W.... The Digital Divide - The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective (Paperback)
Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert
R1,764 Discovery Miles 17 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological theories of inequality, as well as empirical evidence, this book defines 'the digital divide' as the unequal access and utility of internet communications technologies and explores how it has the potential to replicate existing social inequalities, as well as create new forms of stratification. The Digital Divide examines how various demographic and socio-economic factors including income, education, age and gender, as well as infrastructure, products and services affect how the internet is used and accessed. Comprised of six parts, the first section examines theories of the digital divide, and then looks in turn at: Highly developed nations and regions (including the USA, the EU and Japan); Emerging large powers (Brazil, China, India, Russia); Eastern European countries (Estonia, Romania, Serbia); Arab and Middle Eastern nations (Egypt, Iran, Israel); Under-studied areas (East and Central Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa). Providing an interwoven analysis of the international inequalities in internet usage and access, this important work offers a comprehensive approach to studying the digital divide around the globe. It is an important resource for academic and students in sociology, social policy, communication studies, media studies and all those interested in the questions and issues around social inequality.

Deconstructing Youth - Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense (Hardcover, New): F. Gabriel Deconstructing Youth - Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense (Hardcover, New)
F. Gabriel
R1,395 Discovery Miles 13 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Young people are regularly cast as a threat to social order. Deconstructing Youth argues that this is due in part to the way the notion of youth is conceptualised in Western society. Drawing on Derridean deconstruction, Gabriel analyses the limits of dominant youth discourses, revealing the ways in which common sense assumptions about young people are marked by contradictory expectations that actually function to create youth as a 'problem'. With case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, she details how these contradictions go unrecognised in attempts to make sense of young people's identities and actions. Gabriel argues that this leads to the misattribution of blame to young people who are then taken to operate outside the boundaries of acceptable conduct. In response, she considers what a deconstructive approach has to offer in terms of moving beyond these conceptual limits and in opening up to more enabling possibilities for understanding youth.

In Search of Democracy - The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) (Hardcover):... In Search of Democracy - The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) (Hardcover)
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
R4,047 Discovery Miles 40 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume offers a glimpse into the minds of three NAACP leaders who occupied the centre of black thought and action during some of the most troublesome and pivotal times of the civil rights movement. These writings illustrate the roles of three builders in constructing a people's liberation. Though progressive in their time, they may still serve as a vision of the future as race relations enter the 21st century.

Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala - Racism, Genocide, Citizenship (Hardcover): Egla Martinez Salazar Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala - Racism, Genocide, Citizenship (Hardcover)
Egla Martinez Salazar
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martinez Salazar examines the genocide and other forms of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and '90s with the full support of Western colonial powers. Drawing on a careful analysis of recently declassified state documents, thematic life histories, and compelling interviews with Maya and Mestizo women and men survivors, Martinez Salazar shows how people resisting oppression were converted into the politically abject. At the center of her book is an examination of how coloniality survives colonialism-a crucial point for understanding how contemporary hegemonic practices and ideologies such as equality, democracy, human rights, peace, and citizenship are deeply contested terrains, for they create nominal equality from practical social inequality. While many in the global North continue to enjoy the benefits of this domination, millions, if not billions, in both the South and North have been persecuted, controlled, and exterminated during their struggles for a more just world.

Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World (Hardcover): B. Fowkes Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World (Hardcover)
B. Fowkes
R2,654 Discovery Miles 26 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Ethnic and national conflicts have been an unexpected and major source of problems in many parts of the world in recent times. Nowhere more so than in the formerly communist countries. This book provides a readable introduction to, and brief analytical coverage of, all the ethnic disputes of the 1990s. Full justice is done both to complex present-day situations and the deeper roots of ethnic conflict. This is followed by a review and evaluation of the main available explanations.

What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops - or A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment (Hardcover): Joan... What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops - or A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment (Hardcover)
Joan Kennedy Taylor
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue?

High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events, with all parties coming away with careers, reputations, and lives profoundly affected. Women have long suffered on the job from sexual extortion, now called quid pro quo harassment, but today the controversy centers on "hostile environment" harassment. Every one has an opinion about it; managements spend more and more money training people not to do it; and still the suits strike like lightning-devastating and seemingly random. Women and men often feel polarized in the workplace by what they perceive to be general hostility couched in sexual terms.

What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. It sees instead a period of transition toward a more balanced population of women in the workplace, with accompanying disruptions that can be minimized by understanding. Joan Kennedy Taylor presents what we know about the workplace and interviews managers, labor experts, and workers in such male-dominated fields as construction, engineering, business, and medicine to shed light on the male group culture that exists without women. She illustrates expressive behaviors that may be objectionable but are not sexual harassment and proposes specific strategies by which these objectionable behaviors can be countered, including a new feminist approach in company training programs. Taylor examines traditional and nontraditional workplaces, and female on male as well as male on male harassment, in order to apply these strategies to the entire picture.

Lively and anecdotal, Taylor's balanced, non-adversarial study fills an important gap by providing strategies for businesses and employees, as well as for those who find themselves the target of sexual harassment.

Struggles in Southern Africa for Survival and Equality (Hardcover): H. Simons Struggles in Southern Africa for Survival and Equality (Hardcover)
H. Simons
R2,657 Discovery Miles 26 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A fascinating account which discusses the indigenous peoples at the Cape at the time of the Dutch colonisers' arrival through to the years of apartheid. This includes the colonial conquest of Zambia expanding upon the role played by venture capital and the demands of manufacturing capitalism in the colonisation of large parts of Africa. The place of women in both colonial settler society and indigenous society is also dealt with. Through all the chapters runs the thread of the lives of the common people, and how their interactions are circumscribed by social conditions.

Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities (Hardcover): Justin Beaumont, Paul Cloke Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities (Hardcover)
Justin Beaumont, Paul Cloke
R2,960 Discovery Miles 29 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and desecularisation of society, amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism, this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume present original research examples and a pan-European perspective to assess the role of FBOs in combating poverty and various expressions of exclusion and social distress in cities across Europe. This significant and highly topical volume should become a vital reference source for the burgeoning number of studies that are likely follow and will make essential reading for students and academics in social policy, sociology, geography, politics, urban studies and theology/ religious studies.

Women, Universities, and Change - Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): M. Sagaria Women, Universities, and Change - Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
M. Sagaria
R1,204 R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Save R197 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.

Communication Rights and Social Justice - Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations (Hardcover): C. Padovani, A.... Communication Rights and Social Justice - Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations (Hardcover)
C. Padovani, A. Calabrese
R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this broad-based collection offers a rich range of illustrations of national, regional and global struggles to define communication rights as essential to human needs and happiness.

Jewish Local Patriotism and Self-Identification in the Graeco-Roman Period (Hardcover): Sian Jones, Sarah Pearce Jewish Local Patriotism and Self-Identification in the Graeco-Roman Period (Hardcover)
Sian Jones, Sarah Pearce
R4,946 Discovery Miles 49 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume of essays explores the broad theme of the relationship between Jewish identity and patriotism in the period between the destruction of the First Temple and late antiquity, with special attention to the Graeco-Roman period. The authors focus on Jewish local identification with particular lands, including the Land of Israel, and the existence of local forms of patriotism. The approaches represented are interdisciplinary in nature and draw on a wide range of sources, including archaeological remains, literary material, and inscriptions. These essays share a comparative perspective on the diverse social and historical contexts in which the Jews of antiquity lived.>

The Dynamics of American Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Group Life - An Interdisciplinary Overview (Hardcover, New): Philip... The Dynamics of American Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Group Life - An Interdisciplinary Overview (Hardcover, New)
Philip Perlmutter
R2,805 R2,539 Discovery Miles 25 390 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on racial, ethnic, and religious groups, the author proposes a historical overview of group life and its impact on American society. His objectives and arguments are multiple. Covering a period from precolonial days to the present, he discusses the dynamics of group identity as well as the dynamics of intragroup and intergroup relations. The underlying theme is: All groups have at one time endured discrimination in American society. But, the trend in the United States historically has been toward guaranteeing and protecting individual rights. The author concludes that over the past few decades, however, the trend has shifted. Since the civil rights movement, the course has been toward government promotion of group rights over individual rights. He argues that this promotion of group rights has been chipping away at traditional individual rights. The impact of these preferences-specifically affirmative action programs-has been to create competition and antagonism among groups. Concerned with how to preserve national unity in the wake of this increasing animosity, Perlmutter concludes with ominous observations for America's future if the current trend of the government promoting group rights continues.

Written/Unwritten - Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (Hardcover): Patricia A. Matthew Written/Unwritten - Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (Hardcover)
Patricia A. Matthew
R2,696 Discovery Miles 26 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate,but reports from faculty of colour around the country make clear that departmentsand administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentionalto malignant. Stories abound of scholars-despite impressive records ofpublication, excellent teaching evaluations, and exemplary service to theiruniversities-struggling on the tenure track. These stories, however, are rarelyshared for public consumption. Written/Unwritten reveals that faculty ofcolour often face two sets of rules when applying for reappointment, tenure,and promotion: those made explicit in handbooks and faculty orientationsor determined by union contracts and those that operate beneath the surface.It is this second, unwritten set of rules that disproportionally affectsfaculty who are hired to "diversify" academic departments and then expectedto meet ever-shifting requirements set by tenured colleagues and administrators.Patricia A. Matthew and her contributors reveal how these implicitprocesses undermine the quality of research and teaching in American collegesand universities. They also show what is possible when universities persistin their efforts to create a diverse and more equitable professorate. Thesenarratives hold the academy accountable while providing a pragmatic viewabout how it might improve itself and how that improvement can extend toacademic culture at large. The contributors and interviewees are Ariana E. Alexander, MarlonM. Bailey, Houston A. Baker Jr., Dionne Bensonsmith, Leslie Bow, AngieChabram, Andreana Clay, Jane Chin Davidson, April L. Few-Demo, EricAnthony Grollman, Carmen V. Harris, Rashida L. Harrison, AyannaJackson-Fowler, Roshanak Kheshti, Patricia A. Matthew, Fred Piercy, DeepaS. Reddy, Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez, Wilson Santos, Sarita Echavez See, AndrewJ. Stremmel, Cheryl A. Wall, E. Frances White, Jennifer D. Williams, andDoctoral Candidate X.

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