Intellectuals and Race

Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with critical educators and prominent intellectuals, this book deeply explores a wide range of social just...

Reducere. The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kimberle CrenshawAuthor: Neil GotandaAuthor: Garry PellerIn the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectua...

DescriptionThis classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both ...

Reducere. Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "social construct" and biological differences between...

Reducere. Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "social construct" and biological differences between...

Reducere. Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. No...

Contributor(s): Author: Brittney C. CooperBeyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the ev...

Reducere. In the critical essays collected in "Black Looks, " bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, bl...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

Reducere. Our story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer and enslave o...

DescriptionThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities,...

Reducere. A pioneer in the field of cultural studies, Stuart Hall produced an impressive body of work on the relationship between culture and power. His cont...

Reducere. Founded in 1930, the Institute for Advanced Study was conceived of high ideals for the future of America and its system of higher education, and wa...

Contributor(s): Author: Macarena Gomez-BarrisIn The Extractive Zone Macarena G mez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practic...

Reducere. In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958-1974),...

Reducere. Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

This book is a continuing conversation on Frantz Fanon and the relevance of his theory and politics for contemporary education. The book raises som...

DescriptionThis semiautobiographical account of an early twentieth century activist recounts growing up in rural poverty in farming settlements and...

Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States ...

Reducere. "An elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race."--The Nation "A metic...

Reducere. ``Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement.``--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black...

Reducere. In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, nation builders, artists, and intellectuals manufactured ideologies that continue to give shape to...

Reducere. A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectu...

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers, " American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days...

Highly acclaimed dissection of the "new racism, " from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time Many in the United States, inclu...

DescriptionIn 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called...

A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ag...

Reducere. Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work has been long excluded from the literary canon...

Reducere. Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Washington State Book Award - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Nikhil Pal SinghDespite black gains in modern America, the...

Reducere. A detective and FBI agent join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case -- but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race ag...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Blac...