Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, Paperback - Mary Pattillo

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

Reducere. First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the medi...

Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

Alexandra, a young mixed-race barrister, gives us a fresh perspective on a broken criminal justice system still dominated by a privileged few.

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Asad HaiderNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

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Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mary R. JackmanNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 31Cover type: ...

Reducere. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and inve...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the ...

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

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Reducere. The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, sh...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Camilla HawthorneIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 23 Halftones, black and white; 1 ChartsNumber of pages: 324...

How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world? Based in communication, and drawi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tommy J. CurryTommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we sh...

An absorbing first-hand account of politics in Burnley, Lancashire, where the BNP gained council seats following the 2001 riots. This book offers a...

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

Publisher: Cinder HousePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 131 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a p...

Reducere. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place w...

Reducere. DescriptionMarquis and Alexander have always had it rough. Their single mother, Carolyn, works hard to make ends meet, and though they are grateful...

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

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Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color....

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Reducere. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in A...

DescriptionPsychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully ...

Reducere. "On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and,...

Reducere. Observing that the understanding of the Founders of the American Constitution influences the opinion of contemporary America, this book demonstrate...

Presents concepts in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the...

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A non-fiction book about the UK Labour/Labor Party, with a strong author biographical elementPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Reg RaceIllustra...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

DescriptionOften dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Par...

Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...