Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, Hardcover - Jill Strauss

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These essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University's involvement in slavery and recent efforts to conf...

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This collection provides windows into Canada's conflicted history and the innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile relationships between Indi...

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""Adverse Events" explores the connections between race, inequality, and the testing of new pharmaceuticals"--

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This volume by philosophers, sociologists, and historians on issues of race and racism examines central educational questions, relevant to educatio...

"This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed...

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The theological attempts to understand Christ's body have either focused on philosophical claims about Jesus' identity or on contextual rebuttals--...

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital field of scholarship and research. ...

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

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By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

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Reducere. The United States is consumed with questions regarding race, the legacy of slavery, and the nature of social justice. Where are people of faith to ...

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Reducere. Now adapted for young adults--the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, which Toni Morrison called "quite extraordinary, " offers an intimate look ...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Barack ObamaNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softb...

This contributed volume reflects on the collective wisdom and ongoing efforts of the social work profession that has been in the forefront of the g...

Reducere. In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might ...

Reducere. This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a b...

President Barack Obama's #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of his childhood and young adult years, a compelling journey through family, race and...

Reducere. The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate raci...

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Reducere. Geography matters. We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and ...

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

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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

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

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