The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, Hardcover

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Shobana ShankarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 142 x 217 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instabi...

Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events tha...

Reducere. The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking "honor killing" of the author's classmate and friend, Israa...

Reducere. Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that t...

Reducere. It's easy to say that racism is wrong. But it's surprisingly hard to agree on what it is. Does a tired stereotype in your favorite movie make it ra...

Reducere. The xenophobic backlash against refugees and immigrants gets put under the lens as we are introduced to those living through this emotional tide cr...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book is not written specifically for White readers, Black readers, readers who are Latino, Asian, or other specific racial or ethnic groups. I...

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This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

Reducere. The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking "honor killing" of the author's classmate and friend, Israa...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the U. S. and around the world, we are mired in political conflicts that are filled with bitterness, hatred, prejudice and personal a...

Reducere. Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of th...

Reducere. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung...

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

Reducere. Nestled on the rocky coast of Massachusetts, Salem is a city steeped in history and legend. Famous for its witch trials, the storied North Shore se...

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

A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. ...

Reducere. As one of America's most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, has a long list of stories of the supernatural, such as the story of the first two peop...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Yun-han (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan Universit...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Jennifer RuthNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 32Cover type: Ha...

Shows how democracy today faces threats that we ignore at our own risk. Tracing democracy's history and development, this title revisits the assump...

Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine demo...

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

Reducere. At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping...

The power of the court to overturn a law or decree--called judicial review--is a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judg...

Reducere. During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it s...

"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." --Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffe...

Reducere. Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions ...

DescriptionAn enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ va...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Contains the decisions of the Court in both the English and French texts. Each decision is published as soon as possible after it has been given, i...

Reducere. In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts...

Reducere. Historic Haunts Florida In this collection you will discover: -Haunted tales of paranormal pachyderms -Super natural accounts of a serial killer an...

DescriptionThis book addresses and analyses the rape sentencing regime in India, and demonstrates that despite law reform, the myths and stereotype...

Reducere. Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their ...

Reducere. America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our governme...

Reducere. Meet Spectra: a crafty, industrious, four-inch-tall artist with a brilliant approach to her art. The portraits she makes are composed from the seed...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Gideon RachmanNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 241 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. In this bold and uncompromising book, George G. M. James argues that the "Greek philosophy" in which nearly all of Western culture has its roots ac...

In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orches...

A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical acc...

Reducere. An intruiging and accessible nonfiction graphic novel about the role wealth and influence play in American democracy.Despite our immense political ...

Reducere. A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall BookIn this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teach...