The summer of 1964 had been "Freedom Summer" for a few campuses. The Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC) had drawn some five hundred students, most of them white, from Ivy League and prestigious universities to help its integration efforts in Mississippi. An up-and-coming leader named Stokely Carmichael had told a group of ......
How racist is society today? How have the patterns of discrimination and disadvantage changed over the past 20 years? This text explores the nature and extent of racial discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal opportunities programmes. Incisive analyses focus upon the operation of institutional racism in immigration law, housing, social work, employment, training and the criminal justice system. They explore changes over time and examine the interwoven strands of `race', class and gender that form the pattern of disadvantage. This provides a context for a critical discussion of the formulation, implementation and outcomes of equal opportunities policies in the local state and the private sector. The authors investigate both `liberal' and `radical' approaches to equal opportunities in the area of `race'. They analyze the political and ideological contentions that influence the ways in which issues are defined and support is mobilized. They also highlight the shortcomings of current legislation.
In this text, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians examine over a dozen international cases to understand what causes a society's ethnic conflicts to either escalate or de-escalate. They highlight the role of group identification in the escalation of ethnic conflict.
This text explores the relationship between race and technology. From Indian H-1B workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, this book uses case studies to document the use of technology - rupturing stereotypes such as Asian whizz kids and black technophobes.
This text explores the relationship between race and technology. From Indian H-1B workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, this book uses case studies to document the use of technology - rupturing stereotypes such as Asian whizz kids and black technophobes.
Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion
Passing for what you are not - whether assuming another sexual, racial or religious identity - is behaviour which trades on secrecy and revelation. This book analyzes the destructive impact of passing on the ingrained classifications and social demarcations of identity within Western society.
Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion
Brings together theories of passing across a host of disciplines from critical race theory and lesbian and gay studies, to literary theory and religious studies
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.
