This is a unique and valuable resource whose focus is not restricted to the examination of racism and antiracism from a single perspective. Contributors from diverse backgrounds - anthropology, classics, sociology, political science, communications and history - explore racism and the various movements to counteract it through the historical and cultural lenses of different world settings, including Europe, Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean.
A broad range of culture-related topics specific to the lesbian and gay community are explored in this volume. Along with empirical, clinical and theoretical discussions, personal narrative offers poignant insight into additional complexities, pressures and losses that lesbians and gay men must cope with in a world that often handles diversity with bigotry.
What is known about the influence of ethnicity upon drug use? How can this knowledge be used to develop prevention programmes for multi-ethnic youth? Contributors to this invaluable book address these and other pressing questions. They consider specific problems and challenges confronting researchers involved in studying substance abuse in minority communities; explore explanations for racial and ethnic differences in drug use; and examine possible risk and protective factors which influence use. Current drug abuse prevention models in settings including schools, communities and homeless shelters are also presented.
This is the first major sociological report on the lives, status and public policy needs of the Chicana elderly, a population which is generally poor and has been stereotyped as widows and grandmothers. Elisa Facio offers insight into how Chicana elderly cope with their economic and cultural marginality, and how they gain the personal and financial resources they require. The book relates how scholars and public policy makers have previously understood the world of Chicana elderly, and provides new data on the social meaning of Chicana old age, specifying implications of that meaning for future policy makers.
...could not be more of the moment. (New York Times Book Review) If you, like many, marveled that George W. Bush not only did but could put together a cabinet and staff that was racially diverse as well as fiscally and morally conservative, here's a book you'll want to read. (Ms. magazine)
Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. Du Bois knew that the liberation of African Americans required liberal education and not vocational training. He saw education as a process of teaching certain timeless values: moderation, an avoidance of luxury, a concern ......
In one of the twentieth century's Supreme Court cases, Brown vs Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. The author demonstrates that without these scientists, we wouldn't enjoy the legal protections against discrimination.
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Examining the lives of three women - Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, this book explains how their public and private actions represent the conflict of being a white woman, of being the recipient of both privilege and discrimination. It sheds light on the race and gender relations in the early American Republic.
Addressing the plethora of discourses on racial injury, the author offers an interdisciplinary analysis that challenges the reader to rethink nearly every model used in examining race in the US.
