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The Slave Shipby Marcus Rediker
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the ?floating dungeons? at the forefront of the birth of African American culture. more...
The New Jim Crowby Michelle Alexander; Cornel West
New Press, The 2012; US$ 19.95The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and bold,” and Pulitzer Prize–winner David Levering Lewis calls “stunning,” will at last be available. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once... more...
Realism and Racismby Bob Carter
Routledge 2000; US$ 63.99This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with issues of race before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. more...
Racism, Culture, Marketsby John Gabriel
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95With the aid of case studies, which include the Bhopal disaster and the Rushdie Affair, John Gabriel explores the connections betweeen cultural representations of `race' and their historical, institutional and global forms of expression. more...
Race in the Mind of Americaby Paul L. Wachtel
Routledge 1999; US$ 42.95Watchel challenges the orthodoxies that shape black and white opinion and liberal and conservative policies, and applies principles to solving racial tensions that may be applied to other groups beyond the United States. more...
Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representationby Alastair Bonnett
Routledge 1993; US$ 160.00This book presents a sociological study of the development of anti-racist political consciousness among educationalists in both 'multi=racial' and 'white' areas. It examines the crisis of 'racial' representation among anti-racists and radicals. more...
Splintering Urbanismby Steve Graham; Simon Marvin
Routledge 2001; US$ 61.95Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. more...
Racism, Sexism, Power and Ideologyby Colette Guillaumin
Routledge 1995; US$ 55.95This text tackles the particular links between the daily materiality of social relationships and mental conventions. The author clearly examines how sexual and racial constraints operate and shape our life experience. more...
Uncertain Masculinitiesby Mike O'Donnell; Sue Sharpe
Routledge 2000; US$ 49.95This book takes a fascinating tour through the problems and opportunities facing teenage boys and young men, addressing one of the most important questions of our time: what does 'masculinity' mean today? more...
Urban World/Global Cityby David Clark
Routledge 1996; US$ 47.95This book identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. The latest theoretical and empirical developments are synthesised and presented in an accessible and engaging way. more...