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Drawing the Global Colour Line
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 26.00Pioneering study of the construction of self-styled white men's countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia. more...
Race, Ethnicity and Education in Globalised Times
Springer 2008; US$ 129.99Argues that race and ethnic relationships must be understood in new ways; that the analytical frameworks provided by constructivist thought and post-colonial writing must be interrogated to provide more comprehensive methodological resources to examine these relationships. more...
Toward a Global Idea of Race
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 75.00In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents... more...
"Race" and Racism
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00This study examines the origins and development of racism in North America through addressing the inception and persistence of the concept of ?race? and the biology of human variance. more...
Desire for Race
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00Examines the concept of race, suggesting ways in which it can free itself from outdated notions of biological essentialism. more...
The End of Blackness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.95Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story , she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can fix. The way out of the ghetto, she asserts, is to take a good, hard look in the mirror. Get angry,... more...
The Threat of Race
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today’s world. A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar of critical race theory Explores how the concept of race has been historically... more...
Networked Urbanism
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume leading urban researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and France explore the nature of social networks and the significance of voluntary associations... more...
Cities in a Globalizing World
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99"In a world moving very rapidly on both urbanization and globalization, cities in the developing world face both serious challenges and attractive opportunities. They can reap the benefits of economic growth by creating an enabling investment climate: well-functioning markets, institutions that support sound governance and regulatory regimes,... more...
Pathways Through Crisis
AltaMira Press 2008; US$ 79.99In Pathways through Crisis, Carl Maida describes how communities tend (and need) to develop 'grass roots' solutions in responding to critical social problems. more...









