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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...
Monitor Racisme & Extremisme
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 17.50Kan een proces van de-radicalisering worden gestimuleerd of ondersteund? Geïnspireerd op buitenlandse ervaringen is in de gemeentes Winschoten en Eindhoven gedurende twee jaar geëxperimenteerd met een de-radicaliseringsaanpak voor rechts-radicale jongeren. Deze rapportage is de weerslag van een studie die door de Universiteit Leiden en de Anne Frank... more...
East Enders
The Policy Press 2003; US$ 34.50This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood relations (including race relations), through the eyes of the local community. more...
Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects, 2
Brookings Institution Press 2009; US$ 26.95The goal of this book, the second in a series, is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. What can we say about what works, what doesnt, and why? And what does... more...
Researching 'Race' and Ethnicity
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 65.00Researching 'Race' and Ethnicit y provides an innovative discussion of the methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of doing qualitative research that is informed by questions of 'race', ethnicity and social difference. The book will be essential reading for students and academics across the social sciences. more...
From Fetish to Subject
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 123.00Was modern primitivism complicit with the ideologies of colonialism, or was it a multivalent encounter with difference? Examining race and modernism through a wider and more historically contextualized study, Sweeney brings together a variety of published and new scholarship to expand the discussion on the links between modernism and primitivism. Tracing... more...









