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Are We Born Racist?
Beacon Press 2010; US$ 18.00Where do our prejudices come from? Why are some people more biased than others? Is it possible for individuals, and society as a whole, to truly defeat prejudice? In these pages, leading scientists, psychologists, educators, activists, and many others offer answers, drawing from new scientific discoveries that shed light on why and how our brains form... more...
Benign Bigotry
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 25.00Focuses on commonly held cultural myths as the basis for examining subtle forms of racial, sexual, gender and religious bias. more...
Chastened
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95Seeking love in an age obsessed with sex, a journalist chronicles her year without On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson glimpsed her college boyfriend going into a jewelry store with a smiling blonde-and in that moment realized it had been years since a man told her he loved her. This discovery led her to question a decade... more...
Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2008; US$ 110.00Whilst lesbian women, gay men, and bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people are typically excluded from normative forms of social order, we continue to create our own forms of inclusive communities. These intersections often result in complex health issues for LGBTIQ communities. The papers in this Special Issue of comment on aspects... more...
Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 94.95This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent prejudice researchers who explore key topics, by presenting an overview of current research and, where appropriate, developing new theory, models, or scales. The... more...
Hapa Girl
Temple University Press 2007; US$ 23.95In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl ("hapa" is Hawaiian for "mixed") their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s. In their new Midwestern... more...
In Praise of Prejudice
Encounter Books 2007; US$ 16.95Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional... more...
Indigenous Mental Health
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2004; US$ 110.00There is an obvious need to increase the levels of access by Indigenous people to mental health services. This title explores the changes that must occur to service delivery at the practitioner and system levels, with a focus on embedding elements of cultural and clinical competence within practice. An important resource. more...
Intergroup Misunderstandings
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 90.00The objectives of the volume are to direct the field?s attention to the unique value of studying interactions between members of different groups and to offer the most up-to-date summaries of prominent and cutting-edge scholarship on this topic written by leading scholars in the field. A central theme of the volume is that improvement in intergroup... more...
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00People from a ?mixed? or ?inter? racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical... more...









