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Cross-Cultural Psychologyby John W. Berry; Ype H. Poortinga; Seger M. Breugelmans; Athanasios Chasiotis; David L. Sam
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 48.00Third edition of leading textbook offering an advanced overview of all major perspectives of research in cross-cultural psychology. more...
Scottsboro and Its Legacyby James R. Acker
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00A vivid account of the Scottsboro Boys case-the alleged crimes, their legal aftermath, and their immediate and enduring social significance. more...
Griffin's Black Like Meby Margaret Mansfield
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 4.95This book recounts one of the most exciting sociological experiments of the 20th century. The Caucasian author undergoes chemical and physical changes to appear as an African American, to document the bias and social injustices of the white American society from personal experience. more...
Our Townby Cynthia Carr
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 11.99The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Marion is our town, America’s town, and its legacy is our legacy. Like everyone in Marion, Carr knew the basic... more...
Scars in the Landscapeby Ian Clark
Aboriginal Studies Press 1995; US$ 20.00Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people during 1803?1859. Deliberately challenging the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread. Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents a detailed, meticulously research study of massacres on one Australian region. more...
Race in the Schoolyardby Amanda E. Lewis
Rutgers University Press 2003; US$ 21.00Could your kids be learning a fourth R at school: reading, writing, 'rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action?our childrens classrooms? and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both expressed and hidden, conveys many racial lessons. While teachers and other school community members verbally deny the salience of race, she illustrates how... more...
Up from Slaveryby Booker T. Washington
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schoolsmost notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabamato help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. more...
Restoring the Mind of Black Americaby Eddie Taylor
African American Images 2011; US$ 12.95With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities. Dr. Taylor explores not only the history of slavery and the subsequent reparations in the United States but also the reparations that are still discernibly necessary, both financial and psychological. The traumatic impact of slavery on African Americans is examined in the fields of education, economics, family, history, and culture. In addition, this gripping book outlines ways in which a revitalization of African history and culture can help... more...
Should Race Matter?by David Boonin
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 28.00David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by slave reparations, affirmative action, hate crime laws and racial profiling. more...
Race, Crime, and the Lawby Randall Kennedy
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.99In this powerfully reasoned, lucidly written work, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy takes on the highly complex issues of race, crime, and the legal system, uncovering the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals and revealing difficult truths about these factors in the United States. From the Hardcover edition. more...









