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America at War with Itself by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780872867321Publication Date: 2016-09-06From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to prevent conditions from getting worse. Reflecting on a wide range of social issues, Giroux contrasts Donald Trump's America with Sandra Bland's to understand who really benefits from politically fueled intolerance for immigrants, communities of color, Muslims, low-income families, and those who challenge state and corporate power.
Antidemocracy in America by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780231548724Publication Date: 2019-06-17Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into view. It offers essays from leading scholars on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protest, inequality, immigration, and the media.
American Islamophobia by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780520297791Publication Date: 2018-04-03The term "Islamophobia" may be fairly new, but irrational fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims is anything but. Though many speak of Islamophobia's roots in racism, have we considered how anti-Muslim rhetoric is rooted in our legal system? Critical race theorist and law professor, Khaled A. Beydoun captures the many ways in which law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the frightening resurgence of Islamophobia in the United States. He argues that by failing to frame Islamophobia as a system of bigotry endorsed and emboldened by law and carried out by government actors, U.S. society ignores the injury it inflicts on both Muslims and non-Muslims.
The Spectre of Race by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780691177137Publication Date: 2018-05-29How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to today As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race, Michael Hanchard argues that the current rise in xenophobia and racist rhetoric is nothing new and that exclusionary policies have always been central to democratic practices since their beginnings in classical times. Contending that democracy has never been for all people, Hanchard discusses how marginalization is reinforced in modern politics, and why these contradictions need to be fully examined if the dynamics of democracy are to be truly understood. Showing the ways that race, gender, nationality, and other criteria have determined a person's status in political life, The Spectre ofRace offers important historical context for how democracy generates political difference and inequality.
White Guys on Campus by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780813599076Publication Date: 2018-11-15A critical examination of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among White male undergraduates. This text explores the structures, policies, ideologies, and experiences that allow racism to flourish. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while engaging the possibility of White students to participate in anti-racism. Ultimately, White Guys on Campus calls upon institutions of higher education to be sites of social transformation instead of reinforcing systemic racism, while creating a platform to engage and challenge the public discourse of "post- racialism."
The Price of Nice by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 1452961492Publication Date: 2019-10-22Explores Niceness in educational spaces from elementary schools through higher education to highlight how this seemingly benign quality reinforces structural inequalities. Grounded in data, personal narrative, and theory, the chapters show that Niceness, as a raced, gendered, and classed set of behaviors, functions both as a shield to save educators from having to do the hard work of dismantling inequity and as a disciplining agent for those who attempt or even consider disrupting structures and ideologies of dominance.
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism : Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Resistance in Education by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781438463056Publication Date: 2016-12-01Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780203940822Publication Date: 2007-05-11Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice presents a well-constructed foundation for engaging the complex and often daunting problems of discrimination and inequality in American society.
Educating for Critical Consciousness by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781138363359Publication Date: 2019-05-08This collection delineates the necessity of critical consciousness through education, and provides ways of speaking back against authoritarian control of imaginative and critical capacities.
Talking Black and White by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781498516891Publication Date: 2017-07-24Investigates domestic race-related social justice issues and intercultural communication between Black and White individuals. Deconstructs twenty-first-century racism, racial tensions, prejudice, police brutality, #BLM, misperception, and the role of the past. Explores these dynamics through the lenses of intercultural communication, critical intercultural communication, critical race theory, critical theory, rhetoric, sociology, race and racism, interracial communication, Black communication, identity, identity negotiation, and communication theory.
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781620975459Publication Date: 2020-01-07Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."
Racing to Justice by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780253007353Publication Date: 2012-09-06Racing to Justice challenges us to replace attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering with those that foster relationships and a way of being that transcends disconnection and separation.
Stamped from the Beginning by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781568584645Publication Date: 2016-04-12How racist ideas were created, spread, and became deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. This book chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history.
White Rage by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781632864130Publication Date: 2017-09-05Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains.
Race and Racism by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781442274587Publication Date: 2018-04-12Examines the foundations of race in American society from an anthropological perspective. The book offers an accessible overview of a variety of perspectives and theories on the biology of race, the social context of race, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, and more. The second edition features significant updates throughout, including more discussion of critical race theory, new biophysical research on human origins, new material on media and racism, new global examples, and additional material on how racism impacts a variety of ethnic groups.
Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780415952781Publication Date: 2006-01-24Theory of systemic racism to interpret the highly racialized character and development of this society. Explores the distinctive social worlds that have been created by racial oppression over nearly four centuries and what this has meant for the people of the United States. Examines how major institutions have been thoroughly pervaded by racial stereotypes, ideas, images, emotions, and practices. Theorizes that this system of racial oppression was not an accident of history, but was created intentionally by white Americans. Today, as in the past, racial oppression is not just a surface-level feature of society, but rather it pervades, permeates, and interconnects all major social groups, networks, and institutions across society.
Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781681233864Publication Date: 2016-01-27A critical emphasis examines how inequalities and power relations manifest in groups, organizations, communities, and social systems within societal contexts. In particular, suppressing talk about racialized structural inequalities in the dominant culture has traditionally worked to marginalize communities of color. The subtle, barely visible, and sometimes unspeakable behavioral practices involving these racialized dynamics are explored.
Algorithms of Oppression by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781479849949Publication Date: 2018-02-20In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.
Democracy in Black by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780804137416Publication Date: 2016-01-12A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society. America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency--at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved America's race problem. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a "value gap"--with white lives valued more than others--that still distorts our politics today.
Backlash by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781538104057Publication Date: 2018-04-15When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled "Dear White America" asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible--including death threats--and supporters rallying to his side. Despite the rhetoric of a "post-race" America, Yancy quickly discovered that racism is still alive, crude, and vicious in its expression. In Backlash, Yancy expands upon the original article and chronicles the ensuing controversy as he seeks to understand what it was about the op-ed that created so much rage among so many white readers. He challenges white Americans to rise above the vitriol and to develop a new empathy for the African American experience.
Culture, Race, & Ethnicity
African American Communication by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9781351103244Publication Date: 2019-11-19Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition informs their communication habits, practices, and norms. This edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions of gender and sexuality, intersectional differences, contemporary social movements, and digital and mediated communication. The book is ideally suited for advanced students and scholars in intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, communication theory, African American/Black studies, gender studies, and family studies.
Between the World and Me by Call Number: WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780812993547Publication Date: 2015-07-14Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780231169448Publication Date: 2015-07-07The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia, and fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity in the United States, debate the nature of race and ethnicity and their relation to nationality, linguistic rights, matters of identity, and Affirmative Action, binding the concepts of race and ethnicity together in ways that open new paths of inquiry. Their discussion joins two distinct traditions: the philosophy of race begun by African Americans in the nineteenth century, and the search for an understanding of identity initiated by Latin American philosophers in the sixteenth century. These intellectuals start with the philosophy of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and then move to the philosophy of African Americans and Anglo Americans in the United States and the philosophy of Latin Americans in Latin America.
Latining America by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780820344355Publication Date: 2013-02-01With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names Latinities.' Milian's study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored Latin participants--the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American--have ushered in a new world of Latined signification from the 1920s to the present. Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian's new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks Latino/a subjects.
Race Migrations by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780804777957Publication Date: 2012-06-13This study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race--for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an American idea about race does not mean abandoning earlier ideas. New racial schemas transfer across borders and cultures spread between sending and host countries. Behind many current debates on immigration is the question of how Latinos will integrate and where they fit into the U.S. racial structure. Race Migrations shows that these migrants increasingly see themselves as a Latino racial group.
Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs in America by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780195333114Publication Date: 2007-12-03Explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion--and consequently culture--is "remade in the U.S.A." Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, this book gives an overview of each religion's beliefs, a short history of immigration--and discrimination--for each group, and how immigrants have adapted their religious beliefs since they arrived.
Asian Americans in Dixie by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780252037832Publication Date: 2013-10-14Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South. Avoiding the usual focus on the East and West Coasts, several essays attend to the nuanced ways in which Asian Americans negotiate the dominant black and white racial binary, while others provoke readers to reconsider the supposed cultural isolation of the region, reintroducing the South within a historical web of global networks across the Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic.
Contemporary Chinese America by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781592138579Publication Date: 2009-05-28A sociological investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States-and of their offspring-in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author, Min Zhou, is a well-known sociologist of the Chinese American experience. In this volume she collects her original research on a range of subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China, demographic trends of Chinese Americans, patterns of residential mobility in the U.S., Chinese American "ethnoburbs," immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic enclave economies, gender and work, Chinese language media, Chinese schools, and intergenerational relations.
Becoming Asian American by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 0801868793Publication Date: 2002-04-05Nazli Kibria draws on interviews with second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans to explore their experiences of race, identity, and adaptation in the United States. The book aims to go beyond the frameworks created to study white ethnic or racial minority experiences to examine the unique process of integration and acceptance into mainstream American society reported by those from this group who came of age in America in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim? What’s the Difference?!
Definitions and geographies from TeachMideast, an educational outreach initiative developed by the Middle East Policy Council.
Arab America by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780814758861Publication Date: 2012-08-17Writing from a transnational feminist perspective, Naber reveals the complex and at times contradictory cultural and political processes through which Arabness is forged in the contemporary United States, and explores the apparently intra-communal cultural concepts of religion, family, gender, and sexuality as the battleground on which Arab American young adults and the looming world of America all wrangle. As this struggle continues, these young adults reject Orientalist thought, producing counter-narratives that open up new possibilities for transcending the limitations of Orientalist, imperialist, and conventional nationalist articulations of self, possibilities that ground concepts of religion, family, gender, and sexuality in some of the most urgent issues of our times: immigration politics, racial justice struggles, and U.S. militarism and war.
Between the Middle East and the Americas by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780472069446Publication Date: 2013-02-12Highlights the fraught and ambivalent situation of Arabs/Muslims in the Americas, where they are at once celebrated and demonized, integrated and marginalized, simultaneously invisible and spectacularly visible. Taken together, the essays analyze the hegemonic discourses that position "the Middle East" as a consumable exoticized object, while also developing complex understandings of self-representation in literature, cinema/TV, music, performance, visual culture, and digital spaces. Between the Middle East and the Americas disentangles the conventional separation of regions, moving beyond the binarist notion of "here" and "there" to imaginatively reveal the thorough interconnectedness of cultural geographies.
Jew by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780813563039Publication Date: 2017-01-13Examining scholarly debates about the origins and early meanings of Jew, Cynthia M. Baker interrogates categories like "ethnicity," "race," and "religion" that inevitably feature in attempts to define the word. Tracing the term's evolution, she also illuminates its many contradictions, revealing how Jew has served as a marker of materialism and intellectualism, socialism and capitalism, worldly cosmopolitanism and clannish parochialism, chosen status, and accursed stigma. Finally, the book provides a glimpse of what the word Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic sequencing, precarious nationalisms, and proliferating identities.
Boundaries of Jewish Identity by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780295990545Publication Date: 2010-11-09The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question "Who and what is Jewish?" These essays are focused especially on the issues of who creates the definitions, and how, and in what social and political contexts. The authors examine how Jews have imagined themselves and how definitions of Jewishness have been established, enforced, challenged, and transformed.
Diasporas and Exiles by ISBN: 0520228642Publication Date: 2002-10-07The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; galut, the traditional Hebrew expression for the Jews' perennial condition, is better translated as "exile." The very distinction between diaspora and exile, although difficult to analyze, is important enough to form the basis of several essays in this fine collection. "Identity" is an even more elusive concept. The contributors to Diasporas and Exiles explore Jewish identity--or, more accurately, Jewish identities--from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. Diasporas and Exiles mirrors the richness of experience and the attendant virtual impossibility of definition that constitute the challenge of understanding Jewish identity.
The Cherokee Diaspora by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780300169607Publication Date: 2015-09-29In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838-39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people.
Native Diasporas by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780803233638Publication Date: 2014-06-01Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways.
The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781554583287Publication Date: 2013-08-08Explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.
