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A persuasive and compassionate analysis of the appropriation of Native American culture in sports
Sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, and the Warriors and Chiefs of their hometown high schools. But outside the stadiums, American Indians aren't cheering-they're yelling racism.
School boards and colleges are bombarded with emotional...
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Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses four decades after that revolution. On race, Steinberg argues that even the language of "race relations" obscures the structural basis of racial hierarchy...
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« Plus jamais ça ! » L'incantation est répétée à l'envi comme une formule magique contre le mauvais sort. Mais, de façon lucide et réaliste, comment faire pour que ce slogan donne lieu à une résistance efficace quand on sait que la connaissance de la Shoah n'a pas empêché le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994 ? Et qu'aujourd'hui encore les Yézidis, les Rohingyas ou les Burundais sont confrontés à un tel risque ou ont subi des actes...
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Get the Summary of Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: So Yоu Want Tо Talk Abоut Rасе (2018) еxаmіnеѕ the complex ѕуѕtеm of rасіѕm in thе United States, frоm police brutаlіtу to cultural аррrорrіаtіоn to thе school-to-prison pipeline. It offers clarity on wауѕ we саn аррrоасh соnvеrѕаtіоnѕ...
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Este libro es un polémico compendio de atrocidades y escándalos mexicanos. Armado a manera de diccionario, reúne cuarenta y ocho contundentes entradas sobre costumbres, dichos y prejuicios vinculados a la práctica cotidiana del racismo en nuestro país. Da lo mismo hacia dónde se mire: en todas partes -en las escuelas, en las oficinas públicas, en la televisión, entre amigos y aun en nuestras propias familias- abundan esos aborrecibles actos...
47) Instinctual Racism & Our Primal Tendencies: An Exploration of Our Innate Tribalistic Inclinations
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Our primal tendencies have been forged by a legacy of millions of years of evolutionary biology as well as a legacy of ancestral lineage. We function in a modern-day environment with these tendencies and inclinations that have helped us to survive for millennia. However, our modern-day sociological environment is not suited for the primal proclivities that we carry within us which leads us to engage in behaviors that are primally motivated and are...
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¿Qué es la pobreza? ¿Cómo afecta la desigualdad a los privilegiados? ¿Nos ha llevado el capitalismo tecnológico al avance imparable del precariado? ¿De qué manera amenaza la desigualdad meritocrática con resquebrajar nuestro sistema?
La sociedad contemporánea ha logrado un desarrollo material sin precedentes, y sin embargo la calidad de vida ha disminuido en amplios sectores de la población aumentando con ello el malestar social. Tanto...
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The recent spike in the number of violations of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act has resulted in dozens of multimillion- dollar lawsuits from both large and small businesses. Federal employment laws were not written to assist small business owners in running their businesses, making it difficult to understand the somewhat complex legalese. Luckily, there is an easy way to avoid being one of the numerous companies involved in class-action labor...
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Black State of America, is not just a book to read and then go about your normal daily routine. This Guidebook is designed to spark an emotional and intellectual response inside of the hearts and minds of its readers. From this social diagram, the Black American race can begin the necessary steps to finish the major objectives of the 1960s and 1970s Black empowerment movements, with a Civil Rights 2.0 agenda that permanently changes the playing field...
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Race has been a prominent public policy issue in the UK for decades and there is growing interest in academia, but it is often caught in a repetitive cycle of progress and regress. This book analyses and bridges that gap by providing a unique insight into the relationship between race and ethnicity scholarship and the reality of 'real world' policy and politics. Drawing on the author's academic work as well as his background working in public policy...
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There are monsters in the neighborhood, but sometimes you need to go outside for ice cream.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher,...
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It is widely understood that race is a social fact with profound implications for life chances, group identity, collective representation and the social order. 'Whiteness', the source of race-based inequality and injustice, is perpetuated through power, violence and an array of complex processes which help protect the status quo. While there has been much focus on the psychological harm of racism on people of colour, less attention has been paid to...
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Black people live with indoctrinated struggles through injustice systems and discriminations that I call, "The Spirit of a Nigga." This attitude is still, perpetuated in the established institutions of: Finance, Housing, Education, Health Care, Employment, Social and Judiciary Systems, etc. throughout all of the United States of America. The mirroring of ourselves through these historical and fictional stories will help us honor our Black History,...
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The Beginning of the End of Racism in America: Black and White is a progressive and pragmatic book that is the antidote to the disease of ignorance and poison of racism. It reflects intimately the causes of these maladies, the results of these maladies, and what must be done in order to completely do away with these maladies.
There is no doubt in our mind that, if applied appropriately, the knowledge coupled with the principles of The Beginning of...
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¿Podemos construir una vida en sociedad que no niegue las identidades de las minorías? En este libro, el sociólogo francés François Dubet, que es uno de los pioneros en el análisis de estos problemas, toma testimonios de primera mano, describe brillantemente los complejos mecanismos de la representación política, pública y mediática de los discriminados, y propone una igualdad social que no resigne las diferencias.
Lo que nos une deja en...
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, fissures, and fractures in the fabric of America's foundations, American life, and the very pillars of our democracy. As the oldest and most enduring democracy in the world, the pandemic that took the lives of six hundred thousand-plus souls in the U.S. alone, followed by racial disparities, a tumultuous presidential election, and the aftermath that led to the most restrictive and fierce state laws to suppress...
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Do you think that some slug who looks very professional who "whispers" an occasional interpretation to you five times a week for 7 years can make one bit of difference in your life or does such a psychotoxic slug called a psychoanalyst merely stick you in an emotional toilet bowl for seven years having the cumulative result of turning you into a hopeless bastard who will never turn the tragic corner in his or her life?
Can your analyst analyze an...
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Just 40 years ago, the construction unions of New York City were among the most powerful labor organizations in the world. They were also among the most openly racist and sexist, and were thoroughly dominated by organized crime. Today, minority males, and women of any color, can get work in the industry, and the power of gangsters is on the decline. But the fall of racketeering and racism also broke the power of those unions.
60) No Hood Required
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No Hood Required is a factual, sometimes comical, and emotional look at how racism in the USA has come full circle. There is no longer a reason to hide the hate of racism in this atmosphere of tolerance bolstered by the return to public displays of hate as demonstrated by everyday citizens, politicians, captains of industry, and the old guard compromised of the KKK, nationalists, and more recently, the current president of this nation. No hood required...
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