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The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as neither black nor white but as mixed-race. Legacies of Race offers the first examination of Brazilian public opinion to understand racial identities, attitudes, and...
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New Jersey is celebrated for its strong communities built across religious and ethnic lines as one of the nation's most diverse states. The state, though, was not immune to the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the first half of the twentieth century. Former vaudevillians Arthur H. Bell and his wife used the tactics of public theater to advertise and recruit for the organization. At a massive riot in Perth Amboy, thousands of immigrants besieged...
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Un notale incremento en el número de investigaciones sobre violencia de género contra las mujeres en Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES) sucedió a lo largo de la década pasada, 2010-2020, y a esta amplia producción académica se suman los capítulos de la obra que aquí presentamos. Los nueve capítulos que la integran abordan tres de las principales y actuales preocupaciones en torno a esta problemática: 1) documentar la presencia, magnitud...
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The "Air Force's Black Ceiling" is a view of diversity in the Air Force from one man's over 28 years in the Air Force. This view begins with his perspectives and insights as an Air Force Academy cadet and continues with his progression through company and field grade ranks. It also includes special insights gained while serving on the Secretary of Defense's Diversity Task Force as the Deputy Director of the Defense Business Practice Implementation...
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In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel solution. He built a six-foot-tall, one-foot-thick concrete barrier extending from Eight Mile Road south for three city blocks--the...
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A sheltered teen on a quest through Chinatown finds a new world to explore.
“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.
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The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing process that defined the Americas during the colonial period-the racial melding of Europeans and indigenous peoples-foretells the miscegenation that is the most salient profile of America today. If, as W.E.B. DuBois once argued, the twentieth century...
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Get the Summary of Coleman Hughes's The End of Race Politics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "The End of Race Politics," Coleman Hughes explores the complexities of racial identity and the arbitrary nature of racial categories, drawing from personal experiences and historical analysis. He challenges the notion that race is a natural concept, arguing that it is a socially constructed hybrid based on genetic...
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Book Preview: #1 The Standard Model of particle physics is the Black child on the school bus. It is the collection of all the things that a Black child is made out of, as a scientist who has reached adulthood.
#2 I enjoy a neatly ordered tale that can come off like a carefully constructed sum of its parts. I enjoy studying systems as they change in time and looking for patterns or...
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Trying to detangle fact from the fiction and hearsay from hard truths challenging in many areas of discussion and race is no exception. If the issues surrounding race can leave you confused, and you don't know your BLM from your replacement theory, then this is the book to help ups get started. Find out why Black Lives Matter became such a contentious issue, discover what is " The war on woke", and why it is important to have a historical context...
92) We Need to Act
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'I believe that citizen action is vitally necessary as we come out of the heady days of post-apartheid euphoria.' Professor Jonathan Jansen has become a trusted commentator on the state of South Africa -- reminding us of our past and asking citizens to leave their comfort zones and contribute to righting the wrongs of our society. Why should we get involved? Jansen gives seven compelling reasons: If ordinary citizens do nothing, we face even greater...
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Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines means that they share many cultural characteristics with Latinos, such as last names, religion, and language....
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El concepto de violencia en el crimen de violación y el problema del no consentimiento es un libro técnico-jurídico, basado en la tesis de maestría de la autora, defendido el 25 de marzo del 2015, en la Universidade Católica do Porto.
El libro trata del problema de la interpretación del concepto de violencia en el crimen de violación, limitando el análisis a los crímenes practicados en víctimas adultas.
Se pretende demostrar, con base...
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South Africa is a country where the dichotomy is divided between black and white, rich and poor. Where the rich are usually white and the poor usually black. This is a story about how, a white woman from a wealthy privileged background and a black woman from rural background, become friends. And through circumstances, which bring them closer together, and where colour has no place, they and their children form a bond which is unbreakable. Phumlas...
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New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American debates over immigration policy-but the reality on the ground is proving different. Since the 1980s, new immigrants have increasingly settled in rural and suburban areas, particularly within the South. Couple this demographic change with an increase in unauthorized immigrants, and the...
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John B. Davis was a classroom teacher and central, district, and local school administrator for thirty years with the Chicago Public Schools from 1958 1988. He served as a visiting professor and part-time instructor at Roosevelt University, Chicago, in the administration and supervision master's program from 1971 to 1990.
He was also an instructor with the International Renewal Institute and Saint Xavier University field-based master's program from...
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Book Preview: #1 The most famous artistic expressions of female beauty during the High Renaissance derived from northern and western Italy and the Low Countries. The major cities in these regions simultaneously served as key ports of the expanding slave trade.
#2 The growing population of African women as slaves and domestic servants in northern and western Europe between 1490 and...
100) I Hate Being Black
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"I Hate Being Black", written by Hip Hop pioneer Spyder D, is a direct derivative of his song of the same title. The song was written based off of his real life personal experiences, and was further elaborated on during the writing of the book. Spyder D, as he is known in the entertainment industry, was born in 1960 and raised since 1964 in the Queens section of New York City. In this book he delves into real life experiences of himself and Blacks...
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