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"Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread -- all with the support of judges and politicians. In his no-holds-barred style,...
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin, Diane Bell invites her readers into the complex and contested world of the cultural beliefs and practices of the Ngarrindjeri of South Australia; teases out the meanings and misreadings of the written sources; traces changes and continuities in oral accounts; challenges assumptions about what Ngarrindjeri women know, how they know it, and how outsiders may know what is to be known. Wurruwarrin: knowing and believing.In...
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"The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"--
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy -- calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance "glorifies obesity." The BMI is an...
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As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status, much like their grandparents before them.
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An extraordinary account of how a small Texas town struggled to come to grips with its racist past in the aftermath of the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr.
On June 7, 1998, a forty-nine-year-old black man named James Byrd, Jr., was chained to the bumper of a truck and dragged three miles down a country road by a trio of young white men. It didn't take long for the residents of Jasper, Texas, to learn about the murder or to worry that the name of...
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The Journey for Justice contradicts the beliefs that black history is lost, nonexistent, and unimportant. The information in the book expands the knowledge on African American history, as well as reveals facts that have never been published. The research findings contribute to historical accuracy. I wish to reveal the contributions that enslaved families and their descendants have made to this country and are continuing to contribute to this country...
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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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In this timely book, journalist Lisa Benson shares her journey from the newsroom to the courtroom in her fight for justice at a local television station.
Lisa made national news when her twenty-year career as a news reporter / anchor ended abruptly after she shared an article on her personal Facebook page entitled, "How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Avoid Accountability" written by fellow journalist Ruby Hamad-an article that offended two of...
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What does diversity mean for the Quebec identity? Who gets to consider themselves a Quebecer? The author, a young journalist who moved to Quebec City from Saskatchewan, has some critical questions for the adopted province she loves.
Are Quebecers less tolerant than other Canadians? Ongoing debate about secularism and religious symbols has led many observers to ask that very question. Premier François Legault denies that racism or Islamophobia exists,...
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Are You Tired of Being Victimized by Racism? Generation B gives real solutions to bring success to Black America Black America suffers. Poverty. Babies with no fathers. Illiteracy. Crime rates through the roof. There are many cry "racism" as the problem, but how many offer solutions that work? A homeless black man said it best, "success is the best revenge." But how can a whole segment of America's population find success when it is so beaten down?...
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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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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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In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beauty pageants created a distinctive and celebrated cultural tradition during some of the most dismal times in the country's racial history. With the rise of the civil rights and Black Pride movements, pageantry also represented a component of social activism. Professor Kimberly Pellum explores this glamourous...
17) 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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Les débats sur les inégalités dans l'emploi adoptent habituellement un point de vue économique en se concentrant sur la distribution des revenus plutt que sur les processus de différenciation sociale. Pourtant, avant d'être un facteur de production, le travail est foncièrement un rapport social, essentiel à l'intégration des individus. La question des inégalités dans l'emploi doit donc être approchée d'un point de vue sociologique. C'est...
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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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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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