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Indian, Black and Irish Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790

Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By James V. Fenelon
April 28, 2023

This book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system. Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native (and ...

The Spanish Language in the United States Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance

The Spanish Language in the United States: Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance

1st Edition

Edited By José Cobas, Bonnie Urciuoli, Joe Feagin, Daniel Delgado
February 25, 2022

The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers’ resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their ...

Who Killed Higher Education? Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

1st Edition

By Edna Chun, Joe Feagin
August 24, 2021

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era offers a probing and unvarnished look at the causes of the substantial state defunding of public higher education over the last six decades. With the pandemic and cuts to social services, these challenges have only ...

Grasping for the American Dream Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership

Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership

1st Edition

By Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru
July 16, 2021

African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership. This book explains the motivations for pursuing homeownership amongst working-class African Americans despite the structural conditions that make it less economically and socially rewarding for this group. Fervent...

Through an Artist's Eyes The Dehumanization and Racialization of Jews and Political Dissidents During the Third Reich

Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization and Racialization of Jews and Political Dissidents During the Third Reich

1st Edition

By Willa Johnson
June 01, 2021

This book offers visual, social-historical analyses of paintings and drawings of the renowned German Communist artist Karl Schwesig. It follows the course of Schwesig’s internments, but is dedicated primarily to the plight of foreign Jewish persons and Christians (of Jewish descent) who were ...

Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Higher Education

Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Higher Education

1st Edition

By Edna Chun, Alvin Evans
April 15, 2021

The higher education literature on workplace diversity has overlooked the development of multigenerational workforce strategies as a key component of an inclusive talent proposition. While race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and other demographic attributes have gained considerable ...

Love Under the Skin Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

Love Under the Skin: Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

1st Edition

By Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
May 06, 2020

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics, or in public spaces where peoples of African descent are under the public gaze. This comparative study seeks to de-center the ...

Got Solidarity? Challenging Straight White College Men to Advocate for Social Justice

Got Solidarity?: Challenging Straight White College Men to Advocate for Social Justice

1st Edition

By Jörg Vianden
December 03, 2019

The 21st Century in the United States continues to be marked by persistent disparities between members of different classes, races, genders, and sexual orientations. Influencers of this society seem bent on polarizing citizens along their diverse identities, often blaming those already ...

Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education

Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education

1st Edition

By Edna Chun, Joe Feagin
July 30, 2019

With the goal of building more inclusive working, learning, and living environments in higher education, this book seeks to reframe understandings of forms of everyday exclusion that affect members of nondominant groups on predominantly white college campuses. The book contextualizes the need for a...

Women and Inequality in the 21st Century

Women and Inequality in the 21st Century

1st Edition

Edited By Brittany Slatton, Carla Brailey
May 29, 2019

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuses on gender inequality in the family and its effect on women’s career and family choices. While an important topic, these works​ ​are critiqued for ...

Latino Peoples in the New America Racialization and Resistance

Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance

1st Edition

Edited By José A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado, Maria Chávez
November 27, 2018

"Latinos" are the largest group among Americans of color. At 59 million, they constitute nearly a fifth of the US population. Their number has alarmed many in government, other mainstream institutions, and the nativist right who fear the white-majority US they have known is disappearing. During the...

When Rape was Legal The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery

When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery

1st Edition

By Rachel A. Feinstein
August 14, 2018

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that ...

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