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Learn to identify and combat unintentional and overt racism

This provocative book identifies and addresses racism in mental health and educational settings, providing proven strategies for overcoming this stubborn barrier to culturally competent practice. While addressing overt forms of racism, the book also explores and sensitizes practitioners to covert and unintentional forms of racism that may be equally detrimental in denying persons of color access to unbiased, high-quality education and mental health care.

Despite the dismantling of overt racist policies, such as segregated schooling, and the implementation of policies aimed at remedying racial inequities, such as affirmative action, racism continues to persist in American society. Drs. Madonna Constantine and Derald Wing Sue, two of the leading researchers and advocates for multicultural competence, have collected sixteen thought-provoking and challenging chapters on the many ways that racism can affect a practitioner's interactions in mental health and school settings. These contributions collectively bring to the forefront highly charged issues that need to be discussed, but are too often hidden away.

The book is divided into four parts:

• What Do We Know about Racism?
• Racism in Mental Health Contexts
• Racism in Educational Settings
• Eradicating Racism: Future Directions

Faced with the responsibility of understanding multiple oppressions and the intersections of racism with sexism, classism, and heterosexism, mental health practitioners and educators must be vigilant of their personal role in perpetuating racism. This collected work will help you identify forms of racism, both within yourself and the systems you work in, and then implement strategies to eliminate them. ... Read more

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Following up her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee discovers that many of today's racist women combine dangerous racist and anti-Semitic agendas with otherwise mainstream lives. The only national sample of a broad spectrum of racist activists and the only major work on women racists, this important book also sheds light on how gender relationships shape participation in the movement as a whole. ... Read more

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A Dreary Bunch of Ladies
Kathleen Blee, a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, spent many months interviewing thirty-four women members of neo-Nazi and racist groups. She elicited life histories from these women, which she relates rather briefly in this book, and then concludes with five "lessons" on how to deal with such deviant people and groups.

My first reaction to this book was one of gratefulness to the author for having done what was, she makes clear, a most disagreeable task;these subjects weren't exactly fun to be with. The book is written with intelligence, diligence, and professionalism. The author shows a commendable familiarity with the relevant recent social science literature. Most of all, it is refreshing to see a scholarly contribution to a field that is too often left to sensationalist journalists.

But my second reaction developed as I read through these dreary reports about these dreary people. I became bored and more bored as the reading progressed.

I cannot believe that these people are as pathetically uninteresting as they appear in this book. That they are disagreeable and hateful is beyond doubt. But I think that anyone who has ever observed the participants in a fringe movement will testify that there almost invariably times of enthusiasm, of excitement, of peek experience, of lives lived with great intensity. Professor Blee captures little if any such spark.

I think I know what went wrong.

First, the author tells us about the women but not about the men in these racist organizations. That seems to me to be like writing a history of what happened on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, figuring that the Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays belong somehow to a different world. It is a feminism run amok, in my opinion, to deal with a social movement consisting of both men and women as if the story of each were essentially unrelated to the other. Much of the spark of fringe social movements comes exactly from male-female interaction, especially in the younger age groups. More than one former member of radical youth groups has told me that it was precisely the stimulation of male-female relationships that made membership so stimulating.

Second, her method of eliciting life histories puts the emphasis on individual members. Group dynamics -- the inevitable internal dissentions, the struggles for leadership and prestige -- none of that is captured in this book.

Finally, the author has the unfortunale habit of quoting unrelated writers, often of the politically correct persuation, as if they were somehow relevant to her topic. "As the literary theorist Henry Louis Gates Jr. observes...." (p. 79); "As the cultural theorist Edward W. Said notes..." (p. 158); "As David Theo Goldberg argues..." (p. 174); and on and on she quotes and cites as if she were a graduate student. This writing detracts from the otherwise serious character and high purpose of this work.

Racist Hate, Female Style
Kathleen M. Blee wrote _Women of the Klan_, which covered the 1920's.Because readers of that work were curious about women in the contemporary Klan, she began researching her current book, _Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement_ (University of California Press).To do her work, she interviewed women members of the Klan, Christian Identity, and other organizations.This meant sitting uncomfortably with women with skinheads and tattoo swastikas, and also having coffee with women who ran homes and dressed themselves just as June Cleaver did, but who uttered vile declamations about blacks and Jews.(She found many of them by subscribing to racist mailings sent to her Post Office box; she says, "Going to the post office was so embarrassing. I'm sure they were horrified.")She went to the group meetings, which included church services, volleyball, pancake breakfasts, and social hours, like many a harmless community gathering, but were then capped by cross or swastika burnings.She found out that many of her assumptions about the women were wrong.

For instance, the women were generally educated.Many had joined on their own, not because of a husband, family, or boyfriend.They were not seeking a hate group to agree with, but came around to racist views after joining.Learning such views included learning anti-Semitism, for while those who join racist groups often already have antipathy against non-whites, but they have to be taught to hate Jews.They eventually accepted that Jews control banks, corporations, and governments by means of an amorphous conspiracy that can be blamed for everything from global warming to a family member's case of food poisoning.They borrow the apocalyptic visions familiar to any student of fundamentalist Christianity, but expect that the "last days" battle with Satan, just around the corner, will consist of a race war, for which they prepare.The attitudes of the women toward the groups they are in, however, are less doctrinal than those of the men.Some differences in belief are due to particular women's issues.Some resent being excluded by all-male rituals of the historic Klan, for instance, or resent having to play the homemaker role that fundamentalist Christianity encourages.Many of the women admitted to Blee that they had done such unacceptable acts as have abortions, insisting that such a personal act was to be decided by the individual, not the group.(Because of fundamentalist Christian beliefs, and eagerness to breed new Aryans, abortion is forbidden as a Jewish plot, but is supported for non-whites.)Women in hate groups are more likely to bend proscriptions, allowing themselves to be on good terms with at least some homosexuals or mixed-race individuals.They are more likely to urge action by political means rather than expecting a violent race war to solve the world's problems.

_Inside Organized Racism_ is a serious academic work, well referenced and footnoted.Blee's interviewees spanned the skinhead, neo-Nazi, Klan, and Christian Identity movements, and Blee's appendix explains her methodology for selecting them; this is as full a snapshot of this particular subset of humans as we are likely to get.In an important final section on lessons for our society, Blee not only defends her study as helping understand this subculture as more than just bizarre or dangerous.She has suggestions such as using the ambivalence of women as a means of encouraging defection.After working in the field of investigating racism, Blee is abandoning it, exhausted.Her next book will be on the effect on community groups of having a place to meet; she will be forgiven if it is not as immediately gripping as her current book. ... Read more

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In this book, Feagin develops a theory of systemic racism to interpret the highly racialized character and development of this society. Generally, I ask what distinctive social worlds have been created by racial oppression over nearly four centuries and what this has meant for the people of the United States.Because it is the archetypal and prototypical racism in U.S. society, he focuses centrally in this analysis on white-on-black oppression. After an introductory chapter, he draws in later chapters on the commentaries of black and white Americans in three historical eras-the slavery era, the legal segregation era, and then those of white Americans. Feagin examines how major institutions have been thoroughly pervaded by racial stereotypes, ideas, images, emotions, and practices. This system of racial oppression was not an accident of history, but was created intentionally by white Americans. White Americans labored hard to bring it forth in the 17th century and have worked diligently to perpetuate that system ever since. While significant changes have occurred in this racist system over the centuries, key and fundamentally elements have been reproduced over nearly four centuries, and U.S. institutions today imbed the racialized hierarchy created in the 17th century.Today, as in the past, racial oppression is not just a surface-level feature of this society, but rather pervades, permeates, and interconnects all major social groups, networks, and institutions across the society. ... Read more

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You'll never see the world the same way again.
Dr. Feagin delivers answers to the racial problems in the United States, but it might not be necessarily what you want to hear whether you are white, black, or any person of color.The reality of the United States being founded on hatred and those beginnings being directly linked to the problems of today will make any conservative minded person emphatically protest Feagin's claims.The truth hurts terribly but it doesn't compare to the atrocities that people of color in this country have suffered, especially African Americans.I recommend this book to anyone wanting an explanation for racial disparities.For those of you who do not want an explanation or believe you have the answer, wake up! ... Read more

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Myth # 1 Parents are content to live off welfare.
Myth # 2 Parents are caught in a cycle of poverty.
Myth # 3 Poor households are vacant of print.

These are among the many myths about poor and diverse families. Catherine Compton-Lilly refutes them with the best data available - the lives of her students and their parents. But she doesn't simply dispel the myths. She demonstrates how teachers can and should act to close the academic gap for which families are largely blamed.

Compton-Lilly represents children and adults who confront racism, poverty, and power on a daily basis. They are people whose brains function well, who display keen moral character, and who belong to cultures that support learning of all sorts. And they bring to their home and the classroom many strengths, including a wealth of knowledge and experience about literacy. Compton-Lilly draws on her research into the role of family and urban life to debunk the assumptions about poor and diverse populations. Then she offers specific instructional strategies and practical critical literacy projects that connect families and communities to classrooms and schools. These projects work particularly well with urban learners. They also can be adapted to recognize or respond to any kind of community in which a school is based.

Both thought-provoking and action-oriented, Compton-Lilly's book will challenge your assumptions and practices. It will help you build on the positive things children add to the classroom. It will help all of us recognize the contributions of parents in ways that respect their experiences and their lives.

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In the United States the economic exploitation of non-white groups has included the reliance on African American slave labor by Southern plantation owners,the systematic removal of Native Americans from their homelands to make room for white settlers,and the relegation of non-white workers to the most low-paid,dangerous and dirty jobs. Through numerous examples Shirley Better demonstrates that racism is embedded within the fabric of American society,restricting equal access to educational opportunities,employment,and housing.She explores the influence of racism in the criminal justice system where it leads to harsher penalties for members of non-white groups.Having outlined the causes and effects of institutional racism,the author presents numerous strategies for individuals and groups to combat this pervasive social problem. ... Read more

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In the United States the economic exploitation of non-white groups has included the reliance on African American slave labor by Southern plantation owners,the systematic removal of Native Americans from their homelands to make room for white settlers,and the relegation of non-white workers to the most low-paid,dangerous and dirty jobs. Through numerous examples Shirley Better demonstrates that racism is embedded within the fabric of American society,restricting equal access to educational opportunities,employment,and housing.She explores the influence of racism in the criminal justice system where it leads to harsher penalties for members of non-white groups.Having outlined the causes and effects of institutional racism,the author presents numerous strategies for individuals and groups to combat this pervasive social problem. ... Read more

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"They assess the effectiveness of the organizing tactics employed, casting particular scrutiny on the courts as agents of social change...The authors have presented concrete examples, all the while making clear that there are no road maps for successful organizing."
— New York Law Journal

"This is an important and unusual book….It is an academic book on an important issue
—the environmental justice movement
—that is timely and relevant."
—Argumentation and Advocacy

When Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the phenomenon of environmental racism--the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, particularly toxic waste dumps and polluting factories, on people of color and low-income communities--gained unprecedented recognition. Behind the President's signature, however, lies a remarkable tale of grassroots activism and political mobilization. Today, thousands of activists in hundreds of locales are fighting for their children, their communities, their quality of life, and their health.

From the Ground Up critically examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, Luke Cole and Sheila Foster combine long-time activism with powerful storytelling to provide gripping case studies of communities across the U.S--towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona--and their struggles against corporate polluters. The authors effectively use social, economic and legal analysis to illustrate the historical and contemporary causes for environmental racism. Environmental justice struggles, they demonstrate, transform individuals, communities, institutions and even the nation as a whole. ... Read more

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Enviromental justice and grassroots advocacy
Anyone interested in community organizing, legal advocacy on behalf of community groups, and environmental justice work will benefit from this book's in-depth analysis of the struggles and achievements of neighborhood groups battling environmental injustice, and its valuable insights into community organizing strategies and the role of lawyers and the legal system in promoting social change.Although the authors fully acknowledge the prevalence of racism in our society and the lack of easy fixes to the problems faced by disadvantaged communities, they nevertheless convey an inspiring sense of idealism and optimism about the future possibilities for "the movement".

Environmental Justice
The story tells about history and environment racism. It has a very good idea of racism. It also talks about environmental justice. People would like this book. Two thumbs and eight fingers up!

Understanding Environmental Justice
For those people who want a wide-ranging introduction to the environmental justice movement and its legal arm, this is the place to turn. Written by a movement lawyer activist and a legal academic, this book captures the social and legal evolution of the environmental justice movement in a way that highlights the work of the communities themselves. Vigorously written, the book would be worth the price just for the chapter on transformative politics and its comprehensive annotated bibliography. A must have. ... Read more

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A Must Read
This book should be compulsory for anyone who desires to enter the ministry. It is scholarly and at the same time understandable to the layman.
First rate material

A challenge to the legacy of biblical teachings in America
Bible scholars used the Bible to justify separation between blacks and whites, but the Gospel had been twisted and misinterpreted. Race, Religion & Racism: Volume 2 provides a discussion of how the Bible was used to subjugate blacks in America from early to modern times, with liberal attention to passages and quotes throughout. An intriguing history and challenge to the legacy of biblical teachings in America. ... Read more

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The prize-winning book of advice about racism from the bestselling author to his daughter, introduced by Bill Cosby.

When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question: "What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination?"

Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages. Ben Jelloun has created a unique and compelling dialogue in which he explains difficult concepts from ghettos and genocide to slavery and anti-Semitism in language we can all understand, and adds an all-new chapter for this edition. Also included are personal essays from four prizewinning writers and educators who themselves are parents: Patricia Williams, David Mura, William Ayers, and Lisa D. Delpit.

Elegant and sensitive, and available now for the first time in paperback, Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue. Winner of the 1998 United Nations Global Tolerance Award and the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. ... Read more

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Companion book for a class turned out pretty good
I purchased this book for a diversity in education class and actually quite enjoyed it.Jelloun's prose is almost lyrical and a pleasure to read, and the other authors complemented his writing well.

Excellent read for parents and their children
Another review on here rated this book as 1 star.Maybe that person should write their own book on racism. I believe the person who made this rating failed to see the perfect summation this book provides for parents who are struggling with a way to explain racism to their children.There are always more reasons, more explanation, and more views to be given, but in the big picture, this book hits all the bases. I think it does convey the message that any person, any color, any religion, can be racist.

How to hate racism and still think like a racist
"Racism Explained to My Daughter" is a maddening read.Its creditable intentions and seemingly careful explanations draw you in quickly, and Ben Jelloun's economical prose has all the virtues of a well-prepared lesson with none of the overwhelming preachiness.And it is this patience of demeanor that makes this such a dangerous book, for Ben Jelloun's argument here ends up reproducing, with a gentle and seductive touch, the same limited and limiting mindset of the racism he sets out to "explain."

The topic is, of course, timely, and as acclaimed a writer as Ben Jelloun is perhaps more prepared than most to take on the task.He proceeds step by step with his clarifications, defining difficult terms in often sensible ways, all the while using a form of prose that has very long roots as an expository genre: the dialogue.This format allows the daughter's voice to anticipate the very questions and demands for greater clarity that are simultaneously arising in the reader's mind.And her father is happy to simplify.

And that's just the problem.Racism is not a simple thing.Ben Jelloun is to be commended for his attempt, but there is strength in not knowing, and greater strength in admitting that one doesn't know-just ask Socrates, the ancient master of the dialogue.Socrates would have paled trying to explain racism.To his credit, Ben Jelloun includes numerous critiques (letters sent to him from readers, things said by students during his tour of schools in France and Italy) of the earlier edition of "Racism Explained" and, while these afford an opportunity for showing the real complexity of racism, they also reinforce the poverty of his own argument.

And what's wrong with his argument?Ben Jelloun wants to break things down very carefully and be fair, and he gives every appearance of doing so, but it is only an appearance.The problem with this project ultimately revolves around the fact that, in order to discredit racism, Ben Jelloun relies on the same reductive worldview that causes racism in the first place, the same lack of vision that only sees things in opposed pairs: black/white, good/bad, us/them.Thus can his daughter, at the book's end, declare that "racists are b**tards [salauds]."She has learned well how to ignore multifarious causes and use instead blanket judgments.Substitute any sub-group for "racists" in her equation, and you've got the beginnings of hate: for Hitler, it was "Jews," for Falwell it's "homosexuals," etc.Racists are many things, but not all racists are one thing.

Ben Jelloun once said of James Joyce that Joyce's work is so revolutionary because it "works on language," and Ben Jelloun's own novels have performed this revolution often over the last decade.Sadly, when a fine author decides to take on social issues at a more explicit and obvious level, the humanity and nuance fade, and all we're left with is a choice between two worldviews: that of the reductionist explainers, and that of the racist b**tards.

Precisely because of its pretensions to fairness, sober-mindedness and tolerance, this could very well be one of the most dangerous books I've read.It gets three stars for the discussion that forms around the critiques included at the end (the only sustained dose of reality in the book) and for the discussion I hope it will provoke here in the USA.

a very one sided vision of "racism"
Mister Ben Jelloun means to talk simply about racism, yet, he has a very one-sided view on this problem.Indeed, while he spends great lenghts intalking abouteuropeans or Euro-american racism, he stays mostly silentabout others people's racism.

Exemple one.Mister Ben jelloun mentionblack slavery in the americas, but he is much more reluctant when it comesto talk about slavery in Marocco.Better yet: he carefully avoids tomention that many slaves in North Africa, up to the early 1800's, wereEuropeans abducted at sea, on the mediterranean shores of France, Spain anditaly.He doesn't mention either that slavery was widespread inafrica.

Exemple 2.The author spends much time dealing with colonialism. There again, why wouldn' he mention the current genocide in tibet?Thejapanese colonial policy until WW2?The invasions of Spain during themiddle age?

Exemple 3.Mister Ben Jelloun mentions the crusads in 1095,but describs them as solely motivated by the will of christians to killmuslims. That's a historical falsehood! However, his book was writtenwhile fundamentalist Algérian muslims made several bombs explose in France,killing and wounding tens of people; that's a matter he quickly waves off. How come he is so willing to talk about intolerance that dates back a 1000years when it gives him an opportunity to trash Europeans, but he's sounwilling to take as example of religious intolerance the fundamentalitmuslims who put bombs in France, who veil women in afganisthan oriran?

In most depictions of racists, Ben jelloun allmost allways presentauropeans as racists: about 20 exemples show them as racists.This shouldbe opposed to Arabs who are depicted as racists in only 3 exemples...

BenJelloun book amounts mostly to white bashing.It's very sugarcoated withlofty feelings, but when one closely reads the book, one cannot but noticethat exemples are carefully, selectivelly chosen. It is very surprisingthat Mister Ben Jelloun is so knowledgeable about european racism, but soforgetfull about Marocco's own past as slave traders, about marocco'sdiscrimination against jews, about marocco's history of religiousdiscrimination.

I do not recommand this book at any rate.It will eitherleave you and your child with an undue feeling of guilt.It is very Onesided. Any Man, regardless of his origins, racial or ethnic, can be racist. Mister Ben Jelloun's book totally fails to pass that message.

A must read
Everyone must read this book. Especially people working with children, families and each other. ... Read more

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Draws some intriguing conclusion from Arab-American conflicts.
Anti-Arab Racism in The USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means for Politics Today provides a social analysis of Arab-American relationships, racism issues, and how America treats Arab citizens within its own borders. Chapters blend personal case histories with theory to examine how racism affects all aspects of American law and culture, and draws some intriguing conclusion from Arab-American conflicts.

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There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society.

Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.

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Fascinating Read
This is an exceptionally stimulating book.The level of erudition on display -- the sheer range and volume of material that Isaac has subjected to analysis -- is staggering.Though there is some repetition, Isaac's style is clear and his conclusions are forcefully argued.He helpfully prints most of the ancient sources in the original, so that those with even a smattering of Latin and Greek can see how he is reading his evidence.

Three features made the book a success.The first is isaac's effort to articulate a definition of racism to apply to the ancient world.While one may quibble with his definition, it is consistently thought-provoking; for me, this alone was worth the price of admission.The second is Isaac's tracing of "proto-racist" thought developed in antiquity as it was picked up by early modern and enlightenment thinkers.Indeed, one wonders if there is another book to be written spelling out the transmission of these ideas to the modern era.The third is Isaac's treatment of the interplay between proto-racism and ancient imperialism.He provides a fascinating new perspective on imperialism that can usefully be considered alongside such recent (and very different) contributions as Susan Mattern's "Rome and the Enemy" (Berkeley, 1999).

Highly recommended. ... Read more

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EM Two-Faced Racism /EMexamines and explains the racial attitudes and behaviours exhibited by whites in private settings. While there are many books that deal with public attitudes, behaviours, and incidences concerning race and racism (frontstage), there are few studies on the attitudes whites display among friends, family, and other whites in private settings (backstage). The core of this book draws upon 626 journals of racial events kept by white college students at twenty-eight colleges in the United States. The book seeks to comprehend how whites think in racial terms by analyzing their reported racial events. ... Read more

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The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice coverssix thematic issues: racism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, heterosexism, classism, and ableism.The reader contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays as well as entries designed to challenge students to take action to end oppressive behavior and to affirm diversity and racial justice.Each thematic section is broken down into three divisions: Contexts; Personal Voices; and Next Steps and Action.The selections include over 90 essays from some of the foremost names in the field-bell hooks, Cornel West, Michael Omi, Iris Marion Young, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Fine, Gloria Steinem, Richard Rodriguez, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Michael Kimmel, Patricia Hill Collins and many other distinguished scholars. ... Read more

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Culturally Congruent
This book is offers such a diverse amount of information about various group populations. The only group it doesn't touch on is Ageism, but it is great for gaining inorfation from individuals who have been oppressed or discriminated in some way. Great for anyone interested in learning about diverse populations.

Great Anthology on Oppression and Liberation
I found this book to be a fabulous accompaniment to the Teaching for Social Justice and Diversity book.It succeeds in trying to cover an extremely broad subject area.

Are You Guilty of Commiting an -ism?
If you are white, you need to read this book to find out how evil your are. Then, you can begin deconstructing your whiteness.

If you are a person of color, you need to read this book to find out how helpless you are. Those evil crackers have been oppressing you, and you didn't even know it. It's time to get angry and play identity politics. You are not an individual, but the member of a tribe.

Gender, race and class determine everything from how you butter your toast in the morning to the direction the wind is blowing on any given day. I swear.

I read this book on my way to getting a California teaching credential and, while reading it, underwent an epiphany of Krakatoan proportions: We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Now go forth and conquer your -isms and everybody else's. You'll find that the feeling of moral superiority is quite heady. Ciao.

Multicultural Requirement for Teacher Credential Program, CA
Book is a collection of narratives from perspectives of each diverse group.Not a joy to read, but not bad for a college text either. Personally I would much rather read short narratives than long and boring texts.
However, the multicultural agenda is really what this is book is all about.Some readings are offensive; generalities are made and stir some controversy in and out of the classroom.
I rated it 3 stars because it is not as bad as most multicultural texts from other classes.

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Sexism,
The servise was nothing short of what I expected. Thank you very much. I needed it for a class and I got the books woth time to spare. ... Read more

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Racism provides an illuminating general overview of the history and debate surrounding the concept of racism.Its objective is to argue that the concept should retain a central place in the analysis of both the historical development and contemporary structure of capitalist societies. This new edition brilliantly examines the war in the former Yugoslavia, the cases of Stephen Lawrence and Rodney King, and the recent wave of Islamophobia.This is intelligent and insightful reading for anyone with an interest in the study and evolution of racism in today's world. ... Read more

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This unique collection brings together selections from the work that has defined our understanding of racism. Every significant contribution to the analysis of racism over the past 50 years are comprised in this one book, including extracts from Myrdal's An American Dilemma, Cox's Marxist theory, Carmichael and Hamilton's introduction of the term `institutional racism' and recent textual analyses. Ordered chronologically, so that the reader can work through the narrative of changes coherently, each contribution is introduced by the editors and the whole collection is bound together by introductory and concluding chapters.The result is an unparalleled teaching and study resource. No other book presents the highlights, range and complexity of the various attempts to unravel racism, in such a comprehensive and panoramic way. ... Read more

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Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, ego trip's Big Book of Racism is a glorious, hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the absurdities, complexities, and nuances of race relations is brought to you by five writers of color whose groundbreaking independent magazine, ego trip, has been called "the world's rawest, stinkiest, funniest magazine" by Spin.

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Sometimes you just gotta laugh about it!
The Big Book of Racism waxes philosophical on--you guessed it--RACISM. It analyzes and pokes fun at all the things that people think about other races, but would never say out loud. The book equal opportunity, with every race, including mixed-race people(In a section called Da High Yella Pages)being a topic of discussion.

The authors of the book are of varying racial make-ups, so it's not like one racial/ethnic group making fun of all other groups. I'm a Black woman and this book had me laughing my @ss off!! Throw all PC notions out the window and just enjoy the book!

Only for those that dont take themselves too seriously!
I originally saw this book advertised on a VH1 television program and was curious. I love it!My boyfried and I can flip it open anytime and get at very least a smile. Each page or two is something new, so you can open it up anywhere, or skip around if you want.Which makes it great for people who dont have alot of time to read, and can laugh at themselves.

Buy this book.
Everyone who is remotely into music or film should own this.Gives a critical overview and insights into race and its place in popular American culture in the last twenty five years, especially in the Hip Hop culture.Very good book.

OK
I decided to read this book; seaching for something different then my usual type of books. It was okay. At times, I was not sure when the authors were serious or joking. Had I been able to read the comment that one of the endorsers said about people reading the book, I would not have brought the book though. The book was all right for me.

NEANDERTHALSUNITE!!
So interesting to see that our country is still the country full of racists morons too insecure to really contribute an intelligent thought let alone an educational one. It's a Bon Appetite for both the idiot savant open and closeted racists. So nice to know where to find them. ... Read more

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As remarkably and chillingly pertinent today as when it was first published in 1965, this now classic study dissects the intersecting myths of sex and race as they are played out in America.  No one concerned with issues of race relations in the United States can overlook the conclusions of this book. ... Read more

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A frank and honest discussion on the link between sex and race
Although this book was written in 1965, much of it is still valid in 2005. With the exception of legalized interracial marriage, much of what the book says still holds. The recent events of Terrell Owens and Nicollete Sheridan with the towel and Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and the bare breast shows that race and sex is still an explosive topic in America. Although interracial couples are more visible, Most Whites and Blacksstill oppose such unions. However, they tolerate them more than they did in 1965.

This book is very prophetic in that it prdeicted afuture crisis in Black Female and Male relationships. Today, 2 out of 3 marriages in the African-American end in divorce as compared to 1965, when it was 1 out 3. 70% of Black children are born out of wedlock as compared to 20% in 1965. The shortage of Black men for educated Black women has lead many to date and marry White men, but this is not a cure for the race problem in America. Most interracial relationships are brief in duration.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants a better understanding about race relations in America.

insightful but outdated
Hernton goes through the sex and power dynamics of blacks and whites in the US, male and female. He spends a chapter discussing each of the four. He argues that all parties are in some ways victims of racial stratification, to different degrees.
My main criticism of this book is that it is outdated. It gives the reader an idea of how things were in the 1960s and previous decades. But it is not nearly as relevant today as some more recently-published works are.

One ofthe best books written about Race-Relations in America
I thought this was one of the best books I have had the pleasure of reading. This book gose into why some African Americans and White Americans veiw sex and race different. ... Read more

Book Description
This book analyzes the historic and current state of institutionalized racial privileges and discrimination in higher education, using an organizational framework. It then provides and critiques examples of innovative efforts that seek to challenge and alter these socially unjust patterns of teaching, learning, leading, and living together. ... Read more