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This is a book that really makes one angry,but gives a full details of how both the African and the european are both responsible for the rampant racism on these shores. One the first hand the euruopean's comtepable disregard of other cultures and their and greed, and the other the complicity of an enslaved people due beding captured, causing psychological depression of slavery and the delibereate seperating ofpeople of the same group so to not communicate and cause slave rebellions in most cases. ... Read more

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From Darwin to Hitler elucidates the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality throughout history. This book is a provocative yet balanced work that addresses a wide range of topics, from the value of human life to sexual mortality, to racial extermination. ... Read more

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Darwinisms Sinister Secrets
I have just finished reading this brilliant book and was given a first rate educational experience by Dr. Weikart. From Darwin to Hitler is amazingly will researched and documented. The book clearly demonstrates the influence Darwinism had on German scholarship, education, and medicine in the days preceding Nazi Germany. I believe Dr. Weikart conclusively proves that Hitler could not have escaped Darwin's influence. After reading it the only honest conclusion one can make is that Darwinism was profoundly influential, if not responsible, for the Holocaust. This book should be required reading in ever public school in America.

So far, this book is great, BUT BE WARNED . . .
I have only started into reading this book and can't yet say anything about its ideas. Content-wise, I am expecting it will have a five-star rating. However, I feel compelled to issue a WARNING about the typeface, which is etoliated, fine, faint, dinky, small, light, dainty, skinny, and of insufficient contrast on the off-white pages. Why in the world would a publisher issue a book in such an off-putting format?

History as it is!
As an undergrad history major I stumbled upon this book preparing for a paper. I have to admit that I found this book to be uncommonly interesting. Richard Weikart is most definitely a prolific historian. There are few things that need to be stated in correction. Some of the reviewers of this book believe that Weikart is blaming the entire holocaust on Darwin alone. In fact, Weikart is not blaming everything on Darwin. He recognizes that Darwin would have been aghast at how far his theory was taken. He is merely showing how that evolution evolved paving the way for nazi ideology. Weikart is not merely blaming Hitler's Germany on one ideology. Every historian knows that there are always numerous factors involved with every world event. Weikart accepts nationalism, economics, militarism, conservatism, etc as other things contributing to the main event. Weikart is merely concentrating on the ideological aspect of Hitler's Germany.
He traces a number of developments starting shortly after Darwin's origin of species. He draws from the major scientists and philosophers that impacted German thinking before the outbreak of WWI. Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects is Carneri's diagram that shows the skull shapes of advanced men and those who are more primitive.
The connection to Hitler is elusive because Hitler would have never have openly allied himself with this thinking. For one he liked to mouth a lot of stuff much of which was a plain contradiction. However, it is apparent that Hitler's roots lie deep into German social Darwinism. A reading of Mein Kampf and the standard rhetoric of Hitler shows his thinking is deeply rooted in the ideals of Germany's philosophers.
I do not blame Darwin for the ills of the world and neither does Weikart. Weikart merely draws the lines and allows the readers to come to their own conclusion. It is impossible to imagine that the world would not have headed to disaster without Darwinism.It is also equally hard to imagine that this ideology had no effect or consequences. This is a great book for liberal open-minded people.

Materialism + Science = Destruction
As the wars over what is taught in the science classroom wage on, it is worthwhile to consider the effects of scientific beliefs on philosophy and social science._From Darwin to Hitler:Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany_ links the materialism inherent in non-theistic evolution with the eugenics movement and ultimately with what happened in Nazi Germany.

Throughout the book, Weikart repeatedly states that Darwinism did not *have* to lead to Nazism, nor was it the only factor that led to the rise of the Nazi regime.This is *very* important to understand, again, given the emotional nature of the issue at hand in education today.Nevertheless, it is apparent by the end of the first chapter of the book that Darwinism translated into philosophical discussions and later into social practices effectively deconstructed the entire moral system espoused by the West since the rise of Christianity.When man is reduced to an animal and the notion of the soul is dismissed, we are on very shaky ethical grounds--as the social Darwinists quickly discovered.

Darwinism's mantra, of course, is "the survival of the fittest."As such, applied to ethics and society, Darwinism presupposes constant struggle--between people--for the sake of progress.It also holds that said progress is the ultimate good; therefore, whatever moves the "species" toward "progress" is also good.Hence, morality is not fixed but adapts to suit the progressive situation of the time in question.

Since, however, improvement of the species (a nebulous concept, by the way) is the ultimate good, it follows that the weak and the infirm are of less value--an ethical position that flies in the face of traditional morality.While not all Darwinian ethicists advocated destroying the weak outright, the Christian virtue of compassion was effectively called into question and "scientifically" debunked.

Independent of the rise of Darwinism was European racism.The valuing of other groups as inferior to one's own is a phenonemon as old as time.But with the emergence of Darwinian science, the racism that ultimately drove the Nazi party to kill millions of people had seemingly received the imprimatur of the scientific community.Given a society as otherwise advanced and scientifically superior as Germany was, the horrors of the Nazi regime begin to lose their demonic appearance and start to look more rational *based on the Darwinian ethics in question.*

I would highly recommend this book as a reflection on the power of science--good or bad--to drive a culture that accepts only material reality.

Darwin's Moral Horizon Described
This study is a worthy addition to the literature on Social Darwinism, eugenics, and the origin of Nazi `social hygiene'.Weikart's starting point is recognition that the interpretation of human nature as animal-the core premise of evolutionary anthropology-denies the sense of life's sacredness.This is a truism.But truisms of great moment can be obscured by the confusion of culture wars.It may be argued, for example, as some animal liberationists do, that the demolition of belief that humankind is made in the image of God opens a new moral horizon in which care and sympathy are extended to all creatures.But one may equally argue, as the Nineteenth Century Nihilists did, that the death of God means that everything is permitted, including celebration of chaos and violence.When evolution theory asserts that change is driven by natural selection, or survival of the fittest, yet another horizon emerges: Social Darwinism.Here universal compassion for all our animal kin is replaced by the opposite belief that our kind, like all creatures, are natural born killers and must persevere in our vocation if we are to survive and prosper (a revival ofhomo lupus).Weikart's book is thorough, dispassionate examination of the career of Social Darwinism in Germany 1860-1920.The authors and literature examined are little known in the Anglophone culture, partly because of the language barrier, but also because (as I know from my own experience), much of the literature may be accessed only from specialized libraries. For that reason I strongly commend this study to anyone interested in the historical or philosophical themes pursued here.That said, a few critical remarks.

1. The author's attention to the literature critical of Social Darwinism, which must be brief, is a little too abbreviated.For example, he notes only in passing the clash between arch-Darwinist Ernst Haeckel and the eminent cellular biologist/physical anthropologist Rudolf Virchow.This deserves a page or two, since Virchow challenged the dogmatism of the Darwinian world view as an attempt to pass off an error-infested philosophy as science.In this he was seconded by the equally eminent biologist Emil duBois-Raymond, author of the `ignoramibus' statement of the seven issues critical to a scientific biological philosophy where ignorance of the facts defeats the closure that dogmatics claimed.

2.Weikart's trace of the influence of Social Darwinist writers on Hitler's world view in conducted, as it should be, with careful attention to the principal alternative interpretations.His sifting of the evidence, and evaluation of probabilities, leads to the conclusion intimated by his title that Hitler indeed assimilated the true sense of Germany's leading scientific exponents.In particular he shows convincingly that Hitler, and Nazi propaganda, made a clean break with Christian morality.This is a conclusion of fundamental importance in an age when the appropriation of the science imprimatur for social policy figures prominently in political contests.It is not a novel outcome, but Weikart assembles the evidence with a new force and clarity.My criticism?The author relegates to footnotes evidence assembled by German scholars showing in detail how Darwinist opinion favoring abortion, euthanasia, and sterilization of the unfit infiltrated Germany's state-of-the-art public health service, and indeed even church-supported health service (Catholic Caritas), during the Twenties.Since this outlook infiltrated our own health services and law courts from the early Seventies, it deserves prominent notice.Another similarity is that the advocates of these progressive positions contrast them aggressively with the irrationality of the religious affirmation of life's sanctity.

3.The thread from Darwin to Hitler is evolution by natural selection, or survival of the fittest.Darwin's apologists would cut the thread at the root, affirming that the only thing Darwin had in common with Social Darwinism was the name.In particular, James Rachels, whom the author briefly acknowledges, has assembled arguments that Darwin's teaching on morality lead to vegetarianism and animal liberation through the moral instinct of sympathy (see Rachels' Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism).Weikart has in effect responded to Rachels by his alternative interpretation of Darwin's statements on morals and social instincts, integrated into the Social Darwinism literature, which Rachels doesn't acknowledge.Why, one may ask, did the animal libbers of Darwin's time (`anti-vivasectionists' in those days) not see this connection?Why indeed did Darwin defend vivisection?This said, I am not satisfied with Weikart's evaluation of Darwin's position.He attributes consistency to it when in reality it is a smorgasbord of conventional, inoffensive but inconsistent opinions with no indication of how they are supposed to make a system.His sketch of how human moral instincts evolved from animal instincts is utterly incomplete (it could not be otherwise) and invokes evolutionary mechanisms, such as group selection, what Darwin elsewhere firmly rejects.But the grandest inconsistency of all, unmentioned by Weikart and Rachels, is Darwin's appeal to Kantian morality.He subscribed, in the Descent of Man, to the `supreme' moral maxim that `in the words of Kant, I will not in my own person violate the dignity of humanity.'This is followed by a statement of a difference of kind between humans and animals--the capacity to compare `his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving them.We have no reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have this capacity.'Having imported Kant to infuse moral sentimentality with moral rectitude, Darwin declares:`Thus the reproach of laying the foundation of the most noble part of our nature in the base principle of selfishness is removed'.Wow!If we ascribe to these pronouncements the weight that they prima facie claim, Darwin has renounced his evolution premise in favour of Kantian ethics!No one, to my knowledge, has ever proposed such an interpretation.Indeed, I know of no acknowledgement of his astonishing departure from the moral views otherwise so prominent in the Descent.But this is my point: Darwin's mature writings yield no consistent position.

Does this mean that the thread connecting Darwin to Hitler is after all broken?Not quite.It means that to make the connection, one must ignore Darwin's inconsistencies.
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Read This!
Awesome book, a real eye-opener. This book tells it like it is. Does not sugar coat. It's in your face. Even though it was published in 1999 it still applies to today's society. If your interested in this topic this is a great book to read!

Paradox?
He lost me at the title of this novel. "Healing Racism?" How can you heal racism? Why would you want to heal racism? To make it better? What a dupe.

This book changed my life
In an age when the discussion of race has become mired in pointless sociological and intellectual discourse, Nathan Rutstein's "Healing Racism In America" comes as a breath of fresh air.Mr. Rutstein is on the markwhen he states that the solutions are spiritual and personal, notlegislative or political.Indeed, the book's most candid assertion, thatracism is not relegated merely to skinheads wearing white hoods, goesdirectly to the heart of the matter: mainstream America, however"progressive" or "liberal" it may deem itself, continues to live in denial. However fashionable pointing an indignant and self-righteous finger at theKKK and like-minded groups may be--easy scapegoats for the masses--theaverage Joe is also implicated.And well-intentioned measures like CivilRights legislation and Affirmative Action, although placating peopleinitially, have ultimately failed to eliminate the underlying problem (evenexacerbating it in some cases).As the book's title implies, the realremedy, like any good prescription, may taste bitter in the mouth at first,but ultimately leads to genuine healing.Do we have the courage to takethe medicine?

This book changed my life
In an age when the discussion of race has become mired in pointless sociological and intellectual discourse, Nathan Rutstein's "Healing Racism In America" comes as a breath of fresh air.Mr. Rutstein is on the markwhen he states that the solutions are spiritual and personal, notlegislative or political.Indeed, the book's most candid assertion, thatracism is not relegated merely to skinheads wearing white hoods, goesdirectly to the heart of the matter: mainstream America, however"progressive" or "liberal" it may deem itself, continues to live in denial. However fashionable pointing an indignant and self-righteous finger at theKKK and like-minded groups may be--easy scapegoats for the masses--theaverage Joe is also implicated.And well-intentioned measures like CivilRights legislation and Affirmative Action, although placating peopleinitially, have ultimately failed to eliminate the underlying problem (evenexacerbating it in some cases).As the book's title implies, the realremedy, like any good prescription, may taste bitter in the mouth at first,but ultimately leads to genuine healing.Do we have the courage to takethe medicine?

Should be required reading for every person in America
Nathan Rutstein has given an accurate description of the disease of racism in America.He describes the struggles within ourselves to deny it, identify it, and utimately how we can heal ourselves from this crippling disease. I liked the book because it addressed the idea of unknown racism...rather, racism that you didn't even know was happening because of misconceptions and conditioning in all of us from our learnings and our families. It's a must read for all high school students and should be included in every persons home library. ... Read more

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The third edition of Facing Racism in Education continues the work begun in the first and second editions of this widely acclaimed book: breaking the silence about the experiences of people of color in education. The new volume features equal measures of classic essays from the previous two editions and new essays written since 1996. Together they offer a complex and compelling view of race in today's education world. ... Read more

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Transportation Racism: New Routes to Equity dispels a major myth that conceals enduring divisions in American life. While many people view the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the end of government-sponsored discrimination in the United States, Transportation Racism confirms the obvious and ignored truth: equality in transportation has been established in name only. Case by case, Transportation Racism shows how-a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts-chronic inequality in public transportation is firmly and nationally entrenched.

Coast to coast, equal access to healthy, reliable, and practical transportation eludes many people, the majority of them poor people and people of color. The effects of this injustice are broad and deep. Access to transportation, public and private, determines the physical and social mobility necessary for admission to larger social, economic, and civic worlds. For millions of people, exclusion from transportation networks means drastically compromised life choices. Their jeopardized health and limited economic opportunities are then compounded by the day-to-day indignities and feelings of frustration and isolation resulting from publicly funded segregation.

The authors illustrate the insidious contributions of transportation policy and urban planning to the establishment and enforcement of racial and economic inequality. Written in recognition of activists like Ella Baker and Rosa Parks, Transportation Racism lays the groundwork for future transit rights organizers.

Transportation Racism asserts that staying the current course will further polarize communities on the basis of class and color, and the powerful evidence marshaled by the authors in this anthology demands that cities and states revisit their public transportation agendas.

Robert Bullard's Dumping in Dixie and Confronting Environmental Racism were seminal works in the establishment of Environmental Justice as a movement and an academic field.

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worth reading but poorly edited
The basic purpose of this book is to show how our transportation funding system makes the poor (and especially racial minorities) worse off.The book is an anthology of essays, mostly case studies from various cities (including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, San Francisco and New York City).

A few of the more interesting assertions:

*Martin Luther King was writing about transportation issues before his death; in a posthumously published essay, he wrote that public transit is "a valid civil rights issue" because the availability of transit "determines the accessibility of jobs to the black community" (p. 17).

*Discriminatory policies not only affect the balance of spending between highways and transit, but also affect public transit policy.For example, Pittsburgh's planners have given Pittsburgh's white southern suburbs a clean, quiet light rail system, but have given its poorer, blacker East End a louder, more polluting busway system- even though East Enders are more likely to use public transit.

*Even poor drivers lose from our auto-oriented status quo.Families earning less than $14,000 per year after taxes spend 40% of their take home pay on transportation, as opposed to 13% for families earning over $72,000.

*In 1935, families spent 10% of their budgets on transportation.Today, they spend 20% - perhaps explaining why so many people feel financially stressed.

*The claim that highways "pay for themselves" overlooks negative externalities such as the effects of highways on city neighborhoods: poor, carless people get all the air pollution from nearby highways without any of the benefits.

However, some essays in the book are not as well done as others.Some essays contain the sort of left-wing rhetoric that is likely to alienate anyone to the left of Dennis Kucinich, and/or are indifferent to complex trade-offs.For example, the New York City essay discusses a community's desire to keep traffic off its surface streets (p. 81).But where traffic is encouraged to move to expressways (even tunneled expressways, the community's preferred remedy) suburban migration, and thus disinvestment from the city, is more convenient and neighborhood merchants might lose business.By contrast, the San Francisco essay (one of the better essays in the collection) discusses numerous issues that the authors acknowledged to be close calls.







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Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South. ... Read more

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Presentation of the reality of Environmental Racism
In this collection of works, Westra and Wenz present some of the shocking realities of enviromental racism in today's global environment and force the reader to explore the existence of environmental racism, even in our own back yards. Further, this collection forces the reader to examine the fundamental moral issues behind the prinicpal of enviromental racism.

The examples given expose large corporations and how these big businesses exploit poor minority groups and the neighbourhoods in which they live.

An excellent read about the moral and ethical issues of global justice. ... Read more

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Who decides who gets the job? Discrimination is alive and well in the community college. It\'s still a "good old boy" system. Race is a difference that makes a difference. ... Read more

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This book reports on leading edge research on racism in higher educationa matter that has received far less attention in western societies than racism in schools. The book examines the evidence of institutional racism in higher education and prepares for the forthcoming web-based guide to assist institutional change.

The chapters here are drawn from the presentations by leading social science researchers in the field at a conference at the University of Leeds in 2002.The conference made it possible to assess the extent and nature of racism in higher education institutions today,and the structural constraints on change. There are theoretical and philosophical explorations that further understanding, and also accounts of evidence of positive new responses to these issues.

This important book is for managers, academics and teachers in Higher Education, for policy makers, professionals and academics concerned with race equality and for students of the social sciences. ... Read more

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In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: "How does it feel to be a problem?" In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that question and to fully acknowledge that in the racial arena, they are the problem.

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When you remove genetics as a reason for differences....
in such things as overall intelligence and progression of a group of people based on race then you still are left with having to explain why there are differences. Taking genetics off the table as an explanation you then have to move to pseudoscience and make things up because genetics is the foundation of those gaps and differences. That's what this book does. It's a pseudoscience substitute for the real reason why there are gaps in such things as intelligence, abilities, and general state of advancement between the races. Why exactly would the human species (evolving over millions of years) be "equal" across the board? To assume this is ignorant.

Thought-provoking & well worth reading
A quite good book.I found some of his terminology rather off-putting on first read ("white supremacy"), and his perspective is obvously colored by his upbringing in a very "white" area of the country.But the book is thought-provoking and well-worth reading and discussing with others, probably in small groups.

The truth hurts.
Very well written observation from one who has experienced white privilege firsthand.For all the negative reviews, I would say that the truth hurts them to admit that everything he says in the book is accurate. Blacks have always known about white privilege.

I think the negative reviews are here because someone had the audacity to expose the fact that there IS white privilege. Always has been, always will be.

Very Good Exploration of Racism
The author does a very good job of bringing to the attention of the reader one of the major sources of racism: white privilege.While it is understandably rejected by those who benefit from racist practices and beliefs, the book does provoke people (who are open about the issue) to reconsider their involvement in such privilege.

Questions for those who've read the book
I acknowledge that I haven't read this (hence the neutral three stars).I just learned of Jensen's existence because of a public lecture he was giving titled "The Skin I'm In: On Privilege in America."Didn't have a chance to get and read the book before the lecture.Wasn't impressed with the lecture, so may not wind up reading it.Here are the questions that occur to me, none of which were covered in his talk --- so perhaps some reader(s) will respond to them:

If white privilege is such a benefit for white Americans, how do people in lily-white Iceland get along without it? Would they suddenly find their status improved and benefit psychologically if they imported, say,200,000 Haitians? Would whites in the US suddenly go into depression if all non-whites disappeared, because they would suddenly no longer have white privilege?

How many non-whites does it take for white Americans to enjoy white privilege (WP)? As the country turns more and more non-white will whites enjoy more and more WP or are there diminishing returns?

Do majorities in all multi-racial societies enjoy privilege? In Japan, do the Japanese enjoy yellow privilege? If not, why not?

Why is it that Asians in the U.S. have higher incomes and lower incarceration rates than whites despite the fact that they don't enjoy WP?

If life is so awful for non-whites here, why do so many want to come?

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Food for Thought--but riddled with inconsistencies
Multicultural Politics is a VERY worthwhile read. Modood challenges traditional conceptions of identity and racism by exploring the experience of South Asian Muslims in Britain. He seeks to achieve an understanding of society that is "anchored in the comprehension of agents themselves."The most persistent voice is his own, which infuses his arguments with the passion of a child whose "privileged middle-class life" in Pakistan was disrupted by his family's immigration to Britain in 1961.

After analyzing ethnic statistics in Britain, Modood argues that the divide is not a black-white divide but "a divide between white, Chinese, African Asian, and Indian men on the one hand, and Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Caribbean men on the other."Referencing the 20% of whites under 35 who admitted to being prejudiced against Asians in the 1986 Survey Report,Modood argues that this prejudice is primarily against Muslims and that "cultural racism" exists in tandem with and often as a second step to "color racism."While a quarter of whites attend a place of worship at least once a month, two-thirds of Muslims attend at least once a week.These statistics form the basis of Modood's claim that the movement to eliminate color racism excluded Asians by lumping them into the "black" category with which they could not identify.

"In locating oneself within a hostile society," Modood writes, "one must begin with one's mode of being, not one's mode of oppression."Modood cites evidence of Britain's "hostile society" in the BNP,adverse immigration laws,and "Paki-bashing" in the police forcewhen Muslims confront the highest level of attacks on person and property.He also alleges discrimination against Muslims in education and employment. Muslims are underrepresented in prestigious jobs,and a BBC Radio experiment discovered that identical CVs submitted to 50 firms yielded interviews for 23% of applicants with white names compared to 9% with Muslim names.Modood also points to indirect discrimination that favors locals, requires work on Friday's, or frowns upon Muslim dress.However, he rejects Rex's theory that ethnicity is artificially determined by group conflictand Smith's theory that it is formed by resistance to oppression.Ethnicity is not, as Miles contends, a "false doctrine"and it is not "voluntary," as Banton suggests. Modood asserts that real collectivities exist, and defines them through five dimensions, including "cultural distinctiveness" and "identity."

He extends this analysis by arguing for a "state policy of multiculturalism" that views the country as more than a liberal association of autonomous individuals.He asserts the "positive right" of minorities to "share in the public domain, including law, in order to live by communal values even where those values run counter to majority values and lifestyles."While criticizing the effective "establishment" of Anglicanism in the British constitution,he argues that radical secularism also privileges the dominant ethnic group by forcing minorities to follow its normative legal ideal.Instead he proposes a "plural state," which recognizes both communities and individuals as actors and gives the former "a formal representation or administrative role" to play in the state, thereby offering a holistic emotional identity.

Modood's proposal fails to take Islam's pluralism into account. The very act of "institutionalizing some public space for religions"runs contrary to his fluid concept of identity. Modood asserts that he does not believe in "discrete, bounded populations of cultural absolutes"and expects a group to "change, develop, adopt, borrow, and synthesize".His proposal would marginalize minorities within Islam by creating a formal dialogue in the public sphere. Who will represent the Shi'a? Who will represent the 50% of Muslims who do not approve of state-funding for parochial schools or the youth who continue to identify with Islam without speaking South Asian languages, attending a mosque, or having arranged marriages?

A second cause for concern lies in Modood's definition of incitement to religious hatred. He compares the statement "Jesus Christ was a homosexual" with "Prophet Muhammad was a lewd, dishonest, dissembling power seeker" and concludes that the former is permissible but that the latter isn't because it criticizes a belief that is "part of the primary self-identification of a group."By forcing speech to contribute to "constructive dialogue,"Modood places speech under subjective control. This act is a slippery slope to stifling academic inquiry. The ability of subversives within a religion to challenge the ascendant interpretation is essential to its fluid identity. Like his call for a "plural state," restricting offensive speech hardens the boundaries of identity that Modood ostensibly prefers remain "soft."

Broadening the Multicultural Discourse
Tariq Modood's Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain is a significant contribution in the study of contemporary Europe and its treatment of minorities. The book's focus on Muslims, who comprise the largest minority in both Britain and Europe, is an added plus. The book comes out in a time many Western analysts discuss the future of Western Muslims. Modood takes the discussion beyond Europe to include comparisons with the situation in the United States.

Modood broadens the discussion of multiculturalism to include a focus on secularism. He argues that "fundamentalist" secularist ideology that is anti-religion has had an adverse impact on the treatment of religious minorities. As a result, Muslims for example have faced stagnation in upward mobility. The current challenge to Britian's treatment of its Muslims is to assure that these new Britons are able to advance like their white Christian cohorts. The alternative, of course, is the emergence of a second-class citizenry group.

The irony of this bleak prospect is that is has been enhanced despite a growing participation of the new minorities, particularly Muslims, in British and other European public discourses. Modood argues that this Muslim assertiveness should lead to a rethinking of what pluralism means in today's European societies. The new thinking must include a fresh look at the secular state as it attempts to offer greater inclusion for religious minorities. Here Modood opens up a new line of inquiry that integrates sociology and political science. Multicultural Politics is a must reading for those who are serious about considering the status of minorities in the new Europe and the future of Islam in the West.
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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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Racial discrimination is cruel—and especially so to younger children. This title encourages kids to accept and be comfortable with differences of skin color and other racial characteristics among their friends and in themselves. A First Look At… is an easy-to-understand series of books for younger children. Each title explores emotional issues and discusses the questions such difficulties invariably raise among kids of preschool through early school age. Written by a psychotherapist and child counselor, each title promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers. The books are written in simple, direct language that makes sense to younger kids. Each title also features a guide for parents on how to use the book, a glossary, suggested additional reading, and a list of resources. There are attractive full-color illustrations on every page. (Ages 4–7) ... Read more

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Great Book
It shows we are all different but yet all alike and can get along.

What I Expected and What I Got Were Two Different Things
The artwork is really nice.However, for a book about racism I expected to see someone other than a white male showing prejudice.I, personally, have had to work with very prejudiced non-white people.I know the prejudice is real.

There is one complete white family checking out a man with a spiked hairstyle and his family.Of course, they are lookingat this family with disdain.

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Informative Book for Reasonable People
Well-written and well documented book for those who are interested in the truth about Reagan's and Bush's civil rights records.This book also provides an informative history about the civil rights legislative recordsof past presidents.

Reading this book can help one understand why so manypeople are misinformed about civil rights and its objectives today, and whythey need to be better informed about the actions of presidents and theeffect of these actions.

What a shame...
Only in American can someone have the ability to print such garbage.I was looking for a book that gave unbiased reporting, but this was trash.

What a shame.

Disgraceful
This book serves as a shining example of the constant race baiting that the poverty pimps have engaged in, and continue to engage in, over the last thirty years.

Refusing to document the reality of society by statingsuch profound premises as "white reality is different than blackreality", this book is trash.

You would be better served by one ofThomas Sowell's works on race. ... Read more

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"Petit apartheid" describes the more hidden, invisible, covert, and informal forms of discrimination that exist within the criminal justice process. Russell and Milovanovic investigate these forms of "micro-aggressions" and makes them visible for critical social science scrutiny and change. ... Read more