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In a world laced with the lethal threads of racism, sexism, classism, and sexual oppression, we need a liberating hope that dismantles these intersecting problems that render us into a stupor of chronic despair. In the United States, where the color of your skin can determine life or death, we need hope that will give us life abundantly. In a country where state laws prohibited mixed-race marriages between white and black people as recent as the year...
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Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines means that they share many cultural characteristics with Latinos, such as last names, religion, and language....
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"Markham Street" is more than a story about systemic racism, police violence, or brutal murder, although it is all of those. Above all, it is the story of one man's enduring love for his lost brother and his devotion to his grieving parents, who kept silent for two and half decades to protect their seven surviving children.
Through the lens of his then-thriving Black community of Menifee, Ronnie Williams vividly describes the suffocating misery and...
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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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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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¿Podemos construir una vida en sociedad que no niegue las identidades de las minorías? En este libro, el sociólogo francés François Dubet, que es uno de los pioneros en el análisis de estos problemas, toma testimonios de primera mano, describe brillantemente los complejos mecanismos de la representación política, pública y mediática de los discriminados, y propone una igualdad social que no resigne las diferencias.
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It is important for America to move forward in solving racism, but why is it so hard for people to come together?
Deception Walks among Us! is about an elderly black man commenting on what he sees happening in today's society. It's a short book about what he believes will have a continuous effect between Blacks and Whites if the issues concerning both are not appropriately addressed by those, who have the power to make changes. It's a cross-cultural...
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The recent spike in the number of violations of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act has resulted in dozens of multimillion- dollar lawsuits from both large and small businesses. Federal employment laws were not written to assist small business owners in running their businesses, making it difficult to understand the somewhat complex legalese. Luckily, there is an easy way to avoid being one of the numerous companies involved in class-action labor...
69) 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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Come together and break free from the black and white prison called Americain society. There is an eight thousand pound black and white elephant in the room that no one seems to acknowledge. This is unacceptable in today's environment as we can no longer be in denial. The truth is, we have all been lied to, told from the day we were born that we are either victims or villains. The system is designed to divide, shame and guilt us. You can't have people...
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This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives of students. At a school publicly celebrated for its integration, academic excellence, and racial harmony, the reality is a different story: that of continuing internal segregation and racial conflicts.
Examining the role of race in neighborhood relations, desegregation programs, and school violence,...
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The sexual crimes, as a fundamental reflection of a social vision historically determined by the intimacy relations, have been target of an intense evolution on opposite directions. In one hand, there has been a restriction about the behaviors that previously were considered criminal, with the growth of respect for the individual freedom e sexual determination by the adult person and by others, the cast of those same behaviors have grown, with the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, fissures, and fractures in the fabric of America's foundations, American life, and the very pillars of our democracy. As the oldest and most enduring democracy in the world, the pandemic that took the lives of six hundred thousand-plus souls in the U.S. alone, followed by racial disparities, a tumultuous presidential election, and the aftermath that led to the most restrictive and fierce state laws to suppress...
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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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When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American schools, airports, workplaces, and neighborhoods-interactions...
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Black State of America, is not just a book to read and then go about your normal daily routine. This Guidebook is designed to spark an emotional and intellectual response inside of the hearts and minds of its readers. From this social diagram, the Black American race can begin the necessary steps to finish the major objectives of the 1960s and 1970s Black empowerment movements, with a Civil Rights 2.0 agenda that permanently changes the playing field...
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¿Qué es la pobreza? ¿Cómo afecta la desigualdad a los privilegiados? ¿Nos ha llevado el capitalismo tecnológico al avance imparable del precariado? ¿De qué manera amenaza la desigualdad meritocrática con resquebrajar nuestro sistema?
La sociedad contemporánea ha logrado un desarrollo material sin precedentes, y sin embargo la calidad de vida ha disminuido en amplios sectores de la población aumentando con ello el malestar social. Tanto...
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Race has been a prominent public policy issue in the UK for decades and there is growing interest in academia, but it is often caught in a repetitive cycle of progress and regress. This book analyses and bridges that gap by providing a unique insight into the relationship between race and ethnicity scholarship and the reality of 'real world' policy and politics. Drawing on the author's academic work as well as his background working in public policy...
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There are monsters in the neighborhood, but sometimes you need to go outside for ice cream.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher,...
80) Metaphors
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Synopsis: A widowed white woman in a black community has a falling out with her neighbor.
After Dinner Conversation believes humanity is improved by ethics and morals grounded in philosophical truth. Philosophical truth is discovered through intentional reflection and respectful debate. In order to facilitate that process, we have created a growing series of short stories, audio and video podcast discussions, across genres, as accessible examples...
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