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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

added by perfect10 on November 9, 2006 12:11 PM
The plans of Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis to create a Nordic "master race" are often looked upon as a horrific but fairly isolated effort. Less notice has historically been given to the Americ...

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

added by vern on November 4, 2006 11:29 PM
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal f...

Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools

added by success06 on November 11, 2006 12:04 PM
"Glenn Singleton and Curtis Linton have offered us an important book that provides us with empirical data and well-constructed exercises to help us think through the ways that race affects our live...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

added by alexis on November 28, 2006 11:04 AM
In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of ...

Races of the Wild: A Race Guide for Dungeons and Dragons

added by anexpert on November 8, 2006 8:35 AM
A new D&D sourcebook detailing various races that dwell in wilderness.Races of the Wild provides Dungeons & DragonsĀ® players with an in-depth look at races that live in the wildest areas of the D&...

Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America

added by corral on November 15, 2006 7:39 AM
This is the book that established Jared Taylor as an expert and commentator on race relations. The publishers of American Renaissance have reprinted this classic with a new preface for the 2004 edi...

Domestic Violence At The Margins: Readings On Race, Class, Gender, And Culture

added by dignified1 on November 15, 2006 10:36 AM
"This is a thoughtful and scholarly addition to the unfortunately scarce literature on domestic violence and oppression in all its forms."—Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Anna D. Wolf Chair, Johns Hopk...

Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town

added by faithfulone on November 1, 2006 9:07 AM
In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-fund...

Race to Dakar

added by james58 on November 2, 2006 3:08 AM

D&D Race Series Collection (Dungeon & Dragons Roleplaying Game: Adventures)

added by mattisboss on November 4, 2006 10:44 PM
The second in a series of essential titles for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. This slip-covered gift set contains three supplements that expand the core race options for the D&D roleplayi...

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

added by titanium7 on November 23, 2006 1:07 AM
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injus...

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket (Paperback))

added by squeege on November 10, 2006 10:53 AM
A second edition of this widely adopted study of working-class racism. The Wages of Whiteness provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an a...

Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)

added by bookworks on November 9, 2006 5:02 AM
Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experienc...

D&D Race Series Collection (Dungeon & Dragons Roleplaying Game: Adventures)

added by bookworks on November 6, 2006 11:47 AM
The second in a series of essential titles for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. This slip-covered gift set contains three supplements that expand the core race options for the D&D roleplayi...

Race, Law and the Desegregation of Public Schools (Law and Society)

added by john316 on November 25, 2006 6:50 AM
Moran examines Kansas City, Missouri, as a case study of school desegregation during the period 1949 to 1999. He argues that school desegregation is best understood as a process that influenced, a...

America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

added by fabio on November 12, 2006 7:48 AM
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. The first synthetic and his...

The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since WWII

added by imtheboss on November 24, 2006 4:44 AM
A masterly account of world racial politics and the future of global race relations by a leading American sociologist. Why is racism so hard to overcome? Why is the world still beset by racial ine...
3 reviews  -  tags: since + is + ghetto + basicbooks + world

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

added by tsu on November 25, 2006 10:24 AM
When we speak of race, we tend to categorize nonwhite people into rigid classifications--but how is whiteness itself determined? Yale American Studies professor Matthew Frye Jacobson looks at the A...

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79

added by caramel on November 6, 2006 7:23 PM
"I first visited Cambodia in 1975," Ben Kiernan writes. "None of the Cambodians I knew then survived the next four years." In The Pol Pot Regime, Kiernan presents the first definitive account of th...
3 reviews  -  tags: pot + khmer + under + cambodia + regime
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