Book Review: The Impact of Racism on African American Families: Literature as...
In focusing on what literature can tell us about various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household […]
View ArticleBook Review: Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the era of Suffrage and...
Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over “legitimate rape” during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms […]
View ArticleBook Review: Race, Racism and Social Work edited by Michael Lavalette and...
Structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and training has […]
View ArticleBook Review: African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race,...
Using qualitative data, including extensive interview material and ethnographic research, to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans as […]
View ArticleBook Review: On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
Tim Newburn is impressed by Alice Goffman’s book On The Run: a look at the lives of the young African American […]
View ArticleBook Review: Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision...
In 2013, out of 7,776 female state legislators serving across the USA, 364 are women of colour; of these 239 […]
View ArticleBook Review: Death of a Suburban Dream: race and schools in Compton,...
Death of a Suburban Dream explores the history of Compton from its founding in the late nineteenth century to the […]
View ArticleBook Review: Asian America: Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives...
Bridging sociology and the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, this text will be of interested to undergraduate and graduate sociology […]
View ArticleBook Review: Sites of Race by David Theo Goldberg
Sites of Race is highly recommended reading for anybody with an interest in race in contemporary America, writes Lisa Long. In this […]
View ArticleBook Review: The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the...
The Inevitable City presents ten principles that ‘changed the game’ for New Orleans after Katrina, offered by community leader Scott Cowen, who […]
View ArticleBook Review: The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific...
In The Myth of Race, Robert Sussman aims to explore how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications […]
View ArticleBook Review: Racism, Class and The Racialized Outsider by Satnam Virdee
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider aims to offer an original perspective on the significance of both racism and anti-racism in […]
View ArticleBook Review: Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine? Gender, Race, and Sexuality in...
Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine? does the important work of addressing some of the myths and stereotypes that plague black men, and […]
View ArticleBook Review: Being German, Becoming Muslim
Being German, Becoming Muslim is the result of the author, Esra Özyürek’s research on converts to Islam in Germany, a […]
View ArticleBook Review: The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
In The Origin of Others, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison extends her existing nuanced explorations and interrogations of race and racism by...
View ArticleBook Review: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni...
When was the last time you heard a person of colour challenge structural racism – the role of government policies, organisational practices and popular representations in reinforcing racial...
View ArticleAuthor Interview: Q&A with Stephen Glynn on new book, The British Football Film
Experiencing World Cup fever? We speak to Stephen Glynn about his new book, The British Football Film, ‘a genre study optimistically undertaken by a Janus-faced creature, a film historian and a fan of...
View ArticleBook Review: On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis edited by George...
In On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, George Yancy brings together scholars to reflect on how race and racism have shaped their careers and intellectual work. The collection is a great...
View ArticleBook Review: Race, Education and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British...
In Race, Education and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies and a Culture of Migration, Sin Yee Koh offers a study of the migratory trajectories of tertiary-educated mobile...
View ArticleBook Review: The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
In The Origin of Others, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison extends her existing nuanced explorations and interrogations of race and racism by...
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