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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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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 […]

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Book 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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Book 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...

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Author 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...

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Book 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...

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Book 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...

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Book 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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