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11. Fighting Discrimination in Europe

    The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach

    Edited by Mathias Möschel, Costanza Hermanin, Michele Grigolo

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    The member states of the EU have only very recently begun to consider race and racism in the framework of equality legislation and policies. As opposed to an established Anglo-Saxon tradition of naming races and using racial categorisation to fight racism, most continental European countries resist...

    Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
12. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

    Blackness and Genre

    By Novotny Lawrence

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
13. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

    Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance

    Edited by Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
14. Diaspora and Class Consciousness

    Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

    By Shanshan Lan

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
15. Gender, Race and Religion

    Intersections and Challenges

    Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    Gender, Race and Religion brings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studies that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
16. Race, Racism and Psychology, 2nd Edition

    Towards a Reflexive History

    By Graham Richards

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Psychology has engaged with 'race' and racism issues since the late 19th century. It emphasizes the complexities and convolutions of the story and attempts to elucidate the subtleties and occasional paradoxes that have arisen as a...

    Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
17. The Education of Black Males in a 'Post-Racial' World

    Edited by Anthony L. Brown, Jamel K. Donnor

    The Education of Black Males in a ‘Post-Racial’ World examines the varied structural and discursive contexts of race, masculinities and class that shape the educational and social lives of Black males. The contributing authors take direct aim at the current discourses that construct Black males as...

    Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge
18. The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    A Century-Old Myth

    Edited by Esther Webman

    Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it...

    Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
19. Japan-Bashing

    Anti-Japanism since the 1980s

    By Narrelle Morris

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of ‘Japan-bashing’, from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants, including in Australia and Japan, to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
20. Racial Discrimination

    Institutional Patterns and Politics

    By Masoud Kamali

    Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

    There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability. It is a result of the collision and incompatibility between declarations of universal values (such as human rights and democracy) and institutionalized actions which exclude and discriminate against...

    Published September 3rd 2008 by Routledge