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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from ...

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from ...

George Lipsitz - Social Science - 2006 - 292 pages
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above ...
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Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
New people: miscegenation and mulattoes in the United States

New people: miscegenation and mulattoes in the United States

Joël Williamson - 1980 - 221 pages
The concept of race relations is examined from the perspectives of miscegenation, the creation and cultural development of a mulatto people, and the misconceptions that the end ...
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Ostracism: The Power of Silence

Ostracism: The Power of Silence

Kipling D. Williams - Social Science - 2002 - 282 pages
Ostracism is among the most powerful means of social influence. From schoolroom time-outs or the "silent treatment" from a family member or friend, to governmental acts of ...
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Communicating for cultural competence
Schoolsmart and Motherwise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling

Schoolsmart and Motherwise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling

Wendy Luttrell - Education - 1997 - 164 pages
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women ...
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Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond

Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond

Todd Boyd - Social Science - 1997 - 156 pages
The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or "ghetto" perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aesthetic has ...
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Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

Alan Nadel - History - 1995 - 332 pages
Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which ...
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Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation

Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation

Derald Wing Sue - Psychology - 2003 - 320 pages
This extraordinary book by Derald Wing Sue, a highly-regarded academic and author, helps readers understand and combat racism in themselves. It defines racism not only as ...
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