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Activism & Contemporary Movements
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Call Number: Leyburn HN65 .B634 2011ISBN: 9780520269248Publication Date: 2011Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Call Number: Leyburn E185.86 .T373 2016ISBN: 1608465632Publication Date: 2016Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Bias
Biased by
... With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society--in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.
Call Number: Science Library BF575.P9 E34 2019ISBN: 9780735224933Publication Date: 2019
Algorithms of Oppression by Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018ISBN: 9781479837243Publication Date: 2018A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms ...
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Civil Rights Movement Era History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History by
Print (Leyburn)
Call Number: Leyburn E185.61 .T44 2018ISBN: 9780807075876Publication Date: 2018
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Call Number: Leyburn E185.615 .J68 2006ISBN: 0805075399Publication Date: 2006Print (Leyburn)
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Examining Whiteness
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Call Number: Law HT1575 .S23 2020ISBN: 9781728209821Publication Date: 2020Print (Law) & Ebook
White Fragility by
Print (Leyburn & Law) & Ebook
Call Number: Leyburn & Law HT1521 .D486ISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018
The White Racial Frame by Call Number: Leyburn E184.A1 F395 2013ISBN: 9780415635226Publication Date: 2013Print & Ebook
White Rage by Call Number: Leyburn E185.61 .A5438 2016ISBN: 9781632864130Publication Date: 2017Print
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation
The Color of Law by Call Number: Leyburn E185.61 .R8185 2017ISBN: 9781631492853Publication Date: 2017Print
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental quality by Call Number: EbookISBN: 0813367921Publication Date: 2000Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Call Number: Leyburn & Law HD7287.96.U6 D47 2016ISBN: 9780553447439Publication Date: 2016Print (Leyburn & Law) & Ebook
The Origins of the Urban Crisis by
Print & Ebook
Call Number: Leyburn F574.D49 N4835 1996ISBN: 0691058881Publication Date: 1998
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by ISBN: 9781479852390Publication Date: 2014Ebook
Won't You Be My Neighbor by
... In Won't You Be My Neighbor?, sociologist Camille Zubrinsky Charles explores how modern racial attitudes shape and are shaped by the places in which people live. Using in-depth survey data and information from focus groups with members of L.A.'s largest racial and ethnic groups, Won't You Be My Neighbor? explores why Los Angeles remains a segregated city ...
Call Number: EbookISBN: 1610441168Publication Date: 2006-10-19
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Policing, Law & Incarceration
Are Prisons Obsolete? by
Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Call Number: Leyburn HV9471 .D375 2003 & EbookISBN: 9781583225813Publication Date: 2003
The Condemnation of Blackness by Call Number: Leyburn & Law HV6197.U6 M85ISBN: 9780674035973Publication Date: 2010Print (Leyburn & Law)
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by
... Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policymakers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s.
Call Number: Leyburn & Law HV9950 .H56 2016ISBN: 9780674737235Publication Date: 2016
Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by Call Number: Leyburn & Law HV9950 .F655 2017ISBN: 9780374537449Publication Date: 2018Print (Leyburn & Law)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Call Number: Leyburn & Law HV9950 .A437 2012ISBN: 9781595586438Publication Date: 2012Print (Leyburn & Law) & Ebook
They Can't Kill Us All by Call Number: Leyburn HV7936.R3 L69 2016ISBN: 9780316312479Publication Date: 2016Print
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Racism & Anti-racism
The Fire Next Time by Call Number: Leyburn E185.61 .B195 / Law E185.61Publication Date: 1963/1993Print (Leyburn & Law) & Ebook
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Call Number: Leyburn E185.615 .F526 2016ISBN: 9781501126352Publication Date: 2017Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
How to Be an Antiracist by Call Number: Leyburn & Law E184.A1 K344 2019ISBN: 9780525509295Publication Date: 2019Print (Leyburn & Law) and Ebook
Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Call Number: Leyburn E184.A1 B597 2018ISBN: 9781442276222Publication Date: 2017Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
So You Want to Talk about Race by Call Number: Leyburn & Law E184.A1 O454ISBN: 9781580056779Publication Date: 2018Print (Leyburn & Law)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Call Number: Leyburn E185.61 .K358 2016ISBN: 9781568588063Publication Date: 2016Print (Leyburn)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by
Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Call Number: Leyburn DA125.A1 E33 2017ISBN: 9781408870556Publication Date: 2017
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Racism in the Academy
Invisible Founders by Call Number: Leyburn LD7251.S92 R34 2019ISBN: 9781789202311Publication Date: 2019Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by Call Number: Leyburn E185.97.D73 M67 2015ISBN: 9780520286764Publication Date: 2017Print & Ebook
Upending the Ivory Tower by Call Number: Leyburn LC2781 .B733 2018ISBN: 9781479873999Publication Date: 2018Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Scientific & Medical Racism
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Call Number: Law GN269 .R64 2011ISBN: 9781595584953Publication Date: 2011Print (Law) & Ebook
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Call Number: Leyburn HQ766.5.U5 R58 1997ISBN: 067944226XPublication Date: 1997Print
*Also listed under Women, Gender & Sexuality*
Medical Apartheid by
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheidis the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed,Medical Apartheidreveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to readMedical Apartheid, a masterful book that will stir up both controversy and long-needed debate.
Call Number: Telford R853.H8 W37 2006 & Ebook [Access Model Only 1 user at a time]ISBN: 9780385509930Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Voter Suppression
One Person, No Vote by Call Number: Leyburn & Law JK1924 .A54ISBN: 9781635571387Publication Date: 2018Print (Leyburn & Law) & Ebook
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality
Women, Gender & Sexuality
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by
Print (Leyburn & Law) & Ebook
Call Number: Ebook & Leyburn E185.86 .H68 / Law E185.86 .H73 2015ISBN: 1138821519Publication Date: 1981/2015
Black Feminist Archaeology by
Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Call Number: Leyburn E185.86 .B3758 2011ISBN: 1351573551Publication Date: 2017
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment by
Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Call Number: Leyburn HQ1426 .C633 2000ISBN: 0415924839Publication Date: 1999- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Call Number: Leyburn HQ766.5.U5 R58 1997ISBN: 067944226XPublication Date: 1997Print (Leyburn)
Pushout: The criminalization of Black girls in schools by Call Number: Leyburn LC2731 .M59 2016ISBN: 9781620970942Publication Date: 2016Print (Leyburn) & Ebook
Sister Outsider by
... In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Browne
Call Number: Leyburn PS3562.O75 S5 2020ISBN: 9780143134442Publication Date: 2020-02-25
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Call Number: Leyburn PS509.F44 T5 2015ISBN: 9781438454399Publication Date: 2015Print (Leyburn)
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by Call Number: Leyburn E185.86 .W43875 1999ISBN: 0393046672Publication Date: 1998Print (Leyburn)- When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Call Number: Leyburn E185.61 .G42 1984ISBN: 0688019439Publication Date: 1984Print (Leyburn)
Activism & Contemporary Movements | Bias | Civil Rights Movement History | Examining Whiteness |
Residential Disparities, Discrimination & Segregation | Policing, Law & Incarceration | Racism & Anti-racism | Racism in the Academy |
Scientific & Medical Racism | Voter Suppression | Women, Gender & Sexuality