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1	Black Like Me more books like this by John Howard Griffin In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like "to be a Negro in the Deep South," as he wrote at the time. His eloquent and ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Black Rednecks and White Liberals more books like this by Thomas Sowell This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they ... see all copies from £7.44! new only from £7.86! \| first editions
3	Privilege, Power, and Difference more books like this by Allan G Johnson This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £22.82!
4	Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America more books like this by David A Neiwert On July 4, 2000, three young Asian American men visiting the small town of Ocean Shores, Washington, were attacked by a group of skinheads in the parking lot of a Texaco station. Threats and slurs gave way to violence and, ultimately, a fatal stabbing. But this tragedy culminated with a twist. A young white man, flaunting a Confederate flag just ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.83! \| first editions
5	The Color of Water more books like this by James McBride (Read by) Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £6.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son more books like this by Tim Wise Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable yet scholarly, analytical, and accessible. see all copies from £7.19! new only from £7.19! \| signed copies
7	The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom more books like this by Lisa D Delpit (Editor), Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (Editor) These essays written by teachers consider the debate on dialects in the classroom. With a primary focus on the problems faced by African-American students, the book moves from kindergarten to high school, with each author writing from a personal perspective. see all copies from £6.31! new only from £11.06!
8	Games Mother Never Taught You more books like this by Betty Lehan Harragan This classic guide to making it in a man's world offers "the definitive, hard-nosed manual on corporate politics for the career woman" (Womanpower Newsletter). "One of the best books written on organizational dynamics".--Wall Street Journal. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £39.92! \| first editions
9	Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America more books like this by Michael O Emerson, Christian Smith In recent years, the leaders of the American evangelical movement have brought their characteristic passion to the problem of race, notably in the Promise Keepers movement and in reconciliation theology. But the authors of this provocative new study reveal that despite their good intentions, evangelicals may actually be preserving America's racial ... see all copies from £7.84! new only from £12.20! \| first editions
10	Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate more books like this by Neil Baldwin (Preface by) This provocative history of the world's most famous anti-Semite--a Detroit Free Press and New York Post bestseller--examines the origins, methods, and consequences of hatred. . How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-Semites of our time-a man who devoted his immense ... see all copies from £5.59! new only from £6.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era more books like this by Shelby Steele In this important new work, a distinguished race relations scholar argues that the age of white supremacy in power in the 1950s has given way to the age of white guilt, and neither has been good for African Americans. see all copies from £5.58! new only from £6.08! \| first editions
12 view cover	Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word more books like this by Randall Kennedy NIGGER: THE STRANGE CAREER OF A TROUBLESOME WORD explores the etymology, usage, and cultural signification of the highly charged "N-word" in American life. Kennedy, a Harvard law professor, unravels layers and layers of histories, experiences, and perspectives--and addresses the many controversies that arise from the use of that epithet. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £8.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Classism, and Ableism more books like this by Ed Et Al Adams, Maurianne Adams (Editor), Ximena Zuniga (Editor) The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays and is designed as an introduction to the topics at hand. The selections include writings from such foremost names in the field - bell hooks, Cornel West, Michael Omi, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua and Michelle Fine. see all copies from £10.24! new only from £27.29! \| first editions
14 view cover	Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States more books like this by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva In this book, Bonilla-Silva explores with systematic interview data, the nature and components of post-civil rights racial ideology. Specifically, he documents the existence of a new suave and apparently non-racial racial ideology he labels color-blind racism. He suggests that this ideology, anchored on the decontextualized, a historical, and ... see all copies from £16.45! new only from £16.56!
15 view cover	When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America more books like this by Ira Katznelson In this "penetrating new analysis" (The "New York Times Book Review") Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programmes passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms that ... see all copies from £8.99! new only from £8.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality more books like this by John Shelby Spong John Shelby Spong emerged from a childhood beset with racism, sexism, homophobia, and family dysfunction, determined to discover a Christian faith relevant to the modern world. By making a stand for inclusion rather than exclusion, opportunity over discrimination, and intelligent questioning instead of blind faith, he has become a beloved champion ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes more books like this by Martin N Marger This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing on social class and theories, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £12.51! \| first editions
18 view cover	American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination more books like this by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. This brief and inexpensive text provides a concise introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. After summarizing key concepts and theories, the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the prominent ethnic groups in America. As a result, the book examines each ethnic group from ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £13.65! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions more books like this by William G Bowen (Preface by), Derek BOK This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. ??i??The Shape of the River??i?? is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins Of... more books like this by Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate (Translator) The author argues that the roots of the Holocaust are found in the European scramble for Africa in the late 19th century. He singles out British imperialism for particular criticism, and he contends that the theories of Charles Darwin were used to justify British racism towards Africans. see all copies from £7.29! new only from £10.15!
21 view cover	Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America more books like this by Twin Palms Publishers The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone -- many times a professional ... see all copies from £27.32! new only from £33.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination more books like this by Bradley R Schiller Emphasizing the complex economic, social, and political factors that create poverty and make its eradication so difficult, this book provides a broad overview of poverty and discrimination, explanations for these social ills, and policy options for addressing them. Providing a multidisciplinary approach to poverty, welfare, and discrimination, ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £6.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class more books like this by Mary Pattillo-McCoy After living for three years in "Groveland", a black middle-class neighbourhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy sought to explain the discontinuities in their daily life, both troublesome and hopeful, she witnessed. Residents work in stable middle-class jobs and many have single-family homes with a backyard and a two-car ... see all copies from £6.46! new only from £11.80! \| first editions
24 view cover	Critical Race Theory: An Introduction more books like this by Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris (Foreword by) For well over a decade, critical race theory - the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life - has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics to ethnic studies and history. This text is a ... see all copies from £12.94! new only from £15.70!
25 view cover	Women of the Klan: Racism & Gender in the 1920's more books like this by Kathleen M Blee Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In "Women of the Klan", sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £13.28! \| signed copies \| first editions

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