The rock and roll music that dominated airwaves across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s is often described as a triumph for integration. Black and white musicians alike, including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis, scored hit records with young audiences from different racial groups, blending sonic ......
Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity
The Dark Side of Reform: Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity contains nine chapters on the development of social policies with the potential to advance racial equity. In addition to studying these policies and their implications, the chapters in this volume demonstrate how lessons from the past can be used to inform the ......
The first-ever biography of an overlooked PGA star and one of the best Black golfers in history. His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the eighth grade, went to work picking crops, first swung a golf club at the age of 23-and rose to the top of the PGA. In ......
The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents determined to maintain their area's preferred cultural and racial identity. Jennifer Sdunzik explores this widespread phenomenon by ......
What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Comm
This is an enlightening anthology of 16 interviews conducted with occupational therapists from around the world who share their personal reflections and challenges in occupational therapy within different cultural and political contexts. It encourages global cultural awareness and nurtures a sense of connection with practitioners around the world.
This is an essential book for occupational therapists and students seeking knowledge and practical information on creating antiracist practices. Compiled of a collection of global voices active in the OT community, this book addresses key concerns faced by minority ethnic groups and provides sustainable advice in tackling inequalities.
The central mission of this book is to provide additional context to an ongoing discussion regarding Black liberation and proper allyship. This book will use the term co-conspirator as a preferred descriptor for Black/non-Black liberation-collaboration and provide a more direct ask of journeying anti-racist white Americans.
The revised, updated, and expanded edition of Inclusion in the American Military: A Force for Diversity provides an updated, rich, expanded, and absorbing overview of the social history and contemporary standing of diversity and inclusion in the United States armed forces covering eleven different and unique social groups.
The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents determined to maintain their area's preferred cultural and racial identity. Jennifer Sdunzik explores this widespread phenomenon by ......
