Race is once again a contentious topic in America, as shown by the divisive rise of Donald Trump and the activism of groups like Black Lives Matter. Yet Diversity Explosion argues that the current period of profound racial change will lead to a less-divided America than today's older whites or younger minorities fear.
Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about ......
Tanya Katerai Hernaandez's Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination addresses tensions and contradictions within the issues of discrimination and racial mixture. It explores multiracial discrimination in such areas as employment, education and criminal justice system--Publisher's information.
Charts a new path for global education by examining the possibility of leapfrogging - rapidly accelerating educational progress to ensure that all young people develop the skills they need to thrive in a fast-changing world. Analysing 3,000 global education innovations, this book explores the potential of current practices to enable such a leap.
2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award Recipient Winner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non0fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance In Black Women's Christian Activism, Betty Livingston Adams examines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs and American Protestantism in the ......
"The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a a more equitable place."--Provided by the publisher.
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place. Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people's coalitions can make to the struggle for equality ......
With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago's early ......
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society-and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of study in schools and colleges, the law has since been ......
