In this groundbreaking study, Watts draws a powerful portrait of Amiri Baraka, founder of the influential Black Arts movement and strident voice within the Black Power movement.
...could not be more of the moment. (New York Times Book Review) If you, like many, marveled that George W. Bush not only did but could put together a cabinet and staff that was racially diverse as well as fiscally and morally conservative, here's a book you'll want to read. (Ms. magazine)
Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America
Once dominated by black-white relations, discussions of race in the USA are increasingly informed by an awareness of strife between non-white racial groups. Combining race history, legal theory, theology, social psychology and anecdote, this work offers an examination of race and responsibility.
How are some processes cultured, gendered, or racialized? In what ways do certain groups and cultures define such concepts as justice and fairness differently? Do women and men perceive events in similar fashion, use different reasoning, or emphasize disparate values and goals? This book deals with these questions.
How are some processes cultured, gendered, or racialized? In what ways do certain groups and cultures define such concepts as justice and fairness differently? Do women and men perceive events in similar fashion, use different reasoning, or emphasize disparate values and goals? This book deals with these questions.
Neither an argument for or against the practice of transracial adoption, this book seeks to counter the dominant public view of this practice as a panacea to illegitimacy and the misfortune of infertility among the middle c lass with a more nuanced view that gives voice to those involved.
Neither an argument for or against the practice of transracial adoption, this book seeks to counter the dominant public view of this practice as a panacea to illegitimacy and the misfortune of infertility among the middle class with a more nuanced view that gives voice to those involved.
With a foreword by Richard E. Vander Ross. In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation who refuse to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. Energized by a refusal to allow mixed-race people to be rendered invisible, this movement lobbies aggressively to have the category ......
