Race & Ethnic Studies Books

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31. Unlikely Allies in the Academy

    Women of Color and White Women in Conversation

    Edited by Karen L. Dace

    Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative to expose their stories, which are at times messy and always candid. However, the contributors work through the...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
32. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

    Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci, Carlo Ruzza

    Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

    This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through...

    Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
33. Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

    Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo

    Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

    This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
34. The Politics of Social Exclusion in India

    Democracy at the Crossroads

    Edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Partha Sarkar, Angshuman Kar

    Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

    Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
35. Carnival Art, Culture and Politics

    Performing Life

    Edited by Michaeline Crichlow

    Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
36. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order

    Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl Schierup, Raúl Wise

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this...

    Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
37. Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

    Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

    By Caroline Braunmühl

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
38. The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
39. White Party, White Government

    Race, Class, and U.S. Politics

    By Joe R. Feagin

    White Party, White Government examines the centuries-old impact of systemic racism on the U.S. political system. The text assesses the development by elite and other whites of a racialized capitalistic system, grounded early in slavery and land theft, and its intertwining with a distinctive...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
40. Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

    By Henry A. Giroux

    Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

    Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical...

    Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge