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Just Trying to Have School

The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the history of desegregation in Mississippi schools

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Full Court Press

Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball

University Press of Mississippi

How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media

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Forever Suspect

Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror

Rutgers University Press

Saher Selod shows how a specific American religious identity has acquired racial meanings, resulting in the hyper surveillance of Muslim citizens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans, she investigates how Muslim Americans are subjected to racialized surveillance in both an institutional and social context.  

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Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights

UBC Press

A unique contribution to the literature on minority rights, Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights examines the role of cultural difference in minority rights claims, building a case for inclusive political deliberation in liberal democracies.

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Lines Were Drawn

Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School

University Press of Mississippi

Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi

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The Equity Myth

Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

UBC Press

Challenging the myth of equity in higher education, this is the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and Indigenous faculty members’ experiences in Canadian universities.

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Three Lives for Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

The only complete, on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi

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Right to Revolt

The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods

University Press of Mississippi

A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a “moderate” part of the segregated South

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Not Fit to Stay

Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion

UBC Press

Not Fit to Stay reveals how officials used panic about public health concerns as a basis for excluding early twentieth-century South Asian immigrants from entering Canada and the United States.

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City Kids

Transforming Racial Baggage

Rutgers University Press

City Kids profiles fifth-graders in one of New York City’s most diverse public schools, detailing how they collectively developed a sophisticated understanding of race that challenged many of the stereotypes, myths, and commonplaces they had learned from mainstream American culture. Drawing from more than a year of close observations and interviews with students, anthropologist Maria Kromidas not only examines how we can best support children’s antiracist practices, but also considers what they might have to teach us.

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Framed

Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics

UBC Press

Framed shows how racialized news coverage influences the opportunities and experiences of political candidates and incumbents in Canada and, in turn, the outcomes of elections and democracy.

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The Magic Key

The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond

Edited by Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado; Introduction by Patricia Gándara
University of Texas Press

This much-needed volume provides a comprehensive empirical study of the school experiences of Mexican Americans and those who help them succeed.

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Queer Brown Voices

Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

University of Texas Press

Essays chronicling the experiences of fourteen Latina/o LGBT activists present a new perspective on the hitherto-marginalized history of their work in the last three decades of the twentieth century.

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The Southern Manifesto

Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation

University Press of Mississippi

How one document marked the nadir of American racial politics and unleashed a fire that raged across the segregated South

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Blaming the Poor

The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty

Rutgers University Press

A leading authority on poverty and racism, Susan D. Greenbaum dismantles the main thesis of the Moynihan Report—that the so called matriarchal structure of the African American family “feminized black men,” resulting in a “tangle of pathology” that led to a host of ills, from teen pregnancy to adult crime. Drawing on extensive scholarship, Greenbaum debunks this infamous thesis while outlining more productive and humane policies to address the problems facing America today. 

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