Anatomy of Four Race Riots
Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919-1921
A study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America after World War I
Have We Overcome?
Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979
A variety of perspectives on America’s race relations from 1954 through 1979
Voices Raised in Protest
Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49
Reshaping the University
Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift
New Histories for Old
Changing Perspectives on Canada’s Native Pasts
The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields, to shed new light on the history of scholarship on Canada’s Aboriginal past.
Running Scared
Silver in Mississippi
The history of a university professor’s daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964
The Triumph of Citizenship
The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
Multiculturalism and the Foundations of Meaningful Life
Reconciling Automony, Identity, and Community
Theories of liberal multiculturalism seek to reconcile cultural rights with universal liberal principles. Some focus on individual autonomy; others emphasize communal identity. Andrew Robinson argues that liberal multiculturalism can be justified without privileging either ...
Race and the City
Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
Presents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.
Más Que un Indio (More than an Indian)
Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala
This deeply researched and sensitively rendered study raises troubling questions about the contradictions of anti-racist politics and the limits of multiculturalism in Guatemala and, by implication, other countries in the midst of similar reform projects.
Discourses of Denial
Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
With examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society.
“Real” Indians and Others
Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood
A pioneering look at how mixed-blood urban Native people understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that often fails to recognize them.
Booker T. Washington and Black Progress
Up From Slavery 100 Years Later
The Oriental Question
Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.
Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations
Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
Felix Longoria's Wake
Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes
A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000
A readable history that puts the current debates in historical context
The Identity Question
Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America
Prejudice Across America
The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding
The Burden of History
Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.
A White Man's Province
British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914
A revealing historical account of the complex racism in early British Columbia and the lives and contributions made to the province by its Chinese and Japanese residents.