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  • 12 Angry Men

    True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today

    Edited by Gregory S. Parks, Matthew W. Hughey ...
    “Beautifully written, painfully honest” first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by twelve black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance of implications of race throughout American life, 12 Angry Men is an urgent, moving, and timely book that ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Bound

    Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race

    by Matthew Hughey ...
    Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Wrongs of the Right

    Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

    by Matthew W. Hughey, Gregory S. Parks ...
    Examines the coded language of the Republican PartyIn The Wrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at President Obama, his administration, and African Americans. They show how the political Right deploys racial fears, coded language and implicit bias to express and build ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Wrongs of the Right

    Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

    by Matthew W. Hughey, Gregory S. Parks ...
    On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: “OBAMA.  Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout.” But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a “Lyin African” and conservative cartoons that showed the new ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0

    New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

    Edited by Matthew W. Hughey, Gregory S. Parks ...
    At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “talented tenth.” This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class, motivated individuals who acquired the professional credentials, skills, and capital to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0

    New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

    Edited by Matthew W. Hughey, Gregory S. Parks ...
    At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the "talented tenth." This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class, motivated individuals who acquired the professional credentials, skills, and capital to ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders

    Blood and Shadow

    Edited by Matthew W. Hughey ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Secret and private organizations, in the form of Greek-letter organizations, mutual aid societies, and civic orders, together possess a storied and often-romanticized place in popular culture. While much has been made of these groups’ glamorous origins and influence—such as the Freemasons’ genesis in King Solomon’s temple or the belief in the Illuminati’s control of modern geo-politics—few have ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • South Asians on the U.S. Screen

    Just Like Everyone Else?

    by Bhoomi K. Thakore ...
    How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about this group? How do advancements in visual media, from creative storytelling to streaming technology, inform changing dynamics of all non-white media representations in the 21st century? Analyzing audience perceptions of South Asian characters from The ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • A Pledge with Purpose

    Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

    by Gregory S. Parks, Matthew W. Hughey ...
    Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter OrganizationsIn 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized by the majority-white student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started the first, intercollegiate Black ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Racialized Media

    The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity

    by Emma González-Lesser, Matthew W. Hughey ...
    Series Book 6 - Goldstein-Goren American Jewish History
    How media propagates and challenges racismFrom Black Panther to #OscarsSoWhite, the concept of "race," and how it is represented in media, has continued to attract attention in the public eye. In Racialized Media, Matthew W. Hughey, Emma González-Lesser, and the contributors to this important new collection of original essays provide a blueprint to this new, ever-changing media landscape.With ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Painted Girls

    A Novel

    by Cathy Marie Buchanan ...
    #1 National Bestseller and New York Times BestsellerParis, 1878. Following her father’s sudden death, Marie van Goethem is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant wage she is trained to enter the famous Ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work—and the love of a dangerous young man—as an extra on the stage. Marie is soon modeling in the studio of renowned artist Edgar Degas, who ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD