E-books Available through the EWU Library
The Everyday Language of White Racism by
In "The Everyday Language of White Racism," Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 1282007831Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Unhooking from Whiteness : a The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States by
The purpose of Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States is to reconsider the ways and strategies in which antiracist scholars do their work, as well as to provide pragmatic ways in which people--White and of color--can build cross-racial, cross-communal, and cross-institutional coalitions to fight White supremacy.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9462093768Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Racing to Justice - Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by
Renowned social justice advocate John A. Powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780253006295Publication Date: 2012-09-06
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy : Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present by
Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contemporary police shooting death of an unarmed Black youth, beneath the Surface of White Supremacy investigates ingrained practices of racism, as well as unquestioned assumptions in the study of racism, to upend and deepen our understanding.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 0804795223Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Black Rage in the American Prison System by
Approaching taboo topics -- Race and prison violence -- Understanding Black rage -- Building the theoretical model -- Data summary and statistical design -- Cross-sectional models and prison violence -- Institutional changes and prison violence -- Prison violence, Black rage, and implications.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 1593322178Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Seeing Race in Modern America by
In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 1469610698Publication Date: 2013-11-04
Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage by
Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780814777121Publication Date: 2014-01-20
The Economics of Race in the United States by
Brendan O'Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis--incentives, equilibrium, optimization--to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 0674286650Publication Date: 2015-06-08
Understanding inequality : the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender by
This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the basic hermeneutics for considering new thought on ethnicity, class, and gender in the 21st century.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 0742546780Publication Date: 2007-04-18
Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma by
Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in justice system officials, especially the police. A damning indictment of decades of misguided criminal justice policy, Punishing Race takes a crucial look at persisting racial injustice in America.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780199926466Publication Date: 2012-07-01
Recommended Books for CSTEM
- Books for CSTEMResources on race and racism with brief introductions, compiled by Dr. Edwin Elias.
Streaming Videos for Black Lives Matter and Systemic Racism
- Videos for Black Lives Matter and Systemic RacismA selection of videos on race and racism available through the EWU Library.