Chicana/o/x (Latina/o/x) Studies

The Everyday Language of White Racism by Jane Hill 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.

Unhooking from Whiteness : a The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States by Cleveland Hayes (Volume Editor); Nicholas D. Hartlep (Volume Editor) 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.

Racing to Justice - Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by john a. powell 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.

Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy : Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present by Moon-Kie Jung 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.

Black Rage in the American Prison System by Rosevelt Noble 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.

Seeing Race in Modern America by Matthew Pratt Guterl In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways.

Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr 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.

The Economics of Race in the United States by Brendan O'Flaherty 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.

Understanding inequality : the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender by Karen Blumenthal (Contribution by); Judith Butler (Contribution by); Judith Lorber (Contribution 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.

Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma by Michael Tonry 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.