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How Race Survived US History: From the American Revolution to the Present
David R. Roediger
Verso, 2008
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor. How Race Survived US History explores how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century ? the era in which Du Bois located the emergence of "whiteness" ? through the American revolution and ...
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How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)
Thomas Cahill
Anchor, 1996
Nay-sayers knowe not what of which they speake
I listened to this audiobook on a four day road trip, and I had a wonderful experience with the substance of author Cahill's tales which in my mind substantiate the title's claims... that the Irish did indeed save civilization. Such as civilization is. You probably ...
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of ...
Thomas Cahill
Anchor Books/Nan A Talese, 1999
How God changed the world
Look around his occasional skepticism and viewpoint of higher criticism. This is a classic account of how God changed the world, and how the Jews and their God helped create a civilization to save.
Cahill has a light and at the same time profound touch that hits at ...
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The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Richard Thompson Ford
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Thought provoking
Although I don't agree with everything the author writes, he leaves one with a lot to think about. The book covers various forms of using race such as "racism without racists" (Hurricane Katrina's aftermath) or "racism by analogy" (overweight people or smokers compare ...
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Paul Kivel
New Society Publishers, 2002
A New Edition--Great!
When I began reading the previous edition a few years ago, I realized that I wanted to discuss it with other white people as I worked through the exercises. As a result five women in leadership roles in their church congregations discussed this book over lunches over ...
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The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change
Brenda Salter Mcneil, Rick Richardson
InterVarsity Press, 2004
Finding who you are, and making that change.
The Heart of Racial Justice is most definately a must have, this is a book that keeps you searching to find out whats next. This book gives direction for life changes within a mixed community. The book is a powerful tool for healing. The book is easy reading and ...
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Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide
Barbara Trepagnier
Paradigm Publishers, 2007
silent rcism: how well meaning white people perpetuate the racial devide
Written by a person who seem to have spent some time studying the subject. She identifies the major issues blocking most people from understanding their internalized feeling about people of color. Although she writes mostly about the relationships between Whites and ...
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How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)
Noel Ignatiev
Routledge, 2008
good condition and timely delivery
I received the book in great condition and it came in the mail in a timely fashion.
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The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
Jim Goad
Simon & Schuster, 1998
Angry and controversial, a fascinating must-read!!
I gave this book to my dad as a present, and he threw it away. He is a voracious reader, and I thought he'd like the alternate historical perspective on how the powers that be (PTB) have systematically made the poor white working underclass, villains. He is rather ...
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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America
Karen Brodkin
Rutgers University Press, 1999
Entertaining and Seductive ... but...
Resubmitted on 2/5/3 Dr. Brodkins' book is a fair synthesis of post -War racial scholarship and theorizing. Her personal approach is entertaining and seductive but far from being a compelling story -even though there are many aspects of the book for one to like. As ...
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Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis
Daniel B. Silver
Mariner Books, 2004
Check the facts first
Fair play suggests reading a book before purporting to review it, especially when that review is accompanied by an unfavorable rating. If Rivka Elkin had read Refuge in Hell before writing her review, she would have seen that the author does not claim to have done the ...
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The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People
John Loftus, Mark Aarons
St. Martin's Griffin, 1997
Can the past be prologue?
Having been involved in intelligence work early in my life and having kept watching intel shenanigans, a book about the secret war against the Jews got my attention and I had an opportunity to read and research much of its contents. I found answers to questions I had ...
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America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide ...
Ronald Fernandez
University of Michigan Press, 2007
Beyond Black and White by Ronald Fernandez
This is an interesting, compact, eminently readable book, loaded with (unfortunately) ugly information about immigration laws, social attitudes about race, and our even uglier obsession with black and white. Although the book is full of depressing facts and figures, ...
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Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
Todd Tucker
Loyola Press, 2004
Easy read, great story
Todd Tucker exploits one of the least known storys of the University of Notre Dame in a great way. He doesn't keep it boring, which i have found most other history books to be. It is a very easy read, but not in a bad way at all. I really enjoyed how he also brought ...
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The Face of Discrimination: How Race and Gender Impact Work and Home Lives
Vincent J. Roscigno
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007
The Face of Discrimination documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a rich body archived discrimination suits themselves. It moves beyond traditional social science research on the topic and grounds the reader in the reality of discrimination as it is played out in the ...
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