Focuses on South Africa's 'Rand Revolt' of 1922, when Johannesburg and its surrounding towns were wracked by industrial strife, racial violence and insurrection. Written with panache and a determination to explore deeper meanings, this book has wide implications for our understanding of race and class in South Africa and elsewhere.
Challenges the official discourse that shapes the debates on Equal Opportunities and Diversity (EO&D) at national, regional and European level. This book is suitable for students and researchers of EO&D in criminology, social policy, sociology, women's studies, gender studies, public administration, business studies and economics.
Highly anticipated, this 3rd Edition of a trusted book provides health and social care readers with a lucid guide to the theory and practice of challenging discrimination. With all-new features to further embed links to practice, it emphasises the ever-increasing importance of promoting equality within the people professions.
Drawing on social psychology, this book details three ways in which unconscious assumptions can lead to discrimination, showing how they play out in a range of everyday settings. It suggests ways in which institutions and individuals might recognize, interrupt, and override the discriminatory default.
Focusing on mixed-race and inter-ethnic families, this book not only explores understandings of 'race', but also it shows, using research techniques with children, how we come to read race. It combines children's accounts on 'race' and identity with contemporary cultural theory.
The third edition of this valuable text provides coverage of the issues of race, gender and disability in the childcare setting. Written by an experienced lecturer and practitioner it delivers everything students need on the concept of equality of opportunity.
The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, marital status, pregnancy or potential pregnancy in a range of areas of public life. These areas include work, accommodation, education, the provision of goods, facilities and services, the activities of clubs and the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs.
Social exclusion attempts to make sense out of multiple deprivations and inequities experienced by people and areas, and the reinforcing effects of reduced participation, consumption, mobility, access, integration, influence and recognition. This book reflects on the thinking, literature and research into social exclusion and social connectedness.
When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow - two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. In this title, the author shows us that segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies worldwide.
Useful for general-interest readers as well as for a variety of undergraduate courses on race, racism, ethnicity, cultural diversity, minority groups, identity and belonging, as well as social inequality and social justice. This book attempts to influence the way people think of race and racialisation.
The 18 essays in this work deal with the meaning of two highly contested ideas: race and racism. Bernard Boxill has collected a wide range of analytical writing, with the aim of stimulating a critical understanding of the true meaning and implications of an understanding of race and racism.
Examines the politics of sickle cell and thalassaemia. This book places patients and their families at the centre of the study. It allows their views to be heard, and relates them to the delivery and organization of services. It identifies models of good practice and also highlights general policy and practice issues.
Offers a view into the world of organisation and management from a cultural perspective. This title investigates how initiatives and policies with the aim of generating employment equity have been developed, implemented and have worked out in various sectors of the South African economy.
An analysis of the history of science, US popular culture, sensationalized court cases, forensic technology and literary texts. It seeks to reveal how, in the USA, issues of blood and skin have been manipulated to bear the evidence of racial identity during the 20th century.
Of all mankinds' vices, racism is one of the most pervasive and stubborn. Success in overcoming racism has been achieved from time to time, but victories have been limited because mankind has focused on personal economic gain or power grabs ignoring generosity of the soul. This bibliography brings together the literature.
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? With the blend of learning, economy, and insight, this book surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages.
Offers readings by various authors that represent the ways races and racism are explained, including both objectivist and constructivist approaches. This collection also takes into account what racism means in the differing cultural contexts of America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
This reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary forms of racist ideas and institutions. It collects material from various theoretical perspectives in an attempt to make sense of how racism has exerted such a powerful influence on the history of humanity.
Since 9/11, racism appears to be on the rise, making it more important than ever before to understand the meaning of race and the effect it has on society. This title maps the emergence and development of ideas about race through political history right up to modern debates about multiculturalism and Islamophobia.
Racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. This book demystifies the subject and explores its history, science, and culture. Shedding light on how racism has evolved since its earliest beginnings, it examines the notion of race from a modern genetic viewpoint.
Despite economic and social changes in Britain, men and women remain segregated at work - a segregation strongly related to inequalities in pay, career prospects, and employment protection. This book analyzes the nature and significance of segregation within the context of labour market change.
Presents a self-help series that offers information and advice on key issues that matter to teenagers and how to deal with it. With case studies of people who have experienced and come through the issue that is being covered, each guide in this series includes an examination of the impact the issue might have on education, home, and work life.
Irish society has changed with the emergence of immigrant communities of black and ethnic minorities. This text argues that Ireland was never immune from racist ideologies, and focuses on the relationship between ideological forms of racism and its consequences upon black and ethnic minorities.
Since German unification, there have been many reports about xenophobia in Germany and the government has attempted to stem the wave of racism. This collection of essays, by writers from minority groups in Germany, sheds light on the diverse experiences of minority groups living in Germany.
At a time when sexual equality is taken for granted, it comes as a shock to mothers returning to the workplace to find that 'equality' means different things to different employers. Yet, demographics dictate that in most developing nations, the mature worker's skills are more essential than ever in keeping the economy afloat.
The contributors show that racism has not fallen from the forefront of American society, but is manifest in a different way. According to the authors in this volume, in 21st century, skin color has come to replace race as an important cause of discrimination
How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This book sets out a fresh interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a fresh framework to a range of contemporary inequalities.
Uses case studies to explore contemporary 'social problems' that exist in British society, including racism and institutional racism; ethnic and religious community segregation; Social and institutional asylophobia; islamophobia and the incitement of religious hatred; and homophobia, institutional homophobia and community safety.
Focusing on the wisdom of the majority population, this book features essays that cover a range of themes, from individualised identification and the struggle to achieve a 'sustainable self-image' to national belonging and 'race thinking'. It argues that social actors construct racial and national boundaries by drawing on everyday experiences.
This book analyses official documents and the origins of racist violence. It uses conclusions, alongside a case study of racial attacks and police response in East London, to analyse why the ideas and language of white supremacy and racial exclusion direct violence at 'non-white' individuals and why the police response is routinely ineffectual.
Identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analyzing these problems, the author contributes to a deeper understanding of the forces underlying xenophobia and racism and to generating more effective anti-racial and integrative policy making.
This book gives a detailed analysis of official documents, and of the historical origins of racist violence. It uses the conclusions to analyse why the ideas and language of white supremacy and racial exclusion direct violence at 'non-white' individuals, and why the police response is so routinely ineffectual.
Uses case studies to explore contemporary 'social problems' that exist in British society, including racism and institutional racism; ethnic and religious community segregation; Social and institutional asylophobia; islamophobia and the incitement of religious hatred; and homophobia, institutional homophobia and community safety.
Documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. This book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms.
A paper that presents the results of an experiment in which a number of high school students with Danish and Muslim names were recruited to put letters in envelopes, paid on a piecework basis. They were to work in pairs, and could choose to work with a person of the same or a different ethnic origin as their own.
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural, but not racial, prejudice. It considers themes in the history of discrimination. It provides analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in Greco-Roman world.
Develops a much-needed general theory of discrimination. This title argues that distinguishing among people on the basis of traits is wrong when it demeans any of the people affected. It explores what it means to treat people as equals and thus takes up a central problem of democracy.
Using excerpts from rarely seen publications such as "White Patriot" and "White Power", this text explores the world of white supremacists and the way they imagine racial and gender identity. Discussing groups like the Ku Klux Klan, this text provides a history of race as a concept.
Gives an account of the history of Black, Hispanic, Native and Asian Americans since the American Civil War onwards and illustrates the changing nature of the political, social and economic struggles throughout this period. This book examines the roles of government and other organisations in influencing the changes, progress and regressions.
Presents an analysis of the complexities of discrimination and oppression and the challenges of making equality practice a reality. Critical of the orthodoxies and over-simplications of "political correctness", it combines analysis and understanding of theory with practice examples and insights.
How are 'race' and racism implicated in education policy and practice? What does effective antiracism look like in practice? How can teachers and school students be encouraged to think critically about their racialized assumptions and actions? This book debates on 'race' and racism in education.
A study of social inequality, this text asks how long-lasting inequalities in life chances arise, and how they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons. It highlights the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories.
Asks what it takes to create inclusive, cohesive societies. Weaving together themes from the theoretical literatures on social justice, poverty, discrimination and social exclusion, this title formulates a vision for social justice as inclusive equality, an approach which reveals practical implications for the design and delivery of social policy.
Does Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? This title examines the paradox of race in Barack Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. It assesses the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.