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Invested Indifference

How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society

UBC Press

Invested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter – or not – depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.

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He Thinks He's Down

White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era

UBC Press

Offering fresh insights and raising important questions, this historical exploration of appropriation traces the ways in which gender and race were negotiated through the popular culture of the Civil Rights Era.

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King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land

The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae

UBC Press

This insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.

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Unmastering the Script

Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness

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White Guys on Campus

Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education

Rutgers University Press

White Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.

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Just Trying to Have School

The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the history of desegregation in Mississippi schools

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Full Court Press

Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball

University Press of Mississippi

How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media

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Forever Suspect

Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror

Rutgers University Press

Saher Selod shows how a specific American religious identity has acquired racial meanings, resulting in the hyper surveillance of Muslim citizens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans, she investigates how Muslim Americans are subjected to racialized surveillance in both an institutional and social context.  

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Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights

UBC Press

A unique contribution to the literature on minority rights, Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights examines the role of cultural difference in minority rights claims, building a case for inclusive political deliberation in liberal democracies.

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Lines Were Drawn

Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School

University Press of Mississippi

Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi

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