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Colby, Tanner. Irving, Debby Jensen, Robert Murray, Charles A. Roithmayr, Daria. Wise, Tim J.Jensen, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JENRoithmayr, Daria.
Summary: "This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 ROIIrving, Debby
Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRVMurray, Charles A.
Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURColby, Tanner.
Summary: Chronicles the United States' troubling relationship with race as reflected by four historical events, including the integration of a racist Birmingham school system and a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 COLWise, Tim J.
Summary: "With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is part memoir, part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2011