After the Last Race

After the Last Race
Author: Dean Ray Koontz
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1974
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Edgar and Annie plan a clever, hideously dangerous million-dollar robbery. Target--a thoroughbred race track on Sweepstakes Day.

Race After Technology

Race After Technology
Author: Ruha Benjamin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509526439

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Visit the book's free Discussion Guide here.

After Race

After Race
Author: Antonia Darder
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 081478268X

Further investigations of what race and racism mean in America.

Race After Hitler

Race After Hitler
Author: Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691133794

Heide Fehrenbach traces the complex history of German attitudes to race following 1945 by focusing on the experiences of and the debates surrounding the several thousand postwar children born to African American GIs and their German partners.

The Last Grain Race

The Last Grain Race
Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Seafaring life
ISBN: 9780007597833

First published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1956.

The Final Race

The Final Race
Author: Eric T. Eichinger
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496419944

On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world. He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter race. As the storm clouds of World War II rolled in, Liddell lived purposefully even as his world crumbled, and he experienced the horror and deprivations of a Japanese internment camp.

The Dirtiest Race in History

The Dirtiest Race in History
Author: Richard Moore
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1408181568

The men's 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever - but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson's blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes' positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on.

Why Race Still Matters

Why Race Still Matters
Author: Alana Lentin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2020-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509535721

'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race? This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin argues that society is in urgent need of developing the skills of racial literacy, by jettisoning the idea that race is something and unveiling what race does as a key technology of modern rule, hidden in plain sight. Weaving together international examples, she eviscerates misconceptions such as reverse racism and the newfound acceptability of 'race realism', bursts the 'I’m not racist, but' justification, complicates the common criticisms of identity politics and warns against using concerns about antisemitism as a proxy for antiracism. Dominant voices in society suggest we are talking too much about race. Lentin shows why we actually need to talk about it more and how in doing so we can act to make it matter less.

The Race for What's Left

The Race for What's Left
Author: Michael T. Klare
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1429973307

From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet's easily accessible resource deposits rapidly approaching exhaustion, the desperate hunt for supplies has become a frenzy of extreme exploration, as governments and corporations rush to stake their claim in areas previously considered too dangerous and remote. The Race for What's Left takes us from the Arctic to war zones to deep ocean floors, from a Russian submarine planting the country's flag on the North Pole seabed to the large-scale buying up of African farmland by Saudi Arabia, China, and other food-importing nations. As Klare explains, this invasion of the final frontiers carries grave consequences. With resource extraction growing more complex, the environmental risks are becoming increasingly severe; the Deepwater Horizon disaster is only a preview of the dangers to come. At the same time, the intense search for dwindling supplies is igniting new border disputes, raising the likelihood of military confrontation. Inevitably, if the scouring of the globe continues on its present path, many key resources that modern industry relies upon will disappear completely. The only way out, Klare argues, is to alter our consumption patterns altogether—a crucial task that will be the greatest challenge of the coming century.

Raccoon's Last Race

Raccoon's Last Race
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Dial
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Tells the story of how Raccoon, the fastest animal on earth, loses his speed because he is boastful and breaks his promises.