Seventy-Five Things Black People Won’T Stop Doing ...

Seventy-Five Things Black People Won’T Stop Doing ...
Author: Randy Simons
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781475955453

Increase our joy; Push aside our anger. Learn perfect love for one and each other; Eliminate the sorrows that the desire to Coexist may grow strong, oh so strongthat Hate will have no place among we. Even that we may find untold pleasures In coexistence with one and the other! Your Brother or sister.

The History of White People

The History of White People
Author: Nell Irvin Painter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2011-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 039307949X

A New York Times Bestseller This terrific new book…[explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive." —Boston Globe Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events.

We Should Get Together

We Should Get Together
Author: Kat Vellos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-01-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781734379709

We Should Get Together is the handbook for anyone who's ready for better friendships, now. Have you recently moved to a new city and are struggling to make friends? Do you find yourself constantly making plans with friends that fall through? Are you more likely to see your friends' social media posts than their faces? You aren't alone. Millions of adults struggle with an uncomfortable and persistent ache: platonic longing, which is the unfulfilled wish for authentic, resilient, close friendships. But it doesn't have to be this way. Making and maintaining friendships during adulthood can be hard--or, with a bit of intention and creativity, joyful. Author Kat Vellos, experience designer and founder of Better Than Small Talk, tackles the four most common challenges of adult friendship: constant relocation, full schedules, the demands of partnership and family, and our culture's declining capacity for compassion and intimacy in the age of social media. Combining expert research and personal stories pulled from conversations with hundreds of adults, We Should Get Together is the modern handbook for making and maintaining stronger friendships. With this book you will learn to: Make and maintain friendships when you (or your friends) keep moving Have deeper and more meaningful conversations Triumph over awkwardness in social situations Become less dependent on your phone Identify and prioritize quality connections Find time for friendship despite your busy calendar Create closer, more durable friendships Full of relatable stories, practical tips, 60 charming illustrations, 55 suggested activities, a book club discussion guide, and 300+ conversation starters, We Should Get Together is the perfect book for anyone who wants to have dedicated, life-enriching friends, and who wants to be that kind of friend, too.

Rank and File

Rank and File
Author: Alice Lynd
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400854571

"The strength of this book . . . encompasses a broad view of history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black, immigrant, and grassroots working-class history as well."--Choice Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Making it on Broken Promises

Making it on Broken Promises
Author: Lee Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000977307

"This book provides an occasion to examine the complex conjuncture between the White supremacist realities of the American Academy and the often threatening presence of brilliant Black men in the Academy. This challenging book should also serve as an inspiration for a new generation of Black men deeply devoted to the life of the mind in or outside the Academy." —From the foreward by Cornel West.Sixteen of America's leading scholars offer an uncompromising critique of the academy from their perspective as African American men. They challenge dominant majority assumptions about the culture of higher education, most particularly its claims of openness to diversity and divergent traditions.They take issue with the processes that determine what is legitimized as scholarship, as well as with who wields the power to authenticate it. They describe the debilitating pressures to subordinate Black identity to a supposedly universal but hegemonic Eurocentric culture. They question the academy's valuing of individuality and its privileging of dichotomy over their cultural styles of community, humanism and synthesis. They also range over such issues as culturally mediated styles of cognition, the misuse of standardized testing, the disproportionate burden of service placed on African American faculty and a reward system that discounts it.

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Author: Paula S. Rothenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780716761488

This [book] undertakes the study of issues of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class. -Pref.

An American Friendship

An American Friendship
Author: David Weinfeld
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501763113

In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today.

Tell Me who You are

Tell Me who You are
Author: Winona Guo
Publisher: Tarcher
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2019
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0525541128

"An eye-opening exploration of race in America--and the ties that actually bind us"--