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Rasse, Migration & DemografieReihe

Diese Reihe befasst sich eingehend mit den komplexen und oft umstrittenen Themen Rasse, Migration und demografischer Wandel. Sie bietet tiefe Einblicke in die historischen und gegenwärtigen Kräfte, die diese globalen Phänomene antreiben. Leser erhalten ein differenziertes Verständnis dafür, wie diese Faktoren Gesellschaften und Identitäten weltweit prägen. Dies ist eine essentielle Lektüre für jeden, der sich für soziale Dynamiken und ihre weitreichenden Folgen interessiert.

Resolutely Black
Why Demography Matters
Why Race Still Matters
Population and Society
Immigration Law and Society
One-Dimensional Queer

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  • One-Dimensional Queer

    • 200 Seiten
    • 7 Lesestunden
    4,4(19)Abgeben

    The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.

    One-Dimensional Queer

  • Immigration Law and Society

    The Immigration Act of 1965 was one of the most consequential laws ever passed in the United States and immigration policy continues to be one of the most contentious areas of American politics.

    Immigration Law and Society

  • Population and Society

    • 256 Seiten
    • 9 Lesestunden

    Brings a vibrant sociological imagination to the study of population and demography Reveals the fascinating social insights that can be revealed by studying population trends such as population size, composition, distribution, etc.

    Population and Society

  • Why Demography Matters

    • 224 Seiten
    • 8 Lesestunden

    Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives. ' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before.

    Why Demography Matters

  • Resolutely Black

    • 150 Seiten
    • 6 Lesestunden

    Aimae Caesaire's work is foundational for colonial and postcolonial thought. In this unique volume, his responses to Frandcoise Vergaes' questions range over the origins of his political activism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, the question of reparation for slavery and the problems of marrying literature to politics--

    Resolutely Black

  • Black in America

    • 224 Seiten
    • 8 Lesestunden
    4,5(2)Abgeben

    To be Black in America is to exist amongst myriad contradictions: racial progress and regression, abject poverty amidst profound wealth, discriminatory policing yet equal protection under the law. This book explores these contradictions to provide a sociology of Black lives in America today--

    Black in America

  • Latinos in the United States: Diversity and Change

    5,0(1)Abgeben

    As the major driver of U.S. demographic change, Latinos are reshaping key aspects of the social, economic, political, and cultural landscape of the country. In the process, Latinos are challenging the longstanding black/white paradigm that has been used as a lens to understand racial and ethnic matters in the United States.

    Latinos in the United States: Diversity and Change

  • White Privilege

    • 140 Seiten
    • 5 Lesestunden
    3,6(24)Abgeben

    Some embrace the idea of white privilege as an important concept that helps us to make sense of the connection between race and social and political disadvantages, while others are critical or even hostile. Philosopher Shannon Sullivan cuts through the confusion and cross-talk to challenge what 'everybody knows' about white privilege--

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  • Colorblind Racism

    • 200 Seiten
    • 7 Lesestunden
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    How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence.Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and real-life examples, Meghan Burke reveals colorblind racism to be an insidious presence in many areas of institutional and everyday life in the United States. She explains what is meant by colorblind racism, uncovers its role in the history of racial discrimination, and explores its effects on how we talk about and treat race today. The book also engages with recent critiques of colorblind racism to show the limitations of this framework and how a deeper, more careful study of colorblindness is needed to understand the persistence of racism and how it may be challenged.This accessible book will be an invaluable overview of a key phenomenon for students across the social sciences, and its far-reaching insights will appeal to all interested in the social life of race and racism.

    Colorblind Racism

  • Migration and Inequality

    • 216 Seiten
    • 8 Lesestunden

    In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Mirna Safi shows migration to be a mechanism of inequality and shows how studying international migration can challenge current limited, nationally established paradigms of social justice--

    Migration and Inequality

  • Identity Politics in the United States

    • 288 Seiten
    • 11 Lesestunden
    4,5(2)Abgeben

    In 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had been made in a country that, nine years prior, had elected its first Black president. Beyond these racial flashpoints, the increasingly polarized nature of US politics has reignited debates around the meaning of identity, citizenship, and acceptance in America today. In this pioneering book, Khalilah L. Brown-Dean moves beyond the headlines to examine how contemporary controversies emanate from longstanding struggles over power, access, and belonging. Using intersectionality as an organizing framework, she draws on current tensions such as voter suppression, the Me Too movement, the Standing Rock protests, marriage equality, military service, the rise of the Religious Right, protests by professional athletes, and battles over immigration to show how conflicts over group identity are an inescapable feature of American political development. Brown-Dean explores issues of citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and religion to argue that democracy in the United States is built upon the battle of ideas related to how we see ourselves, how we see others, and the mechanisms available to reinforce those distinctions. Identity Politics in the United States will be an essential resource for students and engaged citizens who want to understand the link between historical context, contemporary political challenges, and paths to move toward a stronger democracy

    Identity Politics in the United States

  • Bordering

    • 240 Seiten
    • 9 Lesestunden
    4,0(4)Abgeben

    This book is a richly document account, based on original research, of how bordering has become dispersed into the interstices of everyday life. Controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries: it now comprises a multitude of practices and processes in local contexts of everyday life--

    Bordering

  • Die Eingewanderten

    4,7(3)Abgeben

    Vor über 50 Jahren kamen die ersten Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland, später folgten ihnen Aussiedler und politisch Verfolgte. Aber erst jetzt entwickelt sich ein Bewusstsein dafür, wie grundlegend unsere Gesellschaft dadurch verändert wurde. Und noch immer fehlt eine Vorstellung davon, wie wir mit kulturellen Unterschieden umgehen sollen und wie Integration gelingen kann. Paul Scheffer, international führender Experte für Fragen der Migration, hat nun das Standardwerk zu diesem Thema geschrieben. Er erklärt Geschichte, Politik und Ursachen der Migration und liefert damit die Grundlage, unsere heutigen Konflikte zu verstehen.

    Die Eingewanderten

  • Human Trafficking

    • 224 Seiten
    • 8 Lesestunden
    4,4(3)Abgeben

    The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. International and national policies and protocols have been developed and billions of dollars spent to combat the issue and protect trafficking victims. Yet it continues to flourish and human beings, in both the Global North and the Global South, continue to be degraded to the level of commodities and smuggled across borders for profit. Drawing upon feminist and human rights approaches to trafficking, this book links the worlds of policy, protocols, and social structures to the lived experience and conditions of trafficked people. Recognizing that trafficking for sex, labor, and body parts often overlaps in a broader context shaped by poverty, violence, and shrinking access to rights, the authors offer a more thoroughgoing account of this social problem. Only with such an integrated approach can we understand the exploitative conditions that make people vulnerable to trafficking, and the progress – as well as gaps – in initiatives seeking to address it.

    Human Trafficking

  • Whiteness in America

    • 200 Seiten
    • 7 Lesestunden
    3,5(2)Abgeben

    When Americans think about race, “white” is often the furthest thing from their minds. Yet whiteness colors so much of social life in the United States, from the organization and maintenance of social structures to an individual’s sense of self. White has long been the invisible default category against which other racial and ethnic groups are silently compared and marked out as “different.” At the same time, whiteness is itself an active marker that many bitterly fight to keep distinctive, and the shifting boundaries of whiteness reflect the nation’s history of race relations, right back to the earliest period of European colonization. One thing that has remained consistent is that whiteness is a definitive mark of privilege. Yet, this privilege is differentially experienced across a broad and eclectic spectrum, as is white identity itself. In order to uncover the ways in which its rigid structures and complicated understandings permeate American life, this book examines some of the many varieties of what it means to be white – across geography, class, and social context – and the culture, social movements, and changing demographics of whiteness in America.

    Whiteness in America

  • Immigrant Nations

    3,9(7)Abgeben

    This book is a path-breaking reflection of the challenges posed to Western societies by the large-scale migration of the postwar period.

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  • Race After Technology

    • 172 Seiten
    • 7 Lesestunden
    4,3(149)Abgeben

    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. If you adopt this book for classroom use in the 2019-2020 academic year, the author would be pleased to arrange to Skype to a session of your class. If interested, enter your details in this sign-up sheet: https://buff.ly/2wJsvZr

    Race After Technology