{"id":1513,"date":"2009-07-27T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:47:57","slug":"in-the-news-racism-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-racism-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Racism in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

See “In the News” posts from 2007 to present at:
\n<\/em>http:\/\/www.library.fau.edu\/depts\/cd\/newsprev.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Week of July 27, 2009<\/strong>
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News Item: <\/strong>The recent arrest of African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and comments from President Barack Obama regarding the incident have prompted discussions about the current state of race in America. Have racial tensions eased since the U.S. elected its first Black president? Does racism exist in 2009? Here are some titles that discuss racial inequality, institutional racism, reverse discrimination, and more.<\/p>\n

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African Americans and the Culture of Pain<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Debra Walker King. University of Virginia Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.625 .K56 2008<\/p>\n

America Beyond the Color Line <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\n<\/em><\/strong>Directed by Daniel Percival and Mary Crisp. PBS Home Video, 2005
\nCall Number: E185.86 .A414 2005 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gwen Ifill. Doubleday, 2009
\nCall Number: E185.615 .I34 2009<\/p>\n

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The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Ronald R. Sundstrom. SUNY Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A1 S963 2008<\/p>\n

The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-Up call<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Carl T. Rowan. Little, Brown, 1996
\nCall Number: E185.615 .R68 1996 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Glenn Adams et al. American Psychological Association, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.61 .C723 2008<\/p>\n

Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana. Rutgers University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

The Everyday Language of White Racism<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Jane H. Hill. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
\nCall Number: P120 .R32 H55 2008<\/p>\n

Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Cornel West. Smiley Books, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.86 .W438 2008 (CD with same call number also available in Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Moustafa Bayoumi. Penguin Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A65 B35 2008<\/p>\n

How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By David R. Roediger. Verso, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A1 R642 2008<\/p>\n

Institutional Racism: A Primer on Theory and Strategies for Social Change<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Shirley Better. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.615 .B48 2008<\/p>\n

Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. University of Chicago Press, 2008
\nCall Number: JK1764 .G743 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin. Paradigm Publishers, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A75 C515 2008<\/p>\n

Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Baz Dreisinger. University of Massachusetts Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A1 D73 2008<\/p>\n

The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Paul Craig Roberts & Lawrence M. Stratton. Regnery Pub., 1995
\nCall Number: JC599 .U5 R56 1995<\/p>\n

New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Jane Junn and Kerry L. Haynie. Cambridge University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: JK1965 .N48 2008<\/p>\n

The New Racism: Reverse Discrimination in America<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Lionel Lokos. Arlington House, 1971
\nCall Number: E185.61 .L666<\/p>\n

Offender Profiling: An Introduction to the Sociopsychological Analysis of Violent Crime<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By George B. Palermo and Richard N. Kocsis. Charles C. Thomas, 2005
\nCall Number: HV6080 .P32 2005<\/p>\n

Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Produced by Sut Jhally. Media Education Foundation, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A1 P338 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9\/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber. Syracuse University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A65 R33 2008<\/p>\n

Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Edward J. Escobar. University of California Press, 1999
\nCall Number: HV8148 .L55 E73 1999 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Race Rule: Navigating the Color Line<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Michael Eric Dyson. Addison-Wesley, 1996
\nCall Number: E185.615.D95 1996 (Also available via Black Thought & Culture<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Racial Discrimination: Institutional Patterns and Politics<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>By Masoud Kamali. Routledge, 2009
\nCall Number: HT1521 .K36 2009<\/p>\n

The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Eileen O’Brien. New York University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .S75 O275 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Racial Profiling<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Kris Hirschmann. Greenhaven Press, 2006
\nCall Number: HV7936 .R3 R325 2006 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Racial Profiling<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Fred C. Pampel. Facts on File, 2004
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling the Myth<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Fred L. Pincus. Lynne Rienner, 2003
\nCall Number: JC599 .U5 P478 2003 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Taking it Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By David Savran. Princeton University Press, 1998
\nCall Number: HQ1090.3 .S28 1998 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Raymond d’Angelo and Herbert Douglas. McGraw-Hill\/Dushkin, 2008
\nCall Number: E184 .A1 T355 2008<\/p>\n

Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice: Discrimination in the United States<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Samuel Roundfield Lucas. Temple University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Random House, 1997
\nCall Number: E185.86 .G374 1997<\/p>\n

Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Andrew Grant-Thomas and Gary Orfield. Temple University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Kevin Alexander Gray. CounterPunch\/AK Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.615 .G73 2008<\/p>\n

“We Shall Independent Be”: African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander. University Press of Colorado, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.86 .W434 2008<\/p>\n

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Tim Wise. Soft Skull Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.615 .W565 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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