Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons by
(EBSCO eBook) Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this widely traveling concept. Intersectionality's roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects--specifically Black feminism--must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so its radical potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted.
The Constraint of Race by
(EBSCO eBook) The Constraint of Race offers a challenging new approach to understanding the evolution of American social policy and the racial politics shaping it.
The History of White People by
Historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the frequent worship of "whiteness" for economic, social, scientific, and political ends.
Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege by
(EBSCO eBook) Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today.
Borderlands / la Frontera by
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity.
Manifest Destinies: the making of the Mexican American race by
(EBSCO eBook) Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War.
Sovereign Acts by
Moving the idea of sovereignty beyond the narrow confines of the nation-state, beyond the concept of a power that one either has or lacks, this paradigm-shifting work examines the multiple ways that Indigenous nations and U.S. territorial peoples act as sovereign and the possible limits of such sovereign acts within the current globalized context.
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The Union of Their Dreams by
The Union of Their Dreams offers the definitive account of Chavez and the United Farm Workers, a milestone in the struggle for social justice in America.
Asian North American Identities by
(EBSCO eBook) Moving beyond national and diasporic models of ethnic identity to focus on the individual feelings and experiences of those who are not part of a dominant white majority, the essays collected here draw from a wide range of sources, including novels, art, photography, poetry, cinema, theater, and popular culture.
Definition: “Womanism is a social change perspective based on the cultural wisdom and practical knowledge of everyday women from around the world, applied more broadly to world-scale problems."
- Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women
Source: https://www.wcwonline.org/About-us/womanism
The Womanist Idea by
Offers offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism.
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens - Womanist Prose by
As a woman, writer, mother, and feminist, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the womanist tradition of African American women.
White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus by
Because Jesus was undeniably male and because the Christian church claims him as the unique God-bearer, feminist christology confronts the dual tasks of explaining the significance of a male God-bearer for women and creating a christological model adequate to feminist experience.
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As We Have Always Done by
In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking.
We Talk, You Listen by
We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by
Ttraces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime.
The New Jim Crow by
Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow Laws, the system that once forced African Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts America, the US criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and an entire segment of the population is deprived of their basic rights.
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