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Coming of Age at the Millennium: Embracing the Oneness of Humankind
Nathan Rutstein
Moving into the twenty-first century, humanity is in a far different condition than it was at the last turn of the century. Mind-boggling changes have taken us from horse and buggy to spaceflights to the moon, enabling us to see the planet we live on from outer space. As a result, the provincialism of nationhood is giving way to a growing sense of globalism. Humanity stands at the threshold of a reality that has always existed, but which has never before been recognized by the masses: the oneness of humankind.
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Healing Racism: Education's Role
Nathan Rutstein, Editor
The 16 articles in Healing Racism: Education's Role, written by a variety of experts and eyewitnesses to the ravages of racial prejudice, define the nature of this national disease. The authors tell how to diminish racism's effects through classroom education emphasizing the oneness of humanity and the cousinship of all human beings.
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In Pursuit of a Dream Deferred: Linking Housing and Education Policy
Edited by john a powell, Gavin Kearney, and Vina Kay
More than forty years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation persists in our schools. In Pursuit of a Dream Deferred turns a critical eye toward this problem and its relationship to housing segregation in our urban areas.
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Indian Givers : How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.
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Lies Across America : What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
James Loewen
Selecting several sites from every state in the U.S. and Washington D.C., the author imparts wonderful stories of outrageous and expensive attempts to build monuments that distort or lie about American History.
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Living with Racism
Joe Feagin and Melvin Sikes
What is it like to live with racism? Through 209 interviews with middle class blacks, the authors describe the myriad of minor and blatant acts of prejudice and discrimination to which blacks are subjected, and the profound impact of those acts.
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Makes Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black Man in America (Vintage)
Nathan McCall
In this “honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America" (San Francisco Chronicle), Washington Post reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one of America's most prestigious papers.
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Racial Healing: The Institutes for the Healing of Racism
Nathan Rutstein and Reginald Newkirk
The standard text to set forth the philosophy, psychology, and format on which the Institutes for the Healing of Racism are based. A must-read for those who are tired of platitudes and placation, who want to find a real and lasting solution to the insidious problem of racism. To purchase this book, scroll down the page after you click on the title above.
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The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America
Ellis Cose
A frank and realistic examination of the daunting challenges facing black men in twenty-first century America. Ellis Cose offers a way out of the cycle of defeatism and despair that wreaks havoc on America’s black communities.
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The First R : How Children Learn Race and Racism
Debra Van Ausdale
In a touching and revealing look at how kids learn racist attitudes, the authors present stories that will change the way parents, teachers, and other educators understand the world as seen by children.
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The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America
Joseph L. Graves, jr.
The Race Myth debunks the ancient fallacies still held as fact and perpetuated in everything from damaging medical profiling to misconceptions about sports. Through accessible and compelling language, preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves reveals the myth of biological races.
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Nathan Rutstein
In his recently published book, The Racial Conditioning of Our Children, social justice advocate and author Nathan Rutstein provides a convincing argument why today’s schools operate -- often unwittingly -- as engines of psychological genocide. “Not only are students of color being damaged,” he states, “but white students are being harmed, as well.
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The Seven Mysteries of Life
Guy Murchie
In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves into the interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such fields as biology, geology, sociology, mathematics, and physics.
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Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Andrew Hacker
An editorial review from Publisher’s Weekly: In an important, powerfully argued, dispassionate report that makes liberal use of tables and statistics, Hacker documents racist attitudes and practices in the business sector, reveals the low percentage of blacks enrolled in colleges and exposes white racism in politics, employment practices and education and the public's perception of crime and welfare… this divide that seems likely to persist unless drastic steps are taken.
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Paul Kivel
Uprooting Racism talks about racism without rhetoric or attack. Speaking as a white to fellow whites, Kivel shares stories, suggestions, advice, exercises and approaches for working together to fight racism. He does this while discussing the timely issues of affirmative action, immigration, institutional racism, anti-Semitism, humor, political correctness and the meaning of whiteness. And he covers the different forms of racial injustice faced by Latinos, such as Asian Americans, African Americans, Native-Americans, and Jews. At once gentle and provocative, Uprooting Racism helps readers strategically intervene against racism in workplaces, institutions, public policy debates and everyday personal interactions.
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White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training
Judith Katz
A training manual that guides white people through the process of understanding, challenging, and confronting the issues of racism, this incredible book offers activities, step-by-step instructions, and meaningful exercises to foster understanding among races, and move from awareness to action.
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White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America Series)
Ian F. Haney Lopez
Lopez explores the social and legal origins of white racial identity, examining cases in America's past instrumental in forming contemporary conceptions of race, law, and whiteness. He traces the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify whiteness and nonwhiteness, revealing the criteria used up until 1952 to determine whiteness and thus suitability for citizenship, and looks at race relations today.
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