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Using experimental studies, this text offers fresh empirical evidence that the issue of race still pervades American consciousness and prevents blacks winning elections in white majority districts. The author explores election campaigns which, he says, appeal to whites' racial fears and sentiments.

Elections --- Race discrimination --- Racism --- Voting --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Political aspects --- United States

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The word lynching is most likely American in origin, but the practice of lynching, defined by scholars as extralegal group assault and/or murder motivated by social control concerns, can be found in many global cultures and eras. This collection of essays looks at lynching and related varieties of collective violence, such as vigilantism and rioting, across world cultures. Analyzing lynching and collective violence in the Americas and Europe, the chapters highlight both the presence of mob violence in a number of cultures and eras and the particularity of its occurrence in certain cultural and historical contexts.

Lynching. --- Race discrimination. --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Homicide --- Anti-lynching movements

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La tendencia doctrinaria, que exalta la influencia de la raza hasta el punto de considerarla el eje de la historia -y da pábulo con ello, a las expreciones de racismo- no ha tenido comprobación cientifica. La ciencia, antes bien, la desmiente. No es posible distinguir en un estado de cultura lo que se debe a las condiciones étnicas y lo que corresponde a factores físicos y a los atributos sociales. Menospreciar a los hombres por el color de su pigmento o perseguirlos en nombre de una imaginaria inferioridad biológica, es cometer un crimen de lesahistoria y de lesahumanidad.

Race discrimination. --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration --- Discrimination raciale. --- Migration, immigration & emigration

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"This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inauguration of Brazilian President Hermes da Fonseca, ordinary sailors killed several officers and seized control of major new combat vessels, including two of the most powerful battleships ever produced, and commenced bombing Rio de Janeiro. The mutineers, led by an Afro-Brazilian and mostly black themselves, demanded greater right--above all the abolition of flogging in the Brazilian navy, the last Western navy to tolerate it. This form of torture was closely associated in the sailors' minds with slavery, which had only been prohibited in Brazil in 1888. These events and the scandals that followed initiated a sustained debate about the role of race and class in Brazilian society and the extent to which Brazil could claim to be a modern nation. The commemoration of the centenary of the mutiny in 2010 saw the country still divided about the meaning of the Revolt of the Whip."--Publisher's website.

Sailors, Black --- Naval discipline --- Race discrimination --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Discipline --- Military discipline --- Black sailors --- Seamen, Black --- History. --- Brazil. --- Brazil --- History

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Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of low-income housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the "fixers" we meet-people who devised ways to work with limited resources and pull together the threads of a patchwork welfare state. Rabig argues that fixers play dual roles. They support resistance, but also mediation; they fight for reform, but also more radical and far-reaching alternatives; they rally others to a collective cause, but sometimes they broker factions. Fixers reflect longer traditions of organizing while responding to the demands of their times. In so doing, they end up fixing (like a fixative) a new and enduring pattern of activist strategies, reforms, and institutional expectations-a pattern we continue to see today.

African Americans --- Newark (N.J.) --- Social conditions --- black power. --- capitalism. --- civil rights. --- community development corporations. --- fixers. --- liberalism. --- neoliberalism. --- poverty. --- racial discrimination. --- urban crisis. --- urban renewal.