Is Free Speech Racist?
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Freedom of speech should not be used to give dangerous falsehoods a veneer of truth--
Debating RaceSeries
This provocative series zeroes in on the most challenging debates surrounding race and racism. It poses difficult questions and interrogates the political, social, and cultural ramifications of discussing racial issues. This collection offers essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary racial dynamics and their complex intersections.
Recommended Reading Order
Is Science Racist?
- 140 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.
Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a problem. For more than thirty years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of black men has centered on what they must do to improve their condition.
Is Racism an Environmental Threat?
- 140 pages
- 5 hours of reading
The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism.
Should schools be colorblind?
- 148 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Is being colorblind the most effective way to address overt and covert racism in schooling today? Should educators pretend that race doesn’t matter? Award-winning sociologist Laurie Cooper Stoll argues that, as long as society is stratified along racial lines, taking a colorblind approach will never end racial inequalities in schooling. Educators must strive to be color-conscious and actively engage in antiracism if they want to address prejudice and discrimination in education and the wider society. If not, they end up perpetuating racial inequity and white supremacy, whether intentionally or not. Drawing on her research and professional development with educators as well as her experience as a publicly elected school board member, Stoll illustrates the complexities, contradictions, and consequences of colorblindness in schools and provides concrete suggestions for people coming to racial justice work in education from multiple entry points.
Are We All Postracial Yet?
- 168 pages
- 6 hours of reading
We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents.