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A Man among Other Men
A Man among Other Men examines
competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African
metropolis of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Engaging the
histories, representational repertoires, and performative
identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic,
Jordanna Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes
of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and
value within labor, consumerism, and commodification.
Through a broad chronological and transatlantic scope that
culminates in a deep ethnography of the livelihoods and lifestyles
of men in Abidjan's informal economy, Matlon demonstrates how men's
subjectivities are formed in dialectical tension by and through
hegemonic ideologies of race and patriarchy. A Man among Other
Men provides a theoretically innovative, historically
grounded, and empirically rich account of Black masculinity that
illuminates the sustained power of imaginaries even as capitalism
affords a deficit of material opportunities. Revealed is a story of
Black abjection set against the anticipation of male privilege, a
story of the long crisis of Black masculinity in racial
capitalism.
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Rich Thanks to Racism
More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are
still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In
Rich Thanks to Racism , Jim Freeman, one of the country's
leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden
strategy behind systemic racism. He details how the driving force
behind the public policies that continue to devastate communities
of color across the United States is a small group of ultra-wealthy
individuals who profit mightily from racial inequality.
In this groundbreaking examination of \"strategic racism,\"
Freeman carefully dissects the cruel and deeply harmful policies
within the education, criminal justice, and immigration systems to
discover their origins and why they persist. He uncovers billions
of dollars in aligned investments by Bill Gates, Charles Koch, Mark
Zuckerberg, and a handful of other billionaires that are
dismantling public school systems across the United States. He
exposes how the greed of prominent US corporations and Wall Street
banks was instrumental in creating the world's largest prison
population and our most extreme anti-immigrant policies. Freeman
also demonstrates how these \"racism profiteers\" prevent flagrant
injustices from being addressed by pitting white communities
against communities of color, obscuring the fact that the struggles
faced by white people are deeply connected with those faced by
people of color.
Rich Thanks to Racism is an invaluable road map for all
those who recognize that the key to unlocking the United States'
full potential is for more people of all races and ethnicities to
prioritize racial justice.
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The sum of us : how racism hurts everyone : adapted for young readers
\"This book, edited for young readers, is a call to action. McGhee examines how damaging racism is not only to people of color but also to white people. She offers hope and real solutions so that we can all prosper. An expert in economic policy, Heath McGhee draws lessons from her work running a think tank and her travels around the country talking to everyday Americans who are coming together to fight for a more just and inclusive society. The people she meets prove how much the stories we tell ourselves about race and belonging influence the policies that determine our shared economic future.\"-- Front jacket flap.
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Race & economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination?
Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable harm on the most disadvantaged members of our society.
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Race, liberalism, and economics
Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Race, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. The book considers economists' support of markets in relation to the challenge of race and race relations and argues that their support of laissez-faire has traditionally been based upon a broader philosophical foundation of liberalism and history: what markets have and have not achieved in the past, and how that past relates to the future. The book discusses the concepts of liberalism and racism, the history and use of these terms, and how that history relates to policy issues. It argues that liberalism is consistent with a wide variety of policies and that the broader philosophical issues are central in choosing policies. The contributors show how the evolution of racist ideas has been a subtle process that is woven into larger movements in the development of scientific thought; economic thinking is embedded in a larger social milieu. Previous discussions of policies toward race have been constrained by that social milieu, and, since World War II, have largely focused on ending legislated and state-sanctioned discrimination. In the past decade, the broader policy debate has moved on to questions about the existence and relative importance of intangible sources of inequality, including market structure, information asymmetries, cumulative processes, and cultural and/or social capital. This book is a product of, and a contribution to, this modern discussion. It is uniquely transdisciplinary, with contributions by and discussions among economists, philosophers, anthropologists, and literature scholars. The volume first examines the early history of work on race by economists and social scientists more generally. It continues by surveying American economists on race and featuring contributions that embody more modern approaches to race within economics. Finally it explores several important policy issues that follow from the discussion.
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The sum of us : what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy.
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Cuba's Racial Crucible
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the racially selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of \"race,\" \"nation,\" and \"family,\" in definitions of Cuban identity. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent.
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