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Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Race relations in Australia: A Brief History -- Chapter Three: Institutional racism -- Chapter Four: The economics of racism -- Chapter Five: Contemporary racism in Australia -- Chapter Six: Media, public discourse and racism -- Chapter Seven: Social and economic impacts of racism -- Chapter Eight: Racism and young people -- Chapter Nine: Travelling racism: Global forces and their impact on racism -- Chapter Ten: Countering racism: Challenges and progress in anti-racism efforts -- Chapter Eleven: Conclusion.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 -- What Is Institutional Racism? -- CHAPTER 2 -- Education -- CHAPTER 3 -- The Media -- CHAPTER 4 -- The Criminal Justice System -- CHAPTER 5 -- Wealth -- CHAPTER 6 -- Health -- CHAPTER 7 -- Current Resistance Movements -- Chapter Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION Postrace Racial Projects -- 1 Race after Race -- 2 Theorizing Race in the Age of Inequality -- 3 " Jamming" the Color Line -- 4 On the Postracial Question -- 5 Becked Up -- 6 Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Postracial Myths in Silicon Valley -- 7 Vocal Recognition -- 8 More Than a Game -- 9 Clap Along If You Feel Like Happiness Is the Truth -- 10 Indie Soaps -- 11 Debt by Design -- 12 "Haute [Ghetto] Mess" -- 13 Veiled Visibility -- EPILOGUE -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Race after race / Herman Gray -- Theorizing race in the age of inequality / Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes -- "Jamming" the color line : comedy, carnival, and contestations of commodity colorism / Radhika Parameswaran -- On the post-racial question / Roderick A. Ferguson -- Becked up : Glenn Beck, white supremacy and the hijacking of the civil rights legacy / Cynthia A. Young -- Technological elites, the meritocracy, and post-racial myths in Silicon Valley / Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah Roberts -- Vocal recognition : racial and sexual difference after (tele)visuality / Karen Tongson -- More than a game : LeBron James and the affective economy of place / Victoria E. Johnson -- Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth : Pharell Williams and the false promises of the post-racial / Kevin Fellezs -- Indie soaps : race and the possibilities of TV drama / Aymar Jean Christian -- Debt by design : race and home valorization on reality TV / Eva C. Hageman -- "Haute [ghetto] mess" : post-racial aesthetics and the seduction of Blackness in high fashion / Brandi Summers -- Veiled visibility : racial performances and hegemonic leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week / Inna Arzumanova.

"Migration, Equality and Racism trigger ever more salient societal debates. More than 80 VUB academics and co-authors joined forces for this book. Philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, health scientists, sociologists, geographers, criminologists, communication and political scientists … look at migration, equality and racism from different disciplinary angles.

Together they aim to contribute to an exercise of humanism as a praxis of criticism or a 'technique of trouble-making', in the words of Edward Said. Through 44 thought-provoking and informed opinion pieces, they question widespread beliefs on migration, equality and racism and propose solutions that might disturb.

Let this book be a source of inspiration for those who want to spark an informed debate on the ever more salient issues of migration, equality and racism, for those who want to learn more on how and why humanism has often remained an empty box for migrants and racialized groups. Or for those who are in search of inspiration for a just future for all.

Migration, Equality and Racism is the work of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) think tank POINcaré and was created under the direction of Ilke Adam, Tundé Adefioye, Serena D'Agostino, Nick Schuermans and Florian Trauner."

"Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism.
In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities."

"Migration, Equality and Racism trigger ever more salient societal debates. More than 80 VUB academics and co-authors joined forces for this book. Philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, health scientists, sociologists, geographers, criminologists, communication and political scientists … look at migration, equality and racism from different disciplinary angles.

Together they aim to contribute to an exercise of humanism as a praxis of criticism or a 'technique of trouble-making', in the words of Edward Said. Through 44 thought-provoking and informed opinion pieces, they question widespread beliefs on migration, equality and racism and propose solutions that might disturb.

Let this book be a source of inspiration for those who want to spark an informed debate on the ever more salient issues of migration, equality and racism, for those who want to learn more on how and why humanism has often remained an empty box for migrants and racialized groups. Or for those who are in search of inspiration for a just future for all.

Migration, Equality and Racism is the work of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) think tank POINcaré and was created under the direction of Ilke Adam, Tundé Adefioye, Serena D'Agostino, Nick Schuermans and Florian Trauner."

The Habits of Racism examines some of the complex questions raised by the phenomenon and experience of racism. Helen Ngo argues that the conceptual reworking of habit as bodily orientation helps to identify the more subtle but fundamental workings of racism, exploring what the lived experience of racism and racialization teaches about the nature of the embodied and socially-situated being.

Everyone's daily lives are affected by race and racism in America. Roots of Racism examines the long history of the concept of race, the ways in which race has been used to divide people, and its continuing relevance in modern times. Features include essential facts, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO

By definitively establishing that racism has broad implications for how the entire field of philosophy is practiced--and by whom--this powerful and convincing book puts all members of the discipline on notice that racism concerns them. It simultaneously.