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Originally designed for facilitators as a training handbook complete with exercises and tools to assist white people address racism, this book guides whites through the process of understanding, challenging, and confronting issues of racism. This training program provides a meaningful way to help create change in the white community.

Responding to the challenge of creating a learning environment in which to address racism, White Awareness provides a detailed step-by-step guide through six stages of learning - from awareness to action. The exercises within each of the stages focus on key themes including: defining racism and its inconsistencies, confronting the reality of racism, exploring aspects and implications of white culture and identity, understanding cultural differences and examining cultural racism, analyzing individual racism, and developing action strategies to combat racism.

This newly revised edition includes over forty activities with instructions and suggestions for conducting each session as well as recommended readings and sources for use in the activities. Proving worthwhile in educational, business, community, and military settings, the program is detailed yet flexible. The volume has been updated to include new source information, insights on President Bill Clinton's 1998 "Initiative on Race," and groundbreaking research on racism as a mental disorder. ... Read more

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Following up her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee discovers that many of today's racist women combine dangerous racist and anti-Semitic agendas with otherwise mainstream lives. The only national sample of a broad spectrum of racist activists and the only major work on women racists, this important book also sheds light on how gender relationships shape participation in the movement as a whole. ... Read more

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Riveting subject, poor presentation
Some of the problems may not be Blee's fault: the book draws on a few dozen interviews, conducted over the course of several years, with women involved in the contemporary hate movement. Many groups are represented, but the uniting criteria was that interview subjects had to be female, had to be somewhat active in a racist group, and they had to be willing to speak to her in safe settings under safe circumstances. (That said, Blee faced violent threats -- both direct and indirect -- through the course of her research, and narrowly escaped a few violent episodes.)

The sample of women interviewed is -- understandably -- so skewed and limited that it would be difficult, in my opinion, to draw meaningful generalizations from it. Yet that is precisely what this book aims to do. For instance, in an early chapter, Blee provides a demographic breakdown of the women interviewed and states that popular assumptions about people in the hate movement are absolutely untrue. Possible, but I can't draw the same conclusions her data led her to. She introduces a paragraph about racist women's educational levels with the statement, "Most were educated." Reading further, however, she states that one-third of her interview subjects were high school dropouts. It is interesting to note that the other two-thirds had at least graduated high school, and a notable number of those had attended or graduated from college. But the number of dropouts in the general population is far lower than it is in this sample size -- and the sample size is, as I said, necessarily flawed. I'm not sure what, if anything, it means that a slender majority of the small number of racist women willing to be interviewed had a high school education.

Blee tries again and again to deduce the big picture based on the narratives that were presented her -- whereas I wanted her to get out of the way and let the interview subjects and narratives speak for themselves. Also, very little context is provided for the reader. Instead, a general familiarity with the history of the hate movement and its contemporary players and problems is just assumed. I get that Blee is a sociology professor and this work may be intended as a text, but given that the subject is of likely interest to a general audience -- and the general audience may not have done additional reading about the far right -- I think the book is unfortunately limited.

The book also suffers from problematic writing. Several points are repeated more than once in the book, for reasons I couldn't discern. Also, Blee's use of language is sometimes maddeningly imprecise. An example of both: At several points she mentions that, while her subjects addressed their opinions of African-Americans and Latinos by relating unpleasant (if often banal) anecdotes, they spoke of Jews with abstract, conspiratorial vitriol.

However -- again, this comes up at least twice, maybe three times during the course of the book -- when pressed, Blee writes, not one of her subjects "could name a single Jewish person." Two or three offered a mangled version Alan Greenspan's name, or simply issued the name "Rothschild" with no first names attached -- and these women did not seem to know much if anything about the history of the Rothschild family. Because she contrasts this lack of knowledge with the anecdotal vitriol reserved for other races, I interpreted that Blee pressed for the name of ANY Jewish person, living or dead, famous or personally acquainted by the interview subject -- and that "Alan Greenberg" was the best any could do. Given that these women came from all over the country and all socioeconomic backgrounds, I found it fascinating (and implausible) that not one had encountered a person she knew to be Jewish.

I was right: later, Blee states that some of the women acknowledged they maintained ties to Jewish friends (unbeknownst, of course, to their partners or racist friends). Likely, then, that in the conversations referenced earlier, Blee had been pressing for specifics about the interview subjects' espoused notion that Jews control history or banking, not about whether they had any personal experience with Jewish people. But that should have been clarified.

Still, Blee offers some interesting data and conclusions. I found it noteworthy that while some of the women interviewed were raised in the hate movement (though of course several were), nor even that they were brought into the hate movement by racist boyfriends or husbands -- and very few went out looking for a hate group to join in order to validate and act on previously-held racist ideas. Instead, most encountered hate groups through some other social tie (having a friend in the group, or attending a skinhead-heavy party) and gradually became more enamored of racist ideas. Also, while men in the hate movement speak of feeling "empowered" by their involvement in it, most of the women Blee spoke to felt burdened by their knowledge of "how things really work" and would not recommend that their children become involved in it. Again, these generalizations may be dangerous to make, but the observations provide some insight into how hate-group recruiting really works, and how it may be possible to get women out of them.

A Dreary Bunch of Ladies
Kathleen Blee, a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, spent many months interviewing thirty-four women members of neo-Nazi and racist groups. She elicited life histories from these women, which she relates rather briefly in this book, and then concludes with five "lessons" on how to deal with such deviant people and groups.

My first reaction to this book was one of gratefulness to the author for having done what was, she makes clear, a most disagreeable task;these subjects weren't exactly fun to be with. The book is written with intelligence, diligence, and professionalism. The author shows a commendable familiarity with the relevant recent social science literature. Most of all, it is refreshing to see a scholarly contribution to a field that is too often left to sensationalist journalists.

But my second reaction developed as I read through these dreary reports about these dreary people. I became bored and more bored as the reading progressed.

I cannot believe that these people are as pathetically uninteresting as they appear in this book. That they are disagreeable and hateful is beyond doubt. But I think that anyone who has ever observed the participants in a fringe movement will testify that there almost invariably times of enthusiasm, of excitement, of peek experience, of lives lived with great intensity. Professor Blee captures little if any such spark.

I think I know what went wrong.

First, the author tells us about the women but not about the men in these racist organizations. That seems to me to be like writing a history of what happened on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, figuring that the Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays belong somehow to a different world. It is a feminism run amok, in my opinion, to deal with a social movement consisting of both men and women as if the story of each were essentially unrelated to the other. Much of the spark of fringe social movements comes exactly from male-female interaction, especially in the younger age groups. More than one former member of radical youth groups has told me that it was precisely the stimulation of male-female relationships that made membership so stimulating.

Second, her method of eliciting life histories puts the emphasis on individual members. Group dynamics -- the inevitable internal dissentions, the struggles for leadership and prestige -- none of that is captured in this book.

Finally, the author has the unfortunale habit of quoting unrelated writers, often of the politically correct persuation, as if they were somehow relevant to her topic. "As the literary theorist Henry Louis Gates Jr. observes...." (p. 79); "As the cultural theorist Edward W. Said notes..." (p. 158); "As David Theo Goldberg argues..." (p. 174); and on and on she quotes and cites as if she were a graduate student. This writing detracts from the otherwise serious character and high purpose of this work.

Racist Hate, Female Style
Kathleen M. Blee wrote _Women of the Klan_, which covered the 1920's.Because readers of that work were curious about women in the contemporary Klan, she began researching her current book, _Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement_ (University of California Press).To do her work, she interviewed women members of the Klan, Christian Identity, and other organizations.This meant sitting uncomfortably with women with skinheads and tattoo swastikas, and also having coffee with women who ran homes and dressed themselves just as June Cleaver did, but who uttered vile declamations about blacks and Jews.(She found many of them by subscribing to racist mailings sent to her Post Office box; she says, "Going to the post office was so embarrassing. I'm sure they were horrified.")She went to the group meetings, which included church services, volleyball, pancake breakfasts, and social hours, like many a harmless community gathering, but were then capped by cross or swastika burnings.She found out that many of her assumptions about the women were wrong.

For instance, the women were generally educated.Many had joined on their own, not because of a husband, family, or boyfriend.They were not seeking a hate group to agree with, but came around to racist views after joining.Learning such views included learning anti-Semitism, for while those who join racist groups often already have antipathy against non-whites, but they have to be taught to hate Jews.They eventually accepted that Jews control banks, corporations, and governments by means of an amorphous conspiracy that can be blamed for everything from global warming to a family member's case of food poisoning.They borrow the apocalyptic visions familiar to any student of fundamentalist Christianity, but expect that the "last days" battle with Satan, just around the corner, will consist of a race war, for which they prepare.The attitudes of the women toward the groups they are in, however, are less doctrinal than those of the men.Some differences in belief are due to particular women's issues.Some resent being excluded by all-male rituals of the historic Klan, for instance, or resent having to play the homemaker role that fundamentalist Christianity encourages.Many of the women admitted to Blee that they had done such unacceptable acts as have abortions, insisting that such a personal act was to be decided by the individual, not the group.(Because of fundamentalist Christian beliefs, and eagerness to breed new Aryans, abortion is forbidden as a Jewish plot, but is supported for non-whites.)Women in hate groups are more likely to bend proscriptions, allowing themselves to be on good terms with at least some homosexuals or mixed-race individuals.They are more likely to urge action by political means rather than expecting a violent race war to solve the world's problems.

_Inside Organized Racism_ is a serious academic work, well referenced and footnoted.Blee's interviewees spanned the skinhead, neo-Nazi, Klan, and Christian Identity movements, and Blee's appendix explains her methodology for selecting them; this is as full a snapshot of this particular subset of humans as we are likely to get.In an important final section on lessons for our society, Blee not only defends her study as helping understand this subculture as more than just bizarre or dangerous.She has suggestions such as using the ambivalence of women as a means of encouraging defection.After working in the field of investigating racism, Blee is abandoning it, exhausted.Her next book will be on the effect on community groups of having a place to meet; she will be forgiven if it is not as immediately gripping as her current book. ... Read more

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Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy, Second Edition examines the dynamics and effects of racism in counseling with an emphasis on the insidiousness of unintentional racism.. The Second Edition  provides a new section on the policies and practices of agencies and other institutions in the mental health system unintentionally resulting in service disparities. Macro-system and micro-system interventions are proposed to overcome these disparities. 
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Helpful but...
Ridley does an excellent job of opening up issues regarding cultural competency in the mental health services professions. However, while the examples given do illustrate the problems as they currently exist, I found several of the "how to" examples of interaction rather condescending. Still, overall, the book is a great entry into just how and why the mental health field has not served our culturally-diverse populations in the past and how to better serve them in the future.

be aware of differences
Ridley teaches that counselors should be aware of, and sensitive to, cultural or ethnic issues, when aiding their clients. In part because, at least for American counselors, the diversity of the American population is likely to cause them to have a diverse caseload.

Many ways are suggested for help counselors. One perhaps a propos method is for a counselor to herself seek counsel. This congruency or professional self awareness may be a good way for her to not later project her issues onto her clients.

In terms of client diversity, examples are given that counselors should be careful about generalising from the ethnic of a client. For example, the fact that a client is Asian might not mean that she had much in common with another Asian client. The sheer national and cultural diversity in Asia means that stereotyping can be fraught with errors. ... Read more

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Over the last two decades a surge of white supremacists have found new venues for their racist message. Examining how they've translated their printed publications onto the Internet Cyber Racism asks what this means for understanding racism in the information age. In addition to overt hate speech, contemporary white supremacists have used _cloaked_ websites to disguise racism in the rhetoric of multiculturalism, often quite effectively, raising important questions about racial equality and how the Internet changes the struggle for global justice. ... Read more

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Very Interesting!
This is a book which discusses how new technologies are being used by racist groups in order to spread racism and white supremacist ideas online.The author focuses on the assumptions behind white supremacist ideas, and highlights their gender and racist undertones.She believes that these groups are trying to create a form of transnational white identity.She also highlights the ways in which women have changed the ideologies of white racist groups (especially on the topic of abortion) by adopting a version of liberal feminist ideas about a woman's right to her body - though some still are virulently anti-abortion.One chapter focuses on the Neo-Nazi group Stormfront, which is the biggest white supremacist group on the web.The author also highlights the ways their ideologies have changed since they moved into the internet - for instance, using 'cloaked' websites... which basically means they pretend to be providing simple facts about civil rights, and so forth... but they are actually peddling bias and racist messages. I haven't seen a book like this before - it seemed really ground breaking to me, to highlight the importance of new forms of racism online. ... Read more

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Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to purge society of so-called biological contaminants, people who were poor, disabled, black, or queer. Building on a legacy of savage hate crimes -- such as the killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd -- McWhorter shows that racism, sexual oppression, and discrimination against the disabled, the feeble, and the poor are all aspects of the same societal distemper, and that when the civil rights of one group are challenged, so are the rights of all.

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Immigration is among the most contested issues in Western Europe. Studies commonly focus on political activity and the plight of minorities, but this book breaks new ground in its emphasis on the everyday reactions of Italians to immigration, nationalism and racism.Drawing on research carried out in Palermo, Jeffrey Cole considers the ambivalent responses of rich and poor Sicilians to immigrants. He places Italian attitudes in a European context, and investigates why anti-immigrant politics are concentrated in the wealthy Italian North. ... Read more

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Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. In Race over Empire, Eric T. L. Love sontests this view and argues that racism had nearly the opposite effect.

From President Grant's attempt to acquire the Dominican Republic in 1870 to the annexations of Hawaii and the Philippines in 1898, Love demonstrates that the imperialists' relationship with the racist ideologies of the era was antagonistic, not harmonious. In a period marked by Jim Crow, lynching, Chinese exclusion, and immigration restriction, Love argues, no pragmatic politician wanted to place nonwhites at the center of an already controversial project by invoking the concept of the "white man's burden." Furthermore, convictions that defined "whiteness" raised great obstacles to imperialist ambitions, particularly when expansionists entered the tropical zone. In lands thought to be too hot for "white blood," white Americans could never be the main beneficiaries of empire.

What emerges from Love's analysis is a critical reinterpretation of the complex interactions between politics, race, labor, immigration, and foreign relations at the dawn of the American century. ... Read more

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Benevolent Assimilation?
Conventional wisdom argued that in the final decades of the nineteenth century, white-supremacist racial ideologies and sentiments such as benevolent assimilation, the "white man's burden" inspired and motivated American imperialist projects in the nonwhite world. In Race over Empire, Eric T. L. Love argues that racism had the opposite effect. Race, Love writes, was merely a diversion vis-à-vis the imperialists. In fact, "in an era marked by as much racial fear, hatred, reaction, and violence as the last decades of the nineteenth century . . . no pragmatic politician or party would fix nonwhites at the center of its imperial policies" (Love, Race over Empire xii). With the Filipino rebellion that followed the Spanish-American War just over the imperialists realized that by taking only the land needed for economic and military use, "the benefits of empire could be had without the entanglements attached to race" (Love, Race over Empire 200). What come to presence from Love's analysis is a more complex and critical reinterpretation of interrelations between politics, race, labor, immigration, and foreign relations at the start of the American century.

From President Grant's move to obtain and keep the Dominican Republic in 1870, to the annexations of Hawaii and the acquisition of the Philippines in 1898, Love argues that the imperialist relationship vis-à-vis racist ideologies of the time was hostile, not friendly. In an era exemplified by the end of reconstruction, by Jim Crow, by lynching, by Chinese exclusion, and immigration restriction, Love posits, that no sensible politician wanted to situate nonwhites at the center of an already contentious project by conjuring up the notion of the "white man's burden." In addition, the idea of "whiteness" raised obstructions to imperialist ambitions, particularly in the tropics. In lands argued to be "too hot" for "white blood," Love argues that white Americans could never be the main beneficiaries of empire.

Brave & Original
I first read a review of this book in the Journal of Southern History, which reported that Race Over Empire is "that rare book that will fundamentally change how U.S. historians approach an important topic - in this case, American imperialism in the late 19th century."I couldn't agree more.This book doesn't take the easy way out - suggesting that racism facilitated U.S. imperialism.Instead, it takes a brave and original approach, discussing racist patterns and institutions within the United States, and how they acted as OBSTACLES to imperial expansion.This is something new and important.After this, no writer can credibly follow that old interpretation - that racism facilitated empire.A must read for any serious scholar of history. ... Read more

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This book is a critical examination of mainstream research on racial profiling. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with people of color who have experienced racial profiling, it offers an alternative understanding of racialized law and the traffic stop as the manifestation of racialized law enforcement. ... Read more

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Read This!
Awesome book, a real eye-opener. This book tells it like it is. Does not sugar coat. It's in your face. Even though it was published in 1999 it still applies to today's society. If your interested in this topic this is a great book to read!

Paradox?
He lost me at the title of this novel. "Healing Racism?" How can you heal racism? Why would you want to heal racism? To make it better? What a dupe.

This book changed my life
In an age when the discussion of race has become mired in pointless sociological and intellectual discourse, Nathan Rutstein's "Healing Racism In America" comes as a breath of fresh air.Mr. Rutstein is on the markwhen he states that the solutions are spiritual and personal, notlegislative or political.Indeed, the book's most candid assertion, thatracism is not relegated merely to skinheads wearing white hoods, goesdirectly to the heart of the matter: mainstream America, however"progressive" or "liberal" it may deem itself, continues to live in denial. However fashionable pointing an indignant and self-righteous finger at theKKK and like-minded groups may be--easy scapegoats for the masses--theaverage Joe is also implicated.And well-intentioned measures like CivilRights legislation and Affirmative Action, although placating peopleinitially, have ultimately failed to eliminate the underlying problem (evenexacerbating it in some cases).As the book's title implies, the realremedy, like any good prescription, may taste bitter in the mouth at first,but ultimately leads to genuine healing.Do we have the courage to takethe medicine?

This book changed my life
In an age when the discussion of race has become mired in pointless sociological and intellectual discourse, Nathan Rutstein's "Healing Racism In America" comes as a breath of fresh air.Mr. Rutstein is on the markwhen he states that the solutions are spiritual and personal, notlegislative or political.Indeed, the book's most candid assertion, thatracism is not relegated merely to skinheads wearing white hoods, goesdirectly to the heart of the matter: mainstream America, however"progressive" or "liberal" it may deem itself, continues to live in denial. However fashionable pointing an indignant and self-righteous finger at theKKK and like-minded groups may be--easy scapegoats for the masses--theaverage Joe is also implicated.And well-intentioned measures like CivilRights legislation and Affirmative Action, although placating peopleinitially, have ultimately failed to eliminate the underlying problem (evenexacerbating it in some cases).As the book's title implies, the realremedy, like any good prescription, may taste bitter in the mouth at first,but ultimately leads to genuine healing.Do we have the courage to takethe medicine?

Should be required reading for every person in America
Nathan Rutstein has given an accurate description of the disease of racism in America.He describes the struggles within ourselves to deny it, identify it, and utimately how we can heal ourselves from this crippling disease. I liked the book because it addressed the idea of unknown racism...rather, racism that you didn't even know was happening because of misconceptions and conditioning in all of us from our learnings and our families. It's a must read for all high school students and should be included in every persons home library. ... Read more

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With the emergence of immigration in the last thirty years, and the arrival into Italy of people of different races and colors, the bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes that have been present since the nation was created in 1861, especially those expressing the North-South divide, have acquired new relevance and stronger dimensions.Bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes, present in Italian society are examined through its cinema. This volume offers an informative, challenging and thought-provoking mosaic. ... Read more

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A thoroughly good read
This scholarly work illustrates, through cinema, Italy's past & present social injustices -- from its long-standing "racial" troubles between the North and the South, to the new racism towards extracomunitari (people outside the "European Community") emigrating to the country.
Being of Italian origin, I have been searching for a comprehensive text containing detailed information regarding Italy's current angst caused by the large-scale influx of the new "immigrants".This profoundly intelligent, spirited and timely book does not disappoint -- providing both, plenty of rich historical content and discussions of present-day popular, relevant films.
It is an extremely good read and, may I add, my grown children enjoyed it as much as their mother.
A deserving recommendation is definitely in order.
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This book explores the key issues of racism, anti-racism and identity in British football. It relates the history of black players in the game, analyzes the racism they have experienced, and evaluates the efficacy of anti-racist campaigns. The efficacy of the policing of racism is also assessed. The nationalism and xenophobia evident in much of the media's coverage of major tournaments is highlighted in the context of the way that English, Scottish, and Welsh identities are constructed within British football.
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In this pathbreaking book sociologists Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin examine, for the first time in depth, racial stereotyping and discrimination daily faced by Asian Americans long viewed by whites as the model minority. Drawing on more than 40 field interviews across the country, they examine the everyday lives of Asian Americans in numerous different national origin groups. Their data contrast sharply with white-honed, especially media, depictions of racially untroubled Asian American success. Many hypocritical whites make sure that Asian Americans know their racially inferior place in U.S. society so that Asian people live lives constantly oppressed and stressed by white racism. The authors explore numerous instances of white-imposed discrimination faced by Asian Americans in a variety of settings, from elementary schools to college settings, to employment, to restaurants and other public accommodations. The responses of Asian Americans to the U.S. racial hierarchy and its rationalizing racist framing are traced with some Asian Americans choosing to conform aggressively to whiteness and others choosing to resist actively the imposition of the U.S. brand of anti-Asian oppression. This book destroys any naïve notion that Asian Americans are universally favored by whites and have an easy time adapting to life in this still racist society. ... Read more

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Very Comprehensive and Informative
The book explores the origins of the model minority concept and how it was developed by white elites during the 1960s as a way to affirm the American ideal that "anyone can make it" in order to respond to the Civil Rights Movement.Using information from Asian Americans that they interviewed, the authors refute the model minority concept by stating it is facile argument since Asian Americans come from many different cultures and national backgrounds and not all these cultures but a high value of education. Further, despite this concept, Feagin and Chou demonstrate that Asian Americans are often victims of hate crimes, are frequently discriminated against in spite of their abilities and do have poverty and unemployment rates higher than white Americans. They further assert that this concept is harmful to Asian Americans and may explain why many Asian American students commit suicide or drop out of school in high rates because of trying to live up to the stereotype. Lastly, they author conclude that this concept is a form of "divide and conquer" where America's racial minorities can fight to be America's favorite minority while white supremacy is safeguarded.

In addition to addressing the model minority myth, the authors assert that most white Americans have historically, and currently, seen Asian Americans as different and inferior. They write that Asian Americans are often excluded from white social groups and are made to feel inferior for maintaining their culture. In response to this, the writers note that many Asian Americans do not protest this discrimination for the fear of white retaliation and for the feeling that if they conform, they will be eventually accepted. Moreover, some Asian Americans have accepted white dominance as a fact of life. Because of these feelings, many Asian Americans abandon their ethnic heritage, marry white spouses, use surgery to look Caucasian and adopt the dominant white ideology, which causes many Asian Americans to develop pro-white sentiments while developing anti-black and Hispanic views.

So the book does not end on a pessimistic note, while noting that Asian Americans have not developed a strong counterframe to the dominant white ideology, the writers explores some of the ways that some of their interviewees have fought back against white supremacy, which can serve as a guide for Asian Americans to develop a racial consciousness and fight white racism.

I highly recommend this book. With the increase of immigration from Asian and Latin American countries, sociologists need to move beyond the white-black binary analysis which has been dominant in the past and show how other racial groups have been affected by the dominant white racial ideology. The use of interviews make this book every easy to read. This is a much needed book in response to the view of most Americans that Asian Americans are honorary white model minorities that prove that anyone can make it in American society.

ENLIGHTENING
This book is the most comprehensive and accurate portrayal of the inherent racism prevalent in our society today. I have experienced a lot of the situations, particularly in school, K through college that this book writes about. A must read for all Asians and people of color because it raises greater awareness and hopefully more preventive measures taken to stop the systematic racism that occurs on a daily basis.Bravo to the authors on such a prolific book!

Great book
Super fast delivery. brand new book as described.Will def. do business w/ again.

right on target
One of my graduate classes required me to look into "Asian Issues", so I bought a few books on amazon and this one really captured my attention. It was easy to read, it gave great examples/real life experiences, I could hardly put it down. It is also a great length if you are a busy person who wants to read a book that just gets to the point. I definitely recommend this book for all people. We should all strive to learn more about the issues people face, especially the often ignored/looked over Asian issues. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.

Challenging Self and Society
This book really moved me. I can't help but sound cliche, but up until now I hadn't read anything that really captured my experience as an Asian American. I found myself identifying with the respondents in the book. I think the authors do a great job of being critical of stereotypes and explaining how the racial hierarchy is structured for a group that is considered neither black nor white.

The narratives can be really sad, and sometimes I found them hard to read, but necessary for this kind of work and to really get the untold story of Asian Americans out there. This book also challenged me to self-reflect on my own identity, my own prejudices about other races, my lack of effort to stand up for myself against racism, and how little I know about the history of racial oppression of Asians in the United States. I was also glad to see that Asian Americans from South and Southeast Asia were included because usually only East Asians and Pacific Islanders Americans are covered when talking about Asian Americans. ... Read more

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This is a personal account of an interracial family's struggle against pervasive racism in the U.S. and the horrors of the civil war that plagued Rwanda in 1994. Raised in the American Midwest, author Elizabeth Gatorano, who is White, had no idea of the trials she would face after marrying Phanuel, who is Black and an immigrant to the U.S. from Rwanda. Prejudice against their marriage followed them and their children wherever they went, often making them the focus of racist discrimination and threats of violence at home and at work. Throughout these ordeals, Liz and Phanuel responded to hostility with love and patience, their faith in each other and in God remaining unshakable, even in the darkest hours. Together, they overcame all obstacles in their path, and they continue to help those in need today. ... Read more

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Amazing insight
From the author's first hand experience, this book opens up your understanding to an issue that I did not even believe still existed. The brutality of the human nature needs to be enlightened. The courage and strength of some that escape needs to be sincerely admired. Great book, cannot put it down, has changed forever who I am.

Outstanding Book on Many Levels
As a professor of Intercultural Communication, I have found Waiting for the Sunrise to be extremely useful in the classroom. Sometimes I simply read excerpts to my students as a mean of opening discussion about a theory we are covering. At other times, we delve into the issues raised in the book with more depth. For example, Elizabeth Gatorano addresses racial issues with such honesty that I found students able to analyze this sensitive topic without relying on arguments they've already heard. The book helps them see the complexity of the issue from a variety of angles, and they identify with the struggles she portrays.

In addition, on a personal note, Waiting for the Sunrise is one of those books that you just can't get out of your mind. I've recommended the book to every friend I have who loves to read. The relationships in the book are addressed with clear-eyed realism matched with sensitivity for the frailties of all human beings. Elizabeth Gatorano's portrayal of her family relationships helped me reexamine, and ultimately understand a little better, my own family relationships.

I highly recommend this book. You will love it.

Important subject, not often discussed
"They're dead.I know they are dead." Phanuel stated without looking up.

"Phanuel, we don't know.Please don't let go of the hope that some are still alive.They need you to keep the hope," I pleaded.

"What can I do, Liz?What can I do?I can't do anything.I don't think you understand how it feels to not be able to do anything.On top of that, I am watching every day as my classmates, my teachers, my neighbors are being killed.It is not just my family.My history is being murdered," Phanuel said as tears began to form in his eyes.

(excerpt from the book)

Reading Waiting for the Sunrise helped me gain insights into the difficulties that an interracial/intercultural marriage can face, informed me about the impact of the Rwandan civil war and Rwandan culture, and often brought me to tears.I found myself getting so engrossed in the book that I would look up and realize that it was several hours later than I thought it was.Their story is a compelling one, and necessary in a world that has more porous borders than before, but still struggles to learn how to accept the reality and necessity of the oneness of humanity.There are not enough accounts of the transforming power of love, service, and faith, and the author writes in an engaging and personable way that made me wish the book would never end.

Real Life Drama
With courageous honesty, Liz Gatorano shares the story of her life and how she came to marry her beloved husband, Phanuel, an immigrant from Rwanda.Skillfully, the author weaves back and forth chapter by chapter between the present day racist challenges Phanuel faced as a black man in America in a inter-racial marriage and the hardships of his childhood in Rwanda during the time leading up to and through the 1994 genocide.A friend sent me this book, unsolicited.To be polite, I picked it up to scan through it and send a thank-you note; however, Gatorano immediately engaged me with her dramatic storytelling, and I could not put the book down!This "inside story" helped me understand that human nature is the same across cultures.Liz and Phanuel inspire us all to keep choosing the power of love and forgiveness, no matter what!

Barbara Stone, PhD, author of Invisible Roots: How Healing Past Life Trauma Can Liberate Your Present and

Cancer as Initiation: Surviving the Fire (Dreamcatcher)

This is a must read
This is a must read you won't be able to put it down. Can't wait for the movie, WoW. ... Read more

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When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups.When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics--the attempted "improvement" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls--that consciously drew on the U.S. example.By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for "defectives," upheld by the Supreme Court in 1927.Small wonder that the Nazi laws led one eugenics activist in Virginia to complain, "The Germans are beating us at our own game."
In The Nazi Connection, Stefan Kühl uncovers the ties between the American eugenics movement and the Nazi program of racial hygiene, showing that many American scientists actively supported Hitler's policies.After introducing us to the recently resurgent problem of scientific racism, Kühl carefully recounts the history of the eugenics movement, both in the United States and internationally, demonstrating how widely the idea of sterilization as a genetic control had become accepted by the early twentieth century.From the first, the American eugenicists led the way with radical ideas. Their influence led to sterilization laws in dozens of states--laws which were studied, and praised, by the German racial hygienists. With the rise of Hitler, the Germans enacted compulsory sterilization laws partly based on the U.S. experience, and American eugenists took pride in their influence on Nazi policies.Kühl recreates astonishing scenes of American eugenicists travelling to Germany to study the new laws, publishing scholarly articles lionizing the Nazi eugenics program, and proudly comparing personal notes from Hitler thanking them for their books.Even after the outbreak of war, he writes, the American eugenicists frowned upon Hitler's totalitarian government, but not his sterilization laws.So deep was the failure to recognize the connection between eugenics and Hitler's genocidal policies, that a prominent liberal Jewish eugenicist who had been forced to flee Germany found it fit to grumble that the Nazis "took over our entire plan of eugenic measures."
By 1945, when the murderous nature of the Nazi government was made perfectly clear, the American eugenicists sought to downplay the close connections between themselves and the German program.Some of them, in fact, had sought to distance themselves from Hitler even before the war.But Stefan Kühl's deeply documented book provides a devastating indictment of the influence--and aid--provided by American scientists for the most comprehensive attempt to enforce racial purity in world history. ... Read more

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Interesting Book
This is a valuable book that explores the role of American intellectual and psuedo-scientific policies and how the played an important role in the maturation of Nazi Germany. A must read. ... Read more

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In an intellectually engaging narrative that mixes science and history, theories and personalities, Pat Shipman asks the question: Can we have legitimate scientific investigations of differences among humans without sounding racist?Through the original controversy over evolutionary theory in Darwin's time; the corruption of evolutionary theory into eugenics; the conflict between laboratory research in genetics and fieldwork in physical anthropology and biology; and the continuing controversies over the heritability of intelligence, criminal behavior, and other traits, the book explains both prewar eugenics and postwar taboos on letting the insights of genetics and evolution into the study of humanity. "The volume is 'must' reading. Shipman gives readers a compelling discussion and candidly asks: 'Have we the courage and intelligence to face the truth about ourselves?' "--Kirkus Review"Shipman has written a courageous, thought-provoking and elegant book."--Los Angeles Times"This smoothly written book is a welcome addition to intellectual history."--New York Times Book Review ... Read more

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Well written, thoughtful and comprehensive
Shipman begins her book with Darwin and reflects on his struggles in presenting "The Origin of the Species" as he understood the controversy it would unleash. It is remarkable that the controversy has notabated in over a hundred years, but has instead evolved as delineated inthe book. Shipman's work should be required reading for students in avariety of disciplines to give them the tools to defend against thehenchmen of pseudoscience such as Rushton and Kevin MacDonald. Shipmanreflects on the complexities of evolution and of human differences whilemaking it clear that the human experience is diverse, and the use ofscience to support racism is not good science by any measure. This book isneed badly in an updated version to uncover the flawed arguments of thenewly prominent racists who are sheltered by academia.

The Evolution of Racism
Creationists can be funny (See below). But this is no laughing matter. Pat Shipman, and other scientists, should be applauded for taking a stand against pseudoscience, not belittled. Kudos to Shipman for writing such awonderful book.

Truth
Alas a writer who acknowledges that evolution implies racism and selection of the superior race. Politicians have been trying to suppress this, but they will fail in the end, as evolution wins. You cannot stop nature. ... Read more

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How could so many of America's educational, political and intellectual leaders have advocated such things as institutionalization, segregation and even sterilization of those with "inferior blood"? How could the racist notion of selective breeding and racial betterment have become an integral part of high school and college biology textbooks? In this work Stephen Selden tells the story of the eugenics movement in America during the early decades of the 20th century. Complete with archival photographs, "Inheriting Shame" provides a powerful historical account and refutation of biological determinist ideas. Selden discusses the role played by America's foremost socialists and scientists, popular media, and most importantly, the school textbook, in shaping public consciousness regarding the "truth" of biological determinism. Much more than simply an historical overview, "Inheriting Shame" concludes with a trenchant analysis of contemporary research evidence of the role that inheritance plays in complex human behaviour - including traits ranging from Down Syndrome to violent behaviour and homosexuality. ... Read more

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Another Gouldian Marxist view of eugenics.
Most of the books on eugenics from the radical environmental fringe, such as this one, recount the same earlier mistakes made in eugenics, and then the books trail off into some abstract Gouldian/Boas dissertation on theevils of biological determinism.This book follows the same worn outformula, but has a few interesting new twists on the story.But first, anydiscounting of eugenics because of errors made at the very beginning, wouldapply to virtually any scientific niche, including medicine.Do any ofthese authors try to convince people that we should give up modern medicinebecause at one time it was practiced only by witch doctors?I think not,but that is the general theme of all these books. But of course, no matterhow recent they are published, they usually suspend scientific facts atabout 1975 so they do not have to discuss the dazzling progress made ingenetics over the last twenty five years.

This book, unlike others,spends a great deal of time discussing the eugenic movements success inpenetrating education, by presenting its value to school children in thecurriculum.Selden laments this, but of course the flip side is that nowthe radical egalitarians are demanding that racial equality in intelligencebe taught in schools, along with other Marxist ideologies, but ignores thefact that like eugenics it is unfounded and pseudoscientific.In allfairness, during the earlier part of the last century, eugenics was largelypseudoscience.But now, the Gould/Boas school of egalitarianism nowcarries that mantle by denying what modern science has found. Genes matterfar more than the environment on important human traits such asintelligence, athleticism, conscientiousness, and even religiosity.Theseare all solid facts now discussed openly at the academic level, but keptfrom the general public by the new doctrines of political correctness. Published in 1999, it even has the gall to ignore books and reports by theAmerican Psychological Association showing that there is a real concernwith regards to dysgenic trends and that blacks are in fact lessintelligenton average than whites.(The Rising Curve / Intelligence:Knowns and Unknowns.) These are stated policy positions of this veryliberal organization, but ignored by Selden, putting him in the Marxistcamp along with Gould, Kamin, Lewontin and Rose.He even discusses Gould'srejection of the correlation between brain size and intelligence, eventhough there have been numerous recent studies showing a correlation usingMRI of about 0.4. (Gould has never apologized for omitting this latestevidence from his republication of "The Mismeasure of Man" to thechagrin of other scientists who have pointed it out to him.)

Seldenhammers home again and again how biological determinism is a theory oflimits, ignoring the fact that modern eugenicists believe that improvinggenetic capital means building for the future.Would we cut down the"rain forests" if it gave us additional money for Head Startprograms?I wouldn't think so.But that is the logic used throughout thebook to condemn all studies in human nature.

One rebuttal that I haven'tseen so far, apparently because the Gouldian school is getting desperate inlight of all the recent data in behavior genetics, is that twin andadoption studies are not reliable because the separated subjects, placed indifferent families, may in fact be in families that are so similar as to bealmost like they are the same family. Did you get that? For years,sociologists have been looking for subtle differences between familyenvironments to explain differences.But now, even after they haven't beensuccessful at finding what Jensen says is the missing Factor X explainingracial differences in intelligence (which these debates are really allabout), they claim that twin studies are invalid because, well, familiesare really just all alike. I would think even Gould should admit that thisis a "just so" story with little empirical evidence. Anyonefamiliar with behavior genetics can see the duplicity of such an inane argument. But to the unaware reader it may appear to be valid.So much foracademic honesty.

Overall, if one is aware that this book is really aboutpolitics and not science, and Marxist politics at that, it is easy to readand does a very good job of showing the lucid reader how desperate the lefthas become in trying to stop studies in racial differences.

Selden is a genius.
I recently picked up Selden's book in the local mall.I planned to only skim through it.However, I was left stunned with the introduction and had no choice but to purchase the book.In fact, I read the entire book in onenights time.Selden's story of Eugenics in America is amazing.He is atrue scholar and story teller, a gleeman of the modern age.Highlyrecommend this book to students of all majors. ... Read more

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Revealing
On reading this book,I was most interested to learn that
the Prophet Mohammed(please excuse if I have incorrectly
spelt his name)was white and Jesus was dark colored.

Dr. Price Does It Again!
At a time when there is a true need for concise information on the subject of Islam as it compares to the belief structure of the Christian faith, along comes Dr. Frederick K. C. Price with the third volume in his "Race, Religion, and Racism" series.The third book has the subtitle of "Jesus, Christianity and Islam" (2002, Faith One Publishing).

Just to bring you up to speed, I'll provide a little background on the series.During the mid-1990s, Dr. Price first presented "Race, Religion, and Racism" as a teaching series in his church.Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, California was the epicenter of some 60-plus weeks of truth that rocked America. Pastor Price, prior to the series, spent several years in study on the topic.Thus, if one had the opportunity to see the series presented, the books track consistently.

This latest volume could best be thought of as a consumer's guide to both the belief and faith structures of these two well-known religions.In Price's view, one must understand not only the core books of Islam (the Koran and the Hadith), but one must also understand what has been said by some of the leaders in Islam in the United States.
Dr. Price presents a balanced and well documented presentation of what has been said, what has been written, and what has been spoken by those involved in Islam--including the Nation of Islam and some of its leadership as it compares with the Bible.

One of the particularly interesting items of the book centers upon Black History and how, through deception, some African Americans are lured into Islam without exploring or even understanding our own Christian heritage.Without giving away too much of the contents of the work, let us just say that Price does inform, and give the reader a choice--by placing both faiths side-by-side and allowing the reader to make up their own mind.

The third volume in this series does maintain the standard set out by Price when he began the series.It is a much needed addition to one's own library, and biblical knowledge. ... Read more