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The Velvet Glove
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

The Velvet Glove

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Class Awareness in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Class Awareness in the United States

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Partial Visions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Partial Visions

A pathbreaking study of political culture in the United States, Britain, and Canada, Partial Visions demonstrates how popular culture--expressed through television soap operas and comedies, civics and history textbooks, magazine advertisements, and corporate publications and recruitment leaflets--subtly deflects and suppresses democratic political action. Richard Merelman argues that political messages embedded in popular culture weaken the division between public and private and between society and the individual. These "partial visions" of democracy are idealized yet inequitable, revelatory yet distorted. As a result, issues that might galvanize useful group conflict do not emerge, and the...

White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era

Is a racial structure still firmly in place in the United States? White Supremacy and Racism answers that question with an unequivocal yes, describing a contemporary system that operates in a covert, subtle, institutional, and superficially nonracial fash on. Assessing the major perspectives that social analysts have relied on to explain race and racial relations, Bonilla-Silva labels the post-civil rights ideology as color-blind racism: a system of social arrangements that maintain white privilege at all levels. His analysis of racial politics in the United States makes a compelling argument for a new civil rights movement rooted in the race-class needs of minority masses, multiracial in character - and focused on attaining substantive rather than formal equality.

The Publications of the Harleian Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578

The Publications of the Harleian Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Minutes of the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Year ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 786

Minutes of the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Year ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1861
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The History of Sutton, New Hampshire: Consisting of the Historical Collections of Erastus Wadleigh, Esq., and A. H. Worthen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 596
Women Who Give Away Millions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Women Who Give Away Millions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-10-22
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts. Iris Nowell is the author of five books. Writing her 1996 book, Women Who Give Away Millions, has given her a solid foundation of philanthropy, the not-for-profit sector, and the wealthy. She has also written a memoir of Canadian artist Harold Town, and a biography of artist, filmmaker, and impassioned feminist, Joyce Wieland.