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NEW PUBLICATION!
SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies Patricia Hill Collins and John Solomos SAGE 2010 The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is a vital resource for researchers and students with a panoramic, critical survey of the field. It is a rigorous, focused examination of the central questions in the field today. The text examines: • The roots of the field of race and ethnic studies • The distinction between race and ethnicity • Methodological issues facing researchers • The relationship between the field and more established disciplines • Intersections between race and ethnicity and questions sexuality, gender, nation and social transformation • The challenge of multiculturalism • Race, ethnicity and globalization • Race and the family • Race and education • Race and religion • Issues for the 21st Century Planned and edited by a distinguished team of Anglo-American scholars, the Handbook pools an impressive range of international world class expertise and insight. It provides a landmark work in the field which will be the measure of debate and research for years to come. Click here and follow the appropriate link to read a sample chapter. Hardcover ISBN: 9780761942207 $140.00NEW PUBLICATION!
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination By Alondra Nelson | University of Minnesota Press | 312 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-7648-4 | hardcover | $24.95 The Black Panther Party is most often remembered for its revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization’s broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party’s health activism—its network of free health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination—was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition thatpoor blacks were both underserved by mainstream medicine and overexposed to its harms. Nelson argues that the Party’s understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/body-and-soul . Alondra Nelson is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.