Razza, Migrazione e Demografia Serie

The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.

Some embrace the idea of white privilege as an important concept that helps us to make sense of the connection between race and social and political disadvantages, while others are critical or even hostile. Philosopher Shannon Sullivan cuts through the confusion and cross-talk to challenge what 'everybody knows' about white privilege--

How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence.Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and real-life examples, Meghan Burke reveals colorblind racism to be an insidious presence in many areas of institutional and everyday life in the United States. She explains what is meant by colorblind racism, uncovers its role in the history of racial discrimination, and explores its effects on how we talk about and treat race today. The book also engages with recent critiques of colorblind racism to show the limitations of this framework and how a deeper, more careful study of colorblindness is needed to understand the persistence of racism and how it may be challenged.This accessible book will be an invaluable overview of a key phenomenon for students across the social sciences, and its far-reaching insights will appeal to all interested in the social life of race and racism.

Die Flüchtlingskrise stellt unsere Gesellschaft vor enorme Herausforderungen. Da sind nicht nur praktische Probleme zu lösen, auch unser Selbstverständnis steht zur Debatte; dazu kommt die Angst, eine so große Zahl von Migranten könnte unser Land ganz grundsätzlich verändern. Der Soziologe und Journalist Paul Scheffer hat sich viele Jahre mit allen Aspekten der Migration beschäftigt. „Die Eingewanderten“ gilt mittlerweile international als Standardwerk und liegt hier in einer aktualisierten Neuausgabe vor. Es erklärt Geschichte und Ursachen der Migration und liefert damit die Grundlage, unsere heutigen Konflikte zu verstehen und die Orientierung in einer unübersichtlichen Welt zu behalten.

The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike.

This book is a path-breaking reflection of the challenges posed to Western societies by the large-scale migration of the postwar period.

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. If you adopt this book for classroom use in the 2019-2020 academic year, the author would be pleased to arrange to Skype to a session of your class.