Race Relations Unit
Directory of Resources
A.
Anti-racism
B.
Affirmative
action
§
Affirmative Action : a Documentary
History
§
Affirmative
Action in Antidiscrimination Law & Policy : An Overview & Synthesis
§
Affirmative Exclusion
: Cultural Pluralism & the Rule of Custom in France
§ The Affirmative Action Debate.
§ Acting black : college, identity, & the performance of race
§
Anti-Oppressive social work
theory and practice
C.
Apartheid
§
Against Global Apartheid: South
Africa meets the World Bank, IMF & International Finance
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Apartheid No More : case studies of Southern African
Universities in the Process of Transformation
§ Apartheid’s landscape and ideas : a scorched soul
D.
Beliefs
§
Tradition, Lotu &
Militarism in Fiji
§ African – Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights 1900 – 1990
§ African – American Youth (their social and economic status in the United States)
§
Abolitionism
and issues of race and gender : history of the American Abolitionist
Movement Series
F.
Colour
§
America behind the
color line (dialogues with African Americans)
§ A country of strangers (blacks and whites in America)
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The American dream in
black & white (the Clarence Thomas hearings)
G.
Coups
§
Coup (Reflections on
the Political Crisis in Fiji)
§
Fiji Coups in Paradise (Race,
Politics & Military Intervention)
H.
Cultural
differences
§ Afraid of the Dark (what whites and blacks need to know about each other)
§
Africans on
African-Americans: the creation and uses of an African-American myth
I.
Cultural
diversity
§ Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations (beyond the corporate context)
§ American skin (pop culture, big business, & the end of White America)
J.
Culture
§ Class and Culture in the South Pacific
K.
Ethnicity
§
Pacific Indians (Profiles
in 20 Pacific Countries)
§
An African’s Life (The
Life & Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797
L. Good Governance
§
Good Governance in the
South Pacific (2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series)
§ A History of Fiji /R A Derrick/R A Derrick
§
Twentieth Century Fiji (People
who shaped this Nation)
§
Fijian Studies (A Journal
of Contemporary Fiji) vol1no.1
§
Always Elsewhere : travels
of the Black Atlantic
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Development or Dependence : the pattern of
change in a Fijian village
§ “White” Americans in “Black” Africa :Black and White American Methodist Missionaries in Liberia, 1820-1875 ( Studies in African American history and culture
N. Holocaust
§ Abiding Hope (bearing witness to the Holocaust)
§ Anti – Semitism (from its European roots to the Holocaust)
§
The Altruistic
Personality : Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe
O. Integration
§ Americanizing the West (race, immigrants, & citizenship, 1890-1930)
§ White talk black talk (inter-racial friendship & communication amongst adolescents
§ Adoption across Borders (serving the Children in Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions)
§ American Indian & African American People, Communities, and Interactions : an annotated Bibliography
§ American Crucible : race and nation in the twentieth century
P. Inter-racial
§
About face : race in postmodern
America
Q. Land
rights
§
Access Denied (Palestinian
land rights in Israel)
R. Nationalism
§
Blood on their Banner (Nationalist
Struggles in the South Pacific)
§
The Façade of Democracy (Fijian
Struggles for Political Control 1830-1987)
S.
Politics
§
Fiji before the Storm (elections
& the politics of development)
§
A Vision for Change (AD
Patel and the politics of Fiji)
T. Prejudice
§ Reducing Prejudice and Stereotyping in Schools
§ Isma – Listern: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians
U.
Race
§
Analyzing Race Talk (Multidisciplinary
Perspectives on the Research Interview)
§
Access denied (race,
Ethnicity, and the Scientific Enterprise)
V.
Race relations
§
Toward A Common Destiny (improving race and ethnic relations in
America)
§ Dictionary of race and ethnic Relations (fourth edition)
§
Theories of race &
ethnic relations
§
Sage race relations abstracts
(volume 10 number; 4 November 1985)
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Racism and equal
opportunity policies in the 1980s (comparative ethnic and race relations
series)
§
Afraid of the Dark
(what whites and blacks need to know
about each other
§
Reconstructing Race relations Workshop Resolutions
/ Fiji Human Rights Commission. 2001
§
Reconstructing Race Relations Follow-Up Workshop
Resolutions /
W.Racial
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Against all enemies foreign
and domestic : a study of urban unrest and federal intervention within the
United States
X.
Racial
discrimination
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Against the Odds (Scholars
who challenged racism in the twentieth century
§ African Images (racism and the end of Anthropology)
Y.
Racial equality
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Advancing Democracy (African
Americans & the struggle for access & equity in higher education in
Texas
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Achieving our Humanity (the
idea of the postracial future)
Z.
Reconciliation
§
Multiculturalism &
Reconciliation in an Indulgent Republic (Fiji after the Coups:
1987-1998)
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Reconciliation, Justice,
& Coexistence (Theory & Practice)
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America’s Atonement (racial pain,
recovery rhetoric, & the pedagogy of
healing
Periodicals
§
Journal of
Ethnic & Migration Studies - ISSN 1369-183X
- The Contemporary
Pacific - ISSN: 1043-898X
- Fijian Studies –
ISSN:
CD-ROMs
§
HomeBeats: Struggles for Racial Justice
(multi-user licence and study pack)
Links
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is a Non Government Organisation (NGO) based in Suva,
Founded in 1990 by the late Reverend Paula Niukula, with the aim to address the
social,
religious, economic and political issues that confront
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journal, magazine and newspaper articles.
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UK Directory on race relations resources and Organisations promoting racial equality,
anti-racism and multiculturalism.
Media Resources ( Newspaper articles & TV news items):
Race Relations Unit
Directory of Resources
Titles and Brief Summaries:
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Abiding Hope (Bearing witness to the Holocaust)
Benjamin
A Samuelson. Ulyssian Publications:
The story of a person who survived the Holocaust, the story of his life and experiences, the horrors of
Nazi concentration camps and the horrors of discrimination
Abolitionism and issues of race and gender : history of the American Abolitionist Movement Series
edited by John R McKivigan .
ISBN : 0-8153-3108-8
Articles in the volume argue that African Americans have contributed significantly in starting and supporting
the early abolitionist movement; in arousing white sympathy for the slaves and in holding conventions to
support civil rights and self-help
About face : race in postmodern America
Timothy
Maliqalim Simone. Autonomedia:
Euro-American perspectives
Access Denied : Palestinian land rights in Israel
Hussein
Abu Hussein & Fiona Mckay. Zed Books :
land system of landownership, the acquisition and administration of public land, and the control
of land use through planning and housing regulations; the extent and means by which Israeli
land policy restricts access to land by Israeli Palestinians and the discrimination that this
entails for those citizens who are not of Jewish origin
Access Denied: race, ethnicity and the scientific enterprise
George Campbell Jr., Ronni Denes, Catherine Morrison .
Press:
A discussion of the issue that in spite of the enormous progress made since the Civil Rights
era of the 1960s, African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians remain significantly
underrepresented in science, engineering and mathematics, and other significant ways
and means through which this group is significantly
denied access.
Achieving our Humanity : the idea of the Postracial future
Emmanuel
Chukwudi Eze. Routledge:
An exploration of a postracial future through historical and philosophical analysis and
critique of the idea of race, in the hope that race and racism can be transcended; the
writer, drawing from his personal experience of being labeled “black” in UK and USA,
argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity
Acting Black : college, identity and the performance of race
Sarah Susannah Willie .
Routledge:
black and historically white universities, this book reveals the intransigence of racism, the
challenge of performing trace, and the need for a
racial identity that is both stable and flexible
Addressing Cultural issues in Organizations: beyond the corporate context
edited by Robert T Carter. Sage Publications :
panel of experts with extensive research and publication histories in psychology, education
and organizational consulting
Adoption across borders : serving the children in Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions
Rita J Simon and Howard Altstein .
Rowman & Littlefield : Lanham, 2000. 161pp. ISBN : 0-8476-9832-7
Describes the findings and evaluations of the major studies on transracial and intercountry adoptions
over the past thirty years; a brief history and the best frequency estimates of transracial and intercountry
adoptions in the USA and an overview of thee debate surrounding the practices,
policies, and legal issues.
Advancing democracy (African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas)
Amilcar Shabazz.
A discussion of the experiences of the minority coloured sector of the community in respect of access
to equality in education; the description of a struggle for recognition of the need for equality and the
special need of coloured people for special consideration in admission policies to university and
other higher institutions of learning
edited by Steven M Cahn. 2nd ed. Routledge:
justification of affirmative action; the strongest
contributions from both sides of this highly charged issue
Affirmative Action : a documentary history
edited by Jo Ann Ooiman
Robinson.
and development; an invaluable reference resource which also explores race, gender and disability in
their relevance to Affirmative Action; a thorough presentation of arguments for and against Affirmative
Action detailing the ins and outs of the debate and encouraging critical thinking and giving a wide
range of perspectives including lawyers, judges, presidents, activists, and even those who have
benefited from it and those who have been threatened by it
Affirmative action in Antidiscrimination law and policy :an overview and synthesis
Samuel
Leiter and William M Leiter.
An examination of the origin and growth of affirmative action, its impact on American society, its
current state, and its future anti-discrimination role, if
any.
Affirmative Exclusion : cultural Pluralism and the rule of Custom in France
Jean-Loup Amselle.
or zones; special opportunities must therefore be given to the disabled of every sort.
Afraid of the Dark : what Whites and Blacks need to know about each other
Jim Myers. Lawrence Hill Books :
exposing subtle racism, the fears and misconceptions that whites and blacks have about
each other, the taboos concerning the browning of America and interracial marriage.
African-American Youth : their social & economic status in the United States
edited by Ronald L Taylor . Praeger :
Essays demonstrating the wide variations in the circumstances and experiences of African
American youth as a result of the growing socioeconomic, ecological and regional variations
in the American communities across the country.
African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights 1900-1990
Sean
Dennis Cashman. University Press :
The history of civil rights in twentieth century America, the principal course of civil rights
against the dramatic backdrop of the two world wars, the Great Depression, the affluent
society of the postwar world, the cultural and social agitation of the 1960s, and the
emergence of the new conservatism of the 1970s and
1980s.
African Images : racism and the end of Anthropology
Peter
Rigby. BERG :
A response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by
prominent white scholars; how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas and how
some of America’s most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly
egalitarian discourses.
An African’s life : the life and times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797
James Walvin. Continuum :
A biographical study of a person whose autobiography is probably the most quoted reprinted and
widely published writing by an African before the twentieth century; an attempt to create a rounded
portrait
of the man behind the literary image and to study Equiano in the context of
Atlantic slavery
Africans on African-Americans: the creation and uses of an African-American myth
Yekutiel Gershoni. Palgrave, Macmillan :
led them to look to the African-American experience for models in religion, education and politics </