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Black Well-Being & discriminationbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Black Well-Being and discrimination.

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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.

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A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America

When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years.

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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World

In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the U.S. national anthem.

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Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization.

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The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports

Part play-by-play, part op-ed, The Game Is Not a Game is an illuminating and unflinching examination of the good and evil in the sports industry.

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The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions

The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model.

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Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today

A powerful commemoration of notable moments of protest, Picturing Resistance highlights the important American social justice movements of the last seven decades.

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