Books for Race, Class and Gender Courses

The Womanist Idea

By Layli Maparyan

Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies

By Lynn Prince Cooke

Series: Perspectives on Gender

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is...

Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge

Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender

Commonsense, Power, and Privilege in the United States

By Celine-Marie Pascale

Using arresting case studies of how ordinary people understand the concepts of race, class, and gender, Celine-Marie Pascale shows that the peculiarity of commonsense is that it imposes obviousness-that which we cannot fail to recognize. As a result, how we negotiate the challenges of inequality in...

Published December 12th 2006 by Routledge

Black Sexual Politics

African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

By Patricia Hill Collins

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today....

Published July 13th 2005 by Routledge

Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys

Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education

By Nancy Lopez

This book is an ethnographic study of Carribean youth in New York City to help explain how and why schools and cities are failing boys of color....

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge

Black Feminist Thought

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd Edition

By Patricia Hill Collins, Patricia Hill Collins

Series: Perspectives on Gender

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those...

Published December 6th 1999 by Routledge