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Books on Intersectionality

Title: Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the U.S. 1969-1990
Author: Sandra Morgen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2002

Description: Morgen traces the history of women's health care in the United States. It is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with more than forty movement activists, including many of its leaders; documentary material from a number of feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of women's health movement organizations in the early 1990s; ethnographic fieldwork; and the scholarship of those who have studied this development. For more information about this book click here.

Title: Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling
Author: L. Janelle Dance
Publisher: Routledge Falmer
Year: 2002

Description: Drawing on more than 70 interviews, Dance gives students' own perspectives on the social incongruity between school culture and the non-mainstream culture of street-savvy students view as necessary for positive educational outcomes. For more information about this bookclick here.

Title: The Political Geographies of Pregnancy
Author: Laura R. Woliver
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Year: 2002

Description: The Political Geographies of Pregnancy is a vigorous analysis of the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, new reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of the human genome. For more information about this book click here.

Title: Health Issues in the Latino Community
Editors: Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Carlos Molina, and Ruth Enid Zambrana
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Year: 2001

Description: This book takes a comprehensive approach that informs and promotes the advancement of the practice, program planning, research, and public policy to improve health care of all Latino citizens. For more information about this book click here.

Title: Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
Author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2002

Description: The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. For more information about this book click here.

Title: The Many Costs of Racism
Author: Joe Feagin and Karyn McKinney
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2002

Description: Black families earn an average income 60 percent less than white families, and African-Americans live about 6-7 years less than white Americans. The Many Costs of Racism is a revealing look at how African Americans experience a very different America than the nation's white citizens. For more information about this book click here.

Title: Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?
Author: Judith R. Blau
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2003

Description: Author Judith Blau explores the values, activities, and educational experiences of young Americans born a decade or so after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Challenging long-held assumptions, she focuses on topics important both in students’ lives and in schools: from interracial relations, to "getting into trouble," to going to college. For more information about this book click here.

Title: Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism
Editor: Abby L. Ferber
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003

Description: The top names in the field come together in this collection with original essays that explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements, skinheads and more. For more information about this book click here.

Title: Black Demons: Media's Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype
Author: Dennis Rome
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Year: 2004

Description: The stereotype of the African American male as a criminal element in society continues to be a major obstacle to greater racial harmony and the elimination of discrimination and racism on all levels. Often, this criminal stereotype is internalized by African American youth, so they are made to feel as though delinquent behavior is expected from them, and many fall into this trap. Black Demons examines this stereotype and contends that much of the blame for its perpetuation comes from mass media's negative depictions of African American males. For more information about this book click here.