Social discrimination & inequality
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Black Ghost of Empire
£10.99Black Ghost of Empire
To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts our society today, we must look at the unfinished way it ended. We celebrate the abolition of slavery – in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra reveals how during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were in fact dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths the uncomfortable truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slave owners, not the enslaved, in vast sums that were only paid off in 2015. In Jamaica, Black people were freed only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself.
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Camp Zero
£9.99Camp Zero
America, 2049: At a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly-trained women with the code-name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance. But the terms of their employment become increasingly uncertain. And in a former oil town in northern Canada called Dominion Lake, a camp is being built – Camp Zero. A rare source of fresh, clean air and cooler temperatures, it will be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. Grant believes it will be the perfect place to atone for his family’s dark legacy. Everyone has an agenda. So who can you trust? And could falling in love be most the radical act of all?
SKU: 9781399802352 Category: Fiction A-z Tags: Fiction & related items, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Sexual behaviour, Social discrimination & inequality, Social networking£9.99 -
Fifty miles wide
£12.99Fifty miles wide
Award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer cycles through Israel and occupied Palestine – with a new introduction by the author.
SKU: 9781529439793 Category: Travel Tags: Autobiography: historical, political & military, Civil rights & citizenship, Corruption in society, Geopolitics, Memoirs, Political control & freedoms, Political oppression & persecution, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social discrimination & inequality, Travel writing£12.99 -
Systemic
£22.00Systemic
Science journalist Layal Liverpool unearths the shocking research and articulates the vital solutions to the potent health threat of racism in society, science and medicine. Across the world, in every country she has studied and in every area of medicine she has examined, people belonging to marginalised racial and ethnic groups disproportionately experience poor health outcomes – with people of colour often experiencing worse health compared with White people. From cardiovascular disease to viruses, cancer to mental illness, Liverpool delves into the reasons racial health disparities exist and reveals that diseases are not ‘great equalisers’ – not when you live in an unequal society. She shows how the widespread adoption of anti-racist medical standards and societal policies will be central in creating a healthier world for everyone.
SKU: 9781526652157 Category: Health And Wellbeing Tags: Health systems & services, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Medical sociology, Popular science, Public health & preventive medicine, Social discrimination & inequality£22.00 -
The patriarchs
£10.99The patriarchs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023
SKU: 9780008418144 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Feminism & feminist theory, History of ideas, Political oppression & persecution, Sexual behaviour, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural history, Social discrimination & inequality, Social issues & processes, Social theory£10.99 -
This is Europe
£22.00This is Europe
A portrait of Europe as it has never been seen before, told through twenty extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it.
SKU: 9781447276265 Category: History Tags: Migration, immigration & emigration, Poverty & unemployment, Reportage & collected journalism, Social discrimination & inequality, Travel writing£22.00 -
This is Europe
£12.99This is Europe
A vivid portrait of Europe as you’ve never seen it before, told through the extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it.
SKU: 9781447276296 Category: Biography Tags: Migration, immigration & emigration, Poverty & unemployment, Reportage & collected journalism, Social discrimination & inequality, Travel writing£12.99