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  • Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness

    Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness Policy Press 2016-10-05 224 pages 6¾ x 9½ Cloth ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2281-8 Paper ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2282-5 Shirley A. Hill, Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Kansas This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and…

  • Why Race Policy must include Multiracial Americans

    Why Race Policy must include Multiracial Americans Policy Press Blog at the University of Bristol 2016-01-27 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Today’s guest blog by Kathleen Odell Korgen, whose book Race policy and multi-racial Americans published this month, examines the much overlooked issue of including multiracial Americans in…

  • Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

    “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.

  • Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority

    “Obama and the Biracial Factor” is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States with an emphasis on public discourse and ethnic representation in his election.