(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best discrimination & racism books

Jackson here, I am an aspiring author, with poor grammar and I'm an awful speller. Without spell check and proofreaders I would be helpless. Working on my second book on homeless cures and myths. https://www.amazon.com/Domino-Effect-Narrow-Retrain-Americans/dp/0985560215 I was headed up to Portland because my eldest son had passed through there and felt it was required for my second book to have information from there. I ended up in Eugene and staying because I saw a different thing; a housing issue and a homeless issue, separate and combined

I communicate the message well; homeless people are not null and void. I've been working with the city for 7 plus months on creating a better place for all.

Maybe you should leave...

The homeless residents here are just like you, stuck in the world they envision as survivable! Most all on the streets living would rather be inside, but for the restrictions imposed by the ever exclusive market of housing and 700 plus on a TRW/TU/EF report. Now needed to get a good job, loans, rental unit, and more. Nobody ever educated the masses on these impacts on one's life. And many out here are on disability income, preventing them from being housed in their community with a 700+ and clean criminal history.

I have grown boys, both college grads struggling getting jobs in their fields of study. I owned a business for 20 years in NJ. I could go that direction again if not for being married to the cause of giving a voice to those I see are nullified without investigation, based only on status.

I don't know any papers...but this series of papers (read as "book") explains in detail how scapegoating of Muslims is used to control people.

I would imagine looking up subjects related to imperialism and colonialism might lead you in the right direction. France and Egypt, and Britain and India had imperial relations.

That's all I got off the top of my side.

Those are good reading recs.

If one is still able to sleep after that, take a look at "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right" by Daniel Levitas (2004.) Fun times.

https://www.amazon.com/Terrorist-Next-Door-Militia-Movement/dp/0312320418

It reminds me of Ben Cobley's The Tribe.

Maybe they read this book?

Racecraft!

The Shape of the River by William G. Bowen, Derek Bok, Princeton University Press,
1998.

http://www.amazon.com/Shape-River-Consequences-Considering-University/dp/0691002746/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1393788490

I've linked to her book which I used in the description, but here's a direct link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1608462110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a2KRzbS4CAMY9

I don't know if it's an actual recognised diagnosis, but there is a book on it.

You should read this book

This is a good start.

There is a fuck ton of books on the subject as well.

>What is wrong with my application?

Nothing, probably. Competition is extremely high and you have to catch potential PI advisors in the right portion of their budget cycle to find a space in their group. There are more worthy candidates than there are positions to hire them into. And then there's bias, inconsistency, and straight-up prejudice in the admissions process.

>I applied to Caltech, MIT, Berkely, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard

These are incredibly difficult programs to get into, I'm sure there are a lot of people with great applications who get turned away every year.

>Everywhere I look if you don't get into a prestigious grad school, you have a massive uphill battle to continuing in academia.

There are prestigious grad schools outside of Caltech, MIT, Berkely, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard.

I've had this recommended to me on this subreddit (haven't read it yet). Covers across times/geographies but not quite so huge as the Cambridge World History! Of course it's also one writer rather than a range - this has advantages (single coherent account) and disadvantages (you may want to check our scholarly reviews etc. to understand where others disagree)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0674986903/?coliid=I17DMH4TQ8QNSE&colid=19N8F8NJGSOMV&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Again, I don't believe this post is saying here look this is the evidence of institutional racism. Its saying these are some of the results.

It does matter. Because as you well know asking a picture to explain to you the causes and "prove" racism is impossible. So I have to assume your point is to say that these disparities are not caused by racism, otherwise the comment is of little to no value.

If you want to read up on the causes, I suggest you start here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Meritocracy-Myth-Stephen-McNamee/dp/0742561682

http://www.amazon.com/Institutional-Racism-America-Louis-Knowles/dp/0134677382

Right. Whether the Germans tattooed the Jews is of little/no consequence. Accordingly, I think it's odd that CWP has decided to argue so zealously that they did not. Moreover, if Jews really did tattoo each other, it seems odd that they would conceal that fact. Surely, if the German's issued no tattoos at Auschwitz, someone would let it slip that he received his tattoo from a fellow inmate.

Jewish prohibition on tattooes certainly doesn't mean they couldn't have done it. It's just one factor to consider, and I think it makes it less likely so many Jews would have voluntarily tattooed themselves.

Non-Jews at Auschwitz were tattooed too. Why would they play along with the ruse. Here is Pierre Berg, a French gentile:

>At the first table, a son of a Warsaw haberdasher sewed the number, 172649, onto my jacket and pants. I sat down at the next table where a German prisoner wrote my name and serial number on a card. From the corner of my eye, I watched alarmed as the man next to me got tattooed. The bleeding numbers were taking up his whole forearm. The German processing me grabbed my left arm, dipped his pen into his white, porcelain inkstand and attacked my forearm with fast, little jabs. I clenched my teeth, but the physical pain was less than the stinging realization that the numbers 172649 meant I was now officially property of the Third Reich.

>“Will this ever come off?”

>He shook his head. “It’s permanent.”

Sounds believable to me. Can Carlos Porter give even one example of an Auschwitz inmate who corroborates his theory?

*Jews use Torah prohibitions on consuming blood to deflect blood libels (using Chrisitian blood for Matzo, etc.), and I have a book "debunking" the Protocols of Zion by showing point by point how the protocols contradict Jewish law. (Terrible book btw.) I think the Protocols are a hoax but that hardly proves it. As to the blood libels, Ariel Toaff has shown "strong documentary evidence in medieval medical handbooks that dried human blood, traded by both Jewish and Christian merchants, was thought to be medicinally efficacious." And I agree with Toaff that it's possible* there existed small heretical sects of Ashkenazi Jews that used blood at Passover or Purim.

I think it’s important to remember that even within diversity movements, hierarchies of racism and sexism will replicate themselves if unchecked. I’m originally from the Southeastern region of the United States, and this has shaped my perspective.

In our country, we have made strides to recognize the fundamental human rights of LGBTQA individuals. Same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015. Yet we would be mistaken to believe that this action alone is sufficient to improve the lives of all LGBTQ A people.

Last year (2017) was the deadliest year on record for black trans women (source https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017). Furthermore, the right to marry is still not legal in all Native American territories. The rate of HIV/AIDS remains and continues to grow at epidemic levels for black LGBTQ men.

My point is that the recognition of human rights and dignity the LGBTQA community and allies have fought for doesn’t extend equally to all. Some (LGBTQA) lives still matter more than others. And this is true when it comes to prioritization of public health issues, interactions with the police and quality of life.

When a person of color tells you something makes them feel unwelcome or uncomfortable, instead of dismissing it- I encourage you to listen and seek understanding first.

Canada is not the US, but I nevertheless think my perspective adds something to this conversation. The book Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel changed my life, if you are interested in learning more about how to be a white ally. https://www.amazon.com/Uprooting-Racism-People-Racial-Justice/dp/0865716889

Edit: this Wikipedia entry is a thorough illustration of how racism, sexism, anti-semitism, xenophobia etc. occur within the community and why we need to listen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_LGBT_community

He tends to be less than charitable to those he disagrees with and can be extremely caustic in his writing. This is on top of some of the issues with his writings on slavery. (Here are a couple of online resources addressing this. His most controversial pamphlet is this: Southern Slavery: As it Was.) That should be a decent primer on some of the issues that you may encounter with DW and slavery.

> Cares more to expose racism in Asia than in America for this very reason, when he knows he won't be treated nearly as bad in Asia at the end of the day.

Are you Asian or a hapa? White worshiping racist Asians should be called out as well. He did a great job in that video exposing racism and white worship in Korea/Asia. I personally experienced more racism from Asians than in the West. "Asian racism is as large as white racism".

This is 100% false he says we are choosing to be slaves. His wording is absolutely terrible and insanely ambiguous, so it's easy to misinterpret what he's saying. But if you really think the "we" in this context was in reference to white people/slave owners then you're absolutely wrong.

Please please please stay the fuck away from shitty youtube sekptics, they're all contrarians and hacks. "He wasn't saying saying slavery was a choice for actual slaves when slavery was a thing in america. He was saying that it sounds like a choice for people that he's encountered who suggest they've been victimized in some way by 400 years of slavery."

1. That's a stretch
   
2. Sounds like he believes that black people complain and whine too much about slavery when they've never experienced it themselves. When in reality the effects (and some behaviors) of racist America undoubtedly still exist today and the government has not done nearly enough to eliminate these lingering effects (although they have been reduced).
   
   Here are some studies/books if you don't already believe this:
   
   
3. Racism and Mental Health: The African American experience
   
4. Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time
   
5. Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States:
   An Intergenerational Perspective
   
6. The legacy of Malthus: The social costs of the new scientific racism
   
7. African Americans are better off in many ways but
   are still disadvantaged by racial inequality
   
8. Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System: Five Years Later
   
9. Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
   
10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness