Overview
- Provides a timely and up-to-date analysis of problems on racism
- Offers a coherent review of slavery in the USA since 1619
- Connects both issues with recent events like Black Lives Matter et al
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book supplies a readable, scholarly account of recent issues in race and racism in the United States that will be useful for general readers, undergraduate students, and their professors. It will be useful in many fields, including Black studies, other ethnic pursuits, United States history, law, criminal justice, intercultural communication, et al. The work contains a powerful historical narrative followed by several important, essays on subjects including George Floyd’s murder, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and many other victims of systematic racism.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bruce E. Johansen is a Frederick W. Kayser research professor emeritus for Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, where he taught and researched from 1982 to 2019, then retired with emeritus status. He has published 52 books in several fields: history, anthropology, law, the Earth sciences, and others. Johansen’s writing has been published, debated, and reviewed in many academic venues, among them the William and Mary Quarterly, American Historical Review, Current History, and Nature, as well as in many popular newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times and The National Geographic.
Adebowale Akande is one of the world’s top contributors and productive cross-cultural researchers for research publications with over 32,120 Google scholar citations and over 200 refereed articles/chapters. Akande has held faculty appointments at several international universities. In 1998, he was appointed thefirst black full professor at a white most prestigious university in South Africa. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992; the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew UniMICH in 1996. Further, he received the ISPA Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor, Indian Institute of Planning and Management, in 2008, and the AAGT-EAGT Award in 2018. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize (2005) for research on ambivalent sexism. Akande’s major research interests vary but mainly focus on relationships among transnational self-esteem, learning, power, political influence, prejudice. He is also known as a popularizer of cross-cultural studies. He currently serves as an international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and a guest professor to a number of Canadian Universities in British Columbia, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks
Book Subtitle: From Slavery to Black Lives Matter
Editors: Bruce E. Johansen, Adebowale Akande
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85155-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85154-5Published: 05 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85155-2Published: 04 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 346
Topics: Political Science, Political Sociology, Political History, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law