In "The Truly Disadvantaged", renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential information and a number of solutions to policymakers. "The Truly Disadvantaged" is a wide-ranging examination, looking at the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s onwards, with surprising and provocative findings. This second edition also includes a new afterword from Wilson himself that brings the book up to date and offers fresh insight into its findings.

Bonilla-Silva, although he brings up good points (the fact that color-blind racism is the dominant ideology) his arguments are one sided. For example: he believes that blacks who claim that they didn't get a job because of their color are justified and valid. However, when whites claim that they didn't get a job because of a minority (as a result of affirmative action), that whites use this storyline so that they never have to believe that they weren't qualified for a job or promotion. Also, Bonilla-Silva states that if a white person were more qualified than a minority and still lost the job over a minority, he suggests that perhaps the white applicant didn't interview well, but doesn't make the same excuses for the black applicant. Basically he's saying that if a black person doesn't get a job then it's because of discrimination no matter what. Bonilla-Silva is completely one-sided.
He completely rebukes reverse discrimination. His studies which are supposed to prove his theories are also weak. He interviewed many whites about their views on blacks but he only interviewed a handful of blacks about their views on whites. I would have felt better about the book if he admitted to being as racist as he claims that whites are.

影片以作家詹姆斯·鲍德温未完成的小说《记住这个房子》为切入点，片中还涉及马丁·路德·金、马尔克姆·X、梅加·埃弗斯的故事。

纽约布鲁克林黑人社区生活着各个族群的人：黑人、意大利移民、韩国人.....意大利移民Sal（丹尼·爱罗 Danny Aiello 饰）和他的两个儿子在这里经营一家比萨店很久了，Mookie（斯派克·李 Spike Lee 饰）在店里负责送外卖，经常和Sal的儿子闹矛盾。 Radio Raheem（Bill Nunn 饰）是一个喜欢提着一个收音机大声放着音乐到处走的年轻人。炎热的一天，黑人小伙Buggin' Out（吉安卡罗·埃斯波西托 Giancarlo Esposito 饰）发现比萨店墙上挂着的名人照片里没有一个黑人，十分不满；而Radio来到比萨店，却被Sal要求关掉收音机。心怀不满的Buggin' Out和Radio决定找Sal讨个说法，三人在争执中，Sal把Radio的收音机砸烂了。Radio大怒，便和Sal打了起来。警察赶来了，围观的人也越来越多，一场种族间的暴乱即将到来......
本片被提名62届奥斯卡最佳男配角、最佳改编剧本，本片的成功使黑人导演斯派克李在好莱坞大放异彩。

It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In "Talking about Race", Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common ground, participants tend to leave their discussions with a heightened awareness of differences in perspective and experience. Drawing readers into these intense conversations between ordinary Americans working to deal with diversity and figure out the meaning of citizenship in our society, she challenges many preconceptions about intergroup relations and organized public talk. Disputing the conventional wisdom that unity is the only way forward, Walsh prescribes a practical politics of difference that compels us to reassess the place of face-to-face discussion in civic life and the critical role of conflict in deliberative democracy.

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. "Poverty Knowledge" gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy. Alice O'Connor chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to a detached, highly technical analysis of the demographic and behavioral characteristics of the poor. Along the way, she uncovers the origins of several controversial concepts, including the "culture of poverty" and the "underclass." She shows how such notions emerged not only from trends within the social sciences, but from the central preoccupations of twentieth-century American liberalism: economic growth, the Cold War against communism, the changing fortunes of the welfare state, and the enduring racial divide.The book details important changes in the politics and organization as well as the substance of poverty knowledge. Tracing the genesis of a still-thriving poverty research industry from its roots in the War on Poverty, it demonstrates how research agendas were subsequently influenced by an emerging obsession with welfare reform. Over the course of the twentieth century, O'Connor shows, the study of poverty became more about altering individual behavior and less about addressing structural inequality. The consequences of this steady narrowing of focus came to the fore in the 1990s, when the nation's leading poverty experts helped to end "welfare as we know it." O'Connor shows just how far they had traveled from their field's original aims.

影片讲述1962年，汉森饰演的非裔美国数学家与斯宾瑟和梦奈两位“同事”组成智囊团，为宇航员约翰·格伦成功绕地球轨道飞行做出贡献。

故事发生在一个所有哺乳类动物和谐共存的美好世界中，兔子朱迪（金妮弗·古德温 Ginnifer Goodwin 配音）从小就梦想着能够成为一名惩恶扬善的刑警，凭借着智慧和努力，朱迪成功的从警校中毕业进入了疯狂动物城警察局，殊不知这里是大型肉食类动物的领地，作为第一只，也是唯一的小型食草类动物，朱迪会遇到怎样的故事呢？
近日里，城中接连发生动物失踪案件，就在全部警员都致力于调查案件真相之时，朱迪却被局长（伊德瑞斯·艾尔巴 Idris Elba 配音）发配成为了一名无足轻重的交警。某日，正在执勤的兔子遇见了名为尼克（杰森·贝特曼 Jason Bateman 配音）的狐狸，两人不打不相识，之后又误打误撞的接受了寻找失踪的水獭先生的任务，如果不能在两天之内找到水獭先生，朱迪就必须自愿离开警局。朱迪找到了尼克，两人联手揭露了一个隐藏在疯狂动物城之中的惊天秘密。

Solomon Northup（切瓦特·埃加福特 Chiwetel Ejiofor 饰）本来是一个自由人，以演奏小提琴为生，有一个妻子和两个孩子，生活其乐融融。不料他却被两个白人以为马戏团表演伴奏所骗，去了华盛顿，一觉醒来发现自己成了黑奴。起初他被卖给了Ford先生（本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 Benedict Cumberbatch 饰），在庄园里当奴隶。不久又被卖给了素有“黑奴终结者”之称的Epps先生（迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰），他在种植园里日复一日地采摘棉花，也目睹了许多黑奴的悲剧。12年过去了，他始终没有放弃重回自由人的希望，直到遇到了一个思想进步的人士——木匠Bass先生（布拉德·皮特 Brad Pitt 饰）。Solomon是否能结束他身为奴隶的命运？
本片根据Solomon Northup的真人真事改编。