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by John D. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
Native Students at Work
American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers,...
The Thames 1813
The War of 1812 on the Northwest Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The battle of the Thames was the culmination of a bloody campaign that saw American forces clash with the British and their Native American allies on multiple occasions. In a battle that included the future US president William Henry Harrison, American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry and the legendary...
by Lorita Barchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
George Inness (1825 – 1894) was a prominent American landscape painter. One of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced, in turn, by the Old Masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose...
Against Epistemic Apartheid
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion;...
Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men
Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterways -- the riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, "dress with taste...
by Beth Tompkins Bates
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth.
The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This extraordinary four-volume work is the first of its kind, a comprehensive exploration of the obstacles black men and women, both historic and contemporary, have faced and overcome to succeed in professional positions. Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers includes the life...
The Sonic Color Line
Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.
Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American...
African American Hospitals in North Carolina
39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. With little money, scant opportunities for professional education and few white allies, African American physicians, nurses and other community leaders...
by Robert T. Palmer, Andrew T. Arroyo, Alonzo Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Most experts agree that America's success depends on having a workforce that is highly prepared in STEM areas. Unfortunately, students of color continue to be underrepresented in higher education, and specifically, in completing degrees and entering careers within the STEM fields. This book supports...
The Color of Mind
Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury answer these pressing questions and...
by Steven J. Michels
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Sinclair Lewis was one of the most astute observers of American social and political life. Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy is a highly readable analysis of his novels. The book examines each of Lewis’s novels on key themes in the history of political thought and democracy including freedom...