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Divided We Fail
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended...
Crossroads at Clarksdale
The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments...
Conceiving Freedom
Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late...
They Called Them Greasers
Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.This seminal work in the historical...
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
A Transnational and Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. European countries have never compensated their former colonies...
Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century...
How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed...
by Ron J. Jackson Jr., Lee Spencer White
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and...
Race in Cuba
Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban,...
The Amistad Rebellion
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by...
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlanta...
Long Past Slavery
Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination...
by James Walvin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the...
by Melton A. McLaurin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder.
Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower...