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by Kenneth M. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This attitude dramatically contrasts with the nationwide outpouring of grief and reverence that followed Washington's death in 1915. Kenneth M. Hamilton describes...
A Journey to the Promised Land
The Struggle of a Suburban Church to Build an Edifice
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Dean Nisbett has crafted an excellent book that is carefully researched. He is a masterful storyteller, combining theology, sociology, history, scripture and church architecture into a masterpiece. Writing about the struggle of a suburban parish to build an edifice, the author cites numerous parallels...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received...
Integrating the Orioles
Baseball and Race in Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The struggle to integrate the Baltimore Orioles mirrored the fight for civil rights in Baltimore. The Orioles debuted in 1954, the same year the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation. As Baltimore experienced demonstrations, white flight and a 1968 riot, team integration came slowly....
Dispossession
Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Outlining the 10 most significant reasons behind the high drop-out rate amongst black male students, this guide provides more than 30 solutions towards addressing this national crisis. Revealing that currently close to one half of black males do not graduate from high school, this exploration pursues...
Interpreting Tyler Perry
Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a prominent...
Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States
On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric “reparations movement,” and they are united in their goal...
The Miracles of Mentoring
How to Encourage and Lead Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
"How many times have you said, 'I'd like to help a child, but I don't know what to do? I don't have the time, I don't have anything to offer, I can't afford it.' I promise you, by the time you finish reading this book, all of these questions will be answered."
—from the Foreword by Tom Joyner, of...
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
Black Stats
African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Black Stats-a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices,...
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Former South End Press title that has sold 7,100 copies
Book helps readers understand rising tension between African Americans and police in wake of Mike Brown and Eric Garner murders
The foreclosure, unemployment, and incarceration crisis in the US has disproportionately affected African...
The Segregated Origins of Social Security
African Americans and the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth...
Black Bodies, White Gazes
The Continuing Significance of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George Yancy...