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The Lynching

The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

by Laurence Leamer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan. On a Friday night in March...
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The Other Side of the River

A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma

by Alex Kotlowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012

Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close,...
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Not Even Past

Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

by Thomas J. Sugrue
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010

Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox...
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Where the Waters Divide

Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada

by Michael Mascarenhas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012

This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies,...
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The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859

The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement

by Brian Gabrial
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016

Slavery remains one of the United States’ most troubling failings and its complexities have shaped American ideas about race, economics, politics, and the press since the first days of settlement. Brian Gabrial’s The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859 examines those intersections at times...
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Loving

Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

by Sheryll Cashin
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics. Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime:...
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Window on Freedom

Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988

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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003

The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter,...
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Notorious in the Neighborhood

Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861

by Joshua D. Rothman
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003

Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under...
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Blood and Bone

Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town

by Jack Shuler
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg. Three young black men—Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith—were killed,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018

Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2009,...
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Shaping Race Policy

The United States in Comparative Perspective

by Robert Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011

Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the topic, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of...
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Nigger

An Autobiography

by Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019

Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir—now in trade paperback for the first time. “Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it.”—The New York...
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Race and News

Critical Perspectives

by Christopher P. Campbell, Kim M. LeDuff, Cheryl D. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths that are reflected in routine coverage by journalists all over the country. Race and News: Critical...
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by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international...
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