Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this...
Hearts Beating for Liberty
Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest.
Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with...
by I. Lin Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Human Beings First: A Historical Examination of the Non-Bizarre Delusion of Biological Race takes an in-depth look at the "cultural artifact" of race. Although human beings, regardless of phenotype, are members of the same species, there has been a concerted effort by many to separate people...
A Curse upon the Nation
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel...
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting...
Alex Haley Roots
An Author's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
His critics called him a liar. His supporters saw him as transcending race relations. In 1977, following the airing of the mega hit television mini-series Roots, its author, Alex Haley, became America’s newest “folk hero."
His book was on the Times' Best Seller's list for months,...
After Canaan
Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
"Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history."—Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia...
Made in Detroit
A South of 8 Mile Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
A New York Times Notable BookA powerfully candid memoir about growing up white in Detroit and the conflicted point of view it produced.
Raised in Detroit during the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, Paul Clemens saw his family growing steadily isolated from its surroundings: white in a predominately...
America's Asia
Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2009
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a...
Winning the Race
Beyond the Crisis in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.
Winning the Race examines the roots of...
Dream City
Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With a new afterword covering the two decades since its first publication, two of Washington, D.C.’s most respected journalists expose one of America’s most tragic ironies: how the nation’s capital, often a gleaming symbol of peace and hope, is the setting for vicious contradictions and devastating...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement....
True Stories
History, Politics, Aboriginality (1999 Boyer Lectures)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Inga Clendinnen believes that democratic people need true stories about their past. In these engaging essays, based on her 1999 Boyer Lectures, she argues for the rejection of any single, simple account of the Australian past and looks towards a deeper understanding of what whites have done to Indigenous...
The Social Life of DNA
Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America
We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as...