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We Are Not Such Things
The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial
“Timely . . . gripping,...
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers...
Arab Detroit 9/11
Life in the Terror Decade
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Detroit's large and nationally prominent Arab and Muslim communities have faced heightened prejudice, government surveillance, and political scapegoating, yet they have also enjoyed unexpected gains in economic, political, and cultural influence. Museums,...
Remixing the Civil War
Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history." This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren’s claim still holds true.
Essays from specialists in art, literature,...
Water Tossing Boulders
How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told.
On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister...
Flames after Midnight
Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]," that set Monte Akers to work at discovering the true story behind a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive...
Negro Orators and Their Orations
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use...
A Will to Be Free, Vol. I
Up From Slavery; Twelve Years a Slave; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup...
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food.
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Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
The View from the Country Club
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Exclusive social clubs are traditionally an important site for the consolidation of upper-class power. Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege shows that while the particulars of admission have changed, these clubs remain socially significant incubators. Having interviewed typically inaccessible...
All Eyes are Upon Us
Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
bled roots in segregation and its promising future in politicians from Deval Patrick to Barack Obama.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading. The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana and its...
New England Federalists
Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through its focus on the partisan climate in Congress...
by Calentine Williams Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Dark like the skies on a moonless night, this is the color of our skin. Beautiful as the flowers on a spring day, this is the essence of my people. Black butterflies ... Watch us as we sail across the waters. No more can we spread our wings, for we are bound and shackled deep in the hull of a ship...