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Annihilation of Caste
The Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936,...
Stakes Is High
Race, Faith, and Hope for America
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
2018 Religion Communicators Council (RCC**) Wilbur Award, Books-Non-Fiction**
"Michael W. Waters...is both blunt and lyrical as he meditates on police violence, racism, hip-hop, and the power of faith." —**"**New and Noteworthy," Sojourners, April 2017
What happens...
by Hank Trent
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected...
Shifting Loyalties
The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights...
by Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous objects of study across dominant ethnological...
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise...
by Professor Satnam Virdee
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
"Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis. Historical and broad in its coverage, this is one of the best accounts of contemporary racism published...
by Eusebius McKaiser
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
· Can we sometimes assume a racist motive?
· Is there place for anger in dialogue on racism?
· Can liberals be racist?
· Should black people help white people understand racism?
· Is white wealth because of racism, or hard work and good genes?
· Should coloured people just call themselves black?
In...
Behind the Backlash
White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II.
Challenging notions that the "white backlash"...
The Black Deception
As We Are Many Wonderful Shades of Brown, Why Do We Paint Ourselves with a Black Face?
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Four hundred years ago, when Africans were kidnapped and brought to the New World in shackles and chains, a new chapter of American terrorism began. Who could have dreamed this New World criminal practice would endure for centuries? Who could have imagined it would shape the culture and destiny of...
Acting White
The Curious History of a Racial Slur
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-American who is successful, well mannered, or well educated is "acting white," is a slur that continues to haunt blacks. Ron Christie traces...
Everything You Love Will Burn
Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power
Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement,...
Safety and Justice
How Should Communities Reduce Violence?
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
After falling steadily for decades, the rate of violent crime in the United States rose again in 2015 and 2016. Interactions between citizens and police too often end in violence. People are increasingly worried about safety in their communities.
How should we ensure that Americans of every...
On Slavery's Border
Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri’s strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of statehood...