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His Panic

Why Americans Fear Hispanics in The U.S.

by Geraldo Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008

An account of the Hispanic population’s growth and the changing face of America from world-renowned journalist Geraldo Rivera—now updated with a new Foreword. Since his infamous confrontation with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor, Emmy® award winner Geraldo Rivera has examined...
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To Sin Against Hope

Life and Politics on the Borderland

by Alfredo Gutierrez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and...
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100 Questions and Answers About Hispanics and Latinos

A cultural competence guide to understanding the diversity of the largest minority group in the United States including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorans, Cubans and more

by Michigan State University School of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It covers the basics of Hispanic and Latino identity, terms, geography, language, religion, social norms, politics, immigration and deportation, education, work, money, families, culture, health and food....
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Czech Political Prisoners

Recovering Face

by Jana Kopelentova Rehak
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Czech Political Prisoners: Recovering Face is the story of men and women who survived Czechoslovakian Communist concentration camps. Men and women disappeared, were arrested, imprisoned, interrogated, tortured, put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to forced labor camps. In 1948 in Czechoslovakia...
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Physics of Blackness

Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

by Michelle M. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
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American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature

A Historical Exploration of Literature

by Robert Felgar
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014

Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States. • Helps students understand classic works of American literature from the slavery era by...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016

African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the grim realities of the antebellum South; they also provide the foundation for this compelling and revealing work on African American history and experiences. • Presents information and primary source documents that support...
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Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky

A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the...
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The Dream that Failed

Reflections on the Soviet Union

by Walter Laqueur
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1996

Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field."...
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by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993

Two former political activists confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling-out years ago.
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by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993

Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
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by Ellen Craft
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Ellen and William Craft were married slaves from Georgia who escaped to the North in 1848 through train and steamboat. Ellen and William later moved to England following the Fugitive Slave Act and lived their for nearly two decades. In 1860 they published Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, a written...
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by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014

The classic 1968 edition with historical notes WITH A NEW foreword by Karolyn Smardz Frost. Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell...
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The Psychic Hold of Slavery

Legacies in American Expressive Culture

by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Calvin Warren
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...
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