Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Linda Martín Alcoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized...
by Solomon Northup
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Solomon Northup è un afroamericano, libero cittadino degli Stati Uniti. Nel 1841 arriva a Washington in cerca di lavoro; qui viene ingannato con una finta proposta e trascinato con la forza negli Stati del Sud per essere venduto come schiavo. Northup trascorre così dodici anni di fatiche e umiliazioni...
by Matilda Joslyn Gage
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met...
Sorry, Not Sorry
Experiences of a brown woman in a white South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Why don’t white people understand that Converse tekkies are not just cool but a political statement to people of colour? Why is it that South Africans of colour don’t really ‘write what we like’? What’s the deal with people pretending to be ‘woke’? Is Islam really as antifeminist as...
Mandela
His Life and Legacy for South Africa and the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An in-depth look into the life of South Africa’s greatest son: anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and world activist Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela is known worldwide as a great moral and political leader, the first democratically elected South African president, the recipient of...
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
The Thunder of Angels
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council...
Sailors and Sexual Identity
Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.
Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between...
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation
Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...
by Cynthia Mestad Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by James DeWolf. When the United States took action to abolish slavery, this Bristol native manipulated the legal system and became actively involved in Rhode Island politics in order to pursue his...
by Leonard L. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the...
Forever Free
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.
In...
Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
On Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Leading the march were Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and...
The Heavens Might Crack
The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing...