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Sin City North
Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The early decades of the twentieth century sparked the Detroit-Windsor region's ascendancy as the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for socioeconomic developments that would link the border cities for years to come. As Holly M. Karibo shows, this border...
by Stephen Kantrowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Through the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow.
As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South...
by Randal Maurice Jelks
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his "spiritual and intellectual father." Dean of the Howard University School of Religion, president of Morehouse College, and mentor to influential...
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1996
Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s and the resulting 1968 Kerner Commission Report...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world. From the first moment Europeans set foot on the islands to the present, products, people, and ideas have made their way back and forth between the region and other parts of the globe with unequal but inexorable...
A Fabric of Defeat
The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.
Taking a broad...
Tropical Babylons
Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called "sugar revolution." The most comprehensive...
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which...
The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal
The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travels--from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the Atlantic coast, and westward along the Gulf of Mexico--come...
The Armchair Birder's Omnibus Ebook
Includes The Armchair Birder and The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Available for the first time together in this Omnibus E-Book, The Armchair Birder's Omnibus brings together both of John Yow's delightful books into one convenient e-book.
While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds...
Habits of Industry
White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Habits of Industry provides a richly descriptive social, historical, and cultural account of the Carolina Piedmont -- the area between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Coastal Plain -- over the course of 150 years. By examining the social and religious culture of the region, Allen Tullos illuminates...
Mixed Harvest
The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer...
Unspeakable
The Story of Junius Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable...