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The Terms of Order

Political Science and the Myth of Leadership

by Cedric J. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...
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From Chicaza to Chickasaw

The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715

by Robbie Ethridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using...
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Creek Country

The Creek Indians and Their World

by Robbie Ethridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have...
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Blowout!, Enhanced Ebook

Enhanced ebook with video and audio - Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice

by Mario T. García, Sal Castro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...
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Women in the Church of God in Christ

Making a Sanctified World

by Anthea D. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's...
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Original Sin and Everyday Protestants

The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety

by Andrew S. Finstuen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against...
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions. Moving...
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Captive Nation

Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

by Dan Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...
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Strangers Below

Primitive Baptists and American Culture

by Joshua Guthman
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. Joshua Guthman here tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended...
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The Word in the World

Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880

by Candy Gunther Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005

The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; the evangelical publishing community has been...
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A Little Taste of Freedom

The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi

by Emilye Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006

In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The...
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by Mark V. Tushnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization...
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