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by Florinda Salinas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2015
He trabajado más de dos décadas en la publicación femenina española más importante. El año pasado celebró su 50 aniversario. Yo llegaría a la redacción bastante tiempo después de su lanzamiento, pero conservo aquel primer número que mi madre llevó a casa en 1963. Era un ejemplar con papel...
Moving Working Families Forward
Third Way Policies That Can Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
“Cherry and Lerman have written a compelling book that challenges the orthodoxies of both the political ‘left’ and ‘right’, and that promotes a set of policies to improve the economic status of lower-to-middle income working families. All who care about the well-being of working families...
Redevelopment and Race
Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and...
Jackson Rising
The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in the collection of essays that is Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and...
Black Citymakers
How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class...
Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action
Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
On November 3, 1979, five protest marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. There were no police present, but television crews captured the shootings on video. Despite two criminal trials, none of the killers ever served time for...
by Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBill Fletcher Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved...
When the Fences Come Down
Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. As Genevieve Siegel-Hawley argues in this thought-provoking book, within our metropolitan areas we are currently allowing a labyrinthine system...
by Kyle Harper
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead...
The Stolen Village
Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa....
Lynched
The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely...
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new." -- Charles B. Dew, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic...
by lord byron
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ourika is a delightful tale set in France during the French Revolution. George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
Ourika, was published in 1823, de Duras' novel represents a number of firsts: the...
by S.E. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust – from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust,...