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The Slave Ship
A Human History
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years...
Playing the Enemy
Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's...
The Passion of Tiger Woods
An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world’s richest athlete. The child of a multiracial marriage, Woods and his blond, blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren, seemed to represent a new postracial America....
Writings on the Wall
Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller
Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.
Since retiring from professional basketball as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time MVP,...
Spying on the South
An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
I Am Not Your Negro
A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**National Bestseller
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary**
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin’s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes,...
Ace of Spades
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are
When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto...
by Raymond Sunstrum
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
A teaching assignment to the Bahamas is the beginning of a profound life-changing journey for White Canadian Ray Sunstrum. The journey continues when he begins pursuing a degree in Social Work at Ottawa’s Carleton University and meets the love of his life, Dora, a Black woman from Trinidad and...
Abraham Lincoln
La Guerra de Secesión y la lucha contra la esclavitud
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Abraham Lincoln y la Guerra de Secesión de los Estados Unidos, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Descubrir más sobre el personaje de Abraham Lincoln y su...
Outdated Advertising
Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.
Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist,...
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical...
The Last Lynching
How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A chilling and thoroughly researched account of the racially motivated killing of two black couples by a white mob in 1946 rural Georgia.
In 1946, the bodies of two black couples—Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey—were found near a bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia....
Stark Mad Abolitionists
Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled...