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by E. R. Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London’s abandoned minority children
Despite his Cambridge education and a sterling record with the British Royal Air Force during World War II, E. R. Braithwaite, a...
Blood and Earth
Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking—and an inspiring, bold...
by Rush , Erik
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks, particularly in America. The book dissects...
Nobody Turn Me Around
A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” oration. And just blocks away, President Kennedy and Congress skirmished over landmark...
Separate Pasts
Growing Up White in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows, yet were separated by the...
by Harsha Walia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Undoing...
License to Harass
Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment...
We Too Sing America
South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Critical reception for the hardcover: The hardcover received reviews in the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and Hyphen Magazine.
Speaking tour: Iyer will continue to travel extensively to promote the paperback.
Platform: Iyer is the former executive director of South Asian Americans...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
The Dark Before Dawn
From Civil Wrongs to Civil Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
As an African American child growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, author Gerald Eubanks had a hard time seeing the victories won during the Civil War in action. Blacks were excluded from opportunities afforded to his white neighbors. Schools were aggressively segregated. Racial tensions simmered....
Struggle for Mastery
Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Around 1900, the southern states embarked on a series of political campaigns aimed at disfranchising large numbers of voters. By 1908, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia had succeeded in depriving virtually all African...
Blackness in the White Nation
A History of Afro-Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay's national life, creating the second-largest black press in Latin America,...
Freedom Rider Diary
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and...
"I'm Not a Racist, But . . ."
The Moral Quandary of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of...