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by Ray Kania
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Grants Chapel Alley is based on true events. Good days were when life was merely unpleasant. The tiny houses that were behind Grants Chapel Alley were modeled after slave cabins. This was life in Macon, Georgia in 1950.
These cabins were built with tin roofs and no inner walls or ceilings, even in...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...
Blood Work
Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
What are the historical events most key to shaping Latino culture? This book provides detailed and broad coverage of the 50 most pivotal developments across more than 500 years' time that have shaped the Latino experience, offering primary sources, biographies of notable figures, and suggested readings...
Outlaw Woman
A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz helped found the Women’s Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women’s liberation journal, No More Fun and Games.
Dunbar-Ortiz...
Reinventing Diversity
Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work....
Scoop
The Evolution of a Southern Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and...
Transnational Adoption
A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration.
Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest...
Hazel Brannon Smith
The Female Crusading Scalawag
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) stood out as a prominent white newspaper owner in Mississippi before, during, and after the civil rights movement. As early as the mid-1940s, she earned state and national headlines by fighting bootleggers and corrupt politicians. Her career was marked by a progressive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire...
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott; 99,000 words)
In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, Albert Memmi paints a portrait of himself as a secular Jew. The book...
After Canaan
Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
"Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history."—Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia...
by Richard Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent...
by Nicholas Said
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The narrative of Nicholas Said is one of the most impressive among slaves' accounts. Said was born as a free man in Africa, enslaved when 14 years old and traveled to five continents and countless countries. He learned seven languages and finally settled in Alabama. This is an autobiography of his incredible life.