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Best Intentions
The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
A complex, poignant exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry. Perry, a seventeen-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was fatally shot by a young white plainclothes policeman in 1985 in an alleged mugging attempt. Perry had recently graduated from...
Doing Time
25 Years of Prison Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A PEN American Center Prize Anthology featuring a quarter century of prison inmates’ prose and verse—with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
For more than three decades, the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these...
Made in Detroit
A South of 8 Mile Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
A New York Times Notable BookA powerfully candid memoir about growing up white in Detroit and the conflicted point of view it produced.
Raised in Detroit during the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, Paul Clemens saw his family growing steadily isolated from its surroundings: white in a predominately...
Oh Burma Vol 1
Vol 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Feeling the pulse of the Burmese people of Burma, before the 1988 popular uprising and not yet renamed to Myanmar. The dynamics of what happens when people live under unbearable pressure and yet find ways for much needed relief. That the uprising came we know, but the people then did not and express...
In This Together
Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a hard time approaching.
These reflective and personal pieces...
America's Asia
Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2009
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a...
The Identity Question
Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America Download Plain Text version Despite the Enlightenment's promise of utopian belonging among all citizens, blacks and Jews were excluded from the life of their host countries....
by Wendy Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**A New York Times Editor’s Choice
"This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight**
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s...
The Left's Jewish Problem
Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There is a sickness at the heart of left-wing British politics, and though predominantly below the surface, it is silently spreading, becoming ever more malignant.
With three separate inquiries into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in the first six months of 2016 alone, it seems hard to believe...
by Carla Gardina Pestana
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. It also honors the scholarship of Gary Nash, who has contributed much of the leading work...
American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd
Spectacular Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence examines spectatorship in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. The spectator functions as a lens...
The Lyncher In Me
A Search for Redemption in the Face of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had raped a white teenage girl—charges that would later be proven false. Three men were dragged from their cells and lynched in front of the cheering crowd.
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Many Minds, One Heart
SNCC's Dream for a New America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new...
Open Wide The Freedom Gates
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, she has...