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To Sin Against Hope
Life and Politics on the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and...
100 Questions and Answers About Hispanics and Latinos
A cultural competence guide to understanding the diversity of the largest minority group in the United States including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorans, Cubans and more
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It covers the basics of Hispanic and Latino identity, terms, geography, language, religion, social norms, politics, immigration and deportation, education, work, money, families, culture, health and food....
Czech Political Prisoners
Recovering Face
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Czech Political Prisoners: Recovering Face is the story of men and women who survived Czechoslovakian Communist concentration camps. Men and women disappeared, were arrested, imprisoned, interrogated, tortured, put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to forced labor camps. In 1948 in Czechoslovakia...
Diaspora and Class Consciousness
Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited...
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.
• Helps students understand classic works of American literature from the slavery era by...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the grim realities of the antebellum South; they also provide the foundation for this compelling and revealing work on African American history and experiences.
• Presents information and primary source documents that support...
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the...
The Dream that Failed
Reflections on the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1996
Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field."...
Racism
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Despite the fact that we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important than ever before. Alana Lentin traces the development and mutation of ideas about race,...
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Two former political activists confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling-out years ago.
by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
Dream City
Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With a new afterword covering the two decades since its first publication, two of Washington, D.C.’s most respected journalists expose one of America’s most tragic ironies: how the nation’s capital, often a gleaming symbol of peace and hope, is the setting for vicious contradictions and devastating...
by Ellen Craft
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Ellen and William Craft were married slaves from Georgia who escaped to the North in 1848 through train and steamboat. Ellen and William later moved to England following the Fugitive Slave Act and lived their for nearly two decades. In 1860 they published Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, a written...