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by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The classic 1968 edition with historical notes WITH A NEW foreword by Karolyn Smardz Frost.
Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell...
Racial Blasphemies
Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words...
Under the Affluence
Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
"Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that...
Window on Freedom
Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter,...
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...
White Bound
Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently...
by Linda Martín Alcoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized...
by Solomon Northup
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Solomon Northup è un afroamericano, libero cittadino degli Stati Uniti. Nel 1841 arriva a Washington in cerca di lavoro; qui viene ingannato con una finta proposta e trascinato con la forza negli Stati del Sud per essere venduto come schiavo. Northup trascorre così dodici anni di fatiche e umiliazioni...
by Matilda Joslyn Gage
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met...
Sorry, Not Sorry
Experiences of a brown woman in a white South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Why don’t white people understand that Converse tekkies are not just cool but a political statement to people of colour? Why is it that South Africans of colour don’t really ‘write what we like’? What’s the deal with people pretending to be ‘woke’? Is Islam really as antifeminist as...
Mandela
His Life and Legacy for South Africa and the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An in-depth look into the life of South Africa’s greatest son: anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and world activist Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela is known worldwide as a great moral and political leader, the first democratically elected South African president, the recipient of...
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
Obama's Legacy - Yes We Can, Yes We Did
Main Accomplishments & Projects, All Executive Orders, International Treaties, Inaugural Speeches and Farwell Address of the 44th President of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
During his years in office, from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. This collection presents the legacy of Barack Obama through his presidential work and the legislation of his administration. The edition honors his...
The Thunder of Angels
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council...