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Blood and Bone
Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg. Three young black men—Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith—were killed,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2009,...
by Stuart Albright
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Sidelines is an insider's look at the fascinating world of high-school football, and, beyond that, it is also about the death and rebirth of the American community. Stuart Albright uses football to explore our nation's complicated history of race and public education and to explain why some communities...
Slaves for Hire
Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In Slaves for Hire, John J. Zaborney overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labor in the antebellum South. Previously, scholars viewed slave hiring as an aberration -- a modified form of slavery, involving primarily urban male slaves, that worked to the laborer's advantage and weakened slavery's...
Becoming Black Political Subjects
Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic...
Globalising Hatred
The New Antisemitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
A hard-hitting essay combined with factual reportage on the new anti-semitism throughout Europe.
This book argues that what the 21st century now faces is an ideological assault based on hatred of Jews which is as serious as any major threat to universal values as the world has faced. Anti-semitism...
O império da necessidade
Escravatura, liberdade e ilusão no Novo Mundo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Em fevereiro de 1805, um experiente navegador da Nova Inglaterra cruzou com uma embarcação perdida nas águas revoltas do Atlântico Sul. Tratava-se do veleiro espanhol Tryal, que transportava negros africanos para as Américas, cujo capitão, Benito Cereño, havia sido feito refém por um grupo...
The Loyal Republic
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights....
Floodlines
Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
"This is the most important book I've read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called 'The People's History of the Storm.' Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines."Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues and activist and founder of...
Blood in the Streets
Racism, Riots and Murders in the Heartland of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the midst of a nation suffering through riots and racial stife in the 1965-1975 era, which was one of the most violent periods in urban American history, a racist sniper roamed the streets of Dayton, Ohio. He stalked and killed black men as a vigilante determined to stop federal court-ordered public...
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color —- administrators,...
by Pamela Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Pamela Rhodes, one of the first British policewomen, tells her fascinating story in Bobby on the Beat.
Back in 1950 Pam became one of the first policewomen in the country. But the force's new female recruits faced a sceptical public in rural Yorkshire and even before they stepped out on the...
by 伊布拉．肯迪(Ibram X. Kendi)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 28, 2019
從黑人出生的那刻起，他們／她們就已經被貼上了標籤
《生而被標籤》將細細爬梳種族歧視思想的歷史根源，重回黑人的命運時刻
作者肯迪教授認為，種族主義並不是生根於人們的無知與仇恨，而是掌握權力的男男女女製造了種族主義、種族歧視政策，進而產生世上的無知與仇恨！
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The Latinos of Asia
How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian....