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Invisible No More
Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial...
Getting Away with Murder
The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the US Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’...
Prostitution and Feminism
Towards a Politics of Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women's involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book, Maggie O'Neill seeks to explore the theoretical...
Wolf by the Ears
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb—the question of slavery—lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for...
Politics and Power in a Slave Society
Alabama, 1800--1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society...
The Good Doctors
The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend...
by Jacqueline Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday...
Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...
On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and the effects of this...
Yes We Can?
White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....
Shaping Race Policy
The United States in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the topic, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of...
The Courage to Hope
How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a media storm that blew apart her life and her job doing what she’d done for decades: helping poor, hardworking people live the American dream. She was a lifelong activist who served as Georgia’s first black director of rural development.
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by Frederick Law Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also worked on the design of parks in many other...
Black against Empire
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality...