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by Patrick Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“Gripping and meticulously documented.”—Don Schanche Jr., Washington Post
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But...
Anatomy of Four Race Riots
Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919â??1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Rachel and Her Children
Homeless Families in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you...
Becoming Dr. Q
My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir,...
Gods of the Blood
The Pagan Revival and White Separatism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2003
Racist paganism is a thriving but understudied element of the American religious and cultural landscape. Gods of the Blood is the first in-depth survey of the people, ideologies, and practices that make up this fragmented yet increasingly radical and militant milieu. Over a five-year period during...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay...
The Light of Truth
Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat....
Disunited Brotherhoods
...Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2006
Just 40 years ago, the construction unions of New York City were among the most powerful labor organizations in the world. They were also among the most openly racist and sexist, and were thoroughly dominated by organized crime.
Today, minority males, and women of any color, can get work in...
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
World renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard recreates the world of his youth in his newest play, based on his experiences aboard a tramp steamer. This critically acclaimed drama has already had productions in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Princeton N.J., and at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. The New York premiere is schedules for January 1999, staring Mr. Fugard.
by Peter Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well...
Just Ask Us
A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children.
For First Nations in particular, the issue has become critical. Aboriginal girls...
State of the Nation
Essays for Robert Manne
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
A stunning collection of essays that analyses the major issues facing Australia today This nation has a lot of unfinished business. Will we become a republic any time soon? How can we honour our Indigenous peoples and tackle the intractable disadvantage they face? What does our treatment of asylum seekers...
I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.
Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament " contains a unique contemporary account of the abolition movement in the Great Britain from one of its major leaders, Thomas Clarkson. In his book, Clarkson describes...