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by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In an introduction to The War Against the Jew, Dagobert D. Runes describes the war on the Jews, the history of Jewish hatred and prejudice. After that he gives a glossary of names, places, beings, writings, and words that describe this hatred.
The Clapham Sect
How Wilberforce's circle transformed Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William...
Games of Persuasion
: Exercises in Media Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2000
Like rain, the media overload pours over us each day, each hour, each waking moment of our lives. One way to cope is to withdraw from the world to a faraway island unhooked to any satellite.
Another way is to grapple with the media as so to understand the nuts and bolts of the persuasive messages...
United by Faith
The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations...
Mobilizing for the Common Good
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always...
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Based on newly discovered secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive yet hidden history of how the Nazi dictatorship made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate its power. The countless...
by Jonathan Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, (((Semitism))) is a powerful book that examines how we can fight anti-Semitism in America
A San Francisco Chronicle Reader Recommendation
The Washington Post: "Timely...[A] passionate call to arms."
Jewish...
Homophobia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001
The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic.
It is the last acceptable prejudice. In an age when racial and ethnic name-calling are viewed with distaste, and physical epithets are frowned...
by Randal Maurice Jelks
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his "spiritual and intellectual father." Dean of the Howard University School of Religion, president of Morehouse College, and mentor to influential...
Daddy King
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candidly reveals his life inside the civil rights movement, illustrating the profound influence he had on his son.
Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers...
Birmingham Revolution
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Birmingham Revolution
The Myth of Equality
Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
**Is privilege real or imagined?**The Myth of Equality
Class Counts
Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years. The U.S. is heading for a financial oligarchy much worse...