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This Muslim American Life
Dispatches from the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian
Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award
Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at...
by Clifton E. Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
This book sheds light on The Nation of Islam and Minister Louis Farrakhan, from the ideological splits in the Nation of Islam during the 1970s, to the growth and expanding influence in the 1990s.
by Henry Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This is a brief narrative which describes the slave trade that flourished in central Africa during the 1880's.
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1987
The rise of Zanzibar was based on two major economic transformations. Firstly slaves became used for producing cloves and grains for export. Previously the slaves themselves were exported. Secondly, there was an increased international demand for luxuries such as ivory. At the same time the price...
by Randy J. Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings.
Feeding Globalization
Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Between 1600 and 1800, the promise of fresh food attracted more than seven hundred English, French, and Dutch vessels to Madagascar. Throughout this period, European ships spent months at sea in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, but until now scholars have not fully examined how crews were fed during...
Harambee City
The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
BLACK POWER!
It was a phrase that consumed the American imagination in the 1960s and 70s and inspired a new agenda for black freedom. Dynamic and transformational, the black power movement embodied more than media stereotypes of gun-toting, dashiki-wearing black radicals; the movement opened...
Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. He was an enormously influential figure in Anglo-American religious culture, and his expansive missionary...
Workers in Bondage
The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland 18241916
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the...
by Andrew Markus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
In 1928, after a white man was killed, a punitive party mounted a series of attacks on Aborigines northwest of Alice Springs. The party's leader admitted that 31 Aborigines were killed. One missionary in the area put the toll at 70; another at as many as 100.
Since 1911, the administration...
A Very Fine Class of Immigrants
Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers, 1770-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired its Scots earliest, doing so even before the start of the American...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Did you know that slaves played a big role in the ancient African society? On initial thought, you might not think much about them because they are mainly serving rich families. But if you read this history book and really understand what they do, you will begin to appreciate their roles in society. Written for third graders, this book will prove to be a light and refreshing read.
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity
Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s...
The Game Changers
Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football's Color Barrier in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The “moving account” of how two young football players fought racism and forced the integration in football-crazy 1950s Texas (Library Journal).
In 1956, in the town of Denton, Texas, two African American football players from Dallas’s segregated public school system boldly walked on to play...