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The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members...
One Hundred Percent American
The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national politics. But the hooded bubble burst at mid-decade, and the social movement that had attracted several...
One Drop of Blood
The American Misadventure of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2000
A bold and original retelling of the story of race in America
Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? This question is the starting point for Scott Malcomson's riveting...
The DuSable Panthers
The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Twelve years before Kentucky and Texas Christian. Seven years after Jackie Robinson’s first at-bat in the Majors. A color barrier in both sports and in America was shattered—by a team of teenage boys. The weight of a season and the weight of growing up are burdens enough. For a high school...
Shut Out
A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Dear White Christians
For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In this provocative book Jennifer Harvey argues for a radical shift in how justice-committed white Christians think about race. She calls for moving away from the reconciliation paradigm that currently dominates interracial relations and embracing instead a reparations paradigm.
Harvey presents...
Anxious to Talk About It
Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"What if I say the wrong thing?" "I'm white--is race really something I need to talk about? I'm worried I'll be called a racist!" "What does race have to do with faith, anyway?" "Why do we have to keep talking about this?"
If talking about racism makes...
Ferguson and Faith
Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, reignited a long-smoldering movement for justice, with many St. Louis-area clergy stepping up to support the emerging young leaders of today's Civil Rights Movement. Seminary professor Leah Gunning Francis was among the activists, and her...
Race and Place
How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Geography matters.
We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and systems create barriers to reconciliation and prevent the flourishing of our communities.
Race and Place reveals the profound ways in which these geographic...
Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala
Racism, Genocide, Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martínez Salazar examines the genocide and other forms of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and '90s with the full support of Western colonial powers....
Unified
How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
New York Times Bestseller
In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship—even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
Tim Scott, an African-American...
by Anne M. Blankenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Anne M. Blankenship's study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. While most Japanese Americans maintained their traditional identities as Buddhists, a sizeable minority identified as Christian,...
by Ron Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African...