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Dream and Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Helen Taylor Greene, William G. Jones, Athena M. King, Taj'ullah Sky Lark, Jamela M. Martin, Marcus L. Martin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Amardo...
by Lilma Mclean Sample
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Lilma Mclean.Samples, I Was A Slave In America Until 2009, is a story of the long hard years of struggle and inhumane treatment that African slaves had endured. Their struggle of their race continued over the 250 years of slavery. In this present time, blacks have their equality and their freedom...
Building the Beloved Community
Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Inspired by Quakerism, Progressivism, the Social Gospel movement, and the theories of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, Franz Boas, and Ruth Benedict, a determined group of Philadelphia activists sought to transform race relations. This book concentrates on these organizations:...
by Henryk Flakierski
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This study analyses the newly available statistical evidence on income distribution in the former Soviet Union both by social group and by republic, and considers the significance of inequalities as a factor contributing to the demise of the Communist regime. Among the topics covered are wage distribution...
The Color of Crime (Second Edition)
Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown’s book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those...
Jefferson's Pillow
The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2002
An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States...
by Ed Whitfield, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
In his lecture, Ed Whitfield discusses the history of capitalism and its deep-seated ties with slavery. He grew up in the Black Freedom movement...
Football and Integration in Plano, Texas
Stay in there, Wildcats!
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The year 1964 was momentous for civil rights as Congress passed the Twenty-fourth Amendment and Texas's own Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plan for the Great Society. That same year, the Plano school district integrated, setting an example for the state and nation. The tightknit community banded together...
Driven by Difference
How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Today’s board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. But these cultural differences can either lead to gridlock among stubborn, single-minded thinkers or they can catalyze innovation and growth among an expansive team of creative, distinctive individuals.Diverse...
Get out of Jena
Under Condition
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Get Out Of Jena takes a look into the conditions that makes for racial divides to persist in any modern day American society that refuses to acknowledge the contributions that any race makes to that society. Through the real life experiences of a family from LaSalle Parish, Louisiana- where Jena is...
Overcoming Bias
Building Authentic Relationships across Differences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Control, Conquer, and Prevail!
Everybody's biased. The truth is, we all harbor unconscious assumptions that can get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from building authentic relationships with people different from ourselves. Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman use vivid stories and...
Falling Behind
How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them,...
Policing Black Lives
State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned...
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their...