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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern...
by damali ayo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
A hilarious and satirical look at race relations that is almost too close for comfort, this pseudo-guidebook gives both renters and rentals "much-needed" advice and tips on technique. Reframing actual stories, techniques, requests, and responses gathered from the author's more than 30 years...
No Excuses
Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools. Their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today. Thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil...
by Julia Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. This book looks back at the struggle to end poverty and asks if it is worth it.
Economic Apartheid In America
A Primer On Economic Inequality & Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This updated edition of the widely touted Economic Apartheid in America looks at the causes and manifestations of wealth disparities in the United States, including tax policy in light of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and recent corporate scandals.
Published with two leading organizations dedicated...
An Example for All the Land
Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative...
The Old South's Modern Worlds
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not...
Deliver Us from Evil
The Slavery Question in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Drawing heavily on...
Slavery's Borderland
Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical...
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements—can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald...
Freedom's Debt
The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds...
Freedom Burning
Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave...
Proclamation 1625
America’s Enslavement of the Irish
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
When one thinks of slavery in America, the only thought that comes to mind is Africans picking cotton in the fields of America. What many Americans don’t know is that the Irish preceded the Africans as slaves in the early British colonies of America and the West Indies. They toiled in the tobacco fields...
by Gemma Lienas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Cómo ser mujer y rebelde. Cómo ser mujer y no tener que rendir cuentas al Estado ni a la Iglesia. Cómo ser mujer y no considerar irrebatibles los criterios de un varón, sea un padre, un marido, un crítico literario, un médico, un político, un superior jerárquico... Cómo ser mujer y poder...