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by Clare V. McKanna
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common,...
Razing Africville
A Geography of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect...
by Julie Sze
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization.
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left
Radical Activism in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Acción Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective,...
by Mel Ayton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Believing himself to be on a "God-given mission," Joseph Paul Franklin was the only racially motivated serial killer ever pursued by the Justice Department. Mel Ayton examines his murderous life, from his poverty-stricken youth in a backward Alabama suburb to his indoctrination by militant Nazis and...
Contesting Native Title
From controversy to consensus in the struggle over Indigenous land rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
'This book debunks in spectacular fashion some of the most treasured, over-inflated claims of the benefits of native title.'
Professor Mick Dodson, ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies
'David Ritter's fascinating account of the evolution of the native title system is elegant and incisive,...
by James Waller
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2000
The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from Washington state on a month-long journey. Prejudice Across America is the record of their interaction with the American Indian, Asian...
White Men Challenging Racism
35 Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2003
White Men Challenging Racism is a collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five white men whose efforts to combat racism and fight for social justice are central to their lives. Based on interviews conducted by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry...
Black and Brown in Los Angeles
Beyond Conflict and Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities...
Tales from the Haunted South
Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved...
The Imperial University
Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
At colleges and universities throughout the United States, political protest and intellectual dissent are increasingly being met with repressive tactics by administrators, politicians, and the police—from the use of SWAT teams to disperse student protestors and the profiling of Muslim and Arab American...
The Dawn of Detroit
A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Author is a rising star: In 2011 author was selected for Ebony's Power 100 and TheGrio’s 100 lists of African American leaders. She is also a 2011 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. As former chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan,...
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America
In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, gender, and nation in the formation of the fin-de-siècle Spanish and Spanish colonial subject. Despite the wealth of research produced on gender, social class, race, and national identity few studies have focused on how these categories interacted,...