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Black Women’s Christian Activism
Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award Recipient
Winner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non0fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
In Black Women’s Christian Activism, Betty Livingston Adams examines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth...
White Out
The Continuing Significance of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology,...
by Premilla Nadasen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s...
We Are Not Such Things
The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial
“Timely . . . gripping,...
by William K. Klingaman
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
In this comprehensive account of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, William K. Klingaman takes a fresh look at what is arguably the most controversial reform in American history. Taking the reader from Lincoln's inauguration through the Civil War to his tragic assassination, it uncovers...
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers...
by William G. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
During World War I, the publishers of America's crusading black newspapers faced a difficult dilemma. Would it be better to advance the interests of African Americans by affirming their patriotism and offering support of President Wilson's war for democracy in Europe, or should they demand that the...
Blacks at Harvard
A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though...
Across That Bridge
Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography.
In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested...
Uneasy Partners
Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value...
Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: “selling out.” He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the...
Arab Detroit 9/11
Life in the Terror Decade
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Detroit's large and nationally prominent Arab and Muslim communities have faced heightened prejudice, government surveillance, and political scapegoating, yet they have also enjoyed unexpected gains in economic, political, and cultural influence. Museums,...
Neo-Confederacy
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A century and a half after the conclusion of the Civil War, the legacy of the Confederate States of America continues to influence national politics in profound ways. Drawing on magazines such as Southern Partisan and publications from the secessionist organization League of the South, as well as...