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We Will Shoot Back
Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies
Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale...
A Black Way of Seeing
From "Liberty" to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what it will take for Black Americans to be agents of change for the country as a whole.
by Claudio Lomnitz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Este ensayo dilucida el origen del sentimiento que guardaban los revolucionarios contra los científicos, aquella élite tecnócrata de finales del Porfiriato, quizá la mas cosmopolita que México haya tenido jamás, y que parecía facilitar la inminente conquista pacífica del país por parte de...
Mixed Race 3.0
Risk and Reward in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...
by Manisha Sinha, Donna Murch, Peniel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Race Capitalism Justice urges us to embrace a vision of justice attentive to the history of slavery not through the lens of human rights, but instead through an honest accounting of how slavery was the foundation of capitalism, a legacy that continues to afflict people of color and the poor. Inspired...
Negative Ethnicity
From Bias to Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues...
100 Questions and Answers About Muslim Americans with a Guide to Islamic Holidays
Basic facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of American Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Muslim Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food....
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food.
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Freedom's Seekers
Essays on Comparative Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
Drawing on decades of research...
Los Brazos de Dios
A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821--1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only...
Creating a New Racial Order
How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and...
by Geoff Chapple
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
‘At 2.40pm Patu charged. A human tank. The first time during the tour that a protest squad charged police lines with the intention of breaking through ...’The Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 provoked the biggest mass protests in New Zealand history. For two months tens of thousands...
Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Policing Black and Brown Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
There is a reason why people claim great respect for officers of the law: the job, by description, is hard—if not deadly. It takes a certain kind of person to accept the consequences of the job— seeing the very worst situations, on a regular basis, and knowing that one’s life is on the line...
Citizen Strangers
Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment,...