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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,...
Racism and Cultural Studies
Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically...
Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing
Continued Lessons of Police Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events included, among others: the due process revolution, which guided how police were to do their job; social...
Race, Color, Identity
Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links...
Those About Him Remained Silent
The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana at the age of 95, more than a half century after cofounding the NAACP. Five years after his death, residents of Great Barrington, the small Massachusetts town where Du Bois was born in 1868, proposed...
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women
Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of...
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...
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...
Slavery's Ghost
The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this...
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...
Race in Cuba
Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban,...
Bridges of Reform
Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism by looking at its roots in the interracial efforts of Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in mid-century Los Angeles. Expanding the frame of historical analysis beyond black/white and North/South, Bernstein reveals...
by Joseph Madison Beck
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The story of Foster Beck, the author’s late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.
As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories—when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth century were largely pitched against overt forms...