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Tumult And Silence At Second Creek
An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were...
Precarious Prescriptions
Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective...
Children of Uncertain Fortune
Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences,...
Color and Character
West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality. West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations...
It’S Not Always Racist … but Sometimes It Is
Reshaping How We Think About Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Not all incidents related to race should be considered instances of racism. And not all people who make comments about race are racists. In Its Not Always Racist but Sometimes It Is, author Dionne Wright Poulton, PhD, argues that society misuses these termsracism and racistand that this misuse of...
Race in Mind
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These essays analyze how race affects people's lives and relationships in all settings, from the United States to Great Britain and from Hawaiʻi to Chinese Central Asia. They contemplate the racial positions in various societies of people called Black and people called White, of Asians and Pacific...
Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools
The Space between Diversity and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools, Bonnie E. French investigates the management of “diversity” at predominantly White, independent schools in the northeastern United States. By conducting in-depth interviews with diversity policy developers and implementers within the independent...
by Anthony P. Maingot
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Gordon K. Lewis, a Welshman by birth, a Caribbean man by choice, articulated the Caribbean’s history, politics and intellectual development across the region’s national and linguistic differences. Through his major books Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean (1963), The Growth of the...
by Russell McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Combining the perspectives of political, social, and cultural history in a coherent narrative, this account is a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle of the 20th century. As it provides a cogent analysis of how the relationship...
by Johnny E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Although the human genome exists apart from society, knowledge about it is produced through socially-created language and interactions. As such, genomicists’ thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the ‘race’ concept. This book investigates how racism makes genomics and...
The Price of Progressive Politics
The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights
movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive
Politics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rights
politics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism undermines
this multiracial movement. Through in-depth interviews
with...
by Julien Coallier
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Multicultural liberalism promotes societal solidarity and economic independence, thereby reinforcing the individual as a state sanctioned means to reinforcing patriotism. Multiculturalism is explored as a means to support and promote a diversity of minorities, regardless of race, and as a defining feature of liberalized national patriotism.
Colonial Complexions
Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals...
Recaptured Africans
Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social...