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The Breakthrough
Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.
Ifill argues...
by Amanda Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
What is the place of Amanda Smith in American history? Has she any place there? Mrs. Smith is an historic character. The biography of great women, and especially great women of the Negro race, would be sadly deficient without her. Of this race in the United States, since 1020, there have appeared...
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda
What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?
Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
It is clear that many of the things the author talks about in this book are things that most black people would be afraid to talk about in America. However, these are issues that all Americans must have an understanding of. There are many other books that talk about what racial relations in America...
White Riot
Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of...
Our Gang
A Racial History of The Little Rascals
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams—and the public loved it.
The story of race...
Beyond Blackface
African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American...
Tell the Court I Love My Wife
Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis,...
Slave Breeding
Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated...
by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, W.E. BURGHARDT DuBOIS
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Contents
I. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY
By Booker T. Washington
II. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE SINCE ITS EMANCIPATION
By Booker T. Washington
III. THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH
By W.E. Burghardt DuBois
IV. RELIGION IN THE SOUTH
By W.E. Burghardt DuBois
A Death in Texas
A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2003
An extraordinary account of how a small Texas town struggled to come to grips with its racist past in the aftermath of the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr.
On June 7, 1998, a forty-nine-year-old black man named James Byrd, Jr., was chained to the bumper of a truck and dragged three miles down...
One Righteous Man
Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book Award
Winner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction
A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer.
When...
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras
Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras is an anthology of the most enduring and important scholarly articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction era published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Past officers of the South Carolina...
Medical Bondage
Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor...