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And the Crooked Places Made Straight
The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
David Chalmers's widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long,...
The Politics of White Rights
Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954–73 taught Alabama’s segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense...
Battling the Plantation Mentality
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the...
The Omni-Americans
Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Rediscover the "most important book on black-white relationships" in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people. . . . Any fool can...
Conceptual Aphasia in Black
Displacing Racial Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of conceiving of racism and its correlations...
Going to School in Black and White
A dual memoir of desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are facing today." –Jaki Shelton Green, poet and NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee
The school careers of two teenage girls who lived across...
Citizens of Asian America
Democracy and Race during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights of all and was superior to communist countries became a national...
AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL
People v. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As I write this, the nation is still reeling from multiple shocks in July 2016. First, as the month began, came yet two more videotaped incidents of police shooting to death black arrestees after many other such widely-publicized incidents over the previous several years. The day after the Fourth of...
Wednesdays in Mississippi
Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
As tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization tackled the divide by opening lines of communication at the request of local women: Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS). Employing an unusual and deliberately feminine approach, WIMS brought interracial, interfaith teams of northern middle-aged,...
Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three...
by Min Zhou, Carl L. Bankston III
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is about this new generation in...
Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons
Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural...
The Rescue of Joshua Glover
A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen...
Mainstream and Margins Revisited
Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
When his book Mainstream and Margins was published in 1983, Peter Rose's writings on American minorities and those who studied them painted a vivid picture of what life was like in America for Jews, blacks, and other minorities in the United States. Now, a third of a century later, he revisits the...