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Militarizing the Border
When Mexicans Became the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing...
The Mulatta Concubine
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies....
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict....
by Joseph L. Kyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This book presents some very raw facts about the negative aspects of racism and the devastating effects it has on individuals, municipalities, States, the Nation and indeed the world. It covers a ten year period in the authors life, presented autobiographically, from 1940 to 1950. The story is based...
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South
Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning...
Lines Were Drawn
Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Lines Were Drawn looks at a group of Mississippi teenagers whose entire high school experience, beginning in 1969, was under federal court-ordered racial integration. Through oral histories and other research, this group memoir considers how the students, despite their markedly different backgrounds,...
Black and Blue
The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially...
Beyond White Guilt
The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
'This book lays out the way modern Australia can right the wrongs that have occurred in the intervening years, and decades, and centuries that have passed since that first dramatic encounter.' - From the foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.'...
Abolitionizing Missouri
German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition as well as the first exploration of the impact that the...
Jim Crow's Legacy
The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the emotional and physical health of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book features powerful interview excepts of African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation...
by Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island’s slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks...
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation
The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced...
Beyond Colorblind
Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
• 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Racial Reconciliation
• 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist
For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity...