Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Daniel Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Expanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change. Learn about your role in movement-building and how to pick and build...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists,...
Baldwin for Our Times
Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich Blint
In his unforgettable, incandescent essays and poetry, James Baldwin diagnosed the racial injustices of the twentieth century and...
The Empire of Necessity
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter,...
The Diligent
A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. Harms brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms....
by Frank Tannenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer...
Maroon Societies
Rebel Slave Communities in the America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and...
Freeing David McCallum
The Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
For ten years before Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how...
Development Arrested
The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social structures of the plantation system, Clyde Woods examines both planter domination of politics and...
MICHIGAN'S CROSSROADS TO FREEDOM
The Underground Railroad in Jackson County
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slavery in the South to freedom in the North. Many Jacksonians participated in this network, risking their lives to feed, lodge and transport fugitives...
by John Patrick Shanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
-Second play on 3 part project begun with "Doubt" -"Doubt" has sold over 40,000 copies and was awarded the Pulizter Prize
The History of Mary Prince
A West Indian Slave
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance...
Coming of Age in Mississippi
The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change.
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“Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act...