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Radical Moves
Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets...
Window on Freedom
Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark the region, the authors...
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Letters from Children of the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth...
by Raúl Necochea López
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Adding to the burgeoning study of medicine and science in Latin America, this important book offers a comprehensive historical perspective on the highly contentious issues of sexual and reproductive health in an important Andean nation. Raul Necochea Lopez approaches family planning as a historical...
Nagô Grandma and White Papa
Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
Dantas compares the formation...
Chocolate City
A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national...
Empowering Revolution
America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
*As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland's politically tumultuous...
Commonsense Anticommunism
Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties...
Native American Whalemen and the World
Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital...
America and the Japanese Miracle
The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s.
Drawing...
Redeeming the South
Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the...
The Myth of Seneca Falls
Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it...