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The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North
Segregation and Struggle outside of the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow
Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Crow racism hid in...
Groundwork
Local Black Freedom Movements in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Over the last several years, the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement as largely a southern phenomenon, organized primarily by male leaders, that roughly began with the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been complicated by studies that root...
Want to Start a Revolution?
Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank and...
Exonerated
A History of the Innocence Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice.
Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs,...
Everyone Eats
Understanding Food and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional...
New York, Year by Year
A Chronology of the Great Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Winner, The New York Public Library, Best of Reference Award, 2002
If any city deserves a complete chronology, it is surely New York. New York, Year by Year is a cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. In this handy reference work, Jeffrey...
The Big Onion Guide to New York City
Ten Historic Tours
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Visit the Big Onion Guide to New York City site at www.nyupress.org/bigonion
Whether you're a tourist or a native New Yorker, you will appreciate this witty, informative walking guide to New York City, as authors Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin peel back the layers of New York's most popular neighborhoods....
Toxic Communities
Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
From St.
Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and
minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be
hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that
privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have...
We Will Shoot Back
Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies
Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale...
Sin No More
From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which...
On Foot
A History of Walking
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understand the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
" Everything is within walking distance if you have the time."
-Stephen...
Boricua Power
A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society? How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence...
Fragmented Citizens
The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be
The landmark Supreme Court decision in June 2015 legalizing the right to same-sex marriage marked a major victory in gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Once...