The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1996
Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s and the resulting 1968 Kerner Commission Report...
The Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world. From the first moment Europeans set foot on the islands to the present, products, people, and ideas have made their way back and forth between the region and other parts of the globe with unequal but inexorable...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers....
A History of the Book in America
Volume 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization,...
Lovie
The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was...
Time Full of Trial
The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In February 1862, General Ambrose E. Burnside led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Roanoke Island. As word spread that the Union army had established a foothold in eastern North Carolina, slaves from the surrounding area streamed across Federal lines seeking freedom. By early 1863, nearly...
Heroes of Hell Hole Swamp: Photographs of South Carolina Midwives by Hansel Mieth and W. Eugene Smith
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Two mid-century Life photo essays reveal the power of editorial selection to lie—or reveal truth. This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Photography Issue. "Mieth and Smith shared a belief that photography could bring social change. They viewed Pat Clark and Maude...
American Christianities
A History of Dominance and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture. Yet, at the same time, Christians in the United States have disagreed sharply about the meaning of their...
A Fabric of Defeat
The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.
Taking a broad...
Upbuilding Black Durham
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle...
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks...
Beyond the Founders
New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks,...
The End of Consensus
Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board...