The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Harry S. Ashmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book provides an impartial look at the whole picture of biracial education in the United States. It is also a history of segregation in education in the United States and the story of the South's effort to equalize educational opportunities for white and black children.
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Alcohol
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as...
by Rita Ricardo-Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This study analyzes the entire health scene, providing valuable insights into the working of the health care practices, and offering policy recommendations for more effective distribution. Although the study focuses mainly on cost containment, it also explores the relationship between health and medical...
Legislating Privacy
Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized...
Reimagining Indian Country
Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas. Still, scholars, policymakers, and popular culture often regard Indians first as reservation peoples, living apart from non-Native Americans. In this book, Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding...
Seasons of Change
Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining a period that began with the tribe's removal to reservations and closed with the Indian New Deal, Chantal Norrgard explores the critical link between...
Fighting Their Own Battles
Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism...
Say We Are Nations
Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other...
Representing Women
Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth...
Decolonizing Museums
Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye...
Freedom's Teacher
The Life of Septima Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In...
Federal Fathers and Mothers
A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers,...
Law School
Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the...
Southern Water, Southern Power
How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling...