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  • Black Women's Christian Activism

    Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb

    af Betty Livingston Adams ...
    Serier Bog 5 - Social Transformations
    2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award RecipientWinner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non-fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic AllianceWinner, 2020 Kornitzer Book Prize, given by Drew UniversityExamines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs and American Protestantism in the first half of the twentieth centuryWhen a domestic servant n... ... Læs mere

    129,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • The Echo from Dealey Plaza

    The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK

    af Abraham Bolden ...
    From the first African American assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption.Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a ... Læs mere

    87,36 kr.

  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    Redigeret af William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad ...
    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Læs mere

    89,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Undoing Border Imperialism

    af Harsha Walia ...
    Serier Bog 6 - Anarchist Interventions
    Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineUndoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement ... Læs mere

    128,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • In the Heart of America and Other Plays

    af Naomi Wallace ...
    Naomi Wallace's plays speak the underside of life. Her characters suffer and survive against the enormous weight of the times with a dignity that inspires. Her work challenges the audience and reader to reexamine the conflicts and meaning of our everyday lives through her singular, poetic imagery and language.Includes: One Flea SpareIn the Heart of AmericaSlaughter CityThe War BoysThe Trestle at ... Læs mere

    166,74 kr.

  • What Fanon Said

    A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

    af Lewis R. Gordon, Drucilla Cornell ...
    Serier serie Just Ideas
    Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the ... Læs mere

    188,57 kr.

  • Shots on the Bridge

    Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina

    af Ronnie Greene ...
    A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police who had stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into ... Læs mere

    127,36 kr.

  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    af John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Læs mere

    141,24 kr.

  • The Nurture of Nature

    Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

    af Sharon Wall ...
    Serier serie Nature | History | Society Series
    Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity – shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North ... Læs mere

    259,00 kr.

  • Svinia in Black and White

    Slovak Roma and their Neighbours

    af David Z. Scheffel ...
    Serier serie Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Roma—or Gypsies as some people still call them—constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority. In spite of their centuries-long coexistence with mainstream Europeans, our picture of this people remains rooted in stereotypes and myths that have little in common with contemporary social reality. Full-fledged citizens of the European Union, and ostensibly protected by the world's ... Læs mere

    190,83 kr.

  • The Long Emancipation

    The Demise of Slavery in the United States

    af Ira Berlin ...
    Serier Bog 14 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the ... Læs mere

    140,36 kr.

  • The Presumption of Guilt

    The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America

    af Charles Ogletree ...
    A look at the arrest of an acclaimed Harvard professor and what it says about the state of race relations and civil rights in America."Professor Ogletree lifts up voices that have been forgotten. That has been his life's work. . . . It has been my great honor and a pleasure of my life to have known [him]." —President Barack ObamaShortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.