A Stone of Hope: Rising Above Slavery, Jim Crow, and Poverty in Glendora, Mississippi, Paperback

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares ...

Learn how to thrive in or escape from a toxic work environment.Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear, and anger. The environment causes ...

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, R...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial ...

Reducere. A simple car accident changed the path of six-year-old Sean Rogers's life forever. His single mother checked into the hospital as a vibrant young w...

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

Reducere. Many people believe that racism and discrimination against those of African descent was primarily an American experience. However, this book dispel...

Reducere. A simple car accident changed the path of six-year-old Sean Rogers's life forever. His single mother checked into the hospital as a vibrant young w...

Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

DescriptionThis is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring a...

Reducere. To tackle pervasive poverty in Ethiopia, the root cause must be removed first. Only then can the country hope for progress. Dr. Assefa Muluneh, for...

Reducere. In his introduction to Prayin' to Be Set Free, Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state's...

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Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia's third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life...

Reducere. DescriptionHope Rising is a clarion call to apply the science of hope in daily life and overcome the trauma, adversity, and struggles everyone must...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

Reducere. For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistan...

Reducere. "Alex Heard has crafted a memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory." --Jon Meacham In this grippi...

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Marie FecteauNumber of pages: 448Collection: Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes d'hi...

Reducere. In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil...

Reducere. Andre Norman's early life put him on a path to prison. Raised in poverty and surrounded by dysfunction, Andre gravitated to his neighborhood gang. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kelly JohnsonWhy, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to b...

Reducere. On January 19th, 1863, when the spectre of the Great Famine still loomed over the land, Alexander Irvine was born into dire poverty in the town of ...

While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gil...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

Reducere. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a uni...

Reducere. In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Lou...

Throughout his career Oliver Stone has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent, and often confrontationa...

Reducere. Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urba...

Reducere. Andre Norman's early life put him on a path to prison. Raised in poverty and surrounded by dysfunction, Andre gravitated to his neighborhood gang. ...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Reducere. DescriptionResearch shows that the majority of public school students in the United States qualify as poor, but you have the power to change their ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Acres U.S.A., IncAuthor(s): Reginaldo Haslett-MarroquinPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 154 x 227 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...

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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's...