Black Bodies in the River. Searching for Freedom Summer, Paperback - Davis W. Houck

Examines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of...

Publisher: Tangent BooksAuthor(s): Bevis WattsIllustration(s): 60 full colour/black and white photographsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vincent HardingFrom an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achie...

Michael Chemny's autobiography, The Oath: A Quest for Freedom in War-Torn Ukraine, tells the incredible story of one young man's love of the simple...

Reducere. In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staf...

The incredible true story behind the Booker Prize shortlisted The Secret River

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves es...

"...a fascinating and well-told story of the American Revolution in South Carolina-and of its ramifications across racial and national boundaries."...

Reducere. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster--women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely s...

Reducere. Pilar, an innocent young wife and mother, is abducted during a fake job interview in Mexico City and forced into sex slavery in Houston. Can she su...

A Ligature for Black Bodies attempts to re-humanize black bodies into black people by holding the power structures and people accountable who have ...

A multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the 20th-century.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyIl...

Reducere. After years of fighting on the battlefield, Sertorius returns to the city and family he fought for, to find them far different than he remembered.R...

A dark and twisted crime novel, this is the eagerly anticipated follow up to The Puppet Show from award-winning author M. W. Craven.

This book will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of the doctrine of original sin or Christianity and science. It offers a gr...

Allison Drew's frail, ninety-one-year-old father Tom Drew vanishes without a trace from his Salisbury, Connecticut home in July 2007. His caregiver...

Reducere. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives w...

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100...

DescriptionWhereas many thinkers define freedom as the absence of interference--we are left alone to do as we please--Pettit demands that in their ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas LynchThomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American B...

Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

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: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Arthur W. J. G. Ord-HumeIllustration(s): 186Number of pages: 104Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 271 x 21...

Literature on the civil rights movement has long highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries, such as Reverend Ma...

This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing t...

DescriptionPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced So...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

DescriptionThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and milita...

Reducere. A powerful and stirring story. San Antonio Express-News An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would without exaggeration defeat armed ...

Reducere. DescriptionRenew Your Passionate SelfIn Brilliant Burnout, Nisha Jackson reveals proven and successful testing and treatment strategies, with step-...

Reducere. Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents...

Reducere. The Steps to Freedom in Christ for Teens is a biblically based guide to help you align your free will (choice) with God's grace and truth. A step-b...

Reducere. An unflinchingly honest memoir, The Dancer from Khiva is a true story that offers remarkable insights into Central Asian culture through the harrow...

Reporter, editor and lecturer Stanley Flink knows the news business. He has worked as a journalist and editor for many years, in many different ven...

Reducere. River cruising is one of the hottest trends in travel right now-and it's one of the best ways to see the world-but know before you go: understandin...

Why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? This book is a guide to the 'Fermi Paradox'.

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between ...

Reducere. Disc: 1Side A: 1. Freedom Jazz DanceSide B: 1. Circle 2. Circle 3. Circle 4. DoloresDisc: 2Side A: 1. Orbits 2. FootprintsSide B: 1. Gingerbread Bo...

Reducere. When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history...