Black Earth

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster Jeremy Paxman Where would Britain be without coal? In brilliant social history, Jeremy Pax...

Reducere. DescriptionThese collected essays examine the roles of women in their churches and communities, the implication of those roles for African American...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The first game occurred in 1892, a little le...

Reducere. This book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas's students: "How could you, a black woman, possibly be a Christian?" Reflection on the hi...

Reducere. The reader will be exposed to the memoirs of the people who were present during the American Revolution. These memoirs describe a black British/Ger...

In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.About the ...

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 ...

Reducere. Trace, document, record, and write your family's history with this easy-to-read, step-by-step authoritative guide. Finally, here is the fun, easy-t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents...

"Brilliant."--Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal is] a wise and patient reporter."--The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and tur...

Reducere. DescriptionO could one write as one makes love when all is given and nothing kept, then language might put by at last its coy elisions and inept wi...

Reducere. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon ecl...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the early days of Texas, the work of the cowhand was essential to the newly arrived settlers building a life on the frontier. The sto...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile African Americans comprise just five percent of the total population of Minnesota today, the state boasts many successful, creativ...

DescriptionArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe comments presented in this book are based on lectures Dr. J. Luke Wood, Ph.D. gave during the Black Minds Matter course and during s...

DescriptionThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities,...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its lim...

Reducere. American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kim...

Megan Black argues that the U.S. Department of the Interior, known for managing domestic natural resources and operating public parks, constantly s...

DescriptionIn Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Reducere. DescriptionA True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), who operated a studio in Columbia, South ...

Reducere. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activ...

Reducere. Scott Ludlam draws on his experience as a senator and activist to capture our world on a precipice and explore what comes next.One way or another, ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Black Madness: : Mad Blackness Ther Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common t...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylist...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone with a sense of fair play is horrified by stories of racially inspired abuse. As bad as such incidents can be, however, what is...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideal...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

Reducere. In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during ...

Reducere. Description"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they...

DescriptionSince the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked Africa...

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Camilla HawthorneIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 23 Halftones, black and white; 1 ChartsNumber of pages: 324...

Reducere. In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the p...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack Power studies have been dominated by the North American story, but after decades of scholarly neglect, the growth of "New Black Po...

DescriptionUnder apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government's policies, and ...

Reducere. Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study reveal...

DescriptionIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating th...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

Reducere. In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as part...

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of "black prairie" literature, and includes writing that ranges...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have pl...

Reducere. DescriptionBy 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted Africa...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Reducere. I know Florida. I was born in Florida during the reign of Jim Crow and have lived to see black astronauts blasted into the heavens from Cape Canave...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie ...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

Reducere. The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of be...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial pro...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. DescriptionMOSHOOD ADEMOLA FAYEMIWO was a newspaper publisher/editor in Nigeria where he grew up but now lives in Chicago. An alumnus of University...

Reducere. 'A City Within a City' is a case study of the civil rights era as it happened in smaller cities, focusing specifically on the struggles involving s...

Reducere. African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist times through the Black Power movement, it was widely seen as a mea...

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. African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a...

Reducere. DescriptionThis study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black his...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century pe...

DescriptionBlack French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gor e, Daka...

Reducere. DescriptionThe politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recen...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

Reducere. Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and soc...