Black Earth

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

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edition of Richard Wright's landmark works in the form in which he intended the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop ...

DescriptionThe eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City ...

Reducere. This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural ...

Reducere. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, a...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterlands.Publisher: Taylor & Franc...

Reducere. DescriptionA new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of co...

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the Am...

Reducere. In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement ...

Reducere. Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black C...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that ar...

DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

Reducere. This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant,...

DescriptionThe Italian Inquisition, or Holy Office, was established in 1542, stimulated partly by the earlier Spanish operation. Certainly Spain's ...

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...

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. 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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. 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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...