Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, Paperback - Brandi Thompson Summers

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From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

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DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

DescriptionThe Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2, 600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In th...

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism and heritage protection have formed a productive alliance for the transformation of inner-city distri...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

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Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

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Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

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...

The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Foc...

In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically B...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jr., Adolph ReedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 149 x 228 x 24Cover type: ...

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