Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, Paperback - Talitha L. Leflouria

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talitha L. LeflouriaIn 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for h...

Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

Reducere. DescriptionC. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a sing...

Reducere. With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemiso...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

Reducere. This book is written with specific premises. First, that criminal justice policy in general and the relationship between criminal justice and race ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Amy L. StoneIllustration(s): 22 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. 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. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

Reducere. Sallie Stockard (1869-1963), the first female graduate of the University of North Carolina, published three county histories between 1900 and 1904....

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Kabria BaumgartnerNumber of pages: 320Collection: Early American PlacesPublication date: 2022Dimensi...

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has...

Reducere. Winner of the Bancroft Prize After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography...

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

Reducere. Hosea Hudson's story, as remarkable as it is, is one that could be told many times by determined southern blacks who have fought for freedom and ju...

Based on fieldwork in ten Asian countries, this book examines cross-national patterns and the impact of globalization, state policies, individual a...

Reducere. DescriptionAdult BDSM novel from the 1960s with illustrations.Black-and-white facsimile edition. Although it has been checked manually, it may cont...

Reducere. The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minn...

Examines the rich heritage of African American women who have proclaimed--and still proclaim--God's word. Against all odds, African American women ...

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their ...

Reducere. The area known as the "Dark Corner" near Greenville, South Carolina was once home to a distinct Appalachian culture. Isolated from their fellow Sou...

Reducere. In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose ...

DescriptionHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda R...

Reducere. Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an u...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAnthologiesTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern Ameri...

Reducere. The author shares many of her rich life experiences as a black clergywoman and seminary professor. She preaches and teaches to all women so they ca...

Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

Reducere. The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggl...

Gabriella Lukacs traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, "girly" photographers, online traders, and cell phone novel...

Reducere. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous w...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on F...

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

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 ...

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

Global Governance in Question. Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations - Susanne Soederberg

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

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. Poetry. Women's Studies. "From crushed bodies and crushed nouns, Kirun Kapur has composed an utterly original book. Unsparing, un-selfpitying, thes...

Reducere. "The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up." --Hilary Mantel "A deceptively smart comic gem." -The New York Times Book Review "Witty ...

This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher educ...

Reducere. DescriptionIf technical skills were all that were required to get ahead, then Black women would be well ahead of the rest in the tech field. Howeve...

The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes r...

Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? Grabs answers this question by combining large-N hypothesis testing with a...

Reducere. In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative ...