Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South, Paperback - Brandi Clay Brimmer

Reducere. In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil...

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

How do people claim rights in South Korea? This collection analyzes how rights are interpreted and acted upon via petitions, court claims, protest,...

The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents...

Reducere. To tackle pervasive poverty in Ethiopia, the root cause must be removed first. Only then can the country hope for progress. Dr. Assefa Muluneh, for...

Contributor(s): Author: Brittney C. CooperBeyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the ev...

This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia's third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

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Reducere. Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911) is a novel by J. E. Casely Hayford. Published at the height of his career as a politician, jo...

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): David SatterthwaiteNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. "Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these ...

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. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and edi...

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Marie FecteauNumber of pages: 448Collection: Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes d'hi...

Reducere. On January 19th, 1863, when the spectre of the Great Famine still loomed over the land, Alexander Irvine was born into dire poverty in the town of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kelly JohnsonWhy, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to b...

Reducere. From the authors of THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT comes a new edition of what one historian calls one of the most important and original histories of the Sou...

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Since the beginnings of independence, a number of African nations have been plagued by repeated coup d' tat. Within the African Union (AU), there h...

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

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

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): John David SmithIllustration(s): 87 illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012...