Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, Paperback - Frank Andre Guridy

Reducere. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a uni...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

Reducere. Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African America...

Reducere. Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It tr...

Reducere. In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were...

Reducere. In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies converged on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the cent...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerald HorneThe surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in E...

Reducere. Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to under...

To generate African American support for World War II, the government turned to mass media. Kathleen German delves into the dilemma of race and the...

From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spir...

Reducere. For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" per ...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

Durham County, North Carolina, once called the "Chicago of the South" and the "Capital of the Black Bourgeoisie, " has long occupied an important p...

Reducere. During the 1960s and '70s, Mexican Americans began to agitate for social and political change. From their diverse activities and agendas there emer...

Reducere. While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horn...

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 particular Oregon history is about African American loggers during the Great Migration of more than six million African Americans f...

Reducere. Wednesday, November 9, 2016 is the day that changed America. A Republican business mogul and reality television host who once proclaimed that if wo...

Reducere. Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents ...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade...

DescriptionGloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejec...

Uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlappi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Robin D. G. KelleyEditor: Earl LewisThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of elev...

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visi...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Action Party's signature style of tec...

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its c...

Reducere. Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for resha...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. DescriptionOrdinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose ...

Reducere. Cuban If From An Insider Hidden within the mysterious Afro-Cuban religion of Santer a, also known as Lucum , there is a deep body of secrets and ri...

Reducere. Vermont's constitution, drafted in 1777, was one of the most enlightened documents of its time, but in contrast, the history of Vermont has largely...

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences b...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Mecca Jamilah SullivanNumber of pages: 288Collection: New Black Studies SeriesPublication date: 2...

Reducere. That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the rel...

Reducere. From the beginning, even before the wagon trains, African Americans have played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, ...