How the Color Line Bends. The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America, Paperback - ***

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nina M. (Inaugural fellow, Inaugural fellow, McKinsey Center for the Future of Work) YancyNumber o...

Racism is a problem deeply rooted in American society. Slavery and segregation may no longer be legal, but their legacies still influence the way B...

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible...

Reducere. Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

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Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 368Pub...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

Explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This book includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues...

Reducere. A line is thin. A line is narrowcurved like a worm, straight as an arrow. Squares, circles, triangles, and many more shapes abound in this lively b...

Reducere. Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Bla...

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal ...

Reducere. We live in a crazy time. On top of that, you're trying to figure out who you are and how to find your place in this ever-changing world. You're bui...

Reducere. What may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history?About the Author: Gary Pau...

Reducere. Twenty-eight-year-old Will, a teacher living in Montreal, has spent the last few months recovering from a breakup with his first serious boyfriend,...

Reducere. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist...

Reducere. The thread that runs through the poems in The Geography of Kitchens is one that connects us to family members who shaped our lives, particularly th...

Reducere. The thread that runs through the poems in The Geography of Kitchens is one that connects us to family members who shaped our lives, particularly th...

DescriptionFor many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog an...

Reducere. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist...

For fans of Jenny Han and Never Have I Ever, The Geography of You and Me is a story for anyone who's ever longed to meet someone special, for anyon...

Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideol...

Reducere. Barbara Earl Thomas's new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of it lie...

The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the...

Reducere. The definitive guide to analysis techniques for examining the geography of crime Understanding Crime: Analyzing the Geography of Crime delves into ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jessica T. SimesIllustration(s): 7 b-w maps, 23 b-w charts and 8 tablesNumber of pages: 252Publ...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Deepa PurushothamanNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 30Cover type...

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Reducere. Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of ...

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Reducere. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color ...

Reducere. At a time when the dialogue concerning Black and White people in America is more crucial than ever, it is important to approach the conversation wi...

Reducere. COLOR EDITIONA travel guide with a twist. The author weaves the exciting story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the west during the early 1800s ...

DescriptionThe Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally...

Reducere. Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader across the globe to investigate not what ...

Reducere. Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere's most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) ...

DescriptionAnthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the "everyday, " the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; how...

DescriptionThe legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and...

Accessible introduction to the life and times of one of the towering figures of the American Civil Rights movement

This is a fascinating account of unexplored corners of one of the nation's best-known buildings, from the minutiae of decoration and diplomacy to t...

Reducere. Tag along on this New York Times bestselling "witty, entertaining romp" (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athe...

Providing a conceptually framework for understanding sources of global violence, this title describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent abo...

Reducere. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system. Race and Po...

Reducere. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality. Protesting Police Violence in Modern America ...

While focused on serving children and families, the adoption industry must also generate sufficient revenue to cover an agency's operating costs. W...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don JordanAuthor: Michael WalshWhite Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage...

Reducere. Racial bias, both implicit and explicit, is easy to see in American news media. Race and the Media in Modern America explores differences in report...

For nearly seventy years, the Modern Language Association has helped student writers choose trustworthy sources and use them to support their own i...