Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era, Paperback - Alison Rose Jefferson

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

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

Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th...

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

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

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

Reducere. DescriptionAdvance Praise for Dream-Singers ""You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to...

Reducere. Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Miriam ThaggertIllustration(s): 34 black & white photographs, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 240Collectio...

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

Reducere. That Old Black Magic is a history of the best known black stage magicians performing in the United States since the colonial days, featuring fascin...

Reducere. In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the...

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

Reducere. The African American Scholarship Guide should prove to be a very useful tool for libraries, high schools, students and parents to help find the lat...

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Reducere. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about th...

Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

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Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat ...

Analysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore h...

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Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

An engaging, wide-ranging, and groundbreaking reexamination of the relationship between African American writers and the communist movement in the US.

Reducere. Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure--the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, Eu...

DescriptionPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced So...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

Reducere. For most of the first half of the twentieth century, African-Americans were excluded from Organized Baseball. But their love of the game, and their...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

Reducere. "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy ...

Reducere. While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among th...

The Crow. The Third Book of Pellinor - Alison Croggon