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Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Paperback - Monica M. White

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Reducere. In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms...

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Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South, Paperback - Regina Bradley

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Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, Paperback - Celia E. Schultz

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Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriag...

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Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, Paperback - Nortin M. Hadler

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Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness, Paperback - Anthony Chaney

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Reducere. The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was amon...

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Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism, Paperback - Michael J. McVicar

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This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-20...

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The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher, Paperback - W. Jeffrey Tatum

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Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, Paperback - Kent Masterson Brown

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Reducere. In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on p...

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Men of Mobtown. Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation, Paperback - Adam Malka

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What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

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Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years, Paperback - Joseph C. Ewoodzie

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Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure, Paperback - Patricia Matthew

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Patricia MatthewThe academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color a...

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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, Paperback - Victoria E. Bynum

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Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

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The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey, Paperback - Bland Simpson

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The Historian's Eye. Photography, History, and the American Present, Paperback - Matthew Frye Jacobson

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Between 2009 and 2014, as the US contemplated the election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson se...

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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, Paperback - William Ferris

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Redcoats on the River: Southeastern North Carolina in the Revolutionary War, Paperback - Robert M. Dunkerly

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Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky, Paperback - Larry J. Hoefling

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Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights, Paperback - Pete Daniel

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Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

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The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines, Paperback - Melton A. McLaurin

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Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

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Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973, Paperback - Camille Walsh

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Camille WalshIn the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer cit...

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Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers, Paperback - Harry R. Phillips

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Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Paperback - Lawrence E. Babits

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Reducere. On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the Ameri...

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Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools, Paperback - Michelle a. Purdy

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Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...

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A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Crystal R. Sanders

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Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

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No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, Paperback - Sarah Haley

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction, Paperback - Elaine Frantz Parsons

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Reducere. DescriptionThe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with star...

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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy, Paperback - Susan M. Reverby

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Reducere. The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound m...

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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859, Paperback - Elizabeth R. Varon

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Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

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Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music, Paperback - Adam Gussow

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Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

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Space-Time Colonialism. Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements, Paperback - Juliana Hu Pegues

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Offering an intersectional approach to US empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labour exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska...

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Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians, Paperback - Susan Sleeper-Smith

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Reducere. A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of A...

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Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait, Paperback - Linda Garland Page

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Reducere. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who hav...

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Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, Paperback - James Oliver Horton

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Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

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Abortion After Roe, Paperback - Johanna Schoen

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Reducere. Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure ...

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Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History, Paperback - Richard M. McMurry

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Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Ten...

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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South, Paperback - Karen L. Cox

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Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

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Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps, Paperback - Amy Murrell Taylor

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Reducere. The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of...

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The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, Paperback - Stephen Cushman

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Reducere. In December 1885, under the watchful eye of Mark Twain, the publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company released the first volume of the Pers...

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Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900, Paperback - Altina L. Waller

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Reducere. The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore...

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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee, Paperback - Robert J. Norrell

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In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the uniq...

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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, Paperback - Catherine a. Brekus

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Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth, " an ex-slave who courageou...

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Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South, Paperback - James Smethurst

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

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Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, Paperback - Simon Balto

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Reducere. In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migratio...

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Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory, Paperback - Anne Sarah Rubin

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Reducere. Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the He...

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Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850, Paperback - Daniel Maudlin

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Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply i...

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Circus Age. Culture and Society under the American Big Top, Paperback - Janet M. Davis

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This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big business and the genesis of the Un...

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The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America, Paperback - Mario T. Garc a

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Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as...

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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

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Reducere. Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John...

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Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America, Paperback - Jonathan Todd Hancock

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The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

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Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean, Paperback - Scott Kugle

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Reducere. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mys...

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Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Neel Ahuja

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Reducere. Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, po...

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Sobre los limites del campo. Ensayos de critica literaria latinoamericanista, Paperback - John Beverley

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Una coleccion de ensayos escogidos del critico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura...

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These Ragged Edges. Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Paperback - ***

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Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, Paperback - Imani Perry

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Reducere. The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...

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Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, Paperback - E. Patrick Johnson

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Reducere. Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and...

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An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade, Paperback - Alexandra J. Finley

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Reducere. Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing women's labor...

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Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia, Paperback - Nicole Myers Turner

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That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Prot...

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Living at the Water's Edge: A Heritage Guide to the Outer Banks Byway, Paperback - Barbara Garrity-Blake

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Reducere. The Outer Banks National Scenic Byway received its designation in 2009, an act that stands as a testament to the historical and cultural importance...

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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital, Paperback - Chris Myers Asch

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Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

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Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, Paperback - Julio Capao

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julio CapaoPoised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed ...

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North Carolina Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History S Mysteries, Paperback - Sara Pitzer

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Reducere. DescriptionNorth Carolina Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina s history. Each episode inc...

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Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom, Paperback - William H. Chafe

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Reducere. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activ...

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Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, Paperback - John Biewen

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Reducere. This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influen...

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Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C., Paperback - Ashante M. Reese

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents...

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Portrait's Subject. Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Paperback - Sarah Blackwood

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Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

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Game of Privilege. An African American History of Golf, Paperback - Lane Demas

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Explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregatio...

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West of Slavery. The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Paperback - Kevin Waite

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Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

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Class Interruptions. Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction, Paperback - Robin Brooks

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

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The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam, Paperback - Ula Yvette Taylor

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ula Yvette TaylorThe patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a prov...

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, Paperback - Barbara Krauthamer

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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...

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