North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955, Paperback - Sarah-Jane Mathieu

Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

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

Reducere. In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral histo...

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) ...

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

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

DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

This book offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. Esse...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Dennis TylerIllustration(s): 5 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Collection: CripPublication date...

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...

Important societal critique of how gender and militarism intersect in Canadians' daily learning.

Russia's most famous aviator disappears on a world record flight over the North Pole. A commercial airliner with thirty-eight people is never found...

The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love and hope in World War II from the USA Today bestselling author ...

The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love and hope in World War II from the USA Today bestselling author ...

Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Jane DowningThe broader Regency period 1795-1820 stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history unlike anyth...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisEditor: Nahum Dimitri ChandlerThis volume assembles essential essays--some published only posthumously, oth...

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...

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

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

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

DescriptionAcross the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte's stories published in The Cinci...

This outstanding work examines black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting and shows how it both undermines and reflects neoliberalism. Un...

Applying a much needed intersectional approach, Melissa Fuster shows that nutritionists and eaters often misrepresent, and even racialize or pathol...

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

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

Reducere. African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eddie R. ColeNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far fr...

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ni...

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

Reducere. Where Black people live has long been an important determinant of their ability to participate in political processes. The Great Migration signific...

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 ...

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 ...

Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds...

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

Reducere. The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustra...

This book provides a critical analysis of the largescale migration of people across borders which has sent shockwaves through the global world orde...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Reducere. Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852-1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in ...

Reducere. Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

Reducere. Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western cult...

Reducere. A fascinating look at North America's famous natural spectacles Bird migration captivates us. Where are the birds going? How far will they fly? How...

An inspired tale of high adventure, Out in the Cold is Bill Murray's vivid portrait of adventure across the vast Northern Atlantic from the Arctic ...

This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siecle Germany, Kocku ...

In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from in...