Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, Paperback - Adrian Burgos

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

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Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

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...

Analyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through Will...

The Reshaping of America's Game describes the major developments and challenges that took place in Major League Baseball during the 25-plus years f...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American Wor...

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The Dark Man is sent to a ruined old mansion to rescue two children who have a mystical power.

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An exploration of the phenomenon of the caudillo figure in Latin American politics and the rise of populism through the modern histories of the con...

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A graphic novel-style history of baseball, providing an illustrated look at the major games, players, and rule changes that shaped the sport. This ...

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