Racism in America: The History of Racism in America

Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel-the slave ship, ...

Reducere. Racism in America: A Reference Handbook diverges from the typical focus of accounts of racism on interpersonal prejudice and discrimination to situ...

DescriptionA galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call "jazz" arose in ...

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. DescriptionOut of the chaos and pain of Charlottesville, museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders must move quickly to face t...

Islam is the most misunderstood and misrepresented religious tradition in the United States, depicted as an oppressive and violent political system...

Reducere. The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from La...

Reducere. R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to...

Reducere. In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American poli...

While all humans were created equal, economic history in the United States tells a different story. Black and white economic histories are quite di...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as ``windows`` into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long bat...

Reducere. Since the 1950s UPS has been partner in its own "Silent Movement" to develop and promote African Americans from entry level positions to the C-Suit...

Reducere. In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the s...

Reducere. We have arrived at a unique time in America when four issues - racism, slavery, salvation, and the Bible - are all sharing center stage. None of th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Sean WilentzAuthor: The National Advisory Commission on CiviIntroduction by: Julian E. ZelizerThe Kerner Report is a powerf...

Reducere. Eugenics -- the study of human racial progress through selective breeding -- frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immi...

Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into in...

Reducere. A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and no...

Description Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, t...

Reducere. This first-ever Black Catholic Studies Reader offers an introduction to the theology and history of the Black Catholic experience from those who kn...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip NelRacism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period...

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed AmericaIn the standard story, the suffrage crusad...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Washington State Book Award - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Nikhil Pal SinghDespite black gains in modern America, the...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the gre...

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a fa...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. In America, the amount of money people earn for doing the same job isn't always equal. The United States only recently made it illegal to pay men m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

Reducere. In an age of growing racial tensions, police brutality, and the "Black Lives Matter" movement, "Colorism: Investigating a Global Phenomenon" is a p...

Reducere. The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democra...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. A bracing, original look at the connected histories of real estate, institutionalized racism, and our political polarization A landmark history tol...

Reducere. Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between...

Reducere. A rural village that was once the entry point for the slave trade and home to a cotton plantation, Scotlandville became the largest majority Africa...

Reducere. Includes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outc...

DescriptionA galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call "jazz" arose in ...

Reducere. A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from s...

Reducere. Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and ...

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or wi...

Reducere. It's the New "Big Lie" According the New York Times's "1619 Project, " America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independe...

Reducere. Race is a known fiction--there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race--yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, eth...

Reducere. Description: This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the d...

Reducere. Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland's built environment. Of...

Reducere. Tens of thousands of men from southern China changed the course of American history with their tireless work in the California gold fields in the 1...

Reducere. We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay ...

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today.1919 was ...

Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father...

Reducere. Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Pos...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tim HashawSome oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, ...

Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A signi...

Reducere. Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerful exploration of the history of Black Lives Matter told through photograph...

Reducere. A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Tim...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans--in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the...

Reducere. In this provocative new book from prophetic preacher and pastor Susan Williams Smith, the author tackles the truths that the church in the United S...

Reducere. A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones...

Reducere. Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first black president spelled th...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the gre...

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the tr...

Reducere. A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America Why do so many Africa...

Reducere. Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continua...

Reducere. Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chi...

Reducere. A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St...

Reducere. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twenti...

Reducere. The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

Reducere. Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic--and all too often forgotten--l...

Reducere. In this enlightening new look at one of our most successful, most popular, and least understood presidents, bestselling author and former Reagan ai...