Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South, Paperback - William H. Chafe

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

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Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...

Reducere. Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African America...

Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

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Reducere. Through 24 narratives, How We Got Over captures Black life in compelling first-person accounts from childhood and teen years in mid-twentieth centu...

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...

Reducere. "Alex Heard has crafted a memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory." --Jon Meacham In this grippi...

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

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...

Reducere. Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered tradition will it truly be the body of Christ and transform the world. Twenty-five years ...

Reducere. Born in South LA: 100 Remarkable African Americans Who Were Born, Raised, Lived or Died in South LA documents the stories, struggles, accomplishmen...

Reducere. The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of S...

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares ...

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mario Dell'olioA mid-life crisis, a sailing adventure, and a rescue at sea, Coming About tells a story of survival and inne...

Reducere. Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It tr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.Pub...

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...

Reducere. A nonfiction genre publication written in a storytelling format, Hortense Kilpatrick's powerful and riveting memoir An African American Woman's Chi...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Robert D. JacobusIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations including: - 25 Halftones, Black & White including Black a...

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Those who are in the unenviable position of living or working with a narcissist have learned by sad trial and error that they are the only one in t...

Reducere. The ordeals of two famous African Americans This special Leonaur edition combines the account of Harriet Ann Jacobs with that of Frederick Douglass...

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DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...

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

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lise FunderburgThe groundbreaking oral history, Black, White, Other, made its mark by being the first book to ask black/whi...