Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, R...

DescriptionThis is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring a...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressNumber of pages: 360Collection: History of CommunicationPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 39Cove...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

"This is a book of stories, " writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about t...

Reducere. DescriptionA unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in A...

Reducere. In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childh...

Reducere. This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help fo...

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the 1749 texts of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the la...

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Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

Reducere. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and ...

Reducere. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly ori...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis Gates JrSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Lib...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesIllustration(s): 35 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Flo...

Reducere. In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little rel...

Reducere. An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most A...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Henry Louis GatesEditor: Valerie SmithEditor: William L. AndrewsThe much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Henry WhiteNumber of pages: 384Collection: Little BadmanPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joshua O. RenoIllustration(s): 11 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "...

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Scarlet and Liall set out with the king's army on a perilous journey to the frozen heart of Rshan. As Scarlet's fabled magic begins to change, Lial...

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Reducere. Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor with Me and White SupremacyAuthor Layla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encoura...

The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior ...

Reducere. The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. "Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Gl...

Reducere. The Road to Immortality provides the reader with a sublime vision of the afterlife, allegedly communicated from 'other side' by the eminent psychol...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

DescriptionGeraldine Cummins's fourth book, The Road to Immortality written in 1932, is a series of communications allegedly from F. W. H. Myers, t...

Reducere. A hallmark of American black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change....

An exploration of the cultural legacy left by African slaves in the Caribbean and Latin AmericaPublisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Henry...

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

Reducere. The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fift...

Reducere. "An indispensible study" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provo...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald HorneVirtually no part of the modern United States--the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutio...