The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South, Paperback - Alex Heard

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

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

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

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

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

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. At 7: 30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year...

Reducere. Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the hi...

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

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Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture

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Reducere. In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward ...

Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th...

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The inspiring true story of the tragic loss and triumphant resurrection of a basketball team and its coach at the heart of a small Indiana town.By ...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial ...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): John David SmithIllustration(s): 87 illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

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

Reducere. Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs,...

Reducere. How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...

Reducere. The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate raci...

Judith Lennox's novels are full of excitement and drama, with great appeal for readers of Kate Morton and fans of DOWNTON ABBEY.

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Reducere. Respected antiquarian Thomas William Shore investigates the Anglo-Saxons and their ancestors; the regional tribes who settled upon all corners of a...

Reconstructs the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period. This book contains translations from over a dozen Tantras. It is useful fo...

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book...

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

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Reducere. In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the...

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Reducere. As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, Sout...

Reducere. Her heart sought shelter. Her soul found home.Ella Whitaker rescues a newborn from the dying arms of a woman of ill repute and at long last she has...

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Reducere. William Shakespeare's classic play Othello, featuring valuable tools for educators and readers, from the esteemed Folger Shakespeare Library, home ...

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

Reducere. Combing the curiosity of The Botany of Desire and the playful spirit of Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of botany and gardening memoir ...

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Reducere. WITH A FOREWORD BY TOM BRADY "As a sportscaster and sports historian, Jim's career genuinely stands the test of time. . . . This book is sports his...

Reducere. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in A...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

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Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

Reducere. SINS OF THE SOUTH exposes the mafia connection in small communities. The death of a swanky nightclub owner in southern Illinois in 1956 is ruled a ...