The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Paperback - C. Vann Woodward

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Joseph DardaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Post*45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21C...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social pheno...

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...

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Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...

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DescriptionA uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower stra...

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

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

Traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by ...

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

Sinking deep into debt, and encountering everything from a lost rudder to freak storms, Vann is on the verge of losing everything - including his l...

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

DescriptionBaseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has ...

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"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

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Head back to Sticky Pines, USA, for another thrilling adventure with our favourite investigators of all things weird, Lucy Sladan and Milo Fischer!...

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

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

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Reducere. DescriptionThe decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through...

 In her 60-year career, Joanne Woodward has been a film, television and stage actress, television producer and director, stage director, and film ...

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

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Reducere. Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely...

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On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white ...

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

Jim Morris has been responsible for some of the most memorable ad campaigns in history. He knows best that bad ads don't just create themselves. Pa...

A memoir of the extraordinary professional life of the pioneer in college sports marketing.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Ji...

Reducere. Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for resha...

DescriptionThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which...

Reducere. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about th...

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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's...

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