White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights, Paperback - Justin Gomer

Reducere. The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, I have a dream that my four little children ...

Reducere. Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, ...

DescriptionOn January 3, 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar. In signing an exclusive movie contract, Villa agreed to kee...

In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of...

Reducere. In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA ev...

Highly acclaimed dissection of the "new racism, " from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time Many in the United States, inclu...

How do we know about the thousands of people who marched in campaigns for civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s? It includes information ...

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The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement can be traced back to slavery and the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution gave Afric...

In May 1963 news photographer Charles Moore was on hand to document the Children's Crusade, a civil rights protest. But the photographs he took tha...

Reducere. Description"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides ...

Reducere. For years Southern minister Francis X. Walter was silent about the injustices of Jim Crow, blinded by the status quo, until the violent killing of ...

Reducere. Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thou...

Reducere. Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights Days is a remarkable look at a historic city enmeshe...

Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

Reducere. Including Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, read the stories of the amazing men an...

Reducere. Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Educat...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy. The first, 'New...

Reducere. Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreci...

Birthing in a pandemic: what changed, what were the consequences, what should we do now.Publisher: Pinter & Martin Ltd.Author(s): Amy BrownIllustra...

Reducere. Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneIn this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a pr...

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks f...

Reducere. If you're looking for a great source of encouragement, read this book. If you have lost hope because you don't think you can start over or overcome...

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for mu...

Reducere. DescriptionTen years after the initial publication of the first-ever account of the struggle to develop and protect social justice in a bellwether ...

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Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

Analysing dozens of key animated films, the book examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of ...

Reducere. Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 19...

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. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industr...

"Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative.... A landmark achievement."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling...

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

Contributor(s): Author: Ilene CooperEleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice shows young readers how the former First Lady evolved from a poor little...

Publisher: Princeton Architectural PressAuthor(s): David L CraneNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 192 x 254 x 23Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. There's no guarantee in life. Or for that matter, death... Vampire queen Betsy Taylor has awoken in a Chicago morgue, naked as a corpse. Her last m...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, bel...

Reducere. In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passiona...

Reducere. Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sens...

Reducere. More than 60, 000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was wo...