Whose Detroit?. Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, Paperback - Heather Ann Thompson

Reducere. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that ...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Christopher KrupaIllustration(s): 12 illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

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

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

Reducere. The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prize...

Reducere. From martyr to insult, how "Uncle Tom" has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Just...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Reducere. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld....

Reducere. A year of devotions to guide teen girls toward growth in life and faith During every teenager's most challenging times, God is by their side. This ...

This monograph examines Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throug...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of...

A powerful anthology giving voice to the mental health struggles experienced by people of colour in the UK.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Riann...

Reducere. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...

By examining the political development of racial classifications on the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, The Sche...

Reducere. Dangerously Divided is for scholars, lay readers, journalists, and policy makers who are interested in American politics, race and ethnicity, class...

The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents...

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

Reducere. A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines et...

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious not...

She discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia ...

Reducere. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld....

Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

Offers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in Am...

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspe...

Reducere. A high school honors student with no police record encounters the police outside his home. He emerges from the confrontation bruised and beaten. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

We're living through The Breakdown. A time of enormous political upheaval and polarised opinion. Many of us feel ill-equipped to understand and deb...

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and...

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Reducere. On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek,...

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons...

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

Reducere. DescriptionDetroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms...

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