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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Courier Dover Publications |
April 13, 1995 |
76 pages
Professor:
Prof. James Miller
Course Codes:
HIST 4805
Semester:
Summer-2013
The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired... More Info
$26.50
Gospel of Freedom
Bloomsbury Press |
April 9, 2013 |
224 pages
"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested.
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$27.95
Looking for Leroy
April 22, 2013 |
224 pages
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The... More Info
$26.95
Too Asian?
Between the Lines(CA) |
May 21, 2012 |
176 pages
A collection exploring race and representation on Canadian campuses with the infamous "Maclean?s" ?Too Asian? article as a flashpoint
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$22.00
Maroon the Implacable
Pm Press |
April 1, 2013 |
300 pages
During a lengthy incarceration spent mostly in solitary confinement, political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz has developed into a prolific writer and powerful voice for the disenfranchised. This first published collection of his accumulated works showcases his sharp and profound understanding of... More Info
$31.95
Savage Perils
March 1, 2012 |
270 pages
Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between ?civilization” and ?savagery” in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before... More Info
The Erotic Life of Racism
Duke University Press Books |
April 13, 2012 |
168 pages
In this critique of the fields of feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, Sharon Holland describes how, despite decades of theoretical and political work focused on race, we are continually affected by everyday experiences of racism and attached to old patterns of racist thought.
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$22.95
Taking responsibility, taking direction
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
June 15, 2005 |
176 pages
Wilmot argues that the participation of white progressives in anti-racist movements and organizations in Canada badly needs an overhaul. With this thesis, she begins her assessment of anti-racist movements in Canada by guiding the reader through a summary of the ugly history and legacy of Canada's... More Info
$20.00
Harlem
January 15, 2013 |
80 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as “two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls—African and American, African-American—is... More Info
$39.95
Word by Word
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
February 14, 2013 |
323 pages
Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings—or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors’ perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to... More Info
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Beacon Press (MA) |
January 29, 2013 |
360 pages
This definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement. "In the first sweeping history of Parks's life, Theoharis shows us that Parks not only sat down on the bus, but stood on the... More Info
Root and Branch
Bloomsbury Press |
January 22, 2013 |
288 pages
Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of court challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling Jim Crow one statute at a time.Charles Hamilton... More Info
$21.50
Huey
Basic Books |
October 25, 2006 |
302 pages
Chronicles the life of Huey P. Newton, discussing his childhood in poverty, involvement in the civil rights movement, role as cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party, and other related topics.
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$35.95
Black Against Empire
Univ of California Press |
January 14, 2013 |
560 pages
Presents an overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party, revealing the political dynamics that drove the growth of this revolutionary movement, and its unraveling.
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$21.50
Color Me English
January 1, 2013 |
352 pages
The award-winning author of A Distant Shore presents a collection of observations on the dynamic notions of race, culture and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks, providing entries that consider such topics as his childhood memories about a Muslim fellow student and his... More Info
$23.00
Black in Latin America
September 1, 2012 |
270 pages
"In approaching this vast topic, Gates displays disarming modesty and enthusiasm; his tone is that of a letter from a perceptive friend who can't wait to share what he's learned." -The New Yorker 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0... More Info
Unbecoming Blackness
November 26, 2012 |
288 pages
InUnbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align... More Info
$22.95
Fatal Invention
September 4, 2012 |
388 pages
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
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The New Jim Crow
The New Press |
January 16, 2012 |
312 pages
Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education and public benefits create a permanent under-caste based largely on race. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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$32.00
Racing to Justice
September 6, 2012 |
301 pages
Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on... More Info
American Tapestry
Amistad |
June 19, 2012 |
400 pages
Illuminating the lives of the ordinary people who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, this intimate family history traces the compelling story of Michelle Obama's ancestors, taking readers on a journey from slavery to the White House in five generations that bears witness to our... More Info
Opting Out
November 1, 2011 |
240 pages
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and... More Info
$36.00
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
Palgrave MacMillan |
April 15, 2010 |
204 pages
Here is a look at how our relationship to the land is shaped by historical migration, conquest, and long-term residence. European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule.... More Info
The Presumption of Guilt
Palgrave MacMillan |
April 10, 2012 |
256 pages
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The... More Info
$25.00
Racial Imperatives
May 16, 2012 |
200 pages
Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the phenomenon of racial passing to provide... More Info
Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous
Indiana Univ Pr |
April 21, 2011 |
265 pages
What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous peoples' movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why? Dorothy L. Hodgson explores how indigenous identity, both in concept and in practice, plays out in the context of economic liberalization, transnational... More Info
$15.00
Elizabeth and Hazel
September 4, 2012 |
310 pages
Looks at the lives of the two women at the center of a famous historic photograph taken during the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957, in a book that discusses how each dealt with the fallout from that day.
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$30.95
Segregation and Mistrust
Cambridge University Press |
September 30, 2012 |
280 pages
Generalized trust - faith in people you don't know who are likely to be different from you - is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet some scholars now argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different from us. Eric M. Uslaner challenges this... More Info
Living Color
Univ of California Press |
September 27, 2012 |
260 pages
Examines the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, including information about the biological science involved and how stereotypes derived from the differences in hue.
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$30.95
The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology
Cambridge University Press |
July 31, 2012 |
368 pages
This volume discusses normative theological categories from a black perspective and argues that there is no major Christian doctrine on which black theology has not commented. Part One explores introductory questions such as: what have been the historical and social factors fostering a black... More Info
Define and Rule
Harvard University Press |
October 30, 2012 |
164 pages
When Britain abandoned its attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance as the definition and management of difference, lines of political identity were drawn between settler and native, and between natives according to tribe. Out of this... More Info
Creating a New Racial Order
Princeton Univ Pr |
February 21, 2012 |
282 pages
The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change,... More Info
If Your Back's Not Bent
Atria Books |
September 4, 2012 |
352 pages
“Nobody can ride your back if your back’s not bent,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said at the end of a Citizenship Education Program (CEP), an adult grassroots training program directed by Dorothy Cotton. This program, called the best-kept secret of the twentieth century’s civil rights... More Info
$27.50
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul
State University of New York Press |
June 1, 2008 |
297 pages
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul explores innovative approaches to analyzing cultural productions through which women of color have challenged and undermined social and political forces that work to oppress them. Emphasizing art-making practices that emerge out of and reflect concrete lived experience,... More Info
$32.95
Calling cards
State Univ of New York Pr |
June 30, 2005 |
303 pages
In recent decades, the concepts of race, gender, and culture have come to function as "calling cards." the terms by which we announce ourselves as professionals and negotiate acceptance and/or rejection in the academic marketplace. In this volume, contributors from composition, literature,... More Info
Race Defaced
Stanford University Press |
September 5, 2012 |
264 pages
From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism... More Info
Critical Race Theory
January 9, 2012 |
207 pages
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins, principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this important... More Info
Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle
U of Minnesota Press |
March 23, 2012 |
336 pages
An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century
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$24.95
Samurai Among Panthers
U of Minnesota Press |
April 23, 2012 |
496 pages
The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
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$26.95
Dark Side of the Light
U of Minnesota Press |
February 24, 2006 |
165 pages
Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu are best known for their humanist theories and liberating influence on Western civilization. But as renowned French intellectual Louis Sala-Molins shows, Enlightenment discourses and scholars were also complicit in the Atlantic slave trade,... More Info
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