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Slavery's Capitalism
A New History of American Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence...
The Booker T. Washington Reader
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography; My Larger Education; Character Building; The Negro Problem
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would...
by John McWhorter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of Babel
John McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that although African-Americans stress hard...
Almost Hereditary: A White Southerner's Journey Out of Racism
A Guide for Unlearning and Healing Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Almost Hereditary is one person's story of overcoming the racism that was passed down in his family from generation to generation. It is a story of transformation that offers hope to others who want to see less prejudice in the world around them. As well as sharing the history of his family and his...
The Shooting of Rabbit Wells
A White Cop, a Young Man of Color, and an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
An award-winning author recounts the true, tragic confrontation between a young black man and a white cop in “a page-turner that reads like a novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).
On a frigid winter’s night in 1973, William “Rabbit” Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by...
Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects...
by David Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
My grandparents, Jack and Genia Grinbaum, managed to Survive and Thrive under the most cruel of circumstances. Born in Poland in the 1920's they were on their way to a hard-working and fulfilling family-oriented lives. While Anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions were a part of day-to-day life in their...
Carolina Israelite
How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position...
Bound for the Promised Land
Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review).
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
by Edward Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author
The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts....
Rites of August First
Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, "August...
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Interest in Denmark Vesey: Following the Dylann Roof shooting in Charleston, interest in Denmark Vesey has surged, with major pieces covering his life in Time Magazine, USA Today, NPR, The New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines.
Platform: Authors have...
After the Nazi Racial State
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945...