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Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using...
Whitewashing America
Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life."
Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum...
Embodied Avatars
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture
Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt...
Watercolours
A Story from Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
A many-layered work of historical reportage, Watercolours draws on the real life story of Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009), a Czech-American artist of Jewish ancestry, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz, and whose story came to light in the late 1990s. It was at this time that Gottliebova attempted...
by Jim Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
In 1932, a black man was found hanging on Rattlesnake Mountain in Fauquier County. A mob set fire to his body. Officials identified the remains as Shedrick Thompson, wanted for the abduction and rape of a local white woman. Some claimed Thompson killed himself--the final act of a desperate fugitive....
by Bobby Collins Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The goal and motivation for publishing this book is to promote pride, faith, importance of goals, education, and achievement. I was blessed to have a great extended family and wonderful children: Bobby Jr. and Alicia and the greatest wife a man could be blessed to have.
Most...
Ökonomie der Ungleichheit
Eine Einführung
Language: German
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Dank Thomas Piketty und seinem Weltbestseller "Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert" ist das Thema Ungleichheit aus der aktuellen Diskussion nicht mehr wegzudenken. Seine in Frankreich in vielen Auflagen erschienene "Ökonomie der Ungleichheit" führt in die wirtschaftlichen Zusammenhänge...
Why Black Men Love White Women
Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2008
THE IRREVERENT, EYE-OPENING, AND HILARIOUS BOOK THAT DARES TO ASK...
*Why do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordinary white women?
Why do so many other black men desire and covet the company of white women?
And why does this subject deeply touch so many...
Redemption
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.
At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in...
by Derrick Austin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Rich in religious and artistic imagery, Trouble the Water is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history—moving from the Bible through several artistic eras—to interrogate...
Accounting for Slavery
Masters and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.
Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup
A Spirited Black Woman in a White World
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn’t just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations—she has been singularly...
Jews and Money
The Story of a Stereotype
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In the wake of Bernie Madoff's ruinous investment schemes, Abe Foxman takes a cultural and political look at the many variations throughout history of the assumptions made about Jews and money. These include Jews as greedy global capitalists; Jews as wealthy secret communists; Jews as cheapskates;...