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by Elizabeth Anionwu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union’ are the memoirs of Professor Elizabeth Anionwu.
It’s 1947 and a clever, sheltered Catholic girl of Liverpool Irish working class heritage is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family to go to university...
Eyes on the Prize
America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.
Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has...
by Tracey Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
‘This eloquent and passionate work documents how we have strayed from a humane policy towards asylum seekers, following the same sad and discredited path as Australia.’ Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner 2002-2013Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern...
The Breakthrough
Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.
Ifill argues...
Escape from Slavery
The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity.
May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered...
Viola Desmond’s Canada
A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.
Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks,...
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters,...
North to Bondage
Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once there,...
Lincoln's Hundred Days
The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Lincoln’s Hundred Days tells the story of the period between September 22, 1862, when Lincoln issued his preliminary Proclamation, and January 1, 1863, when he signed the significantly altered decree. As battlefield deaths mounted and debate raged, Lincoln hesitated, calculated, prayed, and reckoned with the anxieties and expectations of millions.
The Lynching
The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.
On a Friday night in March...
A Question of Freedom
A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Gripping. . . . Deep in its gut, Mamet's new play argues, everything in America-and this play throws in sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships-is still about race."-Chicago Tribune"A dramatist celebrated for introducing expletives to the American theatre now tackles a truly taboo four-letter...
by Amanda Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
What is the place of Amanda Smith in American history? Has she any place there? Mrs. Smith is an historic character. The biography of great women, and especially great women of the Negro race, would be sadly deficient without her. Of this race in the United States, since 1020, there have appeared...