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What's Race Got to Do with It?
Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Larry Elder and his straight talk are "controversial"*, "provocative"**, "iconoclastic"***, "refreshing". ****
IS LIFE UNFAIR FOR BLACK AMERICANS?
In What's Race Got to Do with It?, bestselling author Larry Elder takes on the touchiest topic in...
by David Nirenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition.
This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational...
White Riot
Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of...
Who We Be
A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.
During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black...
Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives
Voices from the Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.
• Provides a historical overview of the scholarship...
Our Gang
A Racial History of The Little Rascals
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams—and the public loved it.
The story of race...
Beyond Blackface
African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American...
A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2018
Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged...
Cuban Underground Hip Hop
Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially...
Breathe
A Letter to My Sons
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.
Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving...
Friday Bridge: Becoming a Muslim, Becoming Everyone's Business
The Trilogy of Life Itself, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Think you know someone? Then think again. This book blows stereotypes out of the window and makes you stop and analyse what you think you know about the world we live in. Racism, raving and religion, it’s all in here. A book about self discovery, inner strength and never giving up. An...
Hunting Season
Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration
In November of 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was brutally attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as...
100 Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures
An introductory cultural competence guide for Americans about the customs, history, politics and languages background of people from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays,...
by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this...