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by Michael Omi, Howard Winant
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and...
Words of Fire
An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses...
The Ethnic Project
Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that...
Race Relations
A Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses...
Systemic Racism
A Theory of Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this book, Feagin develops a theory of systemic racism to interpret the highly racialized character and development of this society. Exploring the distinctive social worlds that have been created by racial oppression over nearly four centuries and what this has meant for the people of the United...
Seeds of Empire
Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied...
Making an Antislavery Nation
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled...
Philadelphia Divided
Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics. As racial divisions fractured the...
Ku Klux Kulture
America and the Klan in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement.
Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK...
Bullets and Fire
Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century and covering stories of the perpetrators, victims, and those who fought against vigilante violence.
Among the topics discussed are the...
Changing Channels
The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
In the years before the civil rights era, American broadcasting reflected the interests of the white mainstream, especially in the South. Today, the face of local television throughout the nation mirrors the diversity of the local populations. The impetus for change began in 1964, when the Office...
Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?
Teaching Lessons from the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the “hero teacher”—the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness....
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise...