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by Ian Carey
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This is the story of the lineage of Boxing's World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in that era. The first true national and international sports celebrities were boxers in the late 1800s. Soon after the abolishment of slavery...
Jackie and Campy
The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball’s color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rivalry going far beyond...
Champion of the Barrio
The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Buryl Baty (1924–1954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and an early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso and quickly inspired his athletes, all Mexican Americans from the Segundo Barrio, with his winning ways...
American Swastika
Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This second edition of the acclaimed American Swastika provides an up-to-date perspective on the white power movement in America. The book takes readers through hidden enclaves of hate, exploring how white supremacy movements thrive nationwide and how we can work to prevent future violence. Filled...
Redskins
Insult and Brand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Washington Redskins franchise remains one of the most valuable in professional sports, in part because of its easily recognizable, popular, and profitable brand.
And yet “redskins” is a derogatory name for American Indians.
The number of grassroots campaigns to change the...
Energy of Slaves, The
Oil and the New Servitude
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
"A startling critique that should rouse us from our pipe dream of endless plenty." -- Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress
A radical analysis of our master-and-slave relationship to energy and a call for change.
Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled...
Black Faces in White Places
10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice. When he won, this black man also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory-with a white woman. The request (and Pinkett's subsequent refusal) set off a firestorm...
The Baron and the Bear
Rupp's Runts, Haskins's Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s—part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation...
Nigger
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir—now in trade paperback for the first time.
“Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it.”—The New York...
Flush Times and Fever Dreams
A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread...
Eight Years vs. Three Weeks – Executive Orders Signed by Barack Obama and Donald Trump
A Review of the Current Presidential Actions as Opposed to the Legacy of the Former President (Including Inaugural Speeches)
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
During his years in office, from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. His main reforms include the "Obamacare", changes of the financial regulation as a response to the Great Recession; as well as reforms...
The Black Image in the White Mind
Media and Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the...
Race and News
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths that are reflected in routine coverage by journalists all over the country. Race and News: Critical...
OtherWise
The Wisdom You Need to Succeed in a Diverse and Divisive World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In this deep and engaging exploration of diversity in America, author Dick Martin explains how we can bridge personal differences to experience great professional success. OtherWise goes far beyond census data into the realm of cognitive and social science, helping readers break through stereotypes...