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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...
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...
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;...
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.
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...
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.
Angry White People
Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
'An enlightening, thoughtful and intelligent study.'
The Independent
There is a new anger brewing in Britain. In the pubs and estates, the cafes and football stadiums, the mood is unsettled. People kick back increasingly against whoever or whatever is presented as the latest scapegoat.
Delving...
The New Anti-Catholicism
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic...
Black Power
Politics of Liberation in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting...