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The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.'s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic approaches of identity politics, and in favor of class-based...
462) Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
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Twenty Dollars and Change
places Harriet Tubman's life and legacy in a long tradition of
resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in
which her emancipatory vision prevails.
America is in the
throes of a historic reckoning with racism, with the battle for control
over official narratives at ground zero. Across the country,
politicians, city councils, and school boards are engaged in a highly
polarized debate about...
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This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations.
Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan and American culture. In Remembering the Alamo,...
464) The river between us
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During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
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Camille Z. Charles is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Rory Kramer is associate professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University. Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Kimberly C. Torres is an affiliated faculty member in organizational dynamics...
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"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year" "Winner of the Easton Award, Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association" Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform and We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity.
An incisive and sympathetic...
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This oral and pictorial history chronicles the lives and separate worlds of black and white communities in Jim Crow era Colorado County, TX.
First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, it was a cotton-growing region whose population was evenly divided between blacks and whites. These life-long neighbors...
468) Finding my place
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After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie feels lonely at her nearly all-white high school until she befriends another "outsider" and discovers that prejudice exists in many forms.
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This study of school integration struggles in 1950s Texas demonstrates how power politics denied black students their constitutional rights.
In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet it took more than a decade of struggle before black students gained full access to previously white schools....
470) Hidden figures
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
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An award-winning journalist presents the story of Philip Van Cise, a rookie District Attorney who fought the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption in Denver in the 1920s and how his experiences still resonate one century later.
At the height of the 1920s, the ex-frontier town of Denver emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city. But the progress and opportunity masked a stew of organized crime, elaborate swindles,...
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Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these illuminating essays born from his own experience as a Black man in the world.
With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people-the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but...
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In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named, Mary White, traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic worker for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Mary was fifteen, Wendy was twelve. As the Black "help" and the privileged white daughter, they were not, slated for friendship, but Wendy's parents kept bringing Mary back each summer and when Wendy and Mary, now adults, found themselves both...
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A look at the agency's attempts to deliver justice to the Texas black community following the Civil War.
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters.
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What does it mean to be Mexican American in Houston, TX?
For the Mendoza-Martinez family, the answer to this question is complicated and evolving. In this fascinating memoir, author Dr Louis Mendoza tells his family's story over three generations, exploring the ongoing efforts to negotiate intense racialization in Texas. Examining questions of community, belonging and home, migrancy, and social strata, the book considers the interconnectedness of...
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This history profiles ten African American engineers, mathematicians, and others who worked for NASA's space program.
The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. NASA itself became an agent of social change, with President Kennedy opening its workplaces to African Americans. In We Could Not Fail, Richard Paul and Steven...
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"Will a search-and-rescue mission for a lost cat spell trouble for Rosco and the kids? Inside the dark tunnels of an old silver mine, ghostly strangers and thunderous noises warn James and Mandy to get out---fast. But, as one mystery leads to another, the kids soon have more questions than answers"--
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Many readers may be familiar with the wartime exploits of the Apaches; this book relates the untold story of their postwar fate. It tells of the Chiricahua Apaches’ 27 years of imprisonment as recorded in American dispatches, reports, and news items: documents that disclose the confusion, contradictions, and raw emotions expressed by government and military officials regarding the Apaches while revealing the shameful circumstances in which they...
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