Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press El Norte The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic
Book SynopsisA sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads
£16.99
Black Cat The Yellow House
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£12.99
Black Cat The Awkward Black Man
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£18.04
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Malcolm X Speaks
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£16.20
Random House USA Inc Democracy in Black How Race Still Enslaves the
Book SynopsisA powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society. America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency—at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we’ve solved America’s race problem. Democracy in Black is Eddie S. Glaude Jr.'s impassioned response. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a “value gap”—with white lives valued more than others—that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that r
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St Martin's Press Killing Rage Ending Racism Owl Book
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Beacon Press Stride Toward Freedom The Montgomery Story King
Book SynopsisMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age.Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with h
£15.00
Beacon Press Notes of a Native Son
Book SynopsisIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatr
£22.95
Louisiana State University Press Mardi Gras Indians
Book SynopsisExplores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebrating African culture, Indigenous peoples, and Black Americans.
£18.00
Turtleback Books The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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£18.47
Hill & Wang Malcolm X
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£15.26
Northwestern University Press Dead Weight
Book SynopsisChronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become a tenured professor. Horton's essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one's life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.Table of Contents Part I. The Protagonist in Somebody Else's Melodrama Part II. November 2nd and a Mother's Love Dead Weight Perception Versus Reality Can Poetry Save a Life? Change, Changed .Or. Changing? And So, It's Complicated Poet-In-Residence: Motivation Part III. 1303 T Street: Collateral Damage Florida Turnpike Via 6th and Chesapeake Archetypes and Disaster A Day in the Life of Cell 23 Reevaluation
£19.51
New Directions Publishing Corporation A Childs Christmas in Wales
Book SynopsisThe classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrationsTrade Review"A merrier and more pungent celebration of the season for family reading aloud has not been written in our time." -- The Nation"Enchanting." -- Chicago Tribune"Surely this Christmas story ranks among the great experiences of the language." -- Harper’s Magazine"The language is enchanting and the poetry shines with an unearthly radiance." -- The New York Times
£7.99
Random House USA Inc Gather Together in My Name
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£16.20
Random House USA Inc Rainbow in the Cloud
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£17.60
The University Press of Kentucky An Introduction to Black Studies
Book SynopsisThis emerging field of study sought to address omissions from numerous disciplines and correct the myriad distortions, stereotypes, and myths about persons of African descent.In An Introduction to Black Studies, Eric R.Table of ContentsThe Nature, Scope, and Construction of Black Studies The Origin and Development of Black Studies as a Field of Analysis The History of African Americans in the United States African Americans in the United States from the Civil War to the Present African Americans and Education African Americans at Home and Abroad African American Religious Traditions African American Religious Traditions Black Feminism The African American Experience from a Sociological Perspective The African American Experience from a Sociological Perspective Black Psychology Black Psychology African Americans and Politics African Americans and Politics The Creative Expressions of African Americans The Creative Expressions of African Americans
£30.40
The Catholic University of America Press Black Catholic Studies Reader History and
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the theology and history of the Black Catholic experience from those who know it best: Black Catholic scholars, teachers, activists, and ministers. The reader offers a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach that illuminates what it means to be Black and Catholic in the United States.
£23.96
Rutgers University Press Dance and the Hollywood Latina Race Sex and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!" -- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez * Mount Holyoke College *"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics." -- Mary Beltrán * author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St *"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina." -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso * author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland *"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended." * Choice *"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!" -- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez * Mount Holyoke College *"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics." -- Mary Beltrán * author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St *"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina." -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso * author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland *"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Mobilizing the Latina myth 2 Dolores Del Rio dances across the imperial color line 3 Carmen Miranda shakes it for the nation 4 Rita Hayworth and the cosmetic borders of race 5 Rita Moreno, the critically acclaimed "all-round ethnic" 6 Jennifer Lopez, racial mobility, and the new urban/Latina commodity Notes Works Cited Index
£28.80
University of Virginia Press Goodness and the Literary Imagination Harvards
Book SynopsisWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time.Trade Review"The publication of this extraordinary book could not have arrived at a more propitious moment. At a time when the country as a whole seems tormented by the corrosive presence of a new kind of evil that is trying to banish any memory, much less evidence, of its opposite, Goodness and the Literary Imagination reminds readers of evil’s opposite, but in forms that Morrison’s fiction renders again strange. Its publication should be treated as a major event; its contribution to American literary and religious studies is absolutely assured."
£22.75
University of Virginia Press Black Landscapes Matter
Book SynopsisThe question “Do black landscapes matter?” cuts deep to the core of American history. In this vital collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood assembles a group of notable landscape architecture and planning professionals and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape.
£30.35
University of Virginia Press Looking for Other Worlds Black Feminism and
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
£29.66
Wayne State University Press Dear Department Chair
Book SynopsisPractical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations of the contributors forge a critical and transformative analysis of race, gender, and higher education leadership.Trade ReviewExemplifying a key maxim in Black women’s survival and achievement, ‘lifting as we climb,’ this collection demonstrates to sister-scholar administrators and their non-Black colleagues that collaboration, commiseration, and celebration are strategic tools, meaningful service, and sources of strength for Black women leaders in higher education today. These thought-provoking essays are essential reading for all who seek to create academic excellence that is both inclusive and humane." - Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland"While there are many books about academic administrators, this unique and inspirational volume is the very first to center the perspectives and experiences of Black women leaders in academia. Desperately needed and long overdue, it is full of sage advice and concrete strategies for success, encouraging self-reflection, wellness, and humility; and emphasizing sisterhood, peer mentorship, and collaboration. It should be required reading for all academic leaders!" - Yolanda Covington-Ward, professor and Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Indeed, this important collection gives voice to a truth known to some but ignored by too many: If you look closely, Black women leaders are either present or in the process of being made. A must read for upper administrators, mentors, allies, and leaders in the making." - Tara T. Green, PhD, Chair and CLASS Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, University of Houston"Dear Department Chair is a welcomed collection that builds on the tradition of ‘lifting as we climb.’ Kudos to the editors who took it upon themselves to offer a readable collection about leadership in the academy. Colleagues, both women and men, of all hues will learn something from this work. I wish that it had been available when I became chair!" - Joye Bowman, Senior Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
£19.99
Wayne State University Press The Spook Who Sat By The Door
Book SynopsisContinuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film and television adaptations. A classic in the Black literary tradition, the novel offers a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in the late 1960s.
£17.95
Syracuse University Press Rastafari
Book SynopsisA look into the origins and practices of Rastafarianism. From the direct accounts of these early members, the author is able to reconstruct pivotal episodes in Rastafarian history to offer a look into a subgroup of Jamaican society whose beliefs took root in the social unrest of the 1930s.Trade ReviewVital for students of African American religions and Caribbean religions, but also of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and historians. Highly recommended. Chevannes closely attends to the internal rifts and doctrinal disputes that caused denominational splits within the movement. As Rastafari moved into the larger world, some of its teachings, such as the strict observance of menstrual taboos, were attacked. Chevannes’s analysis of that growth and how it is changing present-day Rastafari is fascinating and illuminating. No fanbook for couch-bound ‘Waspafaris’ sitting around the plastic bong, this is a serious look at a living, growing religion. Rastafari is unquestionably the best guide to the historical and social connections between the Rasta movement and Jamaica’s peasant religious traditions. It is also the finest overview of the movement and worthwhile reading simply for the tales of the individuals who founded the movement. The most authoritative analysis of the Rastafarian movement to date. Chevannes combines an oral history account of the social origins of the movement in Jamaica with an ethnographic study of current processes among Rastafarians in the city of Kingston.
£15.26
Syracuse University Press Mount Allegro A Memoir of Italian American Life
Book SynopsisThis memoir celebrates the Sicilian life in America, while providing a sociological portrait of the immigrant experience in the US. The author reminisces about his experience as a fledgeling writer trying to escape from the restrictive Italian American culture in which he grew up.
£15.26
University of Arizona Press With the River on Our Face
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University of Arizona Press Illegalized
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£24.71
University of Arizona Press Working en comunidad
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£28.46
The University of Alabama Press Hiding in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisTraces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a ""black disappearance"" by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a ""white"" Argentina.Trade ReviewThere is much substance in Hiding in Plain Sight that will surely change not only how historians explain postabolition Argentina, but also the history of the Spanish-American republics during the time when state formation and conceptions of race entangled with abolition." - Alex Borucki, author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the RÍo de la Plata"Powerfully, this book reinterprets the interrelated constructs of whiteness and nation in Argentina from the perspective of African-descended women. In so doing, Hiding in Plain Sight illuminates the gendered languages and initiatives that made possible black women’s (and their children’s) assertions for legal and social belonging—even as these choices entailed a discursive downplaying of blackness in favor of performing Spanish and indigenous identities. A noteworthy contribution to African diaspora as well as women’s and gender studies, Edwards’s book makes the study of both households and the interior city of CÓrdoba indispensable to thinking about modern Argentina." - Celso Thomas Castilho, author of Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship"Edwards boldly argues that African-descended women in CÓrdoba employed their clothing choices, motherly responsibilities, and positions as concubines to transform black identities into white privilege. By exploring intimate struggles, Edwards effectively revises Argentina’s national story of black invisibility to a narrative of black agency of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." - Rachel Sarah O’Toole, author of Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru "Hiding in Plain Sight is an important contribution to the field of Latin American history, history of the Atlantic World, gender and legal history, and comparative slavery." - Fabricio Prado, author of Edge of Empire: Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon RÍo de la Plata "This monograph on African-descended women in Argentina shifts the historical conversation on blanqueamiento (whitening) and its concomitant erasure of blackness to converge with the consolidation of the nation-state in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Focusing on CÓrdoba, Edwards echoes the scholarship of Marta Goldberg and Silvia Mallo in concentrating on the everyday lives and individual agency of women, situating them within the context of cultural notions of morality, civility, and virtue (calidad) and colonial reforms like the 1813 Free Womb Act. Her most valuable insights concern the different legal conditions for slaves and indigenous peoples. Highly recommended." - CHOICETable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Time Line Introduction Chapter 1. Miscegenation, Marriage, and Manumission in CÓrdoba Chapter 2. Regulating and Administering Freedom in CÓrdoba Chapter 3. “Her Best Performance”: From Slave to SeÑora Chapter 4. “A Woman of His Class”: Contested Intermarriages Chapter 5. (En)gendering Freedom: Maternity and the Manumission Process Chapter 6. Lessons of Motherhood: The Beginning of Institutionalized Whitening Conclusion: Visualizing Black Invisibility Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£23.36
Wesleyan University Press Black Noise
Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.
£16.95
Wesleyan University Press Africas Gift to America The AfroAmerican in the
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£22.46
Wesleyan University Press Belly to the Brutal
Book SynopsisBelly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violence passed down from generation to generation. This poetry edges into the borderlands, touching the realm of chorahumming, screaming, rhythmtransporting the words outside of patriarchal and racist constructs. Drawing from curanderisma and a revived wave of feminist brujería, Jennifer Givhan creates a healing space for Brown women and mothers. Each poem finds its own form, interweaving beauty and devastation to create a pathway out of the systems that have for too long oppressed women. The poems dwell in the thick language of motherfear, where love grows too / in the shining center of the wound. This poetry of invocation moves toward a transformation of violence that is ultimately redemptive.
£11.95
University of Georgia Press The Quiet Trailblazer My Journey as the First
Book SynopsisRecounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South.
£23.70
Duke University Press Listening to Images
Book SynopsisTina M. Campt explores a way of listening to photography by engaging with lost archives of state identification photographs of Afro-diasporan people taken between the late 1800s and the present, showing how to hear the quiet refusal emanating from these photos originally intended to dehumanize and police their subjects.Trade Review"Listening to Images provides a powerful set of theoretical and methodological tools for historicizing and unpacking the kinds of photographic archives of which [Sandra] Bland’s images are a recent, prominent, and disturbing example. . . . Tina Campt’s stimulating new work is a must read in a flurry of exciting work at the intersection of Black Studies and visual culture." -- J. T. Roane * Black Perspectives *"[Campt's] work is particularly noteworthy for her ability to translate still images into moving narratives, to carry the reader through the image. Campt’s archive for Listening to Images is made of photos that one might pass over when looking for a more spectacular story. These include modes of identification photography—mugshots, passport photos—that reveal the apparatus of state control without its spectacular action or violence. These images are the low-tech precursor to the current proliferation of biometrics, the practice of tracking unique identity markers like DNA. Campt’s turn away from crisis brings the spectacle into perspective. She attends to the long backdrop of the eruptions of supposedly exceptional violence that is far too often overlooked, but is always present." -- JB Brager * The New Inquiry *"Fugitivity, according to Campt, is a form of refusal defined by a commitment to survival, in which one enacts, through a performance of a future that has not yet arrived, the conditions which will have sustained and valued black life. Listening to Images not only provides the grammar to articulate this fugitivity, it also attunes our senses to listen for it." -- Jacob Breslow * Feminist Review *"Scholars of Africana Studies, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Art History, and Gender Studies will no doubt find Campt’s archival research, innovative methodology, and evocative theorizations of a grammar of black feminist futurity to be generative and rich. . . . Campt’s work importantly recalibrates readers’ capacities to glean from images the complex grammars of black fugitivity, refusal, and futurity that resonate from and within identification photographs." -- Doria E. Charlson * Women & Performance *"Campt has written a succinct book of intensive propositions. . . . Listening to Images is an intricate text expounding on the theoretical interplay among archiving, seeing, and listening to visual materials that are in plain sight but not in sight. Thus, the sounds that they generate are quiet and have gripping agentive frequencies." -- Jerry Philogene * CAA Reviews *"Listening to Images skates along the surface of images, listening to their resonances. . . . This method allows Campt to create unexpected juxtapositions. . . . It is a testament to the book’s many points of connection between archives and time periods that I was left wanting more." -- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt * Meridians *“Listening to Images offers compelling, and surprisingly mobile, theorizations of seriality. . . . Campt explores institutional and bureaucratic photographs, the images of her title. She reads these against the grain, as generative artifacts whose serial conditions reframe their ostensibly oppressive meaning and reshape the ‘affective frequencies’ through which others encounter them. . . . Campt’s work has the potential to enrich conversations in periodical studies, mass media studies, and, yes, ‘seriality studies’ in all its messy possibility.” -- Sarah H. Salter * American Periodicals *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Listening to Images: An Execise in Counterintuition 1 1. Quick Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity 13 2. Striking Poses in a Tense Grammar: Stasis and the Frequency of Black Refusal 47 3. Haptic Temporalities: The Quiet Frequency of Touch 69 Coda. Black Futurity and the Echo of Premature Death 101 Notes 119 Bibliography 127 Illustration Credits 131 Index 137
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University of New Mexico Press The Circuit Stories from the Life of a Migrant
Book SynopsisAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through. So begins life in the US for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947.
£13.46
University of New Mexico Press Anasazi America Seventeenth Centuries on the
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Toms Coons Mulattoes Mammies and Bucks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMr. Bogle continues to be our most noted black-cinema historian. * Spike Lee *Track it down. It’s a must. * Esquire *A well-researched and lively romp through the history of blacks in films. Far more inclusive and informative than previous books on the subject. * Mel Watkins, New York Times *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation 2. Into the 1920s: The Jesters 3. The 1930s: The Servants 4. The Interlude: Black-Market Cinema 5. The 1940s: The Entertainers, the New Negroes, and the Problem People 6. The 1950s: Black Stars 7. The 1960s: Problem People into Militants 8: The 1970s: Bucks and a Black Movie Boom 9. The 1980s: Black Superstars and the Era of Tan 10: The 1990s: New Stars, New Filmmakers, and a New African American Cinema 11: The 2000s: The New Millennium 12. The 2010s: The New Decades Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Strong in the Struggle My Life as a Black Labor
Book SynopsisLee Brown was an African-American labour activist who was jailed in the 1950s for protesting against the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is the story of Brown's life from his political awakening as a youth from the rural South to his rise to leadership, time of imprisonment and beyond.Trade ReviewIndispensable for anyone trying to understand the realities of life in the United States. This is a very moving account of a militant African-American man in the 20th century. It illuminates the defeats and victories of the labor movement, North and South, with clear honesty. -- Herbert Aptheker, author of A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United StatesLee Brown’s compelling story urges us to imagine a radically different history of the twentieth century United States, a history forged by a persistent and courageous defense of workers’ rights and by an indefatigable advocacy of racial equality. In his powerful and unpretentious way, Brown shows us a life whose meaning resides in an unrelenting faith in the ability of working people to fight for a better world. As veteran, witness, and chronicler, he addresses new generations of activists—those who speak out today against global capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and homophobia—and offer them a firm place on his shoulders. -- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black FeminismFully represents the history of African American workers and activists in the twentieth century, the transformation of our presence from a rural to an urban one, and the impact the industrial revolution, the trade union movement, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement have had on the way we live and we work. This book is especially important because we have so few worker biographies, so few life stories of 'the people' that Lee Brown has always been ready to represent. It is important to see history from this prism, to view our nation’s evolution through the life of a man whose voice, strong and authentic, is amplified through this powerful, absorbing and detail-rich autobiography. -- Julianne Malveaux, from the ForewordA stirring account. * Dispatcher *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Prologue: February 15, 1957 Chapter 4 Childhood Chapter 5 On My Own Chapter 6 Working in Los Angeles Chapter 7 Black Workers on the New Oleans Waterfront Chapter 8 New Orleans and Local 207 Chapter 9 Organizer at Work Chapter 10 Fighting Southern Injustice Chapter 11 On the Road for the Union Chapter 12 Andrew Steve Nelson's Trial Chapter 13 The Government Comes After Me Chapter 14 The Trial of Lee Brown
£22.46
Saqi Books Yezidis
Book SynopsisThe ancient Kurdish mountain people are considered one of the oldest ethnicities in the Middle East, and often derided as 'devil-worshippers'. This work presents a survey of Yezidi culture and documents the increasing demands of modernisation on one of the oldest ethnic minorities of the Middle East.Unique volume with 35 colour photographs.Trade Review'Compulsive and compulsory reading for all those who are interested in Yezidis, Kurds, religion in the Middle East and the effects of political change on minority communities' Professor Philip G. Kreyenbroek, author of 'Kurdish Culture and Identity' 'A fascinating portrait ... and invaluable first-hand account. The Yezidis is a warm and gentle exploration of one of the oldest ethnic minorities in the Middle East.' Asian Leader
£13.49
North Carolina Office of Archives & History History of African Americans in North Carolina
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£14.95
Pathfinder Press Somos Herederos de las Revoluciones del Mundo
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£9.00
Washington State University Press Man of Treacherous Charm
Book SynopsisCandace Wellman spent more than two decades researching Edmund C. Fitzhugh’s life and contributions - both good and bad - to Pacific Northwest history. Although the court system played a large part in the region’s future, Man of Treacherous Charm is the first full biography of an early Washington Territory justice.Trade Review"The author [performed] very thorough archival and genealogical research across a wide span of geography and time…Fitzhugh's career is clearly, and at times, dramatically told."--David L. Nicandri, former director, Washington State Historical Society, and author, Lewis and Clark ReframedTable of Contents Acknowledgements Maps and Illustrations Chronology Preface Introduction: E.C. Fitzhugh, an FFV Chapter 1: The Doctor's Son Chapter 2: Loss and Latin Lessons Chapter 3: West Point Reptile Chapter 4: A Young Lawyer's Paradise Chapter 5: One Mine, Two Marriages, and Thirty-four Stolen Rams Chapter 6: Death in the Garden Chapter 7: Loyalty's Reward in the Season of Gold Chapter 8: Sometimes Judge, Sometimes Defendant Chapter 9: Cards and Candidates Chapter 10: Courts and Cora Chapter 11: "Poor Fitz" Chapter 12: Retreat to Iowa Chapter 13: What Cheer Epilogue Bibliography
£24.61
Orbis Books (USA) Shoes That Fit Our Feet Sources for a
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Third World Press Journey Poems
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£15.26
University of Manitoba Press Ubuntu Relational Love Decolonizing Black
Book SynopsisUses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism, while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures, drawing on anti-racist, African feminist, and Ubuntu theories.Table of Contents Granary 1 Sharing Indigenous Ubuntu Knowledge Granary 2 How to Walk this Path Granary 3 Kwakukhona as a Method of Engagement Granary 4 Ubuntu Orality as a Living Philosophy Granary 5 A Stained Letter to Amai (Mother) Granary 6 I am Your Son, Baba Granary 7 Social Actions of Ubuntu Regeneration Beyond Colonialism Granary 8 Stories of Blackness and Stories that Talk of Blackness Granary 9 Regenerating Everyday Ubuntu Actions Granary 10 Umuntu Ungumuntu Ngubuntu
£25.56
Chicago Review Press Building Atlanta
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not many people alive in Atlanta today can look back and say they were involved with Dr. King, but Herman can do that. He's been an important person in the history of this city." --Arthur Blank, cofounder, the Home Depot; owner, Atlanta Falcons"Herman has been one of the pillars of the Atlanta community for many years, as a businessperson but also as a caring, concerned citizen. He's made a lasting contribution, not just to Atlanta but to the nation." --John Lewis, U.S. representative, Georgia fifth congressional district"I think that Herman Russell had as much to do with the rise of Atlanta as Ted Turner. Ted did a tremendous job in taking Atlanta all over the world via CNN and Herman did the same with his building empire." --Hank Aaron, Hall-of-Fame baseball player"Mr. Russell is a towering figure in the city of Atlanta, and I can't think of Atlanta without him. His name in telephone's address book is simply 'Great Man.'" --Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed"Herman Russell is one of that group of African Americans in Atlanta, Horatio Alger types, who are proof of the American Dream." --Jane Fonda"Here's a man who, from his humble start working in his father's plastering business, has gone on to reshape the urban landscape of many of America's greatest cities." --Earl Graves, founder and publisher of Black EnterpriseTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction by Former US Ambassador Andrew YoungProloguePART I: Growing, Working, and Learning1. Life, One Word at a Time2. High School Hero3. Tuskegee Institute: An Educated ClassPART II: H. J. Russell & Company: Atlanta’s Do-It-All Contractor4. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 15. Otelia Hackney: A Black Woman EmergesPART III: Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement6. Swimming at the Deep End of Social Change7. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 28. My Big Greek Brother (From Another Mother)9. Desegregating the Good Ol’ Boys10. A Leg Up and Over: Joint VenturesPART IV: It’s a Living11. Before Takeoff and Landing, Visit Us at Concessions International12. The Beer Years13. The H. J. Russell Institute of Good Common Sense14. Mixing Business and PoliticsPART V: Family First15. The Wonders of Otelia16. Born Leaders17. . . . And Hello to SylviaPART VI: Sixty Years Later18. All the Rest of My DaysAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Authors
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African American Images The Miseducation of the Negro
Book SynopsisOriginally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving. Woodson provides solutions to these challenges, but these require more study, discipline, and an Afrocentric worldview. This new edition contains a biographical profile of the author, a new introduction, and study questions.
£13.25
African American Images Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
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