Carter G. Woodson Institute Series – serie
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New Plantation South
Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
Häftad, 1996
357 kr
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Jeannie M. Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By manipulating laws and federal and state agencies to gain control over land policy, Poinsett County planters fought to maintain their place on the land …
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Av Henry Goings, Calvin Schermerhorn m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
399 kr
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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His …
Whispers of Rebellion
Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy
Häftad, 2013
387 kr
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An ambitious but abortive plan to revolt that ended in the conviction and hanging of over two dozen men, Gabriel’s Conspiracy of 1800 sought nothing less than to capture the capital city of Richmond and end slavery in Virginia. Whispers of Rebellion draws on recent scholarship and extensive …
House Divided
Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865
Häftad, 2016
514 kr
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Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and Delaware's staunch Unionism during the Civil War itself, the state failed to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits slavery, until 1901. …
Keep on Keeping on
The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown V. Board of Education in Virginia
Inbunden, 2016
581 kr
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Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African …
Segregation's Science
Eugenics and Society in Virginia
Häftad, 2018
461 kr
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Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, …
Schooling Jim Crow
The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics
Häftad, 2019
461 kr
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In 1919 the NAACP organized a voting bloc powerful enough to compel the city of Atlanta to budget $1.5 million for the construction of schools for black students. This victory would have been remarkable in any era, but in the context of the Jim Crow South it was revolutionary. Schooling Jim Crow …
Word, Like Fire
Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans
Häftad, 2018
319 kr
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Maria Stewart is believed by many to have been the first American woman of any race to give public political speeches. In Word, Like Fire, Valerie C. Cooper argues that the religious, political, and social threads of Maria Stewart's thought are tightly interwoven, such that focusing narrowly on any …
We Face the Dawn
Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow
Häftad, 2019
242 kr
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The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping …
Little Child Shall Lead Them
A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Av Brian J. Daugherity, Brian Grogan
Inbunden, 2019
812 kr
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In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal campaign for …
Little Child Shall Lead Them
A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Av Brian J Daugherity, Brian Grogan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal campaign for …
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
Häftad, 2021
461 kr
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Struggle for Change
Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond
Inbunden, 2023
1353 kr
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A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond’s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the city’s …
Struggle for Change
Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond
Häftad, 2023
402 kr
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A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond’s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the city’s …
Punitive Turn
New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
Av Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena N. Harold m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
402 kr
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The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at …
Bitter Fruits of Bondage
The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865
Häftad, 2024
329 kr
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Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War. Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the …
Roses in December
Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2025
1177 kr
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The inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal centuryRoses in December is a story of strength, courage, and beauty found in difficult times and the most challenging of circumstances. Beginning in the era of Reconstruction and ending …
Roses in December
Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights
Häftad, 2025
373 kr
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The inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal centuryRoses in December is a story of strength, courage, and beauty found in difficult times and the most challenging of circumstances. Beginning in the era of Reconstruction and ending …
Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community
Goochland County, Virginia, 1782-1832
Av Reginald D. Butler, Peter S. Onuf
Inbunden, 2025
1353 kr
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A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studiesReginald Butler, the second director of UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community formation among the free Black population of …
Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community
Goochland County, Virginia, 1782-1832
Av Reginald D. Butler, Peter S. Onuf
Häftad, 2025
446 kr
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A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studiesReginald Butler, the second director of UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community formation among the free Black population of …
Freedom Has a Face
Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia
Häftad, 2025
402 kr
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In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against the commonly held belief that southern whites saw free blacks only as a menace. Von Daacke reveals instead a more easygoing interracial social order in …
Unleashing Black Power
Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers
Inbunden, 2025
1411 kr
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Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black life Unleashing Black Power explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary …
Unleashing Black Power
Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers
Häftad, 2025
402 kr
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Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black life Unleashing Black Power explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary …
Grievous Entanglement
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Av Erin Pearson
Inbunden, 2025
1576 kr
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How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and …
Grievous Entanglement
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Av Erin Pearson
Häftad, 2025
449 kr
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How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and …
Vanished Water
Imperialism, Capital, and Rural Ecologies in Late-Colonial Kenya
Inbunden, 2026
1411 kr
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The trickle-down effects of empire on the environmentVanished Water examines the ecological and social consequences of British imperial rule—and its inherently extractive aims—on water development in late-colonial Kenya. Examining the arid northern and eastern parts of the country between 1938 and …
Vanished Water
Imperialism, Capital, and Rural Ecologies in Late-Colonial Kenya
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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The trickle-down effects of empire on the environmentVanished Water examines the ecological and social consequences of British imperial rule—and its inherently extractive aims—on water development in late-colonial Kenya. Examining the arid northern and eastern parts of the country between 1938 and …
Integration at Second Base
Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship
Inbunden, 2026
366 kr
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A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusaderJackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime—the man who broke baseball's color line in the twentieth century, opening the door for his fellow professionals and allowing …
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
Inbunden, 2009
616 kr
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Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews - conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers - are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African …
Punitive Turn
New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
Av Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena N. Harold m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
471 kr
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The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at …
