Nathan I. Huggins Lectures – serie
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Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2002
316 kr
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"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains--and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle but significant ways. This …
Miner’s Canary
Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
Av Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres
Häftad, 2003
290 kr
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Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual …
No Coward Soldiers
Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America
Inbunden, 2005
419 kr
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In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Waldo Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle.In black culture, argues Martin, we see the debate over the …
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery
Häftad, 2006
326 kr
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In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in …
Forgotten Fifth
African Americans in the Age of Revolution
Av Gary B. Nash
Inbunden, 2006
218 kr
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As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of …
How Free Is Free?
The Long Death of Jim Crow
Inbunden, 2009
432 kr
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In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling …
Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
Av Steven Hahn
Inbunden, 2009
227 kr
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Pulitzer Prize–winner Steven Hahn’s provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth …
Africa Speaks, America Answers
Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
Inbunden, 2012
432 kr
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In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. …
Quest for Equality
The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
Av Neil Foley
Inbunden, 2010
432 kr
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As the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II, it denied fundamental rights to many non-white citizens. In the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” policy with Latin America, African American and Mexican American civil rights leaders sought …
Supreme Injustice
Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
Inbunden, 2018
322 kr
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The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story—upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians …
Near Andersonville
Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Inbunden, 2010
245 kr
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The admired American painter Winslow Homer rose to national attention during the Civil War. But one of his most important early images remained unknown for a century. The renowned artist is best known for depicting ships and sailors, hunters and fishermen, rural vignettes and coastal scenes. Yet he …
Emancipating Lincoln
The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory
Inbunden, 2012
432 kr
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Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln’s most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed …
Blurring the Color Line
The New Chance for a More Integrated America
Av Richard Alba
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. During the mid-twentieth century, the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of …
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
Inbunden, 2013
419 kr
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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a …
No Property in Man
Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface
Av Sean Wilentz
Häftad, 2019
201 kr
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“Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book.”—David W. Blight, author of Frederick DouglassA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAmericans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its …
Why White Liberals Fail
Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump
Inbunden, 2022
290 kr
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It’s not the economy, stupid: How liberal politicians’ faith in the healing powers of economic growth—and refusal to address racial divisions—fueled reactionary politics across the South.From FDR to Clinton, charismatic Democratic leaders have promised a New South—a model of social equality and …
Redeeming the Great Emancipator
Inbunden, 2016
445 kr
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The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. In a vigorous defense of …
Afro-Latin America
Black Lives, 1600–2000
Inbunden, 2016
432 kr
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Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their …
Long Emancipation
The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Av Ira Berlin
Häftad, 2018
219 kr
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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira …
Black Kingdom of the Nile
Inbunden, 2019
403 kr
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Landmark archaeological excavations that radically revise the early history of Africa.For the past fifty years, Charles Bonnet has been excavating sites in present-day Sudan and Egypt that point to the existence of a sophisticated ancient black African civilization thriving alongside the Egyptians. …
Long Emancipation
The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Av Ira Berlin
Inbunden, 2015
230 kr
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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira …
