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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--
Smith begins in Sunflower, Alabama, where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero's record but difficult prospects as a Black man. She consider the life of her father through the...
1002) Glory
Series
Language
English
Description
Col. Robert Gould Shaw is the 25-year-old white son of Boston abolitionists who volunteers to command the first all-black 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins is the inspirational sergeant who unites the troops. Pvt. Trip is the runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the regiment. After months of tough training and eventual small battle experience, they are lead to glory in their final assault...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Five Blu-ray Special Edition.
Physical Desc
5 Blu-rays (680 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (52 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Watermelon man: A loud-mouthed, bigoted white man's suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes to discover that he has become a black man.
Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song:...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book argues that racism and white supremacist attitudes in the North, and not just the opposition of Andrew Johnson, blocked the adoption of Black suffrage (for men) in 1865. The virulent, racist tactics of the Democratic Party, as well as racism among a minority of Republicans and the small size of the northern Black population helped explain why the vigorous efforts of northern Blacks, southern Blacks, abolitionists, and Radical Republicans...
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 215 pages: illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed Jones, use an oral interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate the impact of structural racism, and a discriminatory system their family helped uphold. The book treats three different...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 244 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoil and the escalating struggle for Black freedom, the United States also engaged in a nationwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. Commemorative events centered on Gettysburg, site of the best-known, bloodiest, and most symbolically charged battle of the conflict. Inevitably, the centennial of Lincoln's iconic Gettysburg Address received special...
Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book traces the curious history of the Cornerstone Speech. Alexander H. Stephens's defense of the new Confederacy, delivered on March 21, 1861, the Cornerstone Speech was an uninhibited overture to a new nation founded on white supremacy and slavery, and an instant sensation. While the speech is widely cited, no full-length treatment of the work and its legacy exists - and it is poorly understood. Hébert examines how Stephens initially considered...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In [this book], acclaimed historian Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Americans have been wary of almost every group of foreigners that has come to the United States. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed German immigrants for their 'strange...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 238 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For decades, scholars have used the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every 'rule' of accepted U.S. historiography. American only by adoption, New Orleans, in the vast majority of studies, serves as a frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, a vestige of North America's European colonial era along the southern coast of a foreign, northern, insular United States. Perhaps more than any other topic, then, race...
Author
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
v, 193 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, historian Guy Lancaster argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence"--
"Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population...
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that public libraries played an integral role in Southern cities' economic and cultural boosterism efforts during the New South and Progressive Eras. First, Southern public libraries helped institutionalize segregation during the early twentieth century by refusing...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""Mud, Blood, and Ghosts" is a thoughtful, creative, and deeply researched story about the origins of Populism in America and its anti-immigrant and racist attitudes"--
"Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family's history through archival documents...
Author
Publisher
DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported...
Author
Publisher
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New-York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, her unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality. By guarding and expanding the rights of people of African descent and demonstrating that...
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 200 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a bold departure from previous scholarship, Le'Trice D. Donaldson locates the often overlooked era between the Civil War and the end of World War I as the beginning of black soldiers' involvement in the long struggle for civil rights. Donaldson traces the evolution of these soldiers as they used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters willing...
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (419 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
From the east: "A journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, across Eastern Europe to Moscow."--Container.
South: "An evocation of how the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas, fits into a landscape as mental as it is physical."--Container.
From the other side: "The flow of illegal immigration to San Diego has largely been blocked, but for the desperate, there are still the dangerous deserts of Arizona."--Container.
Down there:...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 395 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems -- like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more -- she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various...
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