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How Free Is Free? - The Long Death Of Jim Crow

by Leon F. Litwack

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 From Jim Crow to the early 21st century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, this book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.
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Thoughtfulness And The Rule Of Law

by Jeremy Waldron

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 Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which democracies aspire, he embraces thoughtfulness rather than rote rule-following, flexibility even at the cost of vagueness, and emphasizing procedure and argument over predictable outcomes.
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Why White Liberals Fail - Race And Southern Politics From Fdr To Trump

by Anthony J. Badger

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 Anthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanted by the values-based lure of conservative Republicans.
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Stealing My Religion - Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation

by Liz Bucar

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 Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that borrowing isnâ€™t itself a problem, as long as we are invested in our enthusiasmsâ€"committed to understanding their roots and diverse meanings.
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Quest For Equality - The Failed Promise Of Black-Brown Solidarity

by Neil Foley

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 Examines the complex interplay among regional, national, and international politics that plagued the efforts of Mexican Americans and African Americans to find common ground in ending employment discrimination in the defense industries and school segregation in the war years and beyond.
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Political Worlds Of Slavery And Freedom

by Steven Hahn

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 Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winner Hahn challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from 18th-century slave emancipations through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the 20th century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms.
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Near Andersonville - Winslow Homer’S Civil War

by Peter Hutchins Wood

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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. "Near Andersonville" (1865-66) is the earliest and least known of these impressive images. This title reveals the long-hidden story of this remarkable Civil War painting.
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How Free Is Free? - The Long Death Of Jim Crow

by Leon F. Litwack

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 From Jim Crow to the early 21st century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, this book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.
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Blurring The Color Line - The New Chance For A More Integrated America

by Richard Alba

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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 education and labor opportunities. As a result of their newfound access to training and jobs, many ethnic and religious outsiders, among them Jews and Italians, finally gained full acceptance as members of the mainstream. Alba proposes that this large-scale assimilation of white ethnics was a result of "non-zero-sum mobility," which he defines as the social ascent of members of disadvantaged groups that can take place without affecting the life chances of those who are already members of the established majority.Alba shows that non-zero-sum mobility could play out positively in the future as the baby-boom generation retires, opening up the higher rungs of the labor market. Because of the changing demography of the country, many fewer whites will be coming of age than will be retiring. Hence, the opportunity exists for members of other groups to move up. However, Alba cautions, this demographic shift will only benefit disadvantaged American minorities if they are provided with access to education and training. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.
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No Coward Soldiers - Black Cultural Politics In Postwar America

by Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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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 profound tension at the core of black identity: the duality of being at once both American and African. And in the transformative postwar period, the intersection between culture and politics became increasingly central to the African-American fight for equality. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold's exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.Martin explores the place of black culture in this vision and examines the multiple ways in which various forms of expressive culture and African-American cultural figures influenced consciousness and helped effect social action. From the music of John Coltrane and James Brown to the visual art of Jacob Lawrence and Betye Saar to the dance movements of Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, Martin discusses how, why, and with what consequences culture became a critical battle site in the freedom struggle. And in a fascinating epilogue, he draws the thread of black cultural politics into today's hip-hop culture.This engaging book brings a new perspective to the civil rights and black power eras, while illuminating the broader history of American and global freedom struggles.
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No Property In Man - Slavery And Antislavery At The Nation’S Founding, With A New Preface

by Sean Wilentz

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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 Douglass A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. In this essential reconsideration of the creation and legacy of our nation’s founding document, Sean Wilentz reveals the tortured compromises that led the Founders to abide slavery without legitimizing it, a deliberate ambiguity that fractured the nation seventy years later. Contesting the Southern proslavery version of the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass pointed to the framers’ refusal to validate what they called "property in man." No Property in Man has opened a fresh debate about the political and legal struggles over slavery that began during the Revolution and concluded with the Civil War. It drives straight to the heart of the single most contentious issue in all of American history. "Revealing and passionately argued…[Wilentz] insists that because the framers did not sanction slavery as a matter of principle, the antislavery legacy of the Constitution has been…‘misconstrued’ for over 200 years." —Khalil Gibran Muhammad, New York Times "Wilentz’s careful and insightful analysis helps us understand how Americans who hated slavery, such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, could come to see the Constitution as an ally in their struggle." —Eric Foner
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No Property In Man - Slavery And Antislavery At The Nation’S Founding

by Sean Wilentz

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 Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from covering up a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution restricted slavery's legitimacy, and in time that limitation opened the way for an antislavery politics, Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.
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Supreme Injustice - Slavery In The Nation’S Highest Court

by Paul Finkelman

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 In ruling after ruling, the three most important preâ€"Civil War justicesâ€"Marshall, Taney, and Storyâ€"upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justiceâ€™s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.
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Africa Speaks, America Answers - Modern Jazz In Revolutionary Times

by Robin D. G. Kelley

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 This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.
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Emancipating Lincoln - The Proclamation In Text, Context, And Memory

by Harold Holzer

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 The Emancipation Proclamation is responsible both for Lincolnâ€™s being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient. Holzer examines the impact of Lincolnâ€™s announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time.
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Black Jews In Africa And The Americas

by Tudor Parfitt

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 Parfitt explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were cast as black and black Africans were cast as Jews, he reveals a complex interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses.
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Afro-Latin America - Black Lives, 1600-2000

by George Reid Andrews

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 Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphereâ€™s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.
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Redeeming The Great Emancipator

by Allen C. Guelzo

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 Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincolnâ€™s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of Americaâ€™s sixteenth president.
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Black Jews In Africa And The Americas

by Tudor Parfitt

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 Parfitt explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were cast as black and black Africans were cast as Jews, he reveals a complex interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses.
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Africa Speaks, America Answers - Modern Jazz In Revolutionary Times

by Robin D. G. Kelley

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 This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.
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No Property In Man - Slavery And Antislavery At The Nationâ€™S Founding, With A New Preface

by Sean Wilentz

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Why White Liberals Fail - Race And Southern Politics From Fdr To Trump

by Anthony J. Badger

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 Anthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanted by the values-based lure of conservative Republicans.
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The Black Kingdom Of The Nile

by Charles Bonnet

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 For centuries, Egyptian civilization has been at the origin of the story we tell about the West. But Charles Bonnetâ€™s archaeological excavations have unearthed extraordinary sites in modern Sudan that challenge this notion and compel us to look to black Africa and the Nubian Kingdom of Kush, where a highly civilized state existed 2500â€"1500 BCE.
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