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Ambiguous Lives - Free Women Of Color In Rural Georgia, 1789-1879

by Adele Logan Alexander

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 <div> <p><b>1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights</b><br> <br> Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South.</p> <p><i>Ambiguous Lives</i> focuses on the women of Alexander’s own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities—because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country’s endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions.</p> <p>Written as a "reclamation" of a long-ignored substratum of our society, <i>Ambiguous Lives</i> is more than the story of one family—it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.</p> </div>
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Town And Country - Race Relations In An Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865-1905

by John Graves

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 <div> <p>A thoroughly researched and extensively documented look at race relations in Arkansas druing the forty years after the Civil War, <i>Town and Country</i> focuses on the gradual adjustment of black and white Arkansans to the new status of the freedman, in both society and law, after generations of practicing the racial etiquette of slavery.</p> <p>John Graves examines the influences of the established agrarian culture on the developing racial practices of the urban centers, where many blacks living in the towns were able to gain prominence as doctors, lawyers, successful entrepreneurs, and political leaders. Despite the tension, conflict, and disputes within and between the voice of the government and the voice of the people in an arduous journey toward compromise, Arkansas was one of the most progressive states during Reconstruction in desegregating its people.</p> <p><i>Town and Country</i> makes a significant contribution to the history of the postwar South and its complex engagement with the race issue.</p> </div>
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Other Brahmins - Boston''S Black Upper Class 1750-1950

by Adelaide Cromwell

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 <div> <p>Adelaide Cromwell’s pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Based on scholarly sources, interviews, and questionnaires, the study identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. The central focus is a comparison of black and white upper-class women in the 1940s.</p> <p>This rare look at a black social microcosm not located in the South is seminal and timely. Because it concludes at a critical period in American history, <i>The Other Brahmins</i> paints a colorful backdrop for evaluating subsequent changes in urban sociology and stratification. In a groundbreaking study, Cromwell effectively challenges the simplistic notions of hierarchy as they pertain to race.</p> </div>
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Black Savannah, 1788-1864

by Whittington Johnson

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 <div> <p>Fourth in the University of Arkansas Press series in Black Community Studies, this examination of the black community of Savannah, Georgia, during the antebellum and the Civil War periods is a groundbreaker. It begins in 1788 with the founding of Savannah’s first black public institution, an independent church, and closes in 1864 with Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s capture of Savannah and the subsequent end to slavery.<br> <br> Using a wide range of primary sources, including the little-used Southern Claims Case Files, and a vast number of secondary sources, Whittington Johnson gracefully elucidates the most important features of slave and free African-American life in this period. Johnson maintains that, unlike Charleston and New Orleans, Savannah had a comparatively small population of free blacks, containing only a slim majority of mulattoes and few large property owners, a demographic that greatly affected the contours of the black class structure. Among the most interesting groups that created Savannah’s community were "nominal slaves," slaves in name only, who lived apart from their masters, seeking and finding their own employment.</p> <p>Black Savannah focuses upon efforts of African Americans, free and slave, who worked together to establish and maintain a variety of religious, social, and cultural institutions; to carve out niches in the larger economy; and to form cohesive families. The result was an autonomous black community in a key city of the Old South.</p> </div>
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African-American History Of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 - Elites And Dilemmas

by Bobby L. Lovett

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 <div> <p>Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough’s settlers in 1779. From these early years through the Civil War, a growing black community in Nashville, led by a small group of black elites, quietly built the foundations of a future society, developing schools, churches, and businesses. The Civil War brought new freedoms and challenges as the black population of Nashville increased and as black elites found themselves able—even obliged—to act more openly. To establish a more stable and prosperous African-American community, the elites found that they had to work within a system bound to the interests of whites. But the aims of this elite did not always coincide with those of the black community at large. By 1930, younger blacks, in particular, were moving towards protest and confrontation. As democratization and higher education spread, the lines distinguishing Nashville’s black elite became blurred.</p> <p>Bobby L. Lovett presents a complex analysis of black experience in Nashville during the years between 1780 and 1930, exploring the impact of civil rights, education, politics, religion, business, and neighborhood development on a particular African-American community. This study of black Nashville examines lives lived within a web of shifting alliances and interests—the choices made, the difficulties overcome.</p> <p>Fifteen years in the making, illustrated with maps and photographs, this work is the first detailed study of any of Tennessee’s major urban black communities. Lovett here collects, organizes, and interprets a large, rich body of data, making this material newly accessible to all interested in the black urban experience.</p> </div>
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Aristocrats Of Color - The Black Elite, 1880-1920

by Willard B. Gatewood

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 <div> <p>Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such issues as the status of one’s forebears as either house servants or field hands, the darkness of one’s skin, and the level of one’s manners and education.</p> <p>Professor Gatewood’s study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. The resulting narrative is a full and illuminating account of a most influential segment of the African-American population. It explores fully the distinctive background, prestige, attitudes, behavior, power, and culture of this class. The Black Community Studies series from the University of Arkansas Press, edited by Professor Gatewood, continues to examine many of the same themes first explored in this important study.</p> </div>
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Town And Country - Race Relations In An Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865-1905

by John Graves

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From Slavery To Uncertain Freedom - The Freedmen'S Bureau In Arkansas, 1865-1869

by Randy Finley

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Black Savannah, 1788-1864

by Whittington B. Johnson

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A Muslim Primer - A Beginner'S Guide To Islam

by Ira G. Zepp

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Anna Akhmatova And Her Circle

by Konstantin Polivanov e Patricia Beriozkina

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Race And Ethnicity In Arkansas - New Perspectives

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Hot Springs - Past And Present

by Ray Hanley

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 A century ago Hot Springs, Arkansas, was a resort city of world-renown. Today, the town remains the most unique city in Arkansas but with much of its Victorian-to-1950s views nearly unrecognizable. Hot Springs shows vividly the before and after of hundreds of sites, answering questions such as "What used to be on this corner?" and "What was here before it was a parking lot?"
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Shepherd Of The Hills Country - Tourism Transforms The Ozarks, 1880s-1930s

by Linda Myers-Phinney e Lynn Morrow

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 Traces the beginnings of commercial tourism in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas through six decades that brought capital, new commerce, and additional residents to the hills. Looks at recreational activities and games parks, and investigates the influence of the railroad and the men who
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Race Relations In The Bahamas, 1784-1834

by Whittington B. Johnson

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 Interpreting Colonist Office and church documents, Johnson (history, U. of Miami-Coral Gables) traces how the Bahamas took a higher road in race relations in the British West Indian colonies due to a strong black/colored church, faith in the Crown despite slavery introduced by American British loyal

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