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Vanished Water - Imperialism, Capital, And Rural Ecologies In Late-Colonial Kenya

by James D. Parker

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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 the mid-1960s, James Parker demonstrates how the British colonial state manipulated scant water supplies to drive cash crop production, rerouting critical resources away from the pastoral and riverine communities who relied on them for their existence. In doing so, the state sought to force these communities away from their traditional subsistence economies and into the capitalist economy, a move that fundamentally altered relationships to the land and between ethnic groups themselves. Vanished Water describes how these nefarious programs devastated rural communities, while also showing how they were resisted and manipulated and how Kenyans adapted to these life-altering changes imposed on them from the outside. These developments, as Parker shows, echo into the present, continuing to test the resiliency of arid communities now dealing with climate change.
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Little Child Shall Lead Them - A Documentary Account Of The Struggle For School Desegregation In Prince Edward County, Virginia

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 This historical anthology brings together court cases, government documents, personal and scholarly writings, speeches, and journalism to represent the diverse voices and viewpoints of the battle in Prince Edward County for - and against - educational equality.
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Schooling Jim Crow - The Fight For Atlanta''S Booker T. Washington High School And The Roots Of Black Protest Politics

by Jay Winston Driskell

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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 tells the story of this little-known campaign.
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Gabriel'S Conspiracy - A Documentary History

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 <DIV>The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other enslaved people were hanged. In reaction to the plot, the Virginia and other legislatures passed restrictions on free blacks, as well as on the education, movement, and hiring out of the enslaved. Although Gabriel''s conspiracy is well known among historians, documents relating to it have remained relatively inaccessible. In Gabriel’s Conspiracy, Philip J. Schwarz offers a valuable selection of the documents discovered to date. Together with Michael Nicholls’s complementary book, Whispers of Rebellion (Virginia), these volumes offer a complete account of the quashed slave conspiracy.</DIV>
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Freedom Has A Face - Race, Identity, And Community In Jefferson''S Virginia

by Kirt Von Daacke

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 <DIV>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 Albemarle County that existed for more than two generations after the Revolution—stretching to the mid-nineteenth century and beyond—despite fears engendered by Gabriel’s Rebellion and the Haitian Revolution.Freedom Has a Face tells the stories of free blacks who worked hard to carve out comfortable spaces for existence. They were denied full freedom, but they were neither slaves without masters nor anomalies in a society that had room only for black slaves and free white citizens. A typical rural Piedmont county, Albemarle was not a racial utopia. Rather, it was a tight-knit community in which face-to-face interactions determined social status and reputation. A steep social hierarchy allowed substantial inequalities to persist, but it was nonetheless an intimately interracial society. Free African Americans who maintained personal connections with white neighbors and who participated openly in local society were perceived as far more than stereotypical dangerous blacks.Based on his work building a cross-referenced database containing individual records for nearly five thousand documents, von Daacke reveals a detailed picture of daily life in Albemarle County. With this reinsertion of individual free blacks into the neighborhood, community, and county, he exposes a different, more complicated image of the lives of free people of color.</DIV>
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Word, Like Fire - Maria Stewart, The Bible, And The Rights Of African Americans

by Valerie C. Cooper

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 <DIV>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 one aspect would be to misunderstand her rhetoric. Cooper demonstrates how a certain kind of biblical interpretation can be a Rosetta Stone for understanding various areas of African American life and thought that still resonate today.</DIV>
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Integration At Second Base - Jackie Robinson And The Quest For Black Citizenship

by Peter Eisenstadt

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Vanished Water - Imperialism, Capital, And Rural Ecologies In Late-Colonial Kenya

by James D. Parker

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Vanished Water - Imperialism, Capital, And Rural Ecologies In Late-Colonial Kenya

by James D. Parker

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Grievous Entanglement - Consumption, Connection, And Slavery In The Atlantic World

by Erin Pearson

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Unleashing Black Power - Grassroots Organizing In Harlem And The Advent Of The Long, Hot Summers

by Peter D. Blackmer

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Unleashing Black Power - Grassroots Organizing In Harlem And The Advent Of The Long, Hot Summers

by Peter D. Blackmer

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Grievous Entanglement - Consumption, Connection, And Slavery In The Atlantic World

by Erin Pearson

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Freedom Has A Face - Race, Identity, And Community In Jefferson'S Virginia

by Kirt Von Daacke

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The Evolution Of A Rural Free Black Community - Goochland County, Virginia, 1782-1832

by Reginald D. Butler

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The Evolution Of A Rural Free Black Community - Goochland County, Virginia, 1782-1832

by Reginald D. Butler

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Roses In December - Black Life In Hanover County From Civil War To Civil Rights

by Jody Lynn Allen

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Roses In December - Black Life In Hanover County From Civil War To Civil Rights

by Jody Lynn Allen

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Bitter Fruits Of Bondage - The Demise Of Slavery And The Collapse Of The Confederacy, 1861-1865

by Armstead L. Robinson

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 The late Armstead L. Robinsonâ€™s magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War. Robinson tells the story of how the war and slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined the Confederacy in the end.
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Roses In December - Black Life In Hanover County From Civil War To Civil Rights

by Jody Lynn Allen

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 The inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal century Roses 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 with desegregation, Jody Lynn Allen chronicles the lives of newly freed people and their descendants in Hanover County, Virginia, providing an unprecedented look at rural Black Virginians’ resilience after disfranchisement. In the century between 1865 and 1965, Black residents of Hanover County embraced liberty as they organized for education, employment, and religious freedom, and built a community that flourished in the face of white retrenchment and day-to-day oppression. In this at times poignant, at times funny, and always powerful book, Allen’s attention to local, community level history offers an overlooked yet vital perspective of the civil rights movement in the rural South.
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Bitter Fruits Of Bondage - The Demise Of Slavery And The Collapse Of The Confederacy, 1861-1865

by Armstead L. Robinson

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 The late Armstead L. Robinsonâ€™s magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War. Robinson tells the story of how the war and slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined the Confederacy in the end.
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The Punitive Turn - New Approaches To Race And Incarceration

by Claudrena N. Harold, Deborah E. Mcdowell e Juan Battle

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 Explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration and its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll it takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society, the contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the US.
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The Struggle For Change - Race And The Politics Of Reconciliation In Modern Richmond

by Marvin T. Chiles

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 Offers a unique take on Richmondâ€™s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the cityâ€™s current racial disparities in economic mobility, housing, and public education actually represent the unintended consequences of Richmondâ€™s racial reconciliation measures.
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The Struggle For Change - Race And The Politics Of Reconciliation In Modern Richmond

by Marvin T. Chiles

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 Offers a unique take on Richmondâ€™s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the cityâ€™s current racial disparities in economic mobility, housing, and public education actually represent the unintended consequences of Richmondâ€™s racial reconciliation measures.
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