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  • Forgotten Dead

    Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

    by William D. Carrigan, Clive Webb ...
    Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • American Presidential Elections in a Comparative Perspective

    The World Is Watching

    by Jesús Velasco, Zhang Guoxi, Hidematsu Hiyosh, Anna Kronlund, Alex Soohoon Lee, Luis Maira, Guilherme Santos Mello, Reginaldo Moraes, Young Hwan Park, Varun Sahni0, Jungkun Seo1, Devika Sharma2, François Vergniolle de Chantal3, Oscar Vidarte4, Clive Webb5, Eric Shiraev6 ...
    This book studies the views from countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin American of the United States and the 2016 presidential election. Twelve keen observers of the American political scene from three continents evaluate how these perspectives were modified or reinforced as a result of the campaign and election of Donald Trump. This is a book about how foreigners view American politics and will be ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Massive Resistance

    Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction

    Edited by Clive Webb ...
    On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. When the court failed to specify a clear deadline for implementation of the ruling, southern segregationists seized the opportunity to launch a campaign of massive resistance against the federal government. What were the tactics, the ideology, the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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    A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYAn "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

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  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    by David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

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  • The War on Alcohol

    Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

    by Lisa McGirr ...
    “[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book ReviewProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. ... Read more

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  • Better Day Coming

    Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

    by Adam Fairclough ...
    From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the century-long struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and equality in the United States. Beginning with Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching in the 1890s, Fairclough chronicles the tradition of ... Read more

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  • The Black History of the White House

    by Clarence Lusane ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for ... Read more

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  • Mothers of Massive Resistance

    White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

    by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae ...
    Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white ... Read more

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  • Brown v. Board of Education

    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Read more

    $19.99 USD