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  • Reconsidering Roots

    Race, Politics, and Memory

    by Erica L. Ball, Kellie Carter Jackson, Norvella Carter, Warren Chalklen, Elise Chatelain, Robert K. Chester, Clare Corbould, Henry Gates Jr., C. King0, David J. Leonard1, Delia Mellis2, Francesca Morgan3, Tyler D. Parry4, Martin Stollery5, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang6, Bhekuyise Zungu7 ...
    Series series Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America
    This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The 1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster miniseries—it was a ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Sellout

    The Politics of Racial Betrayal

    by Randall Kennedy ...
    **An incisive and unflinching study from the national bestselling author of Say it Loud! that tackles a stigma of America's racial discourse: selling out.“Brisk and enjoyable, no small feat given the density of its ideas.”—Los Angeles Times**Randall Kennedy explains the origins of the concept of selling out, and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When and Where I Enter

    The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

    by Paula J. Giddings ...
    A history of the African American woman's experience in America and an analysis of the relationship between sexism and racism.When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influences of African American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    by Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mirror to America

    The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

    by John Hope Franklin ...
    The legendary man recounts his journey from a childhood in Oklahoma to an Presidential Medal of Honor–winning African American historian."An astonishing beautiful, deeply intelligent record of an extraordinary life. Required reading lest we forget what is possible in a race-based society." —Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature"John Hope Franklin's story is the stuff of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

    by Michael McGerr ...
    With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Feminist Promise

    1792 to the Present

    by Christine Stansell ...
    “A unique, elegant, learned sweep through more than two centuries of women’s efforts to overcome the most fundamental way that human beings have been wrongly divided into the leaders and the led. It’s full of surprises from the past and guiding lights for the future.”—Gloria SteinemFor more than two centuries, the ranks of feminists have included dreamy idealists and conscientious reformers, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    Reflections on a Multicultural Society

    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger ...
    The bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.The classic image of the American nation — a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy — is being replaced by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

    A History of Southern Identity

    by James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit and sharp insight James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Imagining Black America

    by Michael Wayne ...
    Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Burning House

    Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

    by Anders Walker ...
    A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers"Walker has opened up a fresh way of thinking about the intellectual history of the South during the civil-rights movement."—Robert Greene, The NationIn this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Past Imperfect

    Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and

    by Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD