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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jennifer e brooks”
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  • Resident Strangers

    Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

    by Jennifer E. Brooks ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants might ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • "No Juan Crow!": Documenting the Immigration Debate in Alabama Today

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue

    by Jennifer E. Brooks ...
    “The bill gained quick notoriety for outdoing Arizona, Georgia, and all other states in the restrictions and penalties levied on unauthorized immigrants, as well as on the citizens, community members, employers, and health and law enforcement agencies that assist, employ, or regulate them.”This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Before Brown

    Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South

    by Glenn Feldman, Andrew M Manis, John White, Patricia Sullivan, John A. Salmond, Jennifer E. Brooks, Sarah Hart Brown, Raymond Arsenault, Linda Beito0, Adam Fairclough1, Pamela Tyler2 ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later, World War II—events that would radically shape the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Defining the Peace

    World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition

    by Jennifer E. Brooks ...
    In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia’s veterans — black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union — all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace, Jennifer E. Brooks shows how veterans competed in a protracted and sometimes violent struggle to determine the complex character ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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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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    Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats. ... Read more

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  • Give Us the Ballot

    The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

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  • Wildland

    The Making of America's Fury

    by Evan Osnos ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter a decade abroad, the National Book Award*–* and Pulitzer Prize*–*winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States—Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL—to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury.Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first... ... Read more

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  • Protest at Selma

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

    by David J. Garrow ...
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  • Barack Obama : A Pocket Biography Of Our 44th President

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  • To Make Men Free

    A History of the Republican Party

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