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  • The debate on black civil rights in America

    Second edition

    by Kevern Verney ...
    Series series Issues in Historiography
    This book examines the historiography of the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present. It considers how, and why, the study of African American history developed from being a marginalized subject in American universities and colleges at the start of the twentieth century to become one of the most extensively researched fields in American history today.There is analysis of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • African Americans and US Popular Culture

    by Kevern Verney ...
    This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines:* the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport, film, television, radio and music* how the entertainment industry has encouraged racism through ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America

    by Kevern Verney, Roger Richardson ...
    Series series Issues in Historiography
    Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It provides a critical historiographical review of the very latest thinking and explains how and why research ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Authoritarianism. Vol 1

    A Risk Analysis of the Alt-Right Phenomenon

    by Bernhard Forchtner, Gabriel Goodliffe, Paul Jackson, Antonis Klapsis, Tim McCarty, Őzgur Őzvatan, Roger Paxton, Markus Rheindorf, Emily Turner-Graham, Ineke Van Der Valk, Kevern Verney, Ruth Wodak ...
    This volume considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new Alt-Right authoritarianism and whether it represents ‘real’ democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government. Contributing authors represent an eclectic range of disciplines, including cognitive, organizational and political psychology, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

    Edited by Mark Ledwidge, Kevern Verney, Inderjeet Parmar ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Identity Politics
    The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed the election through the prism of change, while previously acknowledged demographic changes were hastily heralded as the dawn of a "post-racial" America. However, by 2011, much of the post-election idealism had dissipated in the wake ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Black Civil Rights in America

    by Kevern Verney ...
    This book is the authoritative introduction to the history of black civil rights in the USA. It provides a clear and useful guide to the political, social and cultural history of black Americans and their pursuit of equal rights and recognition from 1865 through to the present day.From the civil war of the 1860s to the race riots of the 1990s, Black Civil Rights details the history of the modern ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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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

    $6.99 USD

  • How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

    Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

    by Manning Marable ...
    "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance-even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • To Make Our World Anew

    A History of African Americans

    Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis ...
    Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Another Day At The Front

    Dispatches From The Race War

    by Ishmael Reed ...
    This powerful essay collection from an award-winning author takes a critical look at America’s history of racism and the battles fought through the years by Black Americans.African Americans have been at war with certain elements of the white population from the very beginning. Being Black in this hemisphere is a battle, and each day is one spent at the front. In this new collection of essays, his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Race Rebels

    Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    From notable historian and author of Freedom Dreams, the untold history of the Black working class resistances throughout the 20th century.Many Black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD