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  • Scarlet and Black, Volume Three

    Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020

    by Roberto C. Orozco, Carie Rael, Brooke A. Thomas, Ian Gavigan, Pamela N. Walker, Joseph Williams, Kaisha Esty, Whitney Fields, Beatrice J. Adams, Jesse Bayker, Kenneth Morrissey, Edward White, Tracey Johnson, Joseph Kaplan, Meagan Wierda, Lynda Dexheimer ...
    The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • White Identity

    Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

    by Jared Taylor ...
    Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.Study after scientific study suggests that racial identity is an inherent part of human nature.Diversity of race, language, ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Living for the City

    Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

    by Donna Jean Murch ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.During an era of expansion and political struggle in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • African American Urban History since World War II

    Edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer, Joe W. Trotter ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject.The first of ... Read more

    $28.79 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

  • Foundations of the American Century

    The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power

    by Inderjeet Parmar ...
    Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Personal Politics

    The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left

    by Sara Evans ...
    The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Household Workers Unite

    The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

    by Premilla Nadasen ...
    Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

    Freedom's Bittersweet Song

    Edited by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams ...
    The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

    by Stuart Buck ...

    $12.99 USD

  • Sisters in the Struggle

    African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

    by Bettye Collier-Thomas, V.P. Franklin ...
    The rarely heard stories of the brave African American women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.Sisters in the Struggle tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women to the most important social reform in the United States in the twentieth century. Only recently have historians and other researchers begun to recognize black women's central role in the ... Read more

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