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In the company of educated men / by Gaiter, Leonce.(CARDINAL)474775;
The divisive social realities of the 1980s surface in Leonce Gaiter's electrifying new thriller. Ivy Leaguer Lennie Ashland and his two best friends take a post-grad road trip to see the country, but their carefree world is quickly turned upside down at a rural gas station. There, they meet a gun-toting kid and a little girl escaping domestic hell. Pent up fears, anger, and hubris violently erupt and the group is left hopeless and hunted in the badlands of the American west.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Class struggles in America; Racial tension and race relations in America;
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Racism, a world issue / by Soper, Edmund Davison,1876-1961.(CARDINAL)219186;
Races of the world -- Racism: fact and problem -- The Nazi dogma of the master race -- Russia: many peoples, one nation -- Group and race tensions in India -- The Far East and the West -- The island world of the Pacific -- Black and White in Africa -- Brazil: the fading out of the color line -- Race patterns in Spanish America -- Racial minorities in the United States -- The Negro in American life -- Racism and world order -- The Christian faces the color bar.
Subjects: Race relations.;
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There goes the neighborhood : racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America / by Wilson, William J.,1935-(CARDINAL)124384; Taub, Richard P.(CARDINAL)731597;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.Race and neighborhood social organization -- Beltway : a predominantly white community at the city's edge -- Dover : a mixed ethnic community in transition -- Archer Park : a taste of Mexico in Chicago -- Groveland : a stable African American community -- Neighborhood racial conflict and social policy dilemmas.
Subjects: Case studies.; Ethnic conflict; Neighborhoods; Social conflict;
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The Columbia documentary history of race and ethnicity in America / by Bayor, Ronald H.,1944-(CARDINAL)275842;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1: Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600-1700 / Carol Berkin -- 2: Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701-1788 / Graham Russell Hodges -- 3: The limits of equality: racial and ethnic tensions in the new republic, 1789-1836 / Marion R. Casey -- 4: Racial and ethnic identity in the United States, 1837-1877 / Michael Miller Topp -- 5: Race, nation, and citizenship in late nineteenth-century America, 1878-1900 / Mae M. Ngai -- 6: The critical period: ethnic emergence and reaction, 1901-1929 / Andrew R. Heinze -- 7: Changing racial meanings: race and ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964 / Thomas A. Guglielmo and Earl Lewis -- 8: Racial and ethnic relations in America, 1965-2000 / Timothy J. Meagher.Publisher description: All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, incorporation/assimilation, dual identity, ethnic politics, quotas and affirmative action, residential segregation, and the volume of immigration resonate with a past that has confronted variations of these modern issues. The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, written and compiled by a highly respected team of American historians under the editorship of Ronald Bayor, illuminates the myriad ways in which immigration, racial, and ethnic histories have shaped the contours of contemporary American society. This invaluable resource documents all eras of the American past, including blackƯwhite interactions and the broad spectrum of American attitudes and reactions concerning Native Americans, Irish Catholics, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, and other groups. Each of the eight chronological chapters contains a survey essay, an annotated bibliography, and 20 to 30 related public and private primary source documents, including manifestos, speeches, court cases, letters, memoirs, and much more. From the 1655 petition of Jewish merchants regarding the admission of Jews to the New Netherlands colony to an interview with a Chinese American worker regarding a 1938 strike in San Francisco, documents are drawn from a variety of sources and allow students and others direct access to our past.
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The presumption of guilt : the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and race, class and crime in America / by Ogletree, Charles J.,Jr.,1952-2023,author.(CARDINAL)197325;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree, one of the country's foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of creating a more just legal system for all. Working from years of research and based on his own classes and experiences with law enforcement, the author illuminates the steps needed to embark on the long journey toward racial and legal equality for all Americans"--
Subjects: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.; Race relations; African Americans;
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The gift of Black folk [sound recording] : the Negroes in the making of America / by Du Bois, W. E. B.(William Edward Burghardt),1868-1963,author(CARDINAL)152231; Willis, Mirron,1965-narrator.;
Read by Mirron Willis.Published in 1924 in response to growing racial tensions, this book explores the contributions African Americans have made to American society, detailing the importance of racial diversity to the United States. He chronicles their role in the early exploration of America, their part in developing the country's agricultural industry, their courage on the battlefields, and their creative genius in virtually every aspect of American culture. He also highlights the contributions of black women, proposing that their freedom could lead to freedom for all women.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; African Americans;
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Blood in the promised land : a novel / by Sefrin, Eliot,author.;
A pair of highly regarded New York City police officers - one male, one female, both white - accidentally kill an innocent Black teen in a poverty-stricken, minority neighborhood and face the consequences of an enraged community, a racially divided city, and their own emotional unraveling. This powerful and timely novel, based on a composite of real-life events, explores the sensitive and divisive issue of race relations in America within the context of a tragic police shooting that becomes a lightning rod for racial tension and the focus of a landmark civil rights case, while profoundly reshaping the lives of those most closely impacted by the incident. As the riveting drama unfolds amidst controversy, false charges, racial bias, and political maneuverings that threaten to overwhelm the facts of the case, both the officers and the family of the slain teen become immersed in intense inner crises as they struggle to come to terms with the tragedy. In the process, they come to experience the stereotypes, antipathy, and misunderstanding that often divide our communities - as well as the wisdom and emotions that can ultimately bind them and help them heal.
Subjects: Police; Racism;
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Black coal miners in America : race, class, and community conflict, 1780-1980 / by Lewis, Ronald L.,1940-(CARDINAL)135629;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.Part 1: Expropriation: Forced Labor -- Part 2: Exploitation: the South -- Part 3: Exclusion: The North -- Part 4: Equality: Central Appalachia -- Part 5: Elimination: An Epilogue.From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor--an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history. -- Amazon.
Subjects: African American coal miners; Coal miners;
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What the hell do you have to lose? : Trump's war on civil rights / by Williams, Juan,author.(CARDINAL)190177;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams denounces Donald Trump for intentionally twisting history to fuel racial tensions for his political advantage. In Williams's lifetime, crusaders for civil rights have braved hatred, violence, and imprisonment, and in so doing made life immeasurably better for African Americans and other marginalized groups. Remarkably, all this progress suddenly seems to have been forgotten--or worse, undone. The stirring history of hard-fought and heroic battles for voting rights, integrated schools, and more is under direct threat from an administration dedicated to restricting these basic freedoms. Williams pulls the fire alarm on the Trump administration's policies, which pose a threat to civil rights without precedent in modern America. What the Hell Do You Have to Lose? makes a searing case for the enduring value of our historic accomplishments and what happens if they are lost.
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Racism; Racism.;
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Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture / by Kennedy, Randall,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-489) and index.Shall we overcome? Optimism and pessimism in African American racial thought -- Derrick Bell and me -- The George Floyd moment -- Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and racial caste -- The Princeton ultimatum : anti-racism gone awry -- How black students brought the Constitution to campus -- Race and the politics of memorialization -- The politics of black respectability -- Policing racial solidarity -- Why Clarence Thomas Ought to be ostracized -- Say it loud! . . . On racial shame, pride, kinship, and other problems -- The struggle for collective naming -- The struggle for personal naming -- "Nigger" : the strange career continues -- Should we admire Nat Turner? -- Frederick Douglass : everyone's hero -- Anthony Burns and the terrible relevancy of the Fugitive Slave Act -- Eric Foner and the unfinished mission of reconstruction -- Charles Hamilton Houston : the lawyer as social engineer -- Remembering Thurgood Marshall -- Isaac Woodard and the education of J. Waities Waring -- J. Skelly Wright : up from racism -- On cussing out white liberals : The Case of Philip Elman -- The Civil Rights Act did make a difference! -- Black power hagiography -- The Constitutional roots of "birtherism" -- Inequality and the Supreme Court -- Racial promised lands?"A gathering of essays by the acclaimed Harvard legal scholar and public intellectual, that explores all the relevant cultural and historical issues of the past quarter century having to do with race and race relations in America. With a gimlet eye, decency and humaneness (and often courting controversy), Randall Kennedy chronicles his reactions over the past quarter century to arguments, events, and people that have compelled him to put pen to paper. Three beliefs that are sometimes in tension with one another infuse these pages. First, a massive amount of cruel racial injustice continues to beset the United States of America, an ugly reality that has become alarmingly obvious with the ascendancy of Donald J. Trump and the various political, cultural, and social pathologies that he and many of his followers display and reinforce. Second, there is much about which to be inspired when surveying the African American journey from slavery to freedom to engagement in practically every aspect of life in the United States. Third, an openness to complexity, paradox, and irony should attend any serious investigation of human affairs. Kennedy has tried to allow that sensibility ample leeway in the essays, prompting within himself surprise, ambivalence, and, on several occasions, a heartfelt need to express apology for prior oversights and mistaken judgments. Say It Loud! is nothing less than Randall Kennedy's magnum opus"--
Subjects: Essays.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Racism; Racism.;
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