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  • - The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South
    af Evan Faulkenbury
    363,95 - 1.072,95 kr.

    Though local power had long existed in the hundreds of southern towns and cities that saw organized civil rights action, the Voter Education Project was vital to converting that power into political motion. Evan Faulkenbury offers an explanation of the crucial role philanthropy, outside funding, and tax policy can play in social movements.

  • - Asian American Civil Rights in the South
    af Stephanie Hinnershitz
    367,95 kr.

    In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. This book tells the story of their resistance and documents how Asian American political actors and civil rights activists challenged existing definitions of rights and justice in the South.

  • - The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City
    af David Goldberg
    442,95 kr.

    For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1914 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism.

  • - The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
    af Max Krochmal
    442,95 kr.

  • - Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
    af Lane Windham
    372,95 kr.

    Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of colour, young workers, and southerners, Lane Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools - like unions and labour law - with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements to help shore up their prospects.

  • - Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s
    af Lauren Pearlman
    397,95 - 1.332,95 kr.

    Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates the struggle for self-determination in America's capital.

  • - The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
    af Garrett Felber
    322,95 - 1.332,95 kr.

    Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.

  • - Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
     
    389,95 kr.

    Considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the US South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty.

  • - Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
     
    1.255,95 kr.

    Considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the US South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty.

  • - African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960
    af Nicholas Grant
    432,95 - 1.169,95 kr.

    In this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

  • - Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
    af Llana Barber
    423,95 - 1.138,95 kr.

    By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos - mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans - currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of US urban crisis and imperial migration from Latin America.

  • - Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
    af Talitha L. LeFlouria
    317,95 kr.

    "Portions of the text were previously published as 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood: Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865-1917, ' Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 8, no. 3 (Fall 2011)"--Title page verso.

  • - Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
    af Dan Berger
    412,95 kr.

    In this groundbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Showing that the prison was a central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s to the 1980s, Berger traces the dynamic and dramatic history of this political struggle.

  • - Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
    af Sonia Song-Ha Lee
    442,95 kr.

    Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

  • - Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
    af Gordon K. Mantler
    429,95 kr.

    Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

  • - Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
    af Sarah Haley
    397,95 kr.

  • - African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
    af Douglas J. Flowe
    397,95 - 1.128,95 kr.

    Traces how public racial violence, segregation in housing and leisure, and criminal stigmatization in popular culture and media fostered a sense of distress, isolation, and nihilism that made crime and violence seem like viable recourses in the face of white supremacy.

  • - Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
    af Simon Balto
    492,95 kr.

    In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighbourhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression.

  • - The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
    af Edward Onaci
    427,95 - 1.327,95 kr.

    The first book to tell the full history of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles.

  • - Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
    af Kelly Lytle Hernandez
    477,95 kr.

    Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the US, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles.

  • - Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
    af Max Felker-Kantor
    487,95 kr.

    Narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources.

  • - How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice
    af Lana Dee Povitz
    487,95 - 1.332,95 kr.

    Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of America's already fragile social safety net in the late twentieth century.

  • - A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina
    af Seth Kotch
    372,95 - 1.332,95 kr.

    Recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina, from its colonial origins to the present. Seth Kotch tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies.

  • - Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s
    af Elizabeth Todd-Breland
    397,95 - 1.342,95 kr.

    Tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models, and black teachers' challenges to the teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century.

  • - Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945
    af Tera Eva Agyepong
    347,95 - 1.345,95 kr.

    In documenting how blackness became a marker of criminality that overrode the potential protections the status of "child" could have bestowed, Tera Eva Agyepong shows the entanglements between race and the state's transition to a more punitive form of juvenile justice. This important study expands the narrative of racialized criminalization in America.

  • - How Black Women Transformed an Era
    af Ashley D. Farmer
    424,95 kr.

    Examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organisations. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Ashley Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood.

  • - Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992
    af Teishan A. Latner
    487,95 kr.

  • - Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s
    af Pamela Pennock
    392,95 - 1.317,95 kr.

  • - The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
    af Stephen M. Ward
    487,95 kr.

    James and Grace Lee Boggs were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking. Ward's book restores the Boggses to their rightful place in postwar American history.

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