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A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called ';jim-dandy pop history,' by the bestselling, American Book Awardwinning authorFrom the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updatedand more timely than everversion of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America.In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include:*;a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten slave uprising*;a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia*;the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slaveryLies Across America is a reality check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation's public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, the book also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and confederate memorials.

In this inspiring collection, MacArthur Award-winning, bestselling author Delpit (Other People's Children) gathers all-star advice for K-12 teachers on engaging students around some of today's toughest issues.

NOW IN PAPERBACK The "elegant but harrowing" (San Francisco Chronicle) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this widespread modern-day form of torture

A provocative, strategic plan for a humane immigration system from the nation’s leading immigration scholars and activistsDuring the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation’s foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called “future flows” that have bedeviled policy makers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation’s identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change. Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers’ rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement.The perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age, Immigration Matters makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.

Promotion and Outreach: The project has significant outreach funding from the Overbrook and JPB Foundation, major players in the environmental movement. The book will be unveiled in dozens of events featuring the organizations and activists covered in the book, and Overbrook and JPB will promote to their lists.Showcases Young Journalistic Talent: Contributors include exciting young journalists including Nick Tabor, Nick Estes, Dharna Noor, Allie Tempus and Julian Brave Noisecat.Media Partners: Collaboration with Grist Magazine (Grist.org) and The Story of Stuff (https://storyofstuff.org/), via short video films, features and their newsletters.Opportunities: The rise of the Sunrise Movement, the popularity of the Green New Deal and the Climate Strike movement shows that grassroots, locally led environmental groups are emerging from the shadows and taking the national stage. We saw from When We Fight We Win the appeal of this kind of book to on-the-ground activists.The First Of Its Kind: From¿ ¿and¿ ¿about¿ ¿the¿ ¿perspective¿ ¿of small¿ ¿organizations¿-will become an essential tool to activists and activist groups who will discover a treasure trove of activist advice, tactical strategies, and a vision of change that they will find empowering. Emerging Field For The New Press: This book is the latest in a new series of books from The New Press devoted to the climate emergency and environmental justice.

Top-notch Credentials: Carbado is among the top scholars in the Critical Race Studies movement. He is a board member of Kimberle Crenshaw's African American Policy Forum. He holds an endowed chair at UCLA Law School, where he is also Associate Vice Chancellor. He was also 2018-19 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation, one of the highest positions dedicated to the promotion of diversity and equality in the legal profession.Anniversary: We will publish on the anniversary of the George Floyd protests, which will be a moment of national reflection and media coverage.Blurbs/endorsements: We have confirmed blurb commitments from Michael Eric Dyson, Kimberle Crenshaw, and Paul Butler.Affiliations: Author is a professor and senior administrator at UCLA, which will help promote the book. He is also a board member of the African American Policy Forum, which has a large social media presence and will promote the book. We will also work with the American Bar Association on promotion.

A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just MercyThis blisteringly candid discussion of the American dilemma in the age of Trump brings together the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the former attorney general of the United States, a bestselling author and death penalty lawyer, and a star professor for an honest conversation the country desperately needs to hear.Drawing on their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these leading lights of the legal profession and the fight for racial justice talk about the importance of reclaiming the racial narrative and keeping our eyes on the horizon as we work for justice in an unjust time.Covering topics as varied as "e;the commonality of pain,"e; "e;when lawyers are heroes,"e; and the concept of an "e;equality dividend"e; that is due to people of color for helping America brand itself internationally as a country of diversity and acceptance, Ifill, Lynch, Stevenson, and Thompson also explore topics such as "e;when did 'public' become a dirty word"e; (hint, it has something to do with serving people of color), "e;you know what Jeff Sessions is going to say,"e; and "e;what it means to be a civil rights lawyer in the age of Trump."e;Building on Stevenson's hugely successful Just Mercy, Lynch's national platform at the Justice Department, Ifill's role as one of the leading defenders of civil rights in the country, and the occasion of Thompson's launch of a new center on race, inequality, and the law at the NYU School of Law, A Perilous Path will speak loudly and clearly to everyone concerned about America's perpetual fault line.

Presents voices from the great second wave of American immigration. Mixing writing from celebrated authors such as Richard Rodriguez, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maxine Hong Kingston with striking selections from young writers, as well as diary entries and letters from undocumented workers.

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present

Features nearly 50 first-person accounts of the flight from Hitler's Germany, many published for the first time. From archives and obscure published sources, it recaptures the unknown voices of that perilous time by focusing on the ordinary people who underwent an extraordinary voyage.

Dislodged from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, this is an uncompromising look at high officials' arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence, as displayed in their attitude toward Castro's revolution and toward the Cuban exiles the CIA had organized to invade the island.

An account of the politics and philosophies involved in the education of black American children during the last 50 years. The author talks to black teachers who were among the first to teach in desegrated southern schools, and to others who taught in large urban districts.

Focusing on the changing field of historiography, this text sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies.

One of two companion volumes which represent a guide to the major sites of African-American history throughout the Unites Stated. It includes descriptions and detailed information for visitors in respect of hundreds of places of national and local significance in the south of the country.

More than six years in the making, Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s is the result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diaries found in remote libraries, archives, and family holdings. Intimacy and Terror reveals for the first time the private lives of a broad cross section of Russians during the harshest years of Stalin's purge - not just the now-familiar stories of those who were deported or killed. The ten diaries reveal the day-to-day thoughts of ordinary citizens, some far removed from political turmoil, some closely enmeshed. Together they paint an extraordinarily broad portrait of Russian life in the thirties; their insights into the daily life of that time have astonished even the Russian historians who read the original manuscripts. The diarists range from the ambitious literary bureaucrat who moves forward by denouncing his colleagues to the young unlettered careerist learning the ways of Soviet success; from the wife of a government bureaucrat, who writes in a pure Stalinist prose, to the candid thoughts and uncertainties of a dissident; from a provincial sailor on a distant Arctic vessel to Moscow intellectuals who meet and recount their conversations with Anna Akhmatova. Some of the diarists are wholly oblivious to the terrors of Stalin's purges; others see the failures of the regime as clearly as those writing today. To set the diaries in context, the book begins with a "Chronicle of the Year 1937" - an extraordinary montage comprised of excerpts from the daily newspaper Izvestiya juxtaposed with corresponding entries from a collective farmer's diary - and alsoincludes a chronology of major events in the Soviet Union during the latter half of the decade. The diaries bring us the true-life counterparts of characters we remember from classic Russian literature. Intimacy and Terror provides an unprecedented, intimate view of daily life in Russia at the height of Stalinism.

Providing a survey of Native American art from 1780 to 1920, this portfolio consists of 24 unbound colour illustrations and an explanatory booklet giving an introduction to the subject, and information on the individual pieces.

This work provides a portrait of Mexico today - told through the stories of ordinary men and women in a time of political and economic transformation. It portrays their views on pollution, the political elite, corruption and the migrant experience in the United States.

This collection brings together fiction from the French-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean. Its diverse selection addresses the central themes of the region's literature: the plantation, maroon society, colonial education, rural and urban life, and women's changing roles.

The Parrish Art Museum in New York held an exhibition showing how contemporary American artists have been excluded, with museums preferring to uphold the legacies of Greece and Rome. This text explores the mission and origins of American art museums from their founding to the present.

Ilka Weissnix is a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. Carter Bayoux, Ilka's first American, is a middle-aged, hard-drinking, black intellectual. This novel is about the process of naturalization. Lore Segal has also written "Other People's Houses".

A literary anthology geared specifically to young people seeking to understand the gay and lesbian experience. It includes more than 50 coming-of-age stories by established writers and teenagers. Contributors include James Baldwin, Aaron Fricke, Dorothy Allison and Quentin Crisp.

Offers a candid revelation of the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform "drylongso" or ordinary black life in America. In writing this book the author went in search of "Core Black People" - the ordinary men and women who make up black America and asked them to define their culture.

A marriage of politics and literature which transcends the daily headlines to get at America's view of itself in history. The essays range from the American fear and loathing of the 1960s to Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis.

A boy grows up an outsider in the midst of his part-Indonesian family. They are mocked for their "yellow skin", and he has to endure his father's brutality. Years later, he discovers that his father's cruelty stems from the experience of torture in a concentration camp, and begins to accept him.

Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times "e;Entertaining, tough-minded, strenuously argued."e;The Nation A thrilling and timely account of ten moments in history when labor challenged the very nature of power in America, by the author called ';a brilliant historian' by The Progressive magazine Powerful and accessible, A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers' strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix). From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, these labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment. For example, we often think that Lincoln ended slavery by proclaiming the slaves emancipated, but Loomis shows that they freed themselves during the Civil War by simply withdrawing their labor. He shows how the hopes and aspirations of a generation were made into demands at a GM plant in Lordstown in 1972. And he takes us to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in the early nineteenth century where the radical organizers known as the Wobblies made their biggest inroads against the power of bosses. But there were also moments when the movement was crushed by corporations and the government; Loomis helps us understand the present perilous condition of American workers and draws lessons from both the victories and defeats of the past. In crystalline narratives, labor historian Erik Loomis lifts the curtain on workers' struggles, giving us a fresh perspective on American history from the boots up. Strikes include: Lowell Mill Girls Strike (Massachusetts, 183040) Slaves on Strike (The Confederacy, 186165) The Eight-Hour Day Strikes (Chicago, 1886) The Anthracite Strike (Pennsylvania, 1902) The Bread and Roses Strike (Massachusetts, 1912) The Flint Sit-Down Strike (Michigan, 1937) The Oakland General Strike (California, 1946) Lordstown (Ohio, 1972) Air Traffic Controllers (1981) Justice for Janitors (Los Angeles, 1990)