In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it dow…
Racism in America: a Reader
by Hall, Stuart, Bennett, Joshua, Appiah, Kwame Anthony, Shelby, Tommie, Gordon-Reed, Annette, Abraham Jack, Anthony, Bald, Vivek, Baradaran, Mehrsa, Blackhawk, Ned, Feetwood, Nicole R., Feimster, Crystal N., Gibran Muhammad, Khalil, Hinton, Elizabeth, Hunter, Tera W., JOHNSON, Walter, Lentz-Smith, Adriane, Lew-Williams, Beth, Morrison, Toni, Muñoz Martinez, Monica, Sturkey, William, White, Augustus A.
Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we've had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume-culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, econom…