"October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history profes…
"The Children of Lincoln takes an intimate look at African-American civil rights in Minnesota during the pivotal fifteen years following the Emancipation Proclamation and in the wake of the Civil War. Framed around the lives of four white patrons who worked for black freedom (Mi…
This work explores the strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labour organisations in US have developed to assert claims to rights - such as fair wages or protection from violence - for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship.
An analysis of how South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have claimed rights for immigrants who do not have the privileges of citizenship.
The author explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship.
"God with us examines the theological struggle over racial justice through the story of one southern town ... Americus, Georgia ... where ordinary Americans sought and confronted racial change in the twentieth century. Documenting the passion and virulence of these contestations…
"Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a battlefield-decorated African American soldier, climbed aboard a Greyhound bus on February 12, 1946, in Augusta, Georgia, on his last leg home after three years of military service. Things suddenly went awry when a brief heated exchange with the bus dr…
"A nonfiction book detailing the case of Isaac Woodard, its influence on Judge J. Waties Waring, and how Waring went on to lay the groundwork for landmark civil rights rulings"-- February 12, 1946. Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a decorated African American veteran, was removed from a…
Combines information taken from government documents, firsthand accounts, and press coverage to examine issues surrounding Indians of North America of mixed decent and other racially mixed people in the United States during the late nineteenth century.
"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view o…
Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more nume…
"A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action"--Provided by publisher