In 1882, the United States launched an unprecedented experiment in federal border control--which promptly failed. The Chinese Must Go examines this formative moment when America's lackluster attempt to bar Chinese workers provoked a wave of anti-Chinese violence across the U.S. …
As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, bringing the wonders of literature to a young African American boy named Patrick and his rowdy classmates. For the first time, these boys began …
A memoir of race, inequality and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student who was jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta. As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Mi…
As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, bringing the wonders of literature to a young African-American boy named Patrick and his rowdy classmates. For the first time, these boys began …
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Ag…
This third edition of Joe R. Feagin's Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates more than two hundred recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that u…
This third edition of Joe R. Feagin's Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates more than two hundred recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that u…
"Demonstrating that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner, Ira Katznelson recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and politics in this groundbreaking work. …
"A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action"--Summary provided by publisher
"A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action"--Provided by publisher
"Demonstrating that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner, Ira Katznelson recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and politics in this groundbreaking work. …
"A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action" --
