"After many years of neglect and faultfinding by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Berg reveals the group's eminently political character as he assesses both its his…
Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed -- Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : Lacrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins -- Southern accents : the politics of race and the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore …
Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about "race" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth B…
Without Justice for All questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy among American leaders and opinion-makers has contributed to the social stratification and inequality that plagues America today. Contributors look at the history of our social policies since the N…
Introduction / Richmond F. Brown -- The significance of the Gulf South in early American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. -- Escape of the nickaleers : European-Indian relations on the wild coast of Florida in 1696, from Jonathan Dickinson's journal / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Supply…
A detailed working through of the impact of the political theory and practise of contemporary antiracism in Britain in a selection of novels by black British and British Asian writers.
