A labor history of women workers in the early years of the telephone industry.
"In 1992 the U.S. media was treated to "conflict" between blacks and Asians during the Los Angeles uprising. The event crystallized white-supremacist stereotypes of blacks as the "problem" minority and Asians as the "model."" "In this work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to en…
"In 1992 the U.S. media was treated to "conflict" between blacks and Asians during the Los Angeles uprising. The event crystallized white-supremacist stereotypes of blacks as the "problem" minority and Asians as the "model."" "In this work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to en…
"Digital media technologies like the Internet create and host the social networks, virtual worlds, online communities, and media texts where it was once thought that we would all be the same, anonymous users with infinite powers. Instead, the essays in Race After the Internet sh…
"America is currently in the midst of a major racial and ethnic demographic shift. While the population of Hispanics and Asians will increase significantly, the Black population is expected to remain relatively stable. Non-Hispanic Whites will decrease to just over half of the n…
What do Americans think "race" means? What determines one's race, appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, the author takes a close look at how scientists are influencing …
Kahn contends that the standard treatment of Du Bois turns a deaf ear to the religious timbre of his writings & that Du Bois's moral, literary, & political imagination was inhabited by religious rhetoric, concepts & stories. This text recovers the remarkably complex and varied r…
"Wars of national secession and ethnic cleansing have disfigured recent years. These conflicts stem from claims that the same territory is occupied by separate 'peoples' for whom separate political arrangements should be made. Such claims are based on their supposedly distinct r…
"Wars of national secession and ethnic cleansing have disfigured recent years. These conflicts stem from claims that the same territory is occupied by separate 'peoples' for whom separate political arrangements should be made. Such claims are based on their supposedly distinct r…
"Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Bla…
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela…
