In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black…
"This is a study of six beach resort communities on the U.S. South's Atlantic and Gulf coasts: Galveston, Biloxi, Panama City, St. Augustine, Myrtle Beach, and Virginia Beach. As these cities became leisure destinations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antho…
This book examines how de facto segregation unfolded and operated at the New Jersey shore after the Civil War. Weaving together histories of race, leisure, and consumption, it argues that the politics of mass consumption contained early desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Cr…
"Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement in the Jim Crow era, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History"--
"A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles Racism has been central to the way that the city of Los Angeles...and all US cities...have formed and grown. There is a long, ugly history of state-supported segregation, the violent local defence of white neighbou…
"Woman Proved Herself Man's Helpmate": Nationalism, Gender, and the Memory of the American Revolution -- "A Long and Mighty Race of Heroic Men": Remembering the Pioneers and American Nation-Building -- "Let Us Clasp Hands, Red Man and White Man": The DAR and the American Indian …
"Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists" ... Provided by publisher.
"Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists"--Provided by publisher.
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa- contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia- from the 1910s to t…
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the…
In "White Power, White Pride!" The White Separatist Movement in the United States, readers encounter a groundbreaking effort, the first book to combine a comprehensive examination of the white separatist phenomenon with wide-ranging original research. In delineating the major ac…
In "White Power, White Pride!" The White Separatist Movement in the United States, readers encounter a groundbreaking effort, the first book to combine a comprehensive examination of the white separatist phenomenon with wide-ranging original research. In delineating the major ac…
Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole an…
Dispersal, or 'bussing', was introduced in England in the early-1960s after white parents expressed concerns that the sudden influx of non-Anglophone South Asian children was holding back their own children's education. It consisted of sending busloads of mostly Asian children t…