In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, published when W.E.B. Du Bois was eighty-three years olf, the brilliant black scholar announced that he was a "citizen of the world." Citizen of the World chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois's final three decades between the 1930s and 19…
"This book spotlights the distinct, intersecting, and coalitional possibilities of education in the spaces of ongoing movements for Native and Black liberation. Contributors highlight the importance of activist-oriented teaching and learning in temporary community encampments an…
"This book spotlights the distinct, intersecting, and coalitional possibilities of education in the spaces of ongoing movements for Native and Black liberation. Contributors highlight the importance of activist-oriented teaching and learning in temporary community encampments an…
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…
"Democracy After Slavery examines the reaction against Black political freedom and the unexpected retreat from democracy in two crucial Caribbean contexts, the Republic of Halti and the British colony of Jamaica (separated by only 100 miles and in far closer touch with one anoth…
This book examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Dr…
This book examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Dr…
The God part of him : slavery and constraints on fatherhood -- I liked my papa the best : enslaved fathers -- Blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach : provisioning -- This great object of my life : purchase and escape -- Tuckey buzzard lay me : slavery, sex, and white fathers…
