Om de historiske og politiske årsager til racediskrimination i USAs velfærdspolitik
The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform movement in American history. This book recounts the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary African-Americans overcame long odds to dethrone segregation, to exercise the right to …
In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity put their Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton on the map. They gave a voice to disenfranch…
A biography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland, to become the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. The most important African-American figure of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass…
Notes from the first year: "This is how we lost to the white man"; Notes from the second year: American Girl; Notes from the third year: Why do so few blacks study the civil war?; Notes from the fourth year: The Legacy of Malcolm X; Notes from the fifth year: Fear of a black Pre…
Goes beyond popularized views of Martin Luther King, Jr., to explore his committed advocacy of the poor, the working class and unions as well as his views about nonviolent resistance to all forms of oppression, particularly economic inequality
Futures of black radicalism
Key scholarly voices from a wide array of disciplines recalls the powerful tradition of Black radicalism as it developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries while defining new directions for Black radical thought
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'wh…
For most of US history, the police have used violence against African Americans with impunity - but after the murder of unarmed teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, mass protests erupted to challenge that impunity. In the process, a new generation of Black activists has co…