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THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORYThe historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. Most Americans, the story goes, just watched the political movements of the sixties go by. James Tracy and Amy Sonnie, who have been interviewing activists from the era for nearly ten years, reject this old narrative. They show that poor and working-class radicals, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and 1970s. Among these groups: + JOIN Community Union brought together southern migrants, student radicals, and welfare recipients in Chicago to fight for housing, health, and welfare . . . + The Young Patriots Organization and Rising Up Angry organized self-identified hillbillies, Chicago greasers, Vietnam vets, and young feminists into a legendary “Rainbow Coalition” with Black and Puerto Rican activists . . . + In Philadelphia, the October 4th Organization united residents of industrial Kensington against big business, war, and a repressive police force . . . + In the Bronx, White Lightning occupied hospitals and built coalitions with doctors to fight for the rights of drug addicts and the poor. Exploring an untold history of the New Left, the book shows how these groups helped to redefine community organizing—and transforms the way we think about a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Author: Amy Sonnie, James Tracy Paperback: 256 pages Company: Melville House (2011-09-16) (2011-09-16) ISBN: 1935554662 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.99 Used Price: $10.55 
Sarah Willie asks: What's it like to be black on campus. For most Black students, attending predominantly white universities, it is a struggle. Do you try to blend in? Do you take a stand? Do you end up acting as the token representative for your whole race? And what about those students who attend predominantly black universities? How do their experiences differ?In Acting Black, Sarah Willie interviews 55 African American alumnae of two universities, comparable except that one is predominantly white, Northwestern, and one is predominantly black, Howard. What she discovers through their stories, mirrored in her own college experience , is that the college campus is in some cases the stage for an even more intense version of the racial issues played out beyond its walls. The interviewees talk about "acting white" in some situations and "acting black" in others. They treat race as many different things, including a set of behaviours that they can choose to act out. In Acting Black, Willie situates the personal stories of her own experience and those of her interviewees within a timeline of black education in America and a review of university policy, with suggestions for improvement for both black and white universities seeking to make their campuses truly multicultural. In the tradition of The Agony of Education (Routledge, 1996) , Willie captures the painful dilemmas and ugly realities African Americans must face on campus. Author: Sarah Susannah Willie Paperback: 224 pages Company: Routledge (2003-01-16) ISBN: 0415944104 List Price: $47.95 Amazon Price: $20.00 Used Price: $1.79 
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new , and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.The author is able to combine the most innovative and radical thinking on several fronts--racial theory, feminist, and legal--to produce a work that is at once history and political treatise. By using the history of how American law--beginning with slavery--has treated the issue of the state's right to interfere with the black woman's body, the author explosively and effectively makes the case for the legal redress to the racist implications of current policy with regards to 1) access to and coercive dispensing of birth control to poor black women 2) the criminalization of parenting by poor black women who have used drugs 3) the stigmatization and devaluation of poor black mothers under the new welfare provisions, and 4) the differential access to and disproportionate spending of social resources on the new reproductive technologies used by wealthy white couples to insure genetically related offspring. The legal redress of the racism inherent in current American law and policy in these matters, the author argues in her last chapter, demands and should lead us to adopt a new standard and definition of the liberal theory of "liberty" and "equality" based on the need for, and the positive role of government in fostering, social as well as individual justice. Author: Dorothy Roberts Paperback: 384 pages Company: Vintage (1998-12-29) (1998-12-29) ISBN: 0679758690 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.35 Used Price: $3.75 
These pages are filled with the glorious historical and contemporary contributions of black people. Beginning with a careful documentation of how God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, this book then directs its readers on a magnificent tour of life in America through the triumphant stories of contemporary African-American men.Author: Joel Freeman, Don B. Griffin Paperback: 192 pages Company: Destiny Image Pub (2003-01-01) ISBN: 0768430100 List Price: $15.99 Amazon Price: $7.25 Used Price: $0.01 
Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues through the lens of the Asian-American experience. Mixing personal anecdotes, legal cases, and journalistic reporting, Wu confronts damaging Asian-American stereotypes such as "the model minority" and "the perpetual foreigner." By offering new ways of thinking about race in American society, Wu's work dares us to make good on our great democratic experiment. Author: Frank Wu Paperback: 416 pages Company: Basic Books (2003-03) (2003-03-25) ISBN: 046500640X List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $4.60 Used Price: $0.88 
A collection of interviews with African Americans who came to Chicago from the South. In their first great migration to Chicago that began during World War I, African Americans came from the South seeking a better life--and fleeing a Jim Crow system of racial prejudice, discrimination, and segregation. What they found was much less than what they'd hoped for, but it was much better than what they'd come from--and in the process they set in motion vast changes not only in Chicago but also in the whole fabric of American society. This book, the first of three volumes, revisits this momentous chapter in American history with those who lived it. Oral history of the first order, Bridges of Memory lets us hear the voices of those who left social, political, and economic oppression for political freedom and opportunity such as they'd never known--and for new forms of prejudice and segregation. These children and grandchildren of ex-slaves found work in the stockyards and steel mills of Chicago, settled and started small businesses in the "Black Belt" on the South Side, and brought forth the jazz, blues, and gospel music that the city is now known for. Historian Timuel D. Black, Jr., himself the son of first-generation migrants to Chicago, interviews a wide cross-section of African Americans whose remarks and reflections touch on issues ranging from fascism to Jim Crow segregation to the origin of the blues. Their recollections comprise a vivid record of a neighborhood, a city, a society, and a people undergoing dramatic and unprecedented changes. Author: Timuel D. Black Jr. Hardcover: 320 pages Company: Northwestern University Press (2008-04-16) ISBN: 0810122952 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $28.95 Used Price: $21.76 
Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white supremacists less than a century ago. In The Shifting Grounds of Race, Scott Kurashige highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles. Linking paradigmatic events like Japanese American internment and the Black civil rights movement, Kurashige transcends the usual "black/white" dichotomy to explore the multiethnic dimensions of segregation and integration. Racism and sprawl shaped the dominant image of Los Angeles as a "white city." But they simultaneously fostered a shared oppositional consciousness among Black and Japanese Americans living as neighbors within diverse urban communities. Kurashige demonstrates why African Americans and Japanese Americans joined forces in the battle against discrimination and why the trajectories of the two groups diverged. Connecting local developments to national and international concerns, he reveals how critical shifts in postwar politics were shaped by a multiracial discourse that promoted the acceptance of Japanese Americans as a "model minority" while binding African Americans to the social ills underlying the 1965 Watts Rebellion. Multicultural Los Angeles ultimately encompassed both the new prosperity arising from transpacific commerce and the enduring problem of race and class divisions. This extraordinarily ambitious book adds new depth and complexity to our understanding of the "urban crisis" and offers a window into America's multiethnic future. Author: Scott Kurashige Paperback: 368 pages Company: Princeton University Press (2010-03-15) ISBN: 0691146187 List Price: $30.95 Amazon Price: $18.70 Used Price: $11.95 
This carefully reserched book is a significant addition to this vital foeld of knowledge. It sets forth, in fascinating detail, the history, from earliset recorded times, of the black races of the Middle East and Africa.Author: Rudolph R. Windsor Paperback: 151 pages Company: Windsor Golden Series (1988-04) ISBN: 0962088110 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $8.32 Used Price: $7.55 
For many years to come, race will continue to be a source of controversy and conflict in American society. For many of us it will continue to shape where we live, pray, go to school, and socialize. We cannot simply wish away the existence of race or racism, but we can take steps to lessen the ways in which the categories trap and confine us. Educators, who should be committed to helping young people realize their intellectual potential as they make their way toward adulthood, have a responsibility to help them find ways to expand identities related to race so that they can experience the fullest possibility of all that they may become. In this brutally honest—yet ultimately hopeful— book Pedro Noguera examines the many facets of race in schools and society and reveals what it will take to improve outcomes for all students. From achievement gaps to immigration, Noguera offers a rich and compelling picture of a complex issue that affects all of us.Author: Pedro A. Noguera Paperback: 368 pages Company: Jossey-Bass (2009-06-09) ISBN: 0470452080 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $9.97 Used Price: $6.94 
This new paperback edition includes a major new essay in which William Julius Wilson not only reflects on the debate surrounding his book, but also presents a provocative discussion of race, class, and social policy. "Wilson has written a profound and provocative book that is destined to become a classic in the field. He has articulated the issues with which future researchers will have to deal. Truly, he has made a contribution to social science."—Wilson Record, American Journal of Sociology "The intellectual strength of this book lies in his capacity to integrate disparate findings from historical studies, social theory and research on contemporary trends into a complex and original synthesis that challenges widespread assumptions about the cause of black disadvantage and the way to remove it."—Paul Starr, New York Times Book Review This is a short but important book. . . . Wilson presents a cogent and convincing interpretation of how the changing political and economic structure of the United States profoundly affected the position of black Americans."—Pierre van den Berghe, Sociology and Social Research "This publication is easily one of the most erudite and sober diagnoses of the American black situation. Students of race relations and anybody in a policy-making position cannot afford to bypass this study."—Ernest Manheim, Sociology Author: William Julius Wilson Paperback: 251 pages Company: University Of Chicago Press (1980-12-15) ISBN: 0226901297 List Price: $20.00 Amazon Price: $6.88 Used Price: $0.01
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Author: Thomas D. Boston Kindle Edition: 458 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books UK (2009-03-24) (2009-03-24) List Price: $27.75 Amazon Price: 
Made in Man’s Image: The construction of the Black person in British media text and the ideological implications.It seems surprising that in the 21st century at a time of ‘inescapable hybridity’ of culture (Gilroy, 1993:xi) British media has not moved forward in their mental processes about race especially their opinion and textual ideological representation of the Black person. This becomes both critical and dangerously important when considering the last time a repressive state sponsored organisation was allowed to (1) segregate (both physically and ideologically), (2) target and (3) systematically eliminate a race – The German Nazi party against the Jewish race. The British and American media have been vanguards in the negative portrayal of Black people as the works of (Cosby, 1994; Gray, 1995; Hill, 1986; hooks, 1992:3; and Ford, 1997) testify. Indeed hooks stresses that the field of representation remains a place of struggle and most evident when we critically examine contemporary representations of blackness and black people. Here I am not overtly concerned about determining human abilities specific to a race otherwise termed racism although I recognize and argue that without the critical discourse of racism the state would not enjoy such a hegemonic relationship with its other social constituents. Nor am I concerned with the simple bigot or the poor as racists who merely develop a culture of envy and hence require a scapegoat for their resentment. I am concerned with the more serious state sponsored ideological construction of a race where that construction’s sole purpose is to influence the masses against that particular race. The British construction is of course different to the German Nazism model in numerous ways but by no means less intrusive, however the repugnant events that took place against the Jews was gradual and the current events recorded against the blacks is also gradual. Notwithstanding this, it would be inappropriate to claim or indeed accuse the British of being Nazis I cannot substantiate that claim; rather the situation is clearly a new doctrine more a collective amalgamations of Britain’s previous doctrinal incarnations: imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and White supremacism all of which were legitimized with haughtiness in the pursuit of power. The British media does not appear to have learned any lessons from the Nazi media doctrine and the severe destruction caused to a minority race due inter alia, to racialist textual media representation of a minority race within its national borders. The study assumes that the state based in part on racialist ideology, constructs a representation of the Black person in order to ideologically rule the masses, maintain its Anglo Saxon Capitalistic ideals and deflect class conflict. The state I argue, in its construction forms a hegemonic relationship with the masses to accept the status quo and legitimize its status. Indeed the masses accept privileges of power over the black person because of the hegemonic relationship. The Black person suffers in ignorance realizing that something is not quite right but fails to determine the construction because the forms and means escapes them with profound complexity. The overwhelming level of constructed institutionalized racism renders the black person doomed to fail, subordinate and powerless. The Black person therefore surrenders to a hopeless circular matrix of social purgatory , always-controlled always-disillusioned and discontent in ignorance. The work should not only be taken as a wake up call to the black diasporia; the weak, the gay community and the working classes should all note the similarities of state control over suppressed groups. Author: Alan James Thompson Kindle Edition: 551 pages Kindle eBook Company: Alan James Thompson (2009-10-18) (2009-10-18) List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: 
This book reveals the emotional and social consequences of gendered difference and racial division as experienced by black and ethnicised women, teachers and students in schools and universities, taking the topic in new, challenging directions.Author: Heidi Safia Mirza Kindle Edition: 224 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books UK (2008-12-24) (2008-12-24) List Price: $42.95 Amazon Price: 
No description availableAuthor: Heidi Safia Mirza Kindle Edition: 257 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books UK (2007-03-14) (2007-03-14) List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: 
No description availableAuthor: David Wilson Kindle Edition: 188 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books UK (2009-01-28) (2009-01-28) List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: 
This book examines the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. It charts the relations and political struggle between Ashkenazi-Zionists and the Mizrahim in Israel from post-war relocation through to the present day.Author: Sami Shalom Chetrit Kindle Edition: 313 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books UK (2009-11-06) (2009-11-06) List Price: $130.00 Amazon Price: |
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