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Author : James E. DeVries
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town written by James E. DeVries and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James E. DeVries
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town written by James E. DeVries and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316075698
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Stronger Kinship written by Anna-Lisa Cox and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.
Author : Roberta Senechal de la Roche
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809329090
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)
Download or read book In Lincoln's Shadow written by Roberta Senechal de la Roche and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in the United States! Winner of the Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement Award! This detailed case study of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, which began only a few blocks from Abraham Lincoln’s family home, explores the social origins of rioting by whites against the city’s African American community after a white woman alleged that a black man had raped her. Over two days rioters wrecked black-owned businesses, burned neighborhoods to the ground, killed two black men, and injured many others. Author Roberta Senechal de la Roche draws from a wide range of sources to describe the riot, identify the rioters and their victims, and challenge previous interpretations that attribute rioting to interracial competition for jobs, housing, or political influence. Written in a direct and clear style, In Lincoln’s Shadow documents a violent explosion of racial hatred that shocked the nation and reveals the complexity of white racial attitudes in the early twentieth century.
Author : Jon K. Lauck
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806191414
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Good Country written by Jon K. Lauck and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern “squares” center stage—an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck’s cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest’s dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The “good country” was, of course, not the “perfect country,” and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest’s openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.
Author : Naurice Frank Woods, Jr.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315279487
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Henry Ossawa Tanner written by Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and work of artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. He was one of the most celebrated American artists of his era, yet, largely because of his race, he quickly vanished from recorded accounts of the period in which he worked. This book helps restore his legacy.
Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211248
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Hine Sight written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 essays by Hine (American history, Michigan State U.) from the past 14 years, covering African-American women's history. Topics include female slave resistance, Black migration to the urban Midwest, 19th-century Black women physicians, and the Black studies movement. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kathryn Grover
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626268
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Make a Way Somehow written by Kathryn Grover and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the community's first civil rights march in 1965. She weaves together demographic evidence and narratives by black Americans to recount their lives within a white-controlled society. Make a Way Somehow, which reflects the tenor of the gospel song whence it came, is a complete and meaningful history of black Genevans, with a moving focus on the individual experience. The author traces five principal migrations of African Americans to northern cities: the forced migration of slaves from the East and South before 1820; the antebellum fugitive slave farm-to-town movement; the postwar migration of emancipated people; the so-called Great Migration between the two World Wars; and the last movement that began around 1938 and ended in 1960, which was precipitated by the need for workers in large-scale commercial agriculture and the war-mobilization effort. Grover pieces together the lives of generations of African Americans in Geneva and delineates the local system of race relations from the city's social and economic standpoint. Black Genevans were kept at the fringes of society and worked in jobs that were temporary and scarce. While antislavery and suffrage work was common, it represented but a small portion of reform in towns whose broader sentiments opposed racial equality. In a work that spans more than a hundred years, the author establishes a context for understanding both the persistence of a small group of blacks and the transience of a great many others.
Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307824578
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Interracial Intimacies written by Randall Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. “The best book written on the subject, an exhaustive source of deep, rich scholarship and surefooted brilliant analysis.”—Seattle Times Analyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America’s racial dynamics, Randall Kennedy challenges us to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices. He takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. A bracing, much-needed look at the way we have lived in the past, Interracial Intimacies is also a hopeful book, offering a potent vision of our future as a multiracial democracy.
Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388425
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Sellout written by Randall Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive and unflinching study from the national bestselling author of Say it Loud! that tackles a stigma of America's racial discourse: selling out. “Brisk and enjoyable, no small feat given the density of its ideas.”—Los Angeles Times Randall Kennedy explains the origins of the concept of selling out, and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community—including, most recently, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama. Sellout also contains a rigorously fair case study of America's quintessential racial “sellout”—Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the book's final section, Kennedy recounts how he himself has dealt with accusations of being a sellout.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521365598
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)
Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Generations Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.
Author : David T. Thackery
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780916489908
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Finding Your African American Ancestors written by David T. Thackery and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.
Author : University of Michigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year ... Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year written by University of Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael B. Boston
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484631
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Blacks in Niagara Falls written by Michael B. Boston and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blacks in Niagara Falls narrates and analyzes the history of Black Niagarans from the days of the Underground Railroad to the Age of Urban Renewal. Michael B. Boston details how Black Niagarans found themselves on the margins of society from the earliest days to how they came together as a community to proactively fight and struggle to obtain an equal share of society's opportunities. Boston explores how Blacks came to Niagara Falls in increasing numbers usually in search of economic opportunities, later establishing essential institutions, such as churches and community centers, which manifested and reinforced their values, and interacted with the broader community, seeking an equitable share of other society opportunities. This singular examination of a small city significantly contributes to Urban History and African American Studies scholarly research, which generally focuses on large cities. Combining primary source data with extensive interviews gathered over an eighteen-year period in which the author immersed himself in the Niagara community, Blacks in Niagara Falls offers an insightful study of how one small city community grew over its unique history.
Author : Dianna Cross Toran
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984537547
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Woodland Echoes written by Dianna Cross Toran and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Woodland Park was a best-kept secret for the residence and vacation property owners. Her lake was and still is according to a recent conservation report pristine. As with most secrets, they are not kept for long, and the word got out. People have moved in or bought the propertysome very inexpensively that went back for taxes. These new people probably wonder why there are so many black property owners in Woodland Park. The majority of the newcomers are not aware that Woodland Park was once a black resort that was created during segregation. They never stop to read the historical marker in front of the old one-room schoolhouse that tells about Woodland Parks history. They are unaware that there were once hotels and rental cottages that couldnt keep up with the summer demand or that the now-deserted beach used to be packed with many black vacationers and locals. They dont know that there was once a grand clubhouse that dominated Mayo Point. Many of these new people swim in the shallow waters of that very point where the clubhouse boardwalk once led. They havent heard of the beautiful Hallie Q. Brown, a black elocutionist, who once gave a speech for Queen Victoria. Hallie owned a humble cottage near the public beach. The new people dont know that the famous boxer Joe Louis spent lots of time in Woodland Park because his wifes family owned a cottage across the street from the old Kelsonia Hotel. Or that W. E. B. Du Bois once stood on a dock in Woodland Park with its founder, Marian Auther. They would be interested to know that during Prohibition, Dutch Anderson would be killed in a shoot-out with the police in Muskegon. Only a few days earlier, he had been to what is now the Shangri-La in Woodland Park to pick up his bootleg whisky and beer. They only know that Woodland Park has one of the most beautiful lakes in the area and that it is a wonderful place to bring the family. They know they can count on the old-timers waving to them with a smile as they pass them by. But there is so much more for them to learn about this enchanted place and so much more about Woodland Park, its settlers, and the people in the surrounding communities.
Author : David L. Lewis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252006807
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book King written by David L. Lewis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated assessment of the political career of Dr. King and of his significance as a political leader.
