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Author : Frank Lincoln Mather
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Who's who of the Colored Race written by Frank Lincoln Mather and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kali N. Gross
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387700
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Colored Amazons written by Kali N. Gross and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. Most importantly, she considers what these crimes signified about the experiences, ambitions, and frustrations of the marginalized women who committed them. Gross argues that the perpetrators and the state jointly constructed black female crime. For some women, crime functioned as a means to attain personal and social autonomy. For the state, black female crime and its representations effectively galvanized and justified a host of urban reform initiatives that reaffirmed white, middle-class authority. Gross draws on prison records, trial transcripts, news accounts, and rare mug shot photographs. Providing an overview of Philadelphia’s black women criminals, she describes the women’s work, housing, and leisure activities and their social position in relation to the city’s native-born whites, European immigrants, and elite and middle-class African Americans. She relates how news accounts exaggerated black female crime, trading in sensationalistic portraits of threatening “colored Amazons,” and she considers criminologists’ interpretations of the women’s criminal acts, interpretations largely based on notions of hereditary criminality. Ultimately, Gross contends that the history of black female criminals is in many ways a history of the rift between the political rhetoric of democracy and the legal and social realities of those marginalized by its shortcomings.
Author : George Morgan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of First written by George Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 : Quincy T. Mills
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220865X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Cutting Along the Color Line written by Quincy T. Mills and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and even after the Civil War, black barbers endured a measure of social stigma for perpetuating inequality: though the profession offered economic mobility to black entrepreneurs, black barbers were obliged by custom to serve an exclusively white clientele. Quincy T. Mills traces the lineage from these nineteenth-century barbers to the bustling enterprises of today, demonstrating that the livelihood offered by the service economy was crucial to the development of a black commercial sphere and the barber shop as a democratic social space. Cutting Along the Color Line chronicles the cultural history of black barber shops as businesses and civic institutions. Through several generations of barbers, Mills examines the transition from slavery to freedom in the nineteenth century, the early twentieth-century expansion of black consumerism, and the challenges of professionalization, licensing laws, and competition from white barbers. He finds that the profession played a significant though complicated role in twentieth-century racial politics: while the services of shaving and grooming were instrumental in the creation of socially acceptable black masculinity, barbering permitted the financial independence to maintain public spaces that fostered civil rights politics. This sweeping, engaging history of an iconic cultural establishment shows that black entrepreneurship was intimately linked to the struggle for equality.
Author : Benjamin R. Justesen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807144770
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book George Henry White written by Benjamin R. Justesen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the least remembered. A North Carolina representative from 1897 to 1901, White was the last man of his race to serve in the Congress during the post-Reconstruction period, and his departure left a void that would go unfilled for nearly thirty years. At once the most acclaimed and reviled symbol of the freed slaves whose cause he heralded, White remains today largely a footnote to history. In this exhaustively researched biography, Benjamin R. Justesen rescues from obscurity the fascinating story of this compelling figure's life and accomplishments. The mixed-race son of a free turpentine farmer, White became a teacher, lawyer, and prosecutor in rural North Carolina. From these modest beginnings he rose in 1896 to become the only black member of the House of Representatives and perhaps the most nationally visible African American politician of his time. White was outspoken in his challenge to racial injustice, but, as Justesen shows, he was no militant racial extremist as antagonistic white democrats charged. His plea was always for simple justice in a nation whose democratic principles he passionately loved. A conservative by philosophy, he was a dedicated Republican to the end. After he retired from Congress, he remained active in the fight against racial discrimination, working with national leaderas of both races, from Booker T. Washington to the founders of the NAACP. Through judicious use of public documents, White's speeches, newspapers, letters, and secondary sources, Justesen creates an authoritative and balanced portrait of this complex man and proves him to be a much more effective leader than previously believed.
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who's who of the Colored Race written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Gregg
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439906114
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression written by Robert Gregg and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While assuming the importance of churches within black communities, social historians generally have not studied them directly or have treated the black denominations as a single unit. Gregg focuses on the African Methodist churches and churchgoers in Philadelphia during the Great Migration and the concurrent rise of black ghettoes in the city to show the variety and richness of African American culture at that time.
Author : Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674238141
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Condemnation of Blackness written by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year “A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.” —Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public education to policing to presidential elections, fueling racism and justifying inequality. How was this statistical link between blackness and criminality initially forged? Why was the same link not made for whites? In the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump, under the shadow of Ferguson and Baltimore, no questions could be more urgent. “The role of social-science research in creating the myth of black criminality is the focus of this seminal work...[It] shows how progressive reformers, academics, and policy-makers subscribed to a ‘statistical discourse’ about black crime...one that shifted blame onto black people for their disproportionate incarceration and continues to sustain gross racial disparities in American law enforcement and criminal justice.” —Elizabeth Hinton, The Nation “Muhammad identifies two different responses to crime among African-Americans in the post–Civil War years, both of which are still with us: in the South, there was vigilantism; in the North, there was an increased police presence. This was not the case when it came to white European-immigrant groups that were also being demonized for supposedly containing large criminal elements.” —New Yorker
Author : Geraldine R. Segal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512806404
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Blacks in the Law written by Geraldine R. Segal and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blacks and the Law, Geraldine R. Segal carefully and completely details the history and current status of black lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students in the United States. Extensive research into all available materials for Philadelphia, supplemented by interviews and questionnaires, results in an unrivaled study of the situation in one city. Her findings are then placed in a national setting by using comparative data from fifteen other American cities. The wealth of data presented here shows the persistence of high degrees of racial exclusion and underrepresentation practiced by the legal profession over many years. Countervailing these findings are success stories of enormously motivated and determined blacks who have overcome great obstacles to attain high positions as lawyers and judges. Within the legal establishment, increasing numbers of whites have dedicated themselves to lowering barriers to black participation. Blacks and the Law brings to light the racial prejudices of the white American legal community as well as its efforts to overcome such biases. It also shows the massive effort black people have made to achieve significant but limited progress toward integration of the legal profession and indicates the amount of work still ahead. This study is therefore of vital interest to all members of the legal profession, students of race relations, social mobility, and the professions, Philadelphians, and others who follow the struggle for racial equality.
Author : Melba Joyce Boyd
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814324899
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Discarded Legacy written by Melba Joyce Boyd and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Report written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Philosophical Society
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691958
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)
Download or read book "Realms of Gold" written by American Philosophical Society and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a catalog of the rich & extensive collection of maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) in Philadelphia. it contains information on some 1,750 printed maps, over 1,000 manuscript maps, 136 atlases, two globes, & one model. Murphy Smith began this project in 1985 shortly after he retired from his long career as Associate Librarian of the Society, when Librarian Edward C. Carter II named him Andrew W. Mellon Sr. Research Fellow. Smith came to be recognized as one of the most knowledgeable & helpful historical RCRA librarians in the country. Illustrations.
Author : Fairmount Park Art Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by Fairmount Park Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Massachusetts State Library
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library written by Massachusetts State Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
