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The Future of the Race
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship... more...
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 19.99Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture emerged as a tool to forge community and effect political change. However, with the new avenues opened to African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era, many believe the influence of black popular culture on the political sphere began to diminish... more...
Parting the Waters
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 22.00Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a... more...
Looking for Leroy
NYU Press 2013; US$ 65.00Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most “legible” black male bodies are... more...
Stuck in Place
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the... more...
Die Obama-Methode
FAZ Institut 2009; US$ 24.13Hauptbeschreibung Wie keinem anderen zuvor ist es Barack Obama gelungen, die modernen Kommunikationsmittel für sich zu nutzen und somit zum mächtigsten Mann der Welt zu werden. Das Web 2.0 eröffnet Wirtschaft und Politik zahlreiche neue Möglichkeiten. Aber die meisten Manager und Kommunikationsfachleute ahnen noch gar nicht, welche neuen Herausforderungen... more...
Performances: Jugendliche Bildungsbewegungen im pädagogischen Kontext
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 31.99Protestfreie Zonen?
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012; US$ 37.47Hauptbeschreibung Wer in Freiheit leben möchte, sollte bereit sein, ein kalkuliertes Risiko einzugehen. Das klingt nicht spektakulär. Doch man muss nur fragen, ob Hassprediger Meinungsfreiheit oder Rechtsradikale Versammlungsfreiheit genießen, ob mutmaßliche Terroristen mit einem "Feindstrafrecht" überzogen, ja gefoltert werden dürfen oder ob die... more...
Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 25.00Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought revisits the arguments in support of separate black statehood from the mid-nineteenth century up to the present, detailing the ways black nationalism mirrors broader currents in US politics. This book challenges the idea that black nationalism is a timeless, anti-assimilationist impulse. more...
A Rage for Order
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 34.99This is an abridgement of "The Crucible of Race" (OUP USA, 1984), which won the Frances Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. more...









