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Status and development since emancipation

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  • How Race Is Madeby Mark M. Smith

    The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 23.00

    For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery... more...

  • Manliness and Its Discontentsby Martin Summers

    The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 62.95

    In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects... more...

  • Reparable Harmby Lois M. Davis; M. Rebecca Kilburn; Dana Scultz

    RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95

    The study identifies some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities—including effective programs, practices, and policies—that... more...

  • Reparable Harmby Lois M. Davis; M. Rebecca Kilburn; Dana Scultz

    RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95

    The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities—including effective programs, practices, and policies—that... more...

  • Success Runs in Our Raceby George C. Fraser

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99

    A completely updated and revised edition of a bestselling book that has helped tens of thousands of people learn how to network effectively, Success Runs in Our Race is more important than ever in this fluctuating economy. With scores of anecdotes taken from interviews with successful African Americans -- from Keith Clinkscales, founder and former... more...

  • Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Eraby Ollie Johnson

    Rutgers University Press 2002; US$ 24.95

    We know a great deal about civil rights organizations during the 1960s, but relatively little about black political organizations since that decade. Questions of focus, accountability, structure, and relevance have surrounded these groups since the modern Civil Rights Movement ended in 1968. Political scientists Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin... more...

  • Color-Blindby Ellis Cose

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99

    Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions, fears, hopes and illusions embedded in our complicated... more...

  • The Rage of a Privileged Classby Ellis Cose

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99

    A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community. more...

  • The End of White World Supremacyby Rod Bush

    Temple University Press 2009; US$ 29.95

    The End of White World Supremacy explores a complex issue—integration of Blacks into White America—from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. Rod Bush locates himself within a tradition of African American activism that goes back at least to W.E.B. Du Bois. In... more...

  • Voices of Freedomby Henry Hampton; Steve Fayer

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 24.00

    In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize , and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a... more...