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  • - A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina
    von Seth Kotch
    42,00 - 120,00 €

    Recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina, from its colonial origins to the present. Seth Kotch tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies.

  • - How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice
    von Lana Dee Povitz
    54,00 - 121,00 €

    Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of America's already fragile social safety net in the late twentieth century.

  • - Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
    von Max Felker-Kantor
    55,00 €

    Narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources.

  • - Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
    von Sarah Haley
    49,00 €

  • - Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
    von Simon Balto
    53,00 €

    In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighbourhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression.

  • - African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
    von Douglas J. Flowe
    46,00 - 121,00 €

    Traces how public racial violence, segregation in housing and leisure, and criminal stigmatization in popular culture and media fostered a sense of distress, isolation, and nihilism that made crime and violence seem like viable recourses in the face of white supremacy.

  • - The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South
    von Evan Faulkenbury
    41,00 - 117,00 €

    Though local power had long existed in the hundreds of southern towns and cities that saw organized civil rights action, the Voter Education Project was vital to converting that power into political motion. Evan Faulkenbury offers an explanation of the crucial role philanthropy, outside funding, and tax policy can play in social movements.

  • - Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
    von Gordon K. Mantler
    55,00 €

    Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

  • - Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
    von Sonia Song-Ha Lee
    55,00 €

    Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

  • - Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
    von Dan Berger
    51,00 €

    In this groundbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Showing that the prison was a central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s to the 1980s, Berger traces the dynamic and dramatic history of this political struggle.

  • - Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
    von Talitha L. LeFlouria
    42,00 €

    "Portions of the text were previously published as 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood: Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865-1917, ' Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 8, no. 3 (Fall 2011)"--Title page verso.

  • - Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
    von Llana Barber
    54,00 - 119,00 €

    By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos - mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans - currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of US urban crisis and imperial migration from Latin America.

  • - African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960
    von Nicholas Grant
    49,00 - 120,00 €

    In this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

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