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Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of colour, young workers, and southerners, Lane Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools - like unions and labour law - with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements to help shore up their prospects.

Argues that Atlanta's political leadership has consistently mishandled the black poor. Drawn from vivid primary sources and unnerving oral histories, Maurice Hobson argues that Atlanta's political leadership has governed by bargaining with white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black Atlantans.

The California Current yields a complex broth of planktonic organisms that form the base of an elaborate food web. Every year, turtles, seals, fish, and seabirds feast in its distinct biological oases and feeding sites. This book celebrates a marine ecosystem integral to the myriad fisheries, coastal communities, and cultures of the Pacific coast.

Provides everything you need to know to discover the American South's best-kept secrets of winter recreation: snow-covered mountains, remote yet accessible trails, high-quality downhill and cross-country skiing, sparkling resorts and peaceful cabins, and of course, southern hospitality.

When Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe was first published in 1939, it was hailed as one of the first children's books to offer a dignified portrayal of an African American child and his family. This volume reproduces the original's text and images, places the book in the context of its time, and offers thought-provoking ways to read it anew.

With almost unprecedented access to Celia Sanchez Manduley's papers, including a personal diary, and firsthand interviews with family members, Tiffany Sippial presents the first critical study of a notoriously private and self-abnegating woman who yet exists as an enduring symbol of revolutionary ideals.

Giving us a complex window into Black town and rural life, Karla Slocum ultimately makes the case that these communities are places for affirming, building, and dreaming of Black community success even as they contend with the sometimes marginality of Black and rural America.

Washington, D.C. has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a ""post-chocolate"" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments.

Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates the struggle for self-determination in America's capital.

Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.

From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and women's liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape. Catherine Jacquet examines these two movement responses together, explaining when and why they were in conflict, when and why they converged, and how activists both upheld and challenged them.

From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Living by Inches is the first book to examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience - their five senses.

Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.

From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boysusome as young as five years olduwho play the sport every year. In this book, Kathleen Bachynksi offers the first history of youth tackle football and debates over its safety.

Much is known about America's history of Asian immigrant exclusion laws, but how did these laws end? Why did the US begin opening its borders to Asians after barring them for decades? Jane Hong argues that the transpacific movement to repeal Asian exclusion was part of US empire-building efforts and the rise of a new informal US empire in Asia.

Documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.

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.

Weaving together political, social, and transnational history, Maddalena Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the America's immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable.

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

Drawing on oral histories, letters, photographs, military records, and more, Christine Taitano DeLisle reveals how the entangled histories of CHamoru and white American women make us rethink the cultural politics of US imperialism and the emergence of new indigenous identities.

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces became understood as expressions of human depth during this era.

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy.

After the upheavals of the Civil War and Reconstruction shattered the plantation economy of the Old South, white southerners turned to the railroad to reconstruct capitalism in the region. This study of the New South's experience with the railroad network provides valuable insights into the history of capitalism.

Presents insights from feminist activists from around the US, ranging in age from twenty to fifty. Allowing their voices to take centre stage through the use of in-depth oral history interviews, Rachel Seidman places their narratives in historical context and argues that they help explain how new forms of activism developed and flourished.

Uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy.

Develops a theory of embedded corporatism to explain the US government's war on drugs. Drawing government documents, and econometric estimators, Horace Bartilow demonstrates how corporate power is projected and embedded in lobbying, financing of elections, funding of think tanks, and interlocks with the federal government and the military.

Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull.

As Wesley Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival.

These essays follow the author's time in the service, from Basic Training to weekend National Guard drills, and reflect deeply on American culture and military life. How easily we buy into ideas of good versus bad, us versus them. How we see soldiers as heroes when more often than not they are young boys who barely shave.