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“alisha gaines”

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  • Black for a Day

    White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

    by Alisha Gaines ...
    In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously “became” black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Neo-Passing

    Performing Identity after Jim Crow

    by Michele Elam, Derek Adams, Christopher M Brown, Martha J Cutter, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Allyson Hobbs, Brandon J. Manning, Loran Marsan, Lara Narcisi, Eden Osucha, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Every Tongue Got to Confess

    Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is a seminal work in the field of African American literature and a cornerstone in the study of race relations in the United States. Originally published in 1903, this book is a collection of essays that explores the complexities of being black in America, from the perspective of an African American intellectual and activist. At its core, The Souls of ... Read more

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  • The Harris Men

    by RM Johnson ...
    RM Johnson's extraordinary novel is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death—and the three sons he abandoned so many years before.“Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer.” Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series World Classics
    One of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life. ... Read more

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

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  • The Red Record

    by Ida B. Wells Barnett ...
    Series Book 7 - Social and Political Library
    n the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in the United States. She showed that lynching was often used in the South as a way to control or punish black people who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by black people, as was usually claimed by whites. ... Read more

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  • The White Clover Project

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  • An American Insurrection

    The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962

    by William Doyle ...
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  • Belabored Professions

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    by Xiomara Santamarina ...
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