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  • Political Black Girl Magic

    The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors

    Edited by Sharon D. Wright Austin ...
    Political Black Girl Magic explores black women’s experiences as mayors in American cities. The editor and contributors to this comprehensive volume examine black female mayoral campaigns and elections where race and gender are a factor—and where deracialized campaigns have garnered candidate support from white as well as Hispanic and Asian American voters. Chapters also consider how Black female ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond Racial Capitalism

    Co-operatives in the African Diaspora

    Edited by Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Sharon D. Wright Austin, Kevin Edmonds ...
    Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where Black people live and turn to co-operatives to manage systemic exclusion. Most cases focus on how people use group methodology for ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis

    by Sharon D. Wright ...
    Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis examines black political behavior and empowerment strategies in the city of Memphis. Each chapter of the text focuses on three themes-mobilization, emergence, and incorporation. By analyzing the effects of race on black political development in Memphis, scholars will be able to examine broader questions about its effects in other cities. How do ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Caribbeanization of Black Politics

    Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America

    by Sharon D. Wright Austin ...
    Series series SUNY series in African American Studies
    Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.In The Caribbeanization of Black Politics, Sharon D. Wright Austin explores the impact of ethnic diversification of African American communities on the prospects for black political empowerment. Focusing on Boston, Chicago, Miami, and New York City-cities that for the last several years ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis

    by Sharon D. Wright ...
    Series series Race and Politics
    Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis examines black political behavior and empowerment strategies in the city of Memphis. Each chapter of the text focuses on three themes-mobilization, emergence, and incorporation. By analyzing the effects of race on black political development in Memphis, scholars will be able to examine broader questions about its effects in other cities. How do ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

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    Trump's War on Civil Rights

    by Juan Williams ...
    The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement.In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams denounces Donald Trump for intentionally twisting history to fuel racial tensions for his political advantage. In ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

    African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975

    by Paul T. Miller ...
    Series series Studies in African American History and Culture
    The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at African Americans, primarily in the employment and housing sectors. In San Francisco, most African ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    by David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I've Got the Light of Freedom

    The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface

    by Charles M. Payne ...
    This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • To Make Our World Anew

    A History of African Americans

    Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis ...
    Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short ... Read more

    $18.09 USD