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"Explores the surprising and complicated legacy of the brilliant strategist of the civil rights movement - Bayard Rustin"-- Provided by publisher.

"From 1670 until the Civil War, slavery was central to the economic and social order of South Carolina. To understand its evolution and the world that its enslaved people and their enslavers made, this book offers an examination of slavery in the rural lowcountry, the city of Charleston, and the upcountry during an era of unprecedented change and upheaval"-- Provided by publisher.

• Who are Latinxs in the United States?
• Immigration and Diaspora
• Media & Pop Culture
• Education
• Policing, Social Control, and Community Responses
• Family
• Protest, Activism, and Everyday Resistance
• Culture, the Past, and Latinx Futures.

"This contributed reader will introduce students to the variety and complexity of Latinxs' experiences in the U.S., and prepare them for further study in this interdisciplinary field. The opening essay, written by the editors, will offer a broad overview of the approximately 59 million people in the U.S. who identify as Hispanic. The rest of the book will consist of approximately 20 contributed readings from Latina(o)/Chicana(o) scholars on a range of subjects including immigration, citizenship, and deportation; racial identities; political participation and power; educational and economic achievement; family; religion; media and popular culture. Although the essays will be written for lower-division undergraduates, they will reflect many of the leading theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. The essays will be unified by an intersectional approach, demonstrating how experiences and life chances of Latinxs are also shaped by gender, social class, sexuality, age, and citizenship status"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Facing Janus
• On the cusp : American politics and culture in 1979
• Wind shear : the political cultures of 1980
• The closing of Heaven's Gate : Hollywood in transition
• Starting over : pop music's future goes back to the past
• Ebb and flow : tidal shifts in broadcast television
• Turning the page : the publishing industry in 1980
• Inflection point : Autum 1980
• Conclusion: Inaugurating the eighties

"1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: American Culture in Transition puts the news events of the era-everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism-into conversation with the year's popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot JR, cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans' attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Facing Janus
• On the cusp : American politics and culture in 1979
• Wind shear : the political cultures of 1980
• The closing of Heaven's Gate : Hollywood in transition
• Starting over : pop music's future goes back to the past
• Ebb and flow : tidal shifts in broadcast television
• Turning the page : the publishing industry in 1980
• Inflection point : Autum 1980
• Conclusion: Inaugurating the eighties

• Prologue
• Arrivals
• A church's captives
• Freedom fever
• A new generation
• The promise
• A college on the rise
• Love and peril
• Saving Georgetown
• The sale
• A family divided
• Exile
• New roots
• Freedom
• The profits
• Epilogue.

"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors through the centuries to understand how slavery enabled the Catholic Church to establish a foothold in America and fuel its expansion. Ann Joice, a free Black woman and progenitor of the Mahoney family, sailed to Maryland in the 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen. Harry Mahoney, Ann's grandson, saved lives and a Church fortune with his quick thinking during the British incursions in the War of 1812. But when the Jesuits fell into debt and were at risk of losing Georgetown University, they sold 272 people, including Harry's daughter Anna, to plantation owners in the Gulf. Like so many of the families the Jesuits' sale tore apart, Anna would never again see her father or her beloved sister Louisa who stayed with Harry in Maryland. Her descendants would work for the Jesuits well into the 20th century. The two sides of the family would remain apart until Swarns' original reporting on the 1838 sale in the New York Times reunited them and led directly to reparations for all the descendants of the enslaved"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : What Is Abolitionism Now? From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist History
• 1. Antislavery Moderated : Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable Reform
• 2. Antislavery Elevated : William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black Activism
• 3. Antislavery Vindicated : Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism's Grand Old Party
• 4. Antislavery Sanctified : Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism in the Fields
• 5. A Tale of Two Slaveries : Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of Abolitionism
• 6. Songs of Innocence and Experience : Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Abdication of Abolitionism
• 7. What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to the Determination of Abolitionist Women
• Coda : Complicated Legacies.

• Annals of the poor : origins of Lincoln's Calvinist roots
• The mind impelled : new life in New Salem
• He will do for me yet : quoting the Bible for cause
• Drawing the sword : building Lincoln's biblical foundation against slavery
• A house divided : debating slavery as a moral evil
• A humbled instrument : rise to the presidency
• The fiery trial : transforming the purpose of the war
• To highly resolve : the tide of war changes
• The will of God : seeking God's purpose for America, the second inaugural address
• The judgments of the Lord : Lincoln's sermon for America, the Second Inaugural Address
• Appendix. Lincoln's use of the Bible in the Collected Works

"How did Abraham Lincoln's lifelong study of scripture influence him as a man and, ultimately, as president? Historian Gordon Leidner believes the impact was profound-more than previously recognized-and has investigated all the known writings of Abraham Lincoln to identify, catalog, and study every instance in which Lincoln quoted from or alluded to the Bible. Rather than dwelling on the never-ending debate about Lincoln's religious beliefs, Leidner shows how scripture affected Lincoln personally, professionally, and politically. Leidner offers first a short biography that focuses on Lincoln's use of the Bible, how it shaped him as a person, how its influence changed over time, and how biblical quotations peppered his letters, speeches, and conversations. The book concludes with an unparalleled appendix that tabulates nearly 200 instances of Lincoln's quoting from or alluding to scripture, giving locators for the Bible and Roy P. Basler's nine volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln and quotations from both sources. The appendix also includes when and where Lincoln used each quote, providing valuable context, whether the use was in personal letters such as one to Queen Victoria after the death of Prince Albert, political speeches such as the Gettysburg Address, or state addresses such as the Second Inaugural Address. By showcasing Lincoln's specific biblical references and influences, Leidner reframes the question of Lincoln's religious beliefs so that readers may evaluate for themselves what solace and guidance the Bible afforded the sixteenth president"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. West and East
• 2. Mandates and Colonies
• 3. A World View of Race
• 4. The War
• 5. Rebuilding the World
• 6. San Francisco
• 7. The UNO
• 8. The Struggle over Trusteeship
• 9. The Problem of Palestine
• 10. The Path to the Prize
• 11. Triumph
• 12. Bunche Fever
• 13. Loyalty
• 14. Showdown at Suez
• 15. Corporal Bunche
• 16. To Gaza
• 17. The Year of Africa
• 18. Katanga
• 19. The Congo and the Cold War
• 20. The Death of Hammarskjold
• 21. Kennedy and Johnson
• 22. From Saigon to Selma
• 23. Seeking an End
• 24. An Idealist and a Realist

A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The first African American to obtain a political science Ph.D. from Harvard and a celebrated diplomat at the United Nations, he was once so famous he handed out the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Yet today Ralph Bunche is largely forgotten. In The Absolutely Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala restores Bunche to his rightful place in history. He shows that Bunche was not only a singular figure in midcentury America; he was also one of the key architects of the postwar international order. Raustiala tells the story of Bunche's dramatic life, from his early years in prewar Los Angeles to UCLA, Harvard, the State Department, and the heights of global diplomacy at the United Nations. After narrowly avoiding assassination Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ground-breaking mediation of the first Arab-Israeli conflict, catapulting him to popular fame. A central player in some of the most dramatic crises of the Cold War, he pioneered conflict management and peacekeeping at the UN. But as Raustiala argues, his most enduring achievement was his work to dismantle European empire. Bunche perceptively saw colonialism as the central issue of the 20th century and decolonization as a project of global racial justice. From marching with Martin Luther King to advising presidents and prime ministers, Ralph Bunche shaped our world in lasting ways. This definitive biography gives him his due. It also reminds us that postwar decolonization not only fundamentally transformed world politics, but also powerfully intersected with America's own civil rights struggle.
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• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. West and East
• 2. Mandates and Colonies
• 3. A World View of Race
• 4. The War
• 5. Rebuilding the World
• 6. San Francisco
• 7. The UNO
• 8. The Struggle over Trusteeship
• 9. The Problem of Palestine
• 10. The Path to the Prize
• 11. Triumph
• 12. Bunche Fever
• 13. Loyalty
• 14. Showdown at Suez
• 15. Corporal Bunche
• 16. To Gaza
• 17. The Year of Africa
• 18. Katanga
• 19. The Congo and the Cold War
• 20. The Death of Hammarskjold
• 21. Kennedy and Johnson
• 22. From Saigon to Selma
• 23. Seeking an End
• 24. An Idealist and a Realist
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index

A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The first African American to obtain a political science Ph.D. from Harvard and a celebrated diplomat at the United Nations, he was once so famous he handed out the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Yet today Ralph Bunche is largely forgotten. In The Absolutely Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala restores Bunche to his rightful place in history. He shows that Bunche was not only a singular figure in midcentury America; he was also one of the key architects of the postwar international order. Raustiala tells the story of Bunche's dramatic life, from his early years in prewar Los Angeles to UCLA, Harvard, the State Department, and the heights of global diplomacy at the United Nations. After narrowly avoiding assassination Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ground-breaking mediation of the first Arab-Israeli conflict, catapulting him to popular fame. A central player in some of the most dramatic crises of the Cold War, he pioneered conflict management and peacekeeping at the UN. But as Raustiala argues, his most enduring achievement was his work to dismantle European empire. Bunche perceptively saw colonialism as the central issue of the 20th century and decolonization as a project of global racial justice. From marching with Martin Luther King to advising presidents and prime ministers, Ralph Bunche shaped our world in lasting ways. This definitive biography gives him his due. It also reminds us that postwar decolonization not only fundamentally transformed world politics, but also powerfully intersected with America's own civil rights struggle.
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• Introduction : Witnesses of the Spirit / Jami L. Carlacio
• Part I : Nineteenth Century : More Than "Mere" Rhetoric : Jarena Lee's Religious Experience Read through a Womanist Lens / Neely McLaughlin
• Journeys and Warnings : Nancy Prince's Resistant Truth-Telling in New England, Russia, and Jamaica / Cheryl J. Fish
• "Fishers of Men" : Understanding Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Poetry as Vocational Autobiography / Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
• Part II : Twentieth Century : Cultivating "Mass Intelligence" : Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Quest for Racial Justice / Angela Hornsby-Gutting
• The Gospel According to Madame E. Azalia Smith Hackley / Lisa Pertillar Brevard
• Mothers and the God of the Oppressed : Carrie Williams Clifford and a Literary Theology of Black Freedom / P. Jane Splawn
• Theressa Hoover : Black Feminist, Methodist, Southerner / Janet Allured
• The Life and Thought of Anna Arnold Hedgeman : A Pragmatic Christian Feminist / Hettie V. Williams
• "It Sings in Our Blood" : Pauli Murray's Re-Mattering of the World / Darcy Metcalfe
• Part III : Twenty-First Century : Sandy Speaks : The Digital Resurrection of Sandra Bland's Religious History / Phillip Luke Sinitiere
• "Black Feminist Love Evangelist" and "Prayer Poet Priestess" : Alexis Pauline Gumbs / Laura L. Sullivan
• "Love Wins" and Black Lives Matter : The Spiritual Underpinnings of Patrisse Cullors's Crusade for Justice / Jami L. Carlacio
• About the Contributors
• Index.

"An extensive collection that highlights the contributions of often-forgotten Black women in the public sphere."--Page [4] of cover.

• Background
• Nationalism and Empire
• Sectionalism and Nullification
• Slavery and Antislavery
• Party, Politics, and the Expansion of Slavery

"Examines the evolving lives of two men who were crucial political figures in the consequential decades prior to the Civil War. Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political figures of the era to shape the intersectional tensions that produced the conflict. William F. Hartford examines the lives of Adams and Calhoun as a prism through which to view the developing sectional conflict. While both men came of age as strong nationalists, their views, like those of the nation, diverged by the 1830s, largely over the issue of slavery. Hartford examines the two men's responses to issues of nationalism and empire, sectionalism and nullification, slavery and antislavery, party and politics, and also the expansion of slavery. He offers fresh insights into the sectional conflict that also accounts for the role of personal idiosyncrasy and interpersonal relationships in the coming of the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher

• Formative years in the carceral systems
• From Anomabo to Fredericksburg
• The war on Africa and her diaspora
• The abolitionists
• Liberation, emancipation, and freedom
• The Liberty Line in Darke County, Ohio
• The Liberty Line in Edgewood, Indiana
• Union Literary Institute
• White grievance codes
• Fight or flight
• Ties that bind

"Countless stories about the Liberty Lines (the Underground Railroad) have been written. Still, few ever mention the African abolitionists who established the Liberty Lines and managed the passage of thousands of self-emancipating Africans safely to freedom in the early 1800s. Thornton J. Alexander was an African abolitionist who used the power of his freedom to liberate the physical and intellectual constraints placed on African people in colonial America. His inspirational story transcends the sufferings on bondage. His lifetime of risks guaranteed the promises of liberty for anyone who reached his land. He knew 'Eliza Harris' (Uncle Tom's Cabin) because she made her escape to freedom from his property in Indiana. He allowed Bishop Paul Quinn to establish an AME church behind his family cemetery. In 1845, he donated land to construct the first private black college in the United States called Union Literary Institute (ULI). The first African American U.S. Senator, Hiram Revels, and his brother Willis, were both educated at ULI, as was Rev. John G. Mitchell, a co-founder of Wilberforce University. No longer hidden in the oppressive shadows of American abolitionists, Thornton Alexander's story of resistance, rebellion, and success has finally been reclaimed from the clutches of invisibility"--Back cover

"This book contains essays spanning centuries of U.S. history and encyclopedia entries focusing on a wide range of themes and people with biographical entries on key leaders in the history of Black liberation-it is a resource for those wanting to learn more about the history of African American activism, political engagement, and empowerment. As of 8/9/22still five (5) missing releases"-- Provided by publisher.
"This authoritative encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging survey of the history, development, and current state of African American political activism and influence in American life and culture. This book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, including the importance of Black women in early labor organizing; campaigns defending Black voting rights against suppression and disenfranchisement; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the contributions and legacy of the nation's first Black president, Barak Obama.The encyclopedia itself contains approximately 200 authoritative entries on a wide assortment of topics related to African American political activism and empowerment, including biographical profiles of key leaders and activists, political issues and topics of particular interest to African American voters and lawmakers, important laws and court cases, influential organizations, and pivotal events in American culture that have influenced the trajectory of Black participation in the nation's political life"-- Provided by publisher.

This 'Very Short Introduction' covers the long sweep of African American history from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout that long arc, this book traces shifting definitions of citizenship as they relate to race and highlights the deep paradox at the core of U.S. history: the interdependence of slavery and freedom. In so doing, Holloway examines key ideas that have shaped African American history, and the ways that these ideas circulate among both well-known figures and ordinary people

• In Search of Identity
• The Imbedded Narrative
• So Much Moor, and More Than a Slave
• More Than a Narrative
• Epilogue: The Intersectionality of Blackness

• Introduction: the frayed Thin Blue Line
• Policing capitalist society
• Making consumers and criminals : the postwar urban transformation and the origins of policing as we know it
• The roots of Black Lives Matter : racial liberalism and the problem of surplus population
• The world of Freddie Gray : dispossession, rebellion and containment in revanchist Baltimore
• Whose streets? Building the just city in Rahm Emanuel's Chicago and beyond
• The labor of occupation
• Conclusion : Abolish the conditions

"The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little in the way of substantive reforms? Cedric Johnson argues that this shortcoming was not simply due to the mercurial and reactive character of the protests. Rather, the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing: socio-economic inequality"-- Provided by publisher

"Jewell's study examines the First Oregon Calvary regiment's role in protecting and policing the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Dear King Charles, I have not doubts about this golden city and I will write you as soon as I am back from it bearing tons of gold
• Columbian exchange returns
• Would you describe yourselves as normal Europeans? : a survey for new arrivals
• Naming places on this continent : a template
• Top toys for puritan parents
• Cotton Mather : spirit hunter
• A spider objects to Jonathan Edwards
• Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere and also Samuel Prescott who was there too even if his name doesn't rhyme as well
• The hour men
• 50 statues of grey : liberty or death
• John and Abigail Adams try sexting
• An oral history of the Constitutional Convention
• The original plan for the Federalist Papers
• 50 statues of grey : bill of rights
• The composing of "To anacreon in heaven", c. 1778
• Seneca falls for you
• 50 statues of grey : Henry Clay
• Excerpt from Modern Etiquette (1793 edition)
• A speech in favor of constructing the Eerie Canal that got pretty far along before the speaker realized Erie starts with only one e
• Where's Walden?
• Emily Dickinson content!!!
• Edgar Allen Poe's handyman
• Herman Melville pitches his editor
• The Scarlet Letter, abridged
• 50 statues of grey : Northwest Passage
• Moby Dick : an oral history
• Songs not of myself, by Walt Whitman
• How to pose for your Civil War photograph
• The Gettysburg Address, by Aaron Sorkin
• But other than that how was the play? : audience feedback for our American cousin
• Big women
• Excerpt from Modern Etiquette (cursed 1871 edition)
• Mark Twain's undeath
• Branding session for the corrupt bargain of 1877
• Nikola Tesla's friends intervene (a PowerPoint)
• Other Edison ideas
• Nellie Bly reviews Blackwell's Island
• 50 statues of grey : Benjamin Harrison
• The Yellow wallpaper guy tries to get a refund
• L. Frank Baum's dystopian YA novel
• The group telegram following the "Cross of gold" speech
• We're the rhinoceroses trying to keep Teddy Roosevelt's life together
• Why the National Parks were set aside
• The Jungle, basically -- The Dollhouse of Mirth: limited edition American Girl Dolls by Edith Wharton -- Other Carl Sandburg poems -- A new American tall tale -- The Waste Cat and other suppressed T.S. Eliot poems -- Teapot Dome excuses
• Ernest Hemingway's The Great Gatsby
• 50 statues of grey : stock market
• Frank Lloyd Wright is here to design your home
• The Classic American Songbook
• An oral history of the Oklahoma! : exclamation point
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and the thing that ate Herbert Hoover, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• D-Day : a very special Sesame Street episode
• The Lady in the Sexual Harassment Seminar, by Raymon Chandler
• Julia Child's cookbook that made it much clearer she was a spy
• Shirley Temple Jackson
• Witch Play Written in the 1950s as a Metaphor, by Arthur Miller
• What if they Censored Books, and it was Bad, by Ray Bradbury
• 1950s recipes
• Other McCarthy lists
• Two pages of Catcher in the Rye that were removed before publication but maybe shouldn't have been
• Giovanni's escape room
• 50 statues of grey : gerrymandering
• Allen Ginsberg's Howl (original dog draft)
• The night they came up with all the currency
• The Sun-Maid correspondence
• Ayn Rand's The Little Engine that Could but Preferred Not To
• Real Housewives of the space program, 1959
• Re: the mockingbird
• What your dream means!!!
• Notes on Camp, by Susan Sontag, aged fifteen, Camp Winnebago
• In Cold Blood if Truman Capote didn't think the murderer guy was kind of hot
• Buckley and Vidal debate other things
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the draft where Hunter S. Thompson forgot to bring any drugs
• Richard Nixon tapes but just the parts where he's yelling at checkers
• 1970s urban legends
• Nancy Reagan's psychic's daily horoscopes once she realized they were being used to set policy
• 50 statues of grey : Laffer curves
• Fairy Tales, by Tom Wolfe
• The team at Build-a-Bear responds on the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11
• Ragnarok in the hall of presidents

"As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding.) Petri's "historical fan fiction" draws on real events and completely absurd fabrications to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation's complicated past"-- Provided by publisher