• 1: Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600-1700 / Carol Berkin
• 2: Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701-1788 / Graham Russell Hodges
• 3: The limits of equality: racial and ethnic tensions in the new republic, 1789-1836 / Marion R. Casey
• 4: Racial and ethnic identity in the United States, 1837-1877 / Michael Miller Topp
• 5: Race, nation, and citizenship in late nineteenth-century America, 1878-1900 / Mae M. Ngai
• 6: The critical period: ethnic emergence and reaction, 1901-1929 / Andrew R. Heinze
• 7: Changing racial meanings: race and ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964 / Thomas A. Guglielmo and Earl Lewis
• 8: Racial and ethnic relations in America, 1965-2000 / Timothy J. Meagher.

All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, incorporation/assimilation, dual identity, ethnic politics, quotas and affirmative action, residential segregation, and the volume of immigration resonate with a past that has confronted variations of these modern issues. The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, written and compiled by a highly respected team of American historians under the editorship of Ronald Bayor, illuminates the myriad ways in which immigration, racial, and ethnic histories have shaped the contours of contemporary American society. This invaluable resource documents all eras of the American past, including black-white interactions and the broad spectrum of American attitudes and reactions concerning Native Americans, Irish Catholics, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, and other groups. Each of the eight chronological chapters contains a survey essay, an annotated bibliography, and 20 to 30 related public and private primary source documents, including manifestos, speeches, court cases, letters, memoirs, and much more. From the 1655 petition of Jewish merchants regarding the admission of Jews to the New Netherlands colony to an interview with a Chinese American worker regarding a 1938 strike in San Francisco, documents are drawn from a variety of sources and allow students and others direct access to our past. Selections include * Powhatan to John Smith, 1609 * Thomas Jefferson-"Notes on the State of Virginia" * Petition of the Trustees of Congregation Shearith Israel, 1811 * Bessie Conway or, The Irish Girl in America * German Society in Chicago, Annual Report, 1857-1858. * "Mark Twain's Salutation to the Century" * W. E. B. DuBois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" * NAACP on Black Schoolteachers'Fight for Equal Pay * Malcom X speech, 1964 * Hewy Newton interview and Black Panther Party platform * Preamble-La Raza Unida Party * Lee lacocca speech to Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest, 1984 * Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, 1990 * L.A. riot-from the Los Angeles Times, May 3, 15, 1992; Nov. 16, 19, 1992 * Asian American Political Alliance * President Clinton's Commission on Race, Town Meeting, 1997 * Louis Farrakhan-"The Vision for the Million Man March".
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• The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality
• Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South
• The African American post
• The black GAR circle
• Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory
• Memorial Day in black and white
• Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post
• Community, memory, and the integrated post
• Comrades bound by memories many
• And if spared and growing older
• Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won
• The won cause at century's end
• A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century
• Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR
• Appendix 1: African American GAR posts
• Appendix 2: Integrated GAR posts.

In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the nation's first interracial organization. According to the conventional view, the freedoms and interests of African American veterans were not defended by white Union veterans after the war, despite the shared tradition of sacrifice among both black and white soldiers. In The Won Cause , however, Gannon challenges this scholarship, arguing that although black veterans still suffered under the contemporary racial mores, the GAR honored its black members in many instances and ascribed them a greater equality than previous studies have shown. Using evidence of integrated posts and veterans' thoughts on their comradeship and the cause, Gannon reveals that white veterans embraced black veterans because their membership in the GAR demonstrated that their wartime suffering created a transcendent bond--comradeship--that overcame even the most pernicious social barrier--race-based separation. By upholding a more inclusive memory of a war fought for liberty as well as union, the GAR's ""Won Cause"" challenged the Lost Cause version of Civil War memory.
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• Part I: Creating the Paradigm: Racial Hierarchy1. Constructing Racial Categories from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
• 2. Maintaining White Dominance during Reconstruction3. Preventing Black Excellence between Plessy and BrownPart II: Sustaining the Paradigm: White Isolation and Black Separation and Subordination4. Maintaining Racial Segregation in Schools and Neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st Century
• 5. Victimizing Blacks in the 21st Century Part III: Ending the Paradigm: Building a Post-Racial America6. Black Empowerment and Self-Help7. Integration and Equality.
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A provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly post-racial landscape When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines are arguably among its most enduring traits, would at last move beyond race with the election of Barack Hussein Obama? In Ghosts of Jim Crow, F. Michael Higginbotham convincingly argues that America remains far away from that imagined utopia. Indeed, the shadows of Jim Crow era laws and attitudes continue to perpetuate insidious, systemic prejudice and racism in the 21st century. Higginbotham's extensive research demonstrates how laws and actions have been used to maintain a racial paradigm of hierarchy and separation-both historically, in the era of lynch mobs and segregation, and today-legally, economically, educationally and socially. Using history as a roadmap, Higginbotham arrives at a provocative solution for ridding the nation of Jim Crow's ghost, suggesting that legal and political reform can successfully create a post-racial America, but only if it inspires whites and blacks to significantly alter behaviors and attitudes of race-based superiority and victimization. He argues that America will never achieve its full potential unless it truly enters a post-racial era, and believes that time is of the essence as competition increases globally.
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• ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Hopkinsville Informants""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Mr. Jack Johnson and Me""; ""2. The Werewolf of Woolworth's""; ""3. Knee Baby Watkins""; ""4. Cousin Blind Mary""; ""5. Papa Was a Democrat""; ""6. Mr. Beefer Jones""; ""7. High on the Hog""; ""8. The Birth of a Notion""; ""9. Rat Joiner Whips the Kaiser""; ""10. The Revolt of the Evil Fairies""; ""Notes""; ""Sources""

Preserving an engaging, little-known slice of American life, "The Dark Side of Hopkinsville" is a collection of ten picaresque tales bearing witness to a black child's life in a southern town at the turn of the century.Born and reared in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Ted Poston (1906-1974) became the first black career-long reporter for a major metropolitan daily (the "New York Post") and served as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Negro Cabinet" in Washington in 1940. After thirty-five years at the "Post, " Poston was without question the "Dean of Black Journalists." Acquainted with the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Poston regaled his associates with tales of his childhood. These memories resulted in the stories collected in "The Dark Side of Hopkinsville." Told from the vantage point of "Ted, " a bright, high-spirited student at Booker T. Washington Colored Grammar School, the stories focus on a coterie of imaginative children, their entertainments and games, ties to the church, and relations with immediate and extended families. The memorable, recurring characters in the stories are based on individuals Poston knew: Cousin Blind Mary, a fortune teller who can see into someone's future only after consulting with the servants of the family in question; Ted's father, Ephraim, "the only Negro Democrat in our Hopkinsville, Kentucky, or in the whole state of Kentucky for that matter"; Fertilizer Ferguson, whom Ted credits with coining the phrase "eating higher up on the hog"; and Ted's schoolmate Knee Baby Watkins, the "catalytic agent who precipitated the most disasterous social feud in the history of Hopkinsville." Though the presence of prejudice--both within and outside the race--is acknowledged throughout the stories, that social reality does not lessen the characters' exuberant enjoyment of being young. After watching Bronco Billy and his black sidekick, Pistol Pete, at the nickel movie on Saturdays, Ted and his friends make Pistol Pete the hero and Bronco Billy the sidekick of their games in "The Werewolf of Woolworth's." In "The Revolt of the Evil Fairies, " Ted uses Palmer's Skin Success ("guaranteed to give you a light complexion in just seven days") so that he can play Prince Charming opposite his fair-skinned sweetheart in the school play. Kathleen A. Hauke has annotated the stories with recollections of the author's family and friends, who are often major characters in the stories. An extended biographical and critical introduction offers background information on the life and work of Ted Poston, and on old Hopkinsville and its residents.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 SLAVERY IN EARLY NATIONAL BALTIMORE AND RURAL MARYLAND; 2 INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE; 3 THE BLACK DRIVE FOR AUTONOMY AND MASTERS' RESPONSES; 4 MANUMISSION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SLAVERY; 5 FREE BLACK FAMILY STRATEGIES FOR GAINING FREEDOM; 6 POLITICAL-ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND FREE BLACKS; Conclusions; Appendix A: Baltimore Slaveholders, 1790-1820; Appendix B: Occupational Categories; Appendix C: Sale Prices of Term Slaves and Slaves for Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B.

• Cd; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; z.

A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of Baltimore to show how the vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, owners entered into arrangements with their slaves, promising eventual freedom in return for many years' hard work. The Price of Freedom reveals how blacks played a critical role in freeing themselves from slavery. Yet it was an imperfect victory. Once Baltimore's economic growth began to slow, freed blacks were virtually excluded from craft apprenticeships, and European immigrants supplanted them as a trained labor force.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 SLAVERY IN EARLY NATIONAL BALTIMORE AND RURAL MARYLAND; 2 INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE; 3 THE BLACK DRIVE FOR AUTONOMY AND MASTERS' RESPONSES; 4 MANUMISSION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SLAVERY; 5 FREE BLACK FAMILY STRATEGIES FOR GAINING FREEDOM; 6 POLITICAL-ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND FREE BLACKS; Conclusions; Appendix A: Baltimore Slaveholders, 1790-1820; Appendix B: Occupational Categories; Appendix C: Sale Prices of Term Slaves and Slaves for Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B.

• Cd; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; z.

A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of Baltimore to show how the vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, owners entered into arrangements with their slaves, promising eventual freedom in return for many years' hard work. The Price of Freedom reveals how blacks played a critical role in freeing themselves from slavery. Yet it was an imperfect victory. Once Baltimore's economic growth began to slow, freed blacks were virtually excluded from craft apprenticeships, and European immigrants supplanted them as a trained labor force.
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• Evidences of important changes in its ideals
• New energy is evident in Virginia
• Durham and the famous Duke Family
• Tolerance shown in North Carolina
• In the mill region of South Carolina
• Is the southern black man "making good"?
• Florida recovering from its depression
• Progress as noted in rural Aabama
• The present and the future of Birmingham
• Fiery Governor Vardaman of Mississippi
• Mississippi's land awaiting improvement
• What the levees are worth to Mississippi
• New Orleans and its bright future
• Texas, the land of mighty contrasts
• The awakening of Texas in agriculture
• On the vast plains of southern Texas
• Educational endowments in Texas
• Texas as a grain-growing state
• Unreliable labor responsible for its backwardness
• Rehabilitation is now almost complete.

In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions. Using the pen name "Stanton, " Brown published twenty epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his observations. The South at Work is a compilation of these newspaper articles, providing a valuable snapshot of the South as it was simultaneously emerging from post-Civil War economic depression and imposing on African Americans the panoply of Jim Crow laws and customs that sought to exclude them from all but the lowest rungs of southern society. A Harvard-educated historian and journalist originally from Alabama, Brown had been commissioned by the Evening Transcript to visit a wide range of locations and to chronicle the region with a greater depth than that of typical travelers' accounts. Some articles featured familiar topics such as a tobacco warehouse in Durham, North Carolina; a textile mill in Columbia, South Carolina; and the vast steel mills at Birmingham. However, Brown also covered atypical enterprises such as citrus farming in Florida, the King Ranch in Texas, and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. To add perspective, he talked to businessmen and politicians, as well as everyday workers. In addition to describing the importance of diversifying the South's agricultural economy beyond cotton, Brown addressed race relations and the role of politicians such as James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, the growth of African American communities such as Hayti in Durham, and the role universities played in changing the intellectual climate of the South. The editor, Bruce E. Baker, has written an introduction and provided thorough annotations for each of Brown's letters. Baker demonstrates the value of the collection as it touches on racism, moderate progressivism, and accommodation with the political status quo in the South. Baker and Brown's combined work makes The South at Work one of the most detailed and interesting portraits of the region at the beginning of the twentieth century. Publication in book form makes The South at Work conveniently available to students and scholars of modern southern and American history.
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• Violence in the American South
• American Indians, Violence against
• Arson
• Black armed resistance
• Blood sports
• Capital punishment
• Church burnings
• Civil rights, Federal enforcement
• Civil rights-era violence
• Civil War
• Corporal punishment in schools
• Criminal justice through the civil rights era
• Dueling
• Feuds and feuding
• Films about lynching
• Films about prison
• Guns
• Homicide
• Honor
• Hunting
• Labor violence
• Literature, Violence in
• Lynching
• Memory
• Mexican Americans, Violence towards
• Militarism
• Nonviolent protest (Civil disobedience)
• Organized crime
• Outlaw-heroes
• Peonage
• Police brutality
• Prisons
• Race riots
• Rape
• Reconstruction-era violence
• Religion and violence
• Slave culture, Violence within
• Slave patrols
• Slave revolts
• Slaves, Violence toward
• Song, Black, Violence in
• Song, White, Violence in
• Southwestern violence
• Suicide
• Vigilantism
• Alamo
• American Indian blood revenge
• American Indian slave trade
• Ames, Jessie Daniel
• Andersonville Prison
• Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
• Antiabortion violence
• Antilynching activism
• Atlanta (Georgia) race riots (1906)
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Birmingham Church Bombing
• The birth of a nation
• Black militias
• "Bonnie and Clyde"
• Bowie knife
• Byrd, James, Murder of
• Chain gang
• Convict leasing
• Copeland, James
• Cortez, Gregorio
• Deliverance
• Donald, Michael, Lynching of
• Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919)
• Evers, Medgar, Assassination of
• Filibusters
• Forrest, Nathan Bedford
• Frank, Leo
• Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979)
• Guerrilla bands
• Harlan County, Kentucky
• Hatfields and McCoys
• James Brothers
• King, MartinLutherr, Jr., Assassination of
• Knights of the Golden Circle
• Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the present
• Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-era
• Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944)
• Long, Huey, Assassination of
• Lynching photography
• Night Riders
• Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968)
• Parchman Mississippii State Penitentiary)
• Redfield, H.V.
• Regulator movement
• Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923)
• Scottsboro Case
• Sumner-Brooks Affair
• Texas Rangers
• Till, Emmett
• Trail of Tears
• Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921)
• Turner, Nat
• Waco Siege (Branch Davidians)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
• Whitecappers
• Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898)
• Index of contributors
• Index.

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years. Following a detailed overview by editor Amy Wood, the volume explores a wide range of topics, such as violence against and among American Indians, labor violence, arson, violence and memory, suicide, and anti-abortion violence. Taken together, these entries broaden our understanding of what has driven southerners of various classes and various ethnicities to commit acts of violence, while addressing the ways in which southerners have conceptualized that violence, responded to it, or resisted it. This volume enriches our understanding of the culture of violence and its impact on ideas about law and crime, about historical tradition and social change, and about race and gender--not only in the South but in the nation as a whole.
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• Violence in the American South
• American Indians, Violence against
• Arson
• Black armed resistance
• Blood sports
• Capital punishment
• Church burnings
• Civil rights, Federal enforcement
• Civil rights-era violence
• Civil War
• Corporal punishment in schools
• Criminal justice through the civil rights era
• Dueling
• Feuds and feuding
• Films about lynching
• Films about prison
• Guns
• Homicide
• Honor
• Hunting
• Labor violence
• Literature, Violence in
• Lynching
• Memory
• Mexican Americans, Violence towards
• Militarism
• Nonviolent protest (Civil disobedience)
• Organized crime
• Outlaw-heroes
• Peonage
• Police brutality
• Prisons
• Race riots
• Rape
• Reconstruction-era violence
• Religion and violence
• Slave culture, Violence within
• Slave patrols
• Slave revolts
• Slaves, Violence toward
• Song, Black, Violence in
• Song, White, Violence in
• Southwestern violence
• Suicide
• Vigilantism
• Alamo
• American Indian blood revenge
• American Indian slave trade
• Ames, Jessie Daniel
• Andersonville Prison
• Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
• Antiabortion violence
• Antilynching activism
• Atlanta (Georgia) race riots (1906)
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Birmingham Church Bombing
• The birth of a nation
• Black militias
• "Bonnie and Clyde"
• Bowie knife
• Byrd, James, Murder of
• Chain gang
• Convict leasing
• Copeland, James
• Cortez, Gregorio
• Deliverance
• Donald, Michael, Lynching of
• Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919)
• Evers, Medgar, Assassination of
• Filibusters
• Forrest, Nathan Bedford
• Frank, Leo
• Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979)
• Guerrilla bands
• Harlan County, Kentucky
• Hatfields and McCoys
• James Brothers
• King, MartinLutherr, Jr., Assassination of
• Knights of the Golden Circle
• Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the present
• Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-era
• Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944)
• Long, Huey, Assassination of
• Lynching photography
• Night Riders
• Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968)
• Parchman Mississippii State Penitentiary)
• Redfield, H.V.
• Regulator movement
• Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923)
• Scottsboro Case
• Sumner-Brooks Affair
• Texas Rangers
• Till, Emmett
• Trail of Tears
• Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921)
• Turner, Nat
• Waco Siege (Branch Davidians)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
• Whitecappers
• Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898)
• Index of contributors
• Index.

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years. Following a detailed overview by editor Amy Wood, the volume explores a wide range of topics, such as violence against and among American Indians, labor violence, arson, violence and memory, suicide, and anti-abortion violence. Taken together, these entries broaden our understanding of what has driven southerners of various classes and various ethnicities to commit acts of violence, while addressing the ways in which southerners have conceptualized that violence, responded to it, or resisted it. This volume enriches our understanding of the culture of violence and its impact on ideas about law and crime, about historical tradition and social change, and about race and gender--not only in the South but in the nation as a whole.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction
• 1. Jack Woofter-The Education of a Southern Liberal
• 2. Thomas Jesse Jones and Negro Education
• 3. Migration and War
• 4. Will Alexander and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation
• 5. Dorsey, Dyer, and Lynching
• 6. The Limits of Interracial Cooperation
• 7. Northern Money and Race Studies
• 8. Howard Odum and the Institute for Research in Social Science Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Founded by white males, the interracial cooperation movement flourished in the American South in the years before the New Deal. The movement sought local dialogue between the races, improvement of education, and reduction of interracial violence, tending the flame of white liberalism until the emergence of white activists in the 1930s and after. Thomas Jackson (Jack) Woofter Jr., a Georgia sociologist and an authority on American race relations, migration, rural development, population change, and social security, maintained an unshakable faith in the "effectiveness of cooperation rather than agitation." Race Harmony and Black Progress examines the movement and the tenacity of a man who epitomized its spirit and shortcomings. It probes the movement's connections with late 19th-century racial thought, Northern philanthropy, black education, state politics, the Du Bois-Washington controversy, the decline of lynching, the growth of the social sciences, and New Deal campaigns for social justice.
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• Preface : reflections of a black ambassador / Walter C. Carrington
• Blacks in the U.S. diplomatic and consular services, 1869-1924 / Allison Blakely
• A new Negro foreign policy : the critical vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche / Jeffrey C. Stewart
• Carl Rowan and the dilemma of civil rights, propaganda, and the Cold War / Michael L. Krenn
• Reconstruction's revival : the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the roots of black populist diplomacy / Brandi Hughes
• White shame/black agency : race as a weapon in post-World War I diplomacy / Vera Ingrid Grant
• Goodwill ambassadors : African American athletes and U.S. cultural diplomacy, 1947-1969 / Damion Thomas
• The paradox of jazz diplomacy : race and culture in the Cold War / Lisa Davenport
• African American representatives in the United Nations : from Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice / Lorenzo Morris
• Obama, African Americans, and Africans : the double vision / Ibrahim Sundiata
• Epilogue : the impact of African Americans on U.S. foreign policy / Charles R. Stith.

Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, and memoirs of policymakers and newly available FBI files to confront much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in the United States. Why, for instance, did African Americans profess loyalty and support for the diplomatic initiatives of a nation that undermined their social, political, and economic well-being through racist policies and cultural practices? Other contributions explore African Americans' history in the diplomatic and consular services and the influential roles of cultural ambassadors like Joe Louis and Louis Armstrong. The volume concludes with an analysis of the effects on race and foreign policy in the administration of Barack Obama. Groundbreaking and critical, African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy expands on the scope and themes of recent collections to offer the most up-to-date scholarship to students in a range of disciplines, including U.S. and African American history, Africana studies, political science, and American studies.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Peculiar Institution;
• 1. Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660: A Reexamination;
• 2. Denmark Vesey's Peculiar Reality; II. Race and Slavery in Antebellum Northern Politics;
• 3. The Republican Party and the Slave Power;
• 4. Race and Politics in the Northern Democracy, 1854-1860; III. Civil War and Reconstruction;
• 5. The Creation of Confederate Loyalties;
• 6. ""Blues Falling Down Like Hail"": The Ordeal of Black Freedom;
• 7. Grant and the Freedmen; IV. Past in Present: The Long Aftermath of War.

• 8. The Present Becomes the Past: The Planter Class in the Postbellum South9. ""Firm Flexibility"": Perspectives on Desegregation in South Carolina;
• 10. The Soul Is Fled; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

For more than three decades race relations have been at the forefront of historical research in America. These new essays on race and slavery-some by highly regarded, award-winning veterans in the field and others by talented newcomers-point in fresh directions. They address specific areas of contention even as together they survey important questions across four centuries of social, cultural, and political history. Looking at the institution itself, Robert McColley reconsiders the origins of black slavery in America, while William W. Freehling presents a striking interpretation of the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy of 1822. In the political arena, William E. Gienapp and Stephen E. Maizlish assess the power of race and slave issues in, respectively, the Republican and Democratic parties of the 1850s. For the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, Reid Mitchell profiles the consciousness of the average Confederate soldier, while Leon F. Litwack explores the tasks facing freed slaves. Arthur Zilversmit switches the perspective to Washington with a reevaluation of Grant's commitments to the freedmen. Essays on the twentieth century focus on the South. James Oakes traces the rising fortunes of the supposedly vanquished planter class as it entered this century. Moving to more recent times, John G. Sproat looks at the role of South Carolina's white moderates during the struggle over segregation in the late 1950s and early 1960s and their failure at Orangeburg in 1968. Finally, Joel Williamson assesses what the loss of slavery has meant to southern culture in the 120 years since the end of the Civil War. A wide-ranging yet cohesive exploration, New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America takes on added significance as a volume that honors Kenneth M. Stampp, the mentor of all the authors and long considered one of the great modern pioneers in the history of slavery and the Civil War.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Peculiar Institution;
• 1. Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660: A Reexamination;
• 2. Denmark Vesey's Peculiar Reality; II. Race and Slavery in Antebellum Northern Politics;
• 3. The Republican Party and the Slave Power;
• 4. Race and Politics in the Northern Democracy, 1854-1860; III. Civil War and Reconstruction;
• 5. The Creation of Confederate Loyalties;
• 6. ""Blues Falling Down Like Hail"": The Ordeal of Black Freedom;
• 7. Grant and the Freedmen; IV. Past in Present: The Long Aftermath of War.

• 8. The Present Becomes the Past: The Planter Class in the Postbellum South9. ""Firm Flexibility"": Perspectives on Desegregation in South Carolina;
• 10. The Soul Is Fled; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

For more than three decades race relations have been at the forefront of historical research in America. These new essays on race and slavery-some by highly regarded, award-winning veterans in the field and others by talented newcomers-point in fresh directions. They address specific areas of contention even as together they survey important questions across four centuries of social, cultural, and political history. Looking at the institution itself, Robert McColley reconsiders the origins of black slavery in America, while William W. Freehling presents a striking interpretation of the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy of 1822. In the political arena, William E. Gienapp and Stephen E. Maizlish assess the power of race and slave issues in, respectively, the Republican and Democratic parties of the 1850s. For the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, Reid Mitchell profiles the consciousness of the average Confederate soldier, while Leon F. Litwack explores the tasks facing freed slaves. Arthur Zilversmit switches the perspective to Washington with a reevaluation of Grant's commitments to the freedmen. Essays on the twentieth century focus on the South. James Oakes traces the rising fortunes of the supposedly vanquished planter class as it entered this century. Moving to more recent times, John G. Sproat looks at the role of South Carolina's white moderates during the struggle over segregation in the late 1950s and early 1960s and their failure at Orangeburg in 1968. Finally, Joel Williamson assesses what the loss of slavery has meant to southern culture in the 120 years since the end of the Civil War. A wide-ranging yet cohesive exploration, New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America takes on added significance as a volume that honors Kenneth M. Stampp, the mentor of all the authors and long considered one of the great modern pioneers in the history of slavery and the Civil War.
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• Introduction: the Massie-Kahahawai case as a local story
• Local boys: Ahakuelo, Chang, Ida, Kahahawai, and Takai as the accused
• Haole woman: Thalia Massie and the defense of white womanhood
• The killing of Joseph Kahahawai: native Hawaiians and the stories of resistance
• A closing and an opening: the Massie-Fortescue murder trial
• Story, memory, history
• Epilogue: haʻina ʻia mai.

The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931-1932 shook the Territory of Hawai`i to its very core. Thalia Massie, a young Navy wife, alleged that she had been kidnapped and raped by "some Hawaiian boys" in Waik?k?. A few days later, five young men stood accused of her rape. Mishandling of evidence and contradictory testimony led to?a mistrial, but before a second trial could be convened, one of the accused, Horace Ida, was kidnapped and beaten by a group of Navy men and a second, Joseph Kahahawai, lay dead from a gunshot wound. Thalia's husband, Thomas Massie; her mother, Grace Fortescue; and two Navy men were convicted of manslaughter despite witnesses who saw them kidnap Kahahawai and the later dis- covery of Kahahawai's body in Massie's car. Under pressure from Congress and the Navy, territorial governor Lawrence McCully Judd commuted their sentences. After spending only an hour in the governor's office at `Iolani Palace, the four were set free. Local Story is a close examination of how Native Hawaiians, Asian immigrants, and others responded to challenges posed by the military and federal government during the case's investigation and aftermath. In addition to providing a concise account?of events as they unfolded, the book shows how this historical narrative has been told and retold in later decades to affirm a local identity among descendants of working-class Native Hawaiians, Asians, and others-in fact, this understanding of the term "local" in the islands dates from the Massie-Kahahawai case. The Massie-Kahahawai case revealed racial and sexual tensions in pre-World War II Hawai`i that kept local men and white women apart. And this tension coexisted with the uneasy relationship between federal and military officials and territorial administrators.
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• Introduction: the Massie-Kahahawai case as a local story
• Local boys: Ahakuelo, Chang, Ida, Kahahawai, and Takai as the accused
• Haole woman: Thalia Massie and the defense of white womanhood
• The killing of Joseph Kahahawai: native Hawaiians and the stories of resistance
• A closing and an opening: the Massie-Fortescue murder trial
• Story, memory, history
• Epilogue: haʻina ʻia mai.

The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931-1932 shook the Territory of Hawai`i to its very core. Thalia Massie, a young Navy wife, alleged that she had been kidnapped and raped by "some Hawaiian boys" in Waik?k?. A few days later, five young men stood accused of her rape. Mishandling of evidence and contradictory testimony led to?a mistrial, but before a second trial could be convened, one of the accused, Horace Ida, was kidnapped and beaten by a group of Navy men and a second, Joseph Kahahawai, lay dead from a gunshot wound. Thalia's husband, Thomas Massie; her mother, Grace Fortescue; and two Navy men were convicted of manslaughter despite witnesses who saw them kidnap Kahahawai and the later dis- covery of Kahahawai's body in Massie's car. Under pressure from Congress and the Navy, territorial governor Lawrence McCully Judd commuted their sentences. After spending only an hour in the governor's office at `Iolani Palace, the four were set free. Local Story is a close examination of how Native Hawaiians, Asian immigrants, and others responded to challenges posed by the military and federal government during the case's investigation and aftermath. In addition to providing a concise account?of events as they unfolded, the book shows how this historical narrative has been told and retold in later decades to affirm a local identity among descendants of working-class Native Hawaiians, Asians, and others-in fact, this understanding of the term "local" in the islands dates from the Massie-Kahahawai case. The Massie-Kahahawai case revealed racial and sexual tensions in pre-World War II Hawai`i that kept local men and white women apart. And this tension coexisted with the uneasy relationship between federal and military officials and territorial administrators.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Development of Marronage in the South
• 2 African Maroons 3 Borderland Maroons 4 Daily Life at the Borderlands
• 5 Hinterland Maroons
• 6 The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterland
• 7 The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek
• 8 The Great Dismal Swamp 9 The Maroon Bandits
• 10 Maroons, Conspiracies, and Uprisings 11 Out of the Wilds Conclusion Notes Select BibliographyIndex About the Author.
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"Persuasively captures the quiet heroism of North American maroons." - Richard Price, author of Maroon Societies "Impressive research and vivid prose... an important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance." - Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial "One of those rare books that is at once of scholarly significance and will engage a wide readership." - David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory University.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Kentucky Responds to War; 2 The Army and the Slave; 3 Emancipation; 4 Military Enrollment; 5 Slaves Go to War; 6 From Soldier to Freedman; 7 The Search for Work; 8 Families in Transition; 9 The Testimony Question; 10 Black Suffrage; 11 Equal Education?; Epilogue; Notes; Manuscript Sources and Government Documents; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W.

Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blacks in the Commonwealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Victor B. Howard's Black Liberation in Kentucky fills this void in the history of slavery.

• Introduction: Civil Rights' Stepchild
• 1. "A Home of One's Own": The Battle over Residential Space in Twentieth-Century America
• 2. Finding Capital in Diversity: The Creation of Racially Integrated Space
• 3. Marketing Integration: Interracial Living in the White Imagination
• 4. Integration, Separation, and the Fight for Black Identity
• 5. "Well-Trained Citizens and Good Neighbors": Educating an Integrated America6. Confrontations in Black and White: The Crisis of Integration
• 7. The Choice to Live Differently: Reimagining Integration at Century's End Epilogue: West Mount Airy and the Legacy of Integration.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century.The organizing principles of neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy, equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal, middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands apart from other experiments in integration because of the intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and 1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Transliterations Introduction
• 1. From Internal to International Migration
• 2. Claiming Whiteness: Syrians and Naturalization Law
• 3. Nation and Migration: Emergent Arabism and Diasporic Nationalism
• 4. The Lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian Racial Inbetweenness in the Jim Crow South
• 5. Marriage and Respectability in the Era of Immigration Restriction Conclusion Epilogue: Becoming Arab American Notes Bibliography Index.
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This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians - and Arabs more generally - at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. "Between Arab and White" focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria - the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II - came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.
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• Cover
• Contents
• Too Proud to Whitewash
• The Lowcountry
• 1 Pater Familias
• 2 Little Black Joe
• 3 Race against Crime
• 4 Fade to Brown
• 5 Save the Males
• 6 Seeing the Elephant
• 7 Shadows in the Sun Belt
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• Y.

Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down, and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities, Charleston had to construct a new public image. In this important book, Steve Estes chronicles the rise and fall of black political empowerment and examines the ways Charleston responded to the civil rights movement, embracing some changes and resisting others. Based on detailed archival research and more than fifty oral history interviews, Charleston in Black and White addresses the complex roles played not only by race but also by politics, labor relations, criminal justice, education, religion, tourism, economics, and the military in shaping a modern southern city. Despite the advances and opportunities that have come to the city since the 1960s, Charleston (like much of the South) has not fully reckoned with its troubled racial past, which still influences the present and will continue to shape the future.
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