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"The State of Virginia recognizes that the 1619 landing of Africans at Point Comfort (present-day Hampton) as a complicated beginning. This collection of new essays reckons with this historical fact, with discussions if the impacts 400 years later. Chapters cover different perspectives about the "20 and odd" who landed, offering insights into how enslavement continues to affect the lives of their descendants. The often overlooked experiences of women in enslavement are discussed.-- Provided by publisher.

• Planning and inspiration
• Destinations: Charleston
• Atlanta
• Selma
• Montgomery
• Birmingham
• Jackson, Mississippi
• The Delta
• Little Rock
• Memphis
• Nashville
• Greensboro, Raleigh, and Durham
• Richmond and Farmville
• Washington DC
• Background and Resources: The road ahead
• History
• Essentials.

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Includes flexible itineraries, historic civil rights sites, the culture of the movement, expert insight, travel tools, and detailed coverage of Charleston, Atlanta, Selma to Montgomery, Birmingham, Jackson, the Mississippi Delta, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Raleigh, Durham, Virginia, and Washington DC.

Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's twentieth-century eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the day, writes Catte, with clarity and ferocity. It was a manifestation of white supremacy. It was a form of employment insurance. It was a means of controlling "troublesome" women and a philosophy that helped remove poor people from valuable land. It was cruel and it was wrong, and yet today sites where it was practiced like Western State Hospital, in Staunton, VA, are rehabilitated as luxury housing, their histories hushed up in the service of capital. As was amply evidenced by her acclaimed 2018 book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Catte has no room for excuses; no patience for equivocation. What does it mean for modern America, she asks here, that such buildings are given the second chance that 8,000 citizens never got? And what possible interventions can be made now, repair their damage?

• Introduction--
• 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s--
• 2. The 'inconvenience" of black freedom: manumission, 1500s-1700s--
• 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s-1830--
• 4. 'Rules ... for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860--
• 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860-- Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.
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How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
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• Introduction--
• 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s--
• 2. The 'inconvenience" of black freedom: manumission, 1500s-1700s--
• 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s-1830--
• 4. 'Rules ... for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860--
• 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860-- Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
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• Introduction--
• 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s--
• 2. The 'inconvenience" of black freedom: manumission, 1500s-1700s--
• 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s-1830--
• 4. 'Rules ... for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860--
• 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860-- Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Prepare for the mother of all inequalities
• Chapter 2: Think defensively
• Chapter 3: Protect human health
• Chapter 4: Plan ahead: some people will have to move
• Chapter 5: Don't hold your breath for a bail-out
• Chapter 6: Get markets working
• Chapter 7: Get the data, but make it actionable
• Chapter 8: Rethink where and how we build
• Chapter 9: Lawyer up
• Chapter 10: Work around human nature Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Index.
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Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have experienced to date has caused significant losses, and that the failure to prepare for the consequences of further warming may prove to be staggering. Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, this pragmatic guide focuses on solutions-some gradual and some more revolutionary-currently being deployed around the globe. Each chapter presents a thematic lesson for decision-makers and engaged citizens to consider, outlining replicable successes and identifying provocative recommendations to strengthen climate resilience. Between animated discussions of ideas as wide-ranging as managed retreat from coastal hot-zones to biological approaches for resurgent climate-related disease threats, Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on these issues. The narrative is dotted with tales of on-the-ground citizenry, from small-town mayors and bankers to generals and engineers, who are chipping away at financial disincentives and bureaucratic hurdles to prepare for life on a warmer planet. For readers exhausted by today's paralyzing debates on yearly "fluke" storms or the existence of climate change, Building a Resilient Tomorrow offers better ways to manage the risks in a warming planet, even as we work to limit global temperature rise.
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• 1. A Call from the Task Force
• 2. The Charleston Massacre
• 3. Becoming Richard Spencer
• 4. Reverend Edwards
• 5. The Charlottesville Monuments
• 6. Blut und Boden
• 7. Mr. Jefferson's University
• 8. Kessler v. Bellamy
• 9. The Monuments Debate
• 10. Competing Conceptions of Free Speech
• 11. May Days
• 12. Cue the Klan-Stage Right
• 13. The Rise of the Marketplace
• 14. Cue the Counterprotesters-Stage Left
• 15. A Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts
• 16. The Marketplace Doubles Down
• 17. The Day of the Clan
• 18. When Speech Advances Civil Rights
• 19. Duke and the Desciples
• 20. The Russian Connection
• 21. A Call to Conscience
• 22. Preparations
• 23. The Day to the Cross
• 24. The Idea of the University
• 25. Heckler's Veto
• 26. Channels of Communication
• 27. Rednecks and Saint Paul
• 28. The Lawn and the Rotunda
• 29. Bloodshed
• 30. Aftermath.
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In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the "summer of hate." Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights. Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia's law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity's initiation rituals included gang rape. Smolla has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses. Well before the tiki torches cast their ominous shadows across the nation, the city of Charlottesville sought to relocate the Unite the Right rally; Smolla was approached to represent the alt-right groups. Though he declined, he came to wonder what his history of advocacy had wrought. Feeling unsettlingly complicit, he joined the Charlottesville Task Force, and he realized that the events that transpired there had meaning and resonance far beyond a singular time and place. Why, he wonders, has one of our foundational rights created a land in which such tragic clashes happen all too frequently?
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• 1. A Call from the Task Force
• 2. The Charleston Massacre
• 3. Becoming Richard Spencer
• 4. Reverend Edwards
• 5. The Charlottesville Monuments
• 6. Blut und Boden
• 7. Mr. Jefferson's University
• 8. Kessler v. Bellamy
• 9. The Monuments Debate
• 10. Competing Conceptions of Free Speech
• 11. May Days
• 12. Cue the Klan-Stage Right
• 13. The Rise of the Marketplace
• 14. Cue the Counterprotesters-Stage Left
• 15. A Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts
• 16. The Marketplace Doubles Down
• 17. The Day of the Clan
• 18. When Speech Advances Civil Rights
• 19. Duke and the Desciples
• 20. The Russian Connection
• 21. A Call to Conscience
• 22. Preparations
• 23. The Day to the Cross
• 24. The Idea of the University
• 25. Heckler's Veto
• 26. Channels of Communication
• 27. Rednecks and Saint Paul
• 28. The Lawn and the Rotunda
• 29. Bloodshed
• 30. Aftermath.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the "summer of hate." Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights. Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia's law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity's initiation rituals included gang rape. Smolla has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses. Well before the tiki torches cast their ominous shadows across the nation, the city of Charlottesville sought to relocate the Unite the Right rally; Smolla was approached to represent the alt-right groups. Though he declined, he came to wonder what his history of advocacy had wrought. Feeling unsettlingly complicit, he joined the Charlottesville Task Force, and he realized that the events that transpired there had meaning and resonance far beyond a singular time and place. Why, he wonders, has one of our foundational rights created a land in which such tragic clashes happen all too frequently?
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• Part I: Civility. Introduction: Winter in summer. The hook ; "Simply because there's passion" (January 2016) ; "Is Mike your daddy?" (February 2016) ; Race, policy, and the past (March 2016) ; "Broaden the aperture" (April 2016) ; Changing the narrative (May 2016) ; "Heil Signer" (June 2016) ; "Have you even read the Constitution?" (July 2016) ; "To un-erase this history" (August 2016)
• Part II: In extremis. Transactional or transformational? (September 2016) ; "We will build this world from love" (October 2016) ; Dizzying and despondent (November 2016) ; "It's an issue of right or wrong, sir" (December 2016) ; "You gotta get me out of this" (January 2017) ; Grenade game (February 2017) ; "Disturbance or removal" (March 2017) ; "Our mayor is a neo-fascist" (April 2017)
• Part III: The summer of hate. "That day we finish them all off" (May 2017) ; "Don't take the bait" (June 2017) ; "Sailing into the windstorm" (July 2017)
• Part IV: Firestorm. Domestic terrorism (August 2017)
• Part V: Afterburn. "Donald Trump is god" (September 2017) ; Flash mob (October 2017) ; "Unmask the illusion" (November 2017) ; "Like talking to a brick wall" (December 2017) ; The crucible (2018) ; Overcoming extremism ; Conclusion

Michael Signer was the idealistic citizen-mayor of Charlottesville, hoping to use values such as civility and prudent governance to help guide his community through local issues such as what to do about controversial Confederate statues. Instead, he found himself in the eye of a "perfect firestorm, " as his community came under siege in a coordinated campaign by the alt-Right. Cry Havoc is a compelling narrative of events on-the-ground in Charlottesville 2017, set in a larger context of what it means for a country struggling to find its way through the sturm und drang of the Trump era. Signer provides invaluable insight into how a democratic society under fire can respond to challenges such as: Reconciling free speech and the right of assembly with the need for public safety, in a time of rising extremism.The intensification of extremes on the right and the left, consuming values of pragmatism and compromise and even facts themselves.The widespread disaffection with institutions and a democracy that seems to be faltering and turning on itself.The failure to deliver positive measures to address a legacy of systemic racism through our political language, our built environments, and our public policies.An Internet and social media unleashing our darkest demons and organized hatred that we are ill-equipped to disrupt. Signer's "you are there" account will have readers asking "Well, what would I have done?" if confronted face-to-face with forces intent on intimidation and the destruction of democratic norms and institutions. This book provides insight and inspiration for how we can individually and collectively rise to the challenge.
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