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• Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600-1700 / Carol Berkin
• Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701-1788 / Graham Russell Hodges
• The limits of equality : racial and ethnic tensions in the new republic, 1789-1836 / Marion R. Casey
• Racial and ethnic identity in the United States, 1837-1877 / Michael Miller Topp
• Race, nation, and citizenship in late nineteenth-century America, 1878-1900 / Mae M. Ngai
• The critical period : ethnic emergence and reaction, 1901-1929 / Andrew R. Heinze
• Changing racial meanings : race and ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964 / Thomas A. Guglielmo and Earl Lewis
• 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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• * A Note on Terminology * Introduction *1. The Common Sense of Race *2. Performing Whiteness *3. Race as Association *4. Citizenship of the "Little Races" *5. Black Indian Identity in the Allotment Era *6. From Nation to Race in Hawai'i *7. Racial Science, Immigration, and the "White Races" *8. Mexican Americans and the "Caucasian Cloak" * Conclusion: The Common Sense of Race Today * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index.
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Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross's book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society.
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Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of African blood. Morrison's court trial - and many others over the last 150 years - involved high stakes: freedom, property, and civil rights. And they all turned on the question of racial identity.Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups (among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons) have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Morrison's case, these trials have often turned less on legal definitions of race as percentages of blood or ancestry than on the way people presented themselves to society and demonstrated their moral and civic character.Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Ariela Gross' book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. This book reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.
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• Inheritance, family and mixed-race Jamaicans, 1700-1761
• Early Abolitionism and mixed-race migration into Britain, 1762-1778
• Lineage and litigation, 1782-1788
• Abolition, revolution, and migration, 1788-1793
• Tales of two families, 1793-1800
• Imperial pressures, 1800-1812
• New struggles and old ideas, 1813-1833

By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters - the very people who decided Britain' colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes - rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
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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; 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.

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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.

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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
• 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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• Voices of slavery
• Owning slaves
• The Civil War in Arkansas and the refashioning of black identity
• Reconstruction
• Redeemers
• The coming of Jim Crow
• Jeff Davis and his legacy
• The Elaine race massacres
• The aftermath of the Elaine race massacres and the twenties
• The Great Depression and the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union
• The beginning challenge to Jim Crow
• Brown v. Board of Education and the Central High crisis
• Wandering in the wilderness of race : 1957-1960
• The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee years
• Brothers against brothers
• The impact of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Marianna
• The seventies : no rest for those weary of race
• The eighties and nineties : so far to go
• Race relations in the twenty-first century.

From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state's formation and image since its founding. Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of those who have both studied and lived the racial experience in Arkansas. --From publisher's description.

• Preface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social Identities Acknowledgments
• 1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments ofAfro-Cuban Social Value to 1820
• 2. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763-1820
• 3. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820-1867
• 4. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of CubanWhiteness
• 5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868-1886
• 6. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886-1940
• 7. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920-1958 Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959-2000 Notes References Index.
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Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the racially selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of "race, " "nation, " and "family, " in definitions of Cuban identity. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent.
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• Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1. The Nineteenth-Century American City;
• 2. The Chinese Presence in Oregon;
• 3. Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in Oregon;
• 4. Peopling the Chinese Community of Oregon;
• 5. This Place Called Chinatown; Epilogue: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Non-Claves; Appendix: Occupations of Portland's Chinese, 1860-1910; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

• 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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• Acknowledgments, ; Introduction; Abbreviations;
• 1. Continuity and Context: An Overview of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa;
• 2. History from the Margins: Changing Perceptions of Its Past within the Coloured Community;
• 3. The Predicament of Marginality: Case Studies from the Earlier Period of White Rule;
• 4. The Hegemony of Race: Coloured Identity within the Radical Movement during the Mid-twentieth Century;
• 5. The Emperor's New Clothes: Coloured Rejectionism during the Latter Phases of the Apartheid Era.

• 6. New Responses to Old Dilemmas: Coloured Identity in a Transforming South AfricaNotes; Select Bibliography; Index.

The concept of Colouredness-being neither white nor black-has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life. Mohamed Adhikari engages with the debates and controversies thrown up by the identity's t.

• 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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• General Editor's introduction
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Imperial contradictions: assimilation and separate development Part I: Race
• 3. Race and science: from institutional foundations to applied anthropology, 1871-1914
• 4. Race, popular science, and empire Part II: The language of race relations
• 5. From colour prejudice to race relations
• 6. The colour question - 'The greatest difficulty in the British Empire', 1900-14 Part III: Resistance
• 7. Resistance: initiatives and obstacles
• 8. Conclusion Index
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By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, this book uncovers the conflicting opinions that characterised late Victorian and Edwardian discourse on the 'colour question'. It offers a revisionist account of race in science, and provides original studies of the invention of the language of race relations and of resistance to race-thinking led by radical abolitionists and persons of Asian and African descent living in the United Kingdom. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of race, colonialism and culture, and to a readership interested in the history of science and race, anti-slavery and humanitarian movements, and the roots of anti-racist resistance. -- .
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A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Together, these newcomers forged a multiethnic alliance of anarchists, labor unions, and leftists dedicated to challenging capitalism, racism, and often the state. David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles's interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers. The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived. As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emerges is an untold history of Los Angeles and a revolutionary movement that, through myriad successes and failures, produced powerful examples of racial cooperation.
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• What's race got to do with it? Postwar German history in context / Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach
• Black occupation children and the devolution of the Nazi racial state / Heide Fehrenbach
• From victims to "homeless foreigners" : Jewish survivors in postwar Germany / Atina Grossmann
• Guest worker migration and the unexpected return of race / Rita Chin
• German democracy and the question of difference, 1945-1995 / Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach
• The trouble with "race" : migrancy, cultural difference, and the remaking of Europe / Geoff Eley.

• 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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)