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41. The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans by Eric J. Bailey | |
Hardcover: 189
Pages
(2010-02-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description With an African American in the White House, there is no better time for assessing the progress the United States has made in protecting the rights of all its citizens. The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans offers such an assessment, with an in-depth look at the Obama administration's proposed initiatives as they relate to the African American community and a survey of civil rights issues that need to be reexamined in light of Obama's election. The Cultural Rights Movement is a well-researched, powerfully written analysis of why a substantial number of blacks have yet to get their piece of the American dream. Coverage includes discriminatory lending practices; unfair Congressional redistricting; disparities in physician care and health outcomes; the low number of black students, faculty members and coaches in mainstream universities; the phenomenal high rate of blacks being arrested, convicted and incarcerated; the continual growth of black underemployment and poverty; and the near-total neglect of the reparations issue. |
42. Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History (Contributions in American History) | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(1993-04-30)
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43. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Kevin K. Gaines | |
Hardcover: 360
Pages
(2006-04-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description Posing a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, promoted a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation. Although the number of African American expatriates in Ghana was small, in espousing a transnational American citizenship defined by solidarities with African peoples, these activists waged along with their allies in the United States a fundamental, if largely forgotten, struggle over the meaning and content of the formal American citizenship conferred on African Americans by civil rights reform legislation. |
44. Civil Rights Since 1787 by Clarence Taylor | |
Paperback: 934
Pages
(2000-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description --Nat Hentoff, author of Living the Bill of Rights and Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee "Civil Rights Since 1787 is one of those rare documentary collectionsthat rewrites history. Birnbaum and Taylor not only take a long andwide view of the movement, but they persuasively re-define civilrights to encompass many criticle struggles for social justice. Thisbook is indispensable." --Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class "This is a particularly valuable collection, an excellent reader on the struggle for racial equality." --Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did notarise spontaneously in 1954 with the landmark Brown v. Board ofEducation decision. The black struggle for civil rights can be tracedback to the arrival of the first Africans, and to their work in theplantations, manufacturies, and homes of the Americas. Civil rightswas thus born as labor history. Civil Rights Since 1787 tells the story of that struggle in its fullcontext, dividing the struggle into six major periods, from slavery toReconstruction, from segregation to the Second Reconstruction, andfrom the current backlash to the future prospects for a ThirdReconstruction. The "prize" that the movement has sought has oftenbeen reduced to a quest for the vote in the South. But all involved inthe struggle have always known that the prize is much more than thevote, that the goal is economic as well as political. Further, indistinction from other work, Civil Rights Since 1787 establishes thelinks between racial repression and the repression of labor and theleft, and emphasizes the North as a region of civil rights struggle. Featuring the voices and philosophies of orators, activists, andpoliticians, this anthology emphasizes the role of those ignored byhistory, as well as the part that education and religion have playedin the movement. Civil Rights Since 1787 serves up an informative mixof primary documents and secondary analysis and includes the work ofsuch figures as Ella Baker, Mary Frances Berry, Clayborne Carson,Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Eric Foner, Herb Gutman, FannieLou Hamer, A. Leon Higginbotham, Darlene Clark Hine, Jesse Jackson,Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Manning Marable, Nell Painter, FrancesFox Piven and Richard Cloward, A. Philip Randolph, Mary ChurchTerrell, and Howard Zinn. Customer Reviews (3)
Dr. Clarence Taylor and Dr. Birnbaum gathered excellent information.
i haven't read this book but.......
A powerful, informative, insightful, source-based history. |
45. My Soul Is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 by Prof. Bettye Collier-Thomas, V. P. Franklin | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2000-01-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legalsegregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional, to theNashville sit-ins organized by the Student Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee, and from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, tothe subsequent passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-and coveringeverything in between-My Soul Is a Witness is the first comprehensivechronology of the civil rights era in America. This unique chronology extends the examination of civil rightsactivities beyond the South to include the North, Midwest, and FarWest.Although Martin Luther King, Jr., was a towering figure duringthe era, the authors shift the focus to the thousands of people,places, and events that encompassed the Civil Rights movement. Eachentry is based on information found in articles and reports publishedin three newspaper and periodical sources: The New York Times, JetMagazine, and the Southern School News. Supplementing the basicchronology are longer features that explore larger topics in moredepth and highlight issues well-known at the time but unknown today byscholars and the general public. Customer Reviews (1)
FABULOUS CHRONOLOGY |
46. African-Americans & the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990 by Sean Cashman | |
Paperback: 337
Pages
(1992-12-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Cashman describes the profound upheaval that African- Americans experienced as they moved from the outright racism of the South through the Great Migration northward from 1915, and sets the contribution of African-American leaders within their historical context:Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and many others. The work also describes the shift in emphasis in the movement from legal cases brought before the courts to mass protest movements and, later, the change in direction from civil rights to Black Power and, later, Pan-Africanism. |
47. Black, White, and in Color: Television and Black Civil Rights by Sasha Torres | |
Paperback: 168
Pages
(2003-03-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description Sasha Torres examines the complex relations between the television industry and the civil rights movement as a knot of overlapping interests. She argues that television coverage of the civil rights movement during 1955-1965 encouraged viewers to identify with black protestors and against white police, including such infamous villains as Birmingham's Bull Connor and Selma's Jim Clark. Torres then argues that television of the 1990s encouraged viewers to identify with police against putatively criminal blacks, even in its dramatizations of police brutality. Torres's pioneering analysis makes distinctive contributions to its fields. It challenges television scholars to consider the historical centrality of race to the constitution of the medium's genres, visual conventions, and industrial structures. And it displaces the analytical focus on stereotypes that has hamstrung assessments of television's depiction of African Americans, concentrating instead on the ways in which African Americans and their political collectives have actively shaped that depiction to advance civil rights causes. This book also challenges African American studies to pay closer and better attention to television's ongoing role in the organization and disorganization of U.S. racial politics. |
48. We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Suny Series in Afro-American Studies) by Robert C. Smith | |
Paperback: 396
Pages
(1996-11)
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49. To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (Asian American History & Cultu) by Renqiu Yu | |
Paperback: 253
Pages
(1995-09-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s. |
50. Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador (Biographies in American Foreign Policy) by Andrew DeRoche | |
Hardcover: 193
Pages
(2003-10)
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51. The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power by Michael Liu | |
Hardcover: 260
Pages
(2008-09-08)
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An asset to Asian American research and history
Awesome! |
52. The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Anthony B. Pinn | |
Paperback: 175
Pages
(2002-04)
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The History of the Modern Black Church |
53. My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (The American Ways Series) by John Salmond | |
Paperback: 189
Pages
(1998-02-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description With clear prose refreshingly free of racial and social cliches,Salmond correctly states that, contrary to those who saw the civilrights movement as an agitation spurred on by outside forces,"the civil rights revolution had its roots deep in the Americanexperience, in the egalitarian notions of Thomas Jefferson [and] theEmancipation Proclamation.... It is a mistake to think that Southernblacks meekly accepted the imposition of a caste system. They foughtagainst it from the beginning." --Eugene Holley, Jr. Customer Reviews (1)
Reacquaint yourself with the Civil Rights Movement.... |
54. Paper Son: One Man's Story (Asian American History & Cultu) by Tung Chin | |
Hardcover: 184
Pages
(2000-10-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Chin's story begins in the early 1930s, when he followed the example of his father and countless other Chinese who bought documents that falsely identified them as children of Chinese Americans. Arriving in Boston and later moving to New York City, he worked and lived in laundries. Chin was determined to fit into American life and dedicated himself to learning English. But he also became an active member of key organizations—a church, the Chinese Hand Laundrymen's Alliance, and Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association—that anchored him in the community. A self-reflective and expressive man, Chin wrote poetry commenting on life in China and the hardships of being an immigrant in the United States. His work was regularly published in the China Daily News and brought him to the attention of the FBI, then intent on ferreting out communists and illegal immigrants. His vigorous narrative speaks to the day-to-day anxieties of living as a Paper Son as well as the more universal immigrant experiences of raising a family in modest circumstances and bridging cultures. Historian K. Scott Wong introduces Chin's memoir, discussing the limitations on immigration from China and what is known about Exclusion-era Chinese American communities. Set in historical context, Tung Pok Chin's unique story offers an engaging account of a twentieth-century Paper Son. |
55. African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights by Wilma King | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2005-11-12)
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56. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1996-01-01)
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academically rigorous, and perhaps not an intro text?
Pain. I've read plenty of bad academic writing, but Lowe astounded me anew. "Turgid," "bloated," "ponderous," and "pompous" are adjectives that came to mind as I attempted to claw meaning from her prose. It's that bleeding awful. Certainly clearer, more graceful, and far less alienating ways to convey these ideas exist (and no, they aren't dumbed-down). Why, oh why, do some academics *insist* on torturing their readers like this? The self-consciously opaque language does nothing to add substance or authority to Lowe's argument. If anything, it weakens it; there are only so many times the reader can exclaim, "Oh, so *that's* what she meant! Why didn't she just say it?" before weary contempt kicks in. I did find Lowe's arguments intriguing once I managed to translate them, and I particularly liked Chapter 4, which critiques official productions of multiculturalism. Yet I'm still not entirely sure the work required was worth it. I also suspect there are finer points that I missed altogether, but since Lowe can't be bothered to present them clearly, I don't care to go back and try to find them.
So gnarled with big words and long sentences...
from a former Lisa Lowe student BUT, it has been 5 years since I taken one of her courses and I have forgotten how jargon filled her language can be. After being away from academia, reading this book was a daunting task. As much as I respect this text, I feel that it is unfortunate that Professor Lowe cannot relate to a general audience.She is definitely (intentionally or unintentionally)catering to fellow scholars.She has a lot to say and offer her reading public.Its too bad that most people can not understand her.I give only one star for writing style and being reader friendly.Sorry, Professor Lowe. ... Read more |
57. The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (Asian American History & Cultu) by Paul Ong | |
Paperback: 344
Pages
(1994-09-14)
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58. Asian American Women Issues,Concerns,and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy by LoraJoFoo | |
Paperback:
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(2003-01-01)
Asin: B0034IYL28 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
59. Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy by Lora Jo Foo | |
Hardcover:
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(2003)
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60. Asian American Women Issues, Concerns, & Responsive Human & Civil Rights Advocacy by Lora Jo Fo | |
Paperback:
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(2004)
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