Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The new Jim Crow The new Jim Crow Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race… OL13826369W
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster Chester Hartman There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… OL15178580W
Globetrotting Globetrotting Damion L. Thomas x, 209 pages ; 23 cm OL16591941W
Legacies of Brown Legacies of Brown Stella M. Flores "This book illuminates the effects of segregation, desegregation, and integration on students, practitioners, communities, and policymakers in the fifty years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Edu… OL20545811W
The Price we pay The Price we pay Laura Lederer,Richard Delgado It is an oft-heard refrain that racist speech, hate propaganda, and pornography are "the price we pay" for our freedom of expression. This landmark collection of essays by 42 leading legal scholars, … OL20897948W