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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Captive Arizona, 1851-1900 Captive Arizona, 1851-1900 Victoria Smith xxxiii, 255 p., [10] p. of plates : 23 cm OL13771753W
Deliver us from evil Deliver us from evil Lacy K. Ford Illuminates the white South's efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, in… OL15811994W
Between the World and Me Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feeling… OL17201654W
Unsettled Unsettled Janet McIntosh "In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending nearly seventy years of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated outside Kenya for what they hoped would be better pro… OL19668222W
Tears we cannot stop Tears we cannot stop Michael Eric Dyson Fifty years ago, when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do for the cause, he told her "Nothing." Now, Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong and responds that if society is to make real … OL19713152W
The end of White Christian America The end of White Christian America Robert P. Jones "The founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and columnist for the Atlantic describes how white Protestant Christians have declined in influence and power since the 1990s and exp… OL20034078W
Making the White Man's West Making the White Man's West Jason E. Pierce In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a ?dumping ground? for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated fro… OL20930399W
When Affirmative Action Was White When Affirmative Action Was White Ira Katznelson Many mid 20th century American government programs created to help citizens survive and improve ended up being heavily biased against African-Americans. Katznelson documents this white affirmative a… OL2969377W
Scraping by Scraping by Seth Rockman "Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers. All navigated the low-end labor market in post-revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Ro… OL5965190W
White cargo White cargo Don Jordan Thousands of Britons lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. OL8693220W