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Entangled by white supremacy Entangled by white supremacy Janet G. Hudson "In Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina, Janet G. Hudson examines the complex racial and social dynamics at play during this pivotal period of U.S. history. With cr… OL13609290W
Leopardens öga Leopardens öga Henning Mankell Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alco… OL14970115W
What shall we do with the Negro? What shall we do with the Negro? Paul D. Escott Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, publications of citizens' organizations, letters, diaries, and other sources, Paul D. Escott… OL15300925W
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
Freedom walk Freedom walk Mary Stanton "In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were prim… OL1828314W
Working through whitness Working through whitness Cynthia Levine-Rasky "What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in antiracism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores t… OL19524896W
Honky Honky Dalton Conley "This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de… OL1998365W
Recognizing Race and Ethnicity Recognizing Race and Ethnicity Kathleen J. Fitzgerald xvi, 575 pages : 26 cm OL20216896W
White like me White like me Tim J. Wise A personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every realm of daily life. OL2297646W
The possessive investment in whiteness The possessive investment in whiteness George Lipsitz In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal preju… OL2756212W
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
A promise and a way of life A promise and a way of life Becky W. Thompson "A Promise and a Way of Life weaves an account of the past half-century based on the life histories of thirty-nine people who have placed antiracist activism at the center of their lives. Through a … OL3955218W
How race survived US history How race survived US history David R. Roediger "In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600s to the present day. From the late seventeenth … OL3961415W
Awakening to equality Awakening to equality Karl E. Lutze "In 1945, Karl Lutze was a young white pastor assigned to an African American church in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His experiences ministering to black congregations there and, later, in Tulsa provide a uni… OL5839628W
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
The showman and the slave The showman and the slave Benjamin Reiss "In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum N… OL6210530W
Constructing race Constructing race Nadine Dolby "As apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year-long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make mea… OL7797954W
These Few Also Paid a Price These Few Also Paid a Price G. McLeod Bryan "This book is composed of the testimonies of thirty Southern whites who participated in the Civil Rights Movement juxtaposed against white America's intense hatred of any change in the racial status … OL843863W
Psychedelic White Psychedelic White Arun Saldanha A bold new approach to racial difference conceived through rave tourism. The village of Anjuna, located in the coastal Indian state of Goa, has been one of the premier destinations on the global r… OL8531144W
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