American History
American History
Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom
Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech. The reason lay in their temporary—but absolute—power over a...
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Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana
After repeated coups and periods of military rule, Ghana is now one of Africa's longest enduring democratic republics. Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators compares the political proclivities of two generations of African Americans who moved to Ghana. Steven J. L. Taylor blends archival...
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The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation
"A fresh reassessment of one of the most powerful black men in American history. This book will help reshape the prism through which the life, work, strategy, and contributions of Booker T. Washington are examined."--David H. Jackson Jr., author of A...
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century
Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment...
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Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in...
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Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in...
$126.50
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as...
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as...
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as...
$86.00
The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham: A Civil Rights Landmark (American Heritage)
Traveling throughout the South during the 1950s was hazardous for African Americans. There were precious few hotels and restaurants that opened their doors to minorities, and fewer still had accommodations above the bare minimum, to say nothing of the racism...
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Creolizing Europe: Legacies and Transformations (Migrations and Identities LUP)
decolonial, rhizomatic thinking necessary for understanding the cultural and social transformations set in motion through trans/national dislocations. Exploring the usefulness, transferability, and limitations of creolization for thinking post/coloniality, raciality and othering not only as historical legacies but as immanent to...
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Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (New World Studies)
John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad―a group that could be identified as both "Victorian" and "Pan-Africanist"―who not only challenged British imperialist accounts of Trinidad but also tried to...
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Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (New World Studies)
John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad―a group that could be identified as both "Victorian" and "Pan-Africanist"―who not only challenged British imperialist accounts of Trinidad but also tried to...
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The Contract and Domination
Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to the Western...
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Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a “contraband guide,” a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil...
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Connecting Histories (Anthropology, Economy and Society)
First published in 2006. The dynamics of ethnicity, diaspora, identity and community are the defining features of contemporary life, giving rise to important and exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study and literature on subjects that were previously seen as the...
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Comrade or Brother?: A History of the British Labour Movement
A revised, updated and expanded edition of this classic feminist account of British labour history Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialization through its development within...
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Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America
“This volume is long overdue, and at the cutting edge of scholarship. It is sure to become a standard reference.”—Jerome Branche, author of Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin American and the Caribbean “A powerful and original collection of essays....
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
This widely acclaimed and influential work of African American history traces the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era.“An important part of the tradition of scholarship that puts the end of modern slavery in a global perspective.” —Robin D.G....
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Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay
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Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay
The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Jamaican history. Paul Bogle and his allies, overwhelmed by colonial firepower and betrayed by...
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Roll over image to zoom in Follow the author Thomas Borstelmann Thomas BorstelmannThomas Borstelmann Follow The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to...
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Class and Consciousness: The Black Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924 to 1950
This is the first book to discuss the emergence and nature of the black bourgeoisie in South Africa in its historical context as a class in itself and for itself. It reveals how, by the 1920s, the black petty bourgeoisie...
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Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean
Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their...
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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
The decline of the native population following the Spanish conquest of New Spain in 1521, among other factors, led to an increased demand for African slaves to add to the labor force and bolster the colonial economy. Approximately two hundred...
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Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a...
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Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a...
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Children of the Liberation
This volume was originally published in German in 2015, commemorating the end of World War II seventy years earlier and acknowledging the contribution of African American soldiers to Germany’s liberation from fascist rule. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it collects the...
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The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
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The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
How emancipation transformed social and political relations in BarbadosWhen a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored...
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Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston during the Civil Rights Era
Winner of the Lynna Kay Shuffield Memorial Award in Texas Jewish History, 2022.Changing Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston’s history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both...
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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries from slave ships coming from Kongo and Angola. This region had embraced Christianity and elements of...
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