First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A study of neighborhood community change in the northeastern section of Washington, DC. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the destabilization of this previously stable, working- and middle- class black community. Examines efforts of some community members to form mediating instit

This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and experience. Free and enslaved African American women took part in this process in a variety of ways, including black female charity and benevolence. These women were spies, soldiers, scouts, nurses, cooks, seamstresses, laundresses, recruiters, relief workers, organizers, teachers, activists and survivors. They carried the honor of the race on their shoulders, insisting on their right to be treated as "ladies" and knowing...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Miller (no credentials noted) examines the literary treatment of lynching in several Reconstruction-era texts. The writers considered describe the economic, political, and social factors contributing to race violence, and present a re-conceptualized view of womanhood. In so doing, they challenge st

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and America's ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination. This three-volume set brings together all the major legal cases and the most influential articles on the legal and historical arguments of this issue. Available as a set or as single volumes.

This study explores the origins of the Black Panther movement in the context of the tumultuous history of race relations in the San Francisco Bay Area after World War II. The author details how these prophets of rage would go on to transform the nature of African American protest, change the character of domestic policy and redefine the meaning of blackness in America.

Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district. African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this work focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary citizens tried to maintain a balance between stability and change.