"Simon Wendt's The Spirit and the Shotgunfinally brings the story of armed self-defense into its rightful place in the history of the civil rights movement. This well-researched book will deepen our understanding of the ways in which defensive protection complemented nonviolent protests in many southern locales. . . . No other work in the field has outlined the history of armed self-defense in as complete and compelling a manner."--Renee C. Romano, Wesleyan University
"A really fine contribution to African American history and to the history of the black struggle for equality....
"Simon Wendt's The Spirit and the Shotgunfinally brings the story of armed self-defense into its rightful place in the history of the civil ...
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnation...
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century). The contributors to this volume examine how national solidarity and identity--with their vast array of ideological, political, intellectual, social, and ethno-racial qualities--crossed juridical, territorial, and cultural boundaries to become transnational; how they altered the ethnic and racial visions of nation-states throughout the...
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational an...
Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World provides fresh perspectives on the connections between gender and the nation by focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between the early nineteenth century and the 1960s. This edited volume calls attention to the myriad ways in which nationalized hegemonic masculinities were produced and perpetuated in Western societies by adding a new analytical dimension, suggesting that "marginal" white masculinities frequently constituted an in-between category that helped strengthen dominant ideals...
Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World provides fresh perspectives on the connections between gender and the nation by focusing on the role ...
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnation...
Everyday heroes and heroines--ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats--have received only scant attention in heroism scholarship. While scholars have devoted thousands of pages to war heroes, heroic leaders, and superheroes, as well as to the blurring distinctions between heroes and celebrities, they have said little about the meaning and impact of ordinary citizens' heroism. This collection of essays seeks to fill that void. Comparing the United States, Germany, and Britain from a multidisciplinary perspective, Extraordinary Ordinariness asks...
Everyday heroes and heroines--ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats--have received only scant attention in he...
Contributors to this volume explore several prominent intellectuals, from left-leaning leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois to conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, from well-known black feminists such as Patricia Hill Collins to Marxists like Claudia Jones, to underscore the variety of black intellectual thought in the United States.
Contributors to this volume explore several prominent intellectuals, from left-leaning leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois to conservative intellectuals li...
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United Stat...
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United Stat...
