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Passage on the Underground Railroad
ISBN: 9781604731293 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For seven years Stephen Marc photographed the routes traveled by fugitive slaves in their search for freedom, documenting and interpreting his research along the way. In Passage on the Underground Railroad, Marc shares the results of these explorations through his thought- provoking, unconventional, and haunting digital images. Marc uses two types of photographic composites to reveal the history of the Underground Railroad (UGRR): multiple photographs that describe UGRR sites and metaphorical montages that address the larger horror of slavery. Each UGRR site has a story, so... For seven years Stephen Marc photographed the routes traveled by fugitive slaves in their search for freedom, documenting and interpreting his rese... |
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298,05 |
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The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation
ISBN: 9781421440958 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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301,85 |
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Perplexing Patriarchies: Fatherhood Among Black Opponents and White Defenders of Slavery
ISBN: 9781622734627 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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307,46 |
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Black Atlantic Worlds: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9780884025283 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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308,43 |
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
ISBN: 9780813060187 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communities represent a largely unrecognized, alternative declaration of independence. They are a part of world history that is truly revolutionary."--Mark P. Leone, author of The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital "Addresses key historical and theoretical debates of the archaeology of the African diaspora. Theoretically complex and methodologically rigorous, it is the first serious study to locate maroon groups in the...
"Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communi...
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317,92 |
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Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock
ISBN: 9780813054360 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse. Tucker's demonstration of how the comic is not (just) funny and how rage is not (just) destructive is a welcome reminder that willful injustice merits irreverent scorn."--Derek Maus, coeditor of Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights "Adroitly explores how comic rage is a skillfully crafted, multifaceted critique of white supremacy and a soaring articulation of African American humanity and possibility. Sparkling and highly readable scholarship."--Keith Gilyard, author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black...
"An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse. Tucker's demonstration of how the comic is not (just) funny and how rage is not (just...
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317,92 |
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The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America
ISBN: 9780813056678 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A vital work: one that links and contextualizes activism in the present with over one hundred years of organizing, resisting, and rebelling against racial injustice."--Sara Rzeszutek Haviland, author of James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement This volume expands the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the old South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from southern, northern, and border states, these essays...
"A vital work: one that links and contextualizes activism in the present with over one hundred years of organizing, resisting, and rebelling against r...
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317,92 |
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Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
ISBN: 9780812252910 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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317,92 |
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John Brown Speaks: Letters and Statements from Charlestown
ISBN: 9781442236707 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of writings by John Brown in the fateful days after his raid on Harper's Ferry showcase the depth of conviction of Brown's character. Paired with Louis DeCaro's narrative of the aftermath, trial, and execution of John Brown in Freedom's Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia, this book preserves the first-hand experience of Brown as he gave his life for the abolitionist cause.
This collection of writings by John Brown in the fateful days after his raid on Harper's Ferry showcase the depth of conviction of Brown's character. ...
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322,90 |
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Swingin' on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780810888326 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles, a new study of that vibrant jazz community, music historian and jazz journalist Peter Vacher traveled between Los Angeles and London over several years in order to track down key figures and interview them for this oral history of one of the most swinging jazz scenes in the United States. Vacher...
The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the ...
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322,90 |
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English Episcopal ACTA 46: Rochester 1235-1318
ISBN: 9780197267363 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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322,90 |
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Inevitable: The History of the Beta Lambda Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., January 19, 1919 - January 19, 2019 and Beyo
ISBN: 9781733537605 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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328,99 |
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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780813066202 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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337,80 |
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Mavericks, Money, and Men: The Afl, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
ISBN: 9781439913062 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Football League, established in 1960, was innovative both in its commitment to finding talented, overlooked players particularly those who played for historically black colleges and universities and in the decision by team owners to share television revenues.In "Mavericks, Money and Men, "football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL s key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963, and the 1965 boycott led by black players who refused to play in the AFL-All Star game after experiencing blatant racism. He also recounts how the success of...
The American Football League, established in 1960, was innovative both in its commitment to finding talented, overlooked players particularly those wh...
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342,76 |
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Beyond Eden: The Collected Sermons and Essays of Prathia Hall
ISBN: 9780820361772 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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350,12 |
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Creating and Consuming the American South
ISBN: 9780813060699 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging volume reminds us consistently that the U.S. South has always been an invention but one that exerts uncanny mobility across multiple borders and histories. Melanie Benson Taylor, author of Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
The quality and variety of the essays, the intelligent introduction, the rich topic, and the suggestive perspective add up to an important volume. It furthers thinking and analysis of the south in world context and theoretical dimensions. James L. Peacock, author of Grounded Globalism: How the... This wide-ranging volume reminds us consistently that the U.S. South has always been an invention but one that exerts uncanny mobility across multiple...
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350,34 |
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
ISBN: 9781578597413 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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352,29 |
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It
ISBN: 9781613320402 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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352,70 |
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Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning
ISBN: 9781578062126 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Aaron Henry (1922-1997) was one of the nation's major grassroots fighters in the freedom movement on local, state, and national levels, his name has not yet been accorded its full recognition. This book reveals why Aaron Henry should be acknowledged, in the ranks of Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, as a truly influential crusader. Long before many of his contemporaries, he was a civil rights activist, but he preferred to stay out of the limelight. A certified pharmacist and owner of Fourth Street Drug Store in Clarksdale, he considered himself a down-home businessman who must... Although Aaron Henry (1922-1997) was one of the nation's major grassroots fighters in the freedom movement on local, state, and national levels, hi... |
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357,66 |
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There Is a North: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
ISBN: 9781625344465 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to explore how cultural action - including minstrelsy, theatre, and popular literature - transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his title, John Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.
The first book to explore how cultural action - including minstrelsy, theatre, and popular literature - transformed public opinion and political struc...
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357,66 |
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