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Assault at West Point, The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker
ISBN: 9780020345152 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In "Assault at West Point", John F. Marszalek, the highly acclaimed author of "Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order", has written a dramatic account of one of the most momentous trials in American history. Set in the 1880s, this riveting story focuses on Whittaker, a former slave who became the third black to enter West Point. Like his two predecessors, he was ostracized for the entire three years of his training. One morning Whittaker didn't show up for drill. He was found in his room, unconscious, tied tightly to the bed, with blood streaming from his head. In a trial that received major...
In "Assault at West Point", John F. Marszalek, the highly acclaimed author of "Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order", has written a dramatic account...
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94,07 zł |
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Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
ISBN: 9780029221303 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. A "valuable, eye-opening work" (The Boston Globe) about the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Rosa Parks, weary after a long day at work, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man...and ignited the explosion that was the civil rights movement in America. In this powerful saga, Morris tells the complete story behind the ten years that transformed America, tracing the essential role of the black community organizations that was the real power behind the civil rights movement. Drawing on interviews with more...
A "valuable, eye-opening work" (The Boston Globe) about the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. On December 1, 1955, in M...
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103,18 zł |
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Racial Matters : The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972
ISBN: 9780029236826 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From Kennedy to Nixon, the FBI unwillingly found itself at the center of the struggle for racial equality and justice. Kenneth O'Reilly tells the shocking story of how political loyalties, priorities, and prejudices turned a government agency into an adversary, instead of a protector, of civil rights.
From Kennedy to Nixon, the FBI unwillingly found itself at the center of the struggle for racial equality and justice. Kenneth O'Reilly tells the shoc...
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98,65 zł |
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A Testament of Hope
ISBN: 9780060646912 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. "We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last... "We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3... |
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122,60 zł |
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
ISBN: 9780060931049 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first one being segregation--emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According to Steele,1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of America guilt rather than the... From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story beh... |
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69,91 zł |
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This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience
ISBN: 9780060934248 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American history -- the U.S. Civil Rights movement. Hailed upon publication as a beautiful, seminal book on the role of the church in the African American community as well as on the social history of America, This Far by Faith reveals the deep religious conviction that empowered a people viewed as powerless to blaze a path to freedom and deliverance, to stand and be counted in this one nation under God. Here are the stories of politics, tent... A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American histo... |
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69,91 zł |
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
ISBN: 9780060935931 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more... Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. No... |
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61,80 zł |
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Salvation : Black People and Love
ISBN: 9780060959494 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love.Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love's got to do with...
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Lo...
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65,86 zł |
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
ISBN: 9780060974152 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have instead increased them. The Content of Our Character is neither "liberal" nor "conservative," but an honest, courageous look at America's most enduring and wrenching...
In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the incr...
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78,17 zł |
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
ISBN: 9780060984380 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a... Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsessi... |
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73,96 zł |
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Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; And White Man, Listen!
ISBN: 9780061449451 / Angielski / Miękka / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright′s Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America′s premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the author′s trip to Africa′s Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquently of empowerment and possibility, and resonates loudly to this day. Also included in this omnibus edition are two nonfiction works Wright produced around the time of Black Power. White Man, Listen is a stirring collection of his essays on race, politics, and other essential... Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright′s Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America′s premier literary gia... |
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87,07 zł |
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The Spirit of a Man : A Vision of Transformation for Black Men and the Women Who Love Them
ISBN: 9780062512390 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Dynamic and truthful, inspirational and wise; Iyanla Vanzant, author, orator and authority on spirituality from an African perspective, delivers a soaring message of faith and empowerment to Black men and to their mothers, daughters, and wives. Long known as the country's leading authority on spirituality and empowerment of Black women, Iyanla Vanzant now offers a message of faith, self-knowledge, and courage for Black men in struggles, crises, and victories we face in today's society. Teaching Black men to recognize and tap the energy of our own spirits, Vanzant uses a brilliant and... Dynamic and truthful, inspirational and wise; Iyanla Vanzant, author, orator and authority on spirituality from an African perspective, delivers a ... |
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51,08 zł |
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Slavery : History And Historians
ISBN: 9780064301824 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of "the peculiar institution." It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and its impact on the slaves themselves and on Southern society and culture. And it broadens our understanding of the debates among historians about slavery; compares Southern slavery with slavery elsewhere in the New World; and shows how slavery evolved and changed over time--and how it ended. Peter Parish examines some of the important recent works on slavery to...
This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of "the peculiar in...
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201,89 zł |
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My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
ISBN: 9780140067538 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and...
The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recol...
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74,00 zł |
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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
ISBN: 9780156008549 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on the ideal of liberty but dedicated to the perpetuation of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of the colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present an utterly original document, a...
A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared histor...
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158,92 zł |
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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
ISBN: 9780156890892 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photographs.
From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photograph...
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114,33 zł |
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The White Man's Burden : Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
ISBN: 9780195017434 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?
An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple ...
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120,78 zł |
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You Gotta Deal with It : Black Family Relations in a Southern Community
ISBN: 9780195025927 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An account of a Black anthropologist's year of fieldwork in a Southern community offers in-depth analyses which reveal a South untouched by the civil-rights movement.
An account of a Black anthropologist's year of fieldwork in a Southern community offers in-depth analyses which reveal a South untouched by the civil-...
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199,99 zł |
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Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
ISBN: 9780195029192 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activists continually devised new ways of asserting their quest for freedom.
Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activist...
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131,90 zł |
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Slavery and Human Progress
ISBN: 9780195037333 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation throughout world history--from ancient times to the 20th century. He demonstrates that slavery, once regarded as a form of human progress, played a crucial part in the expansion of the Western world, and that not until the 18th and 19th centuries did views of slavery as a retrograde institution gain far-reaching acceptance. Illuminating this momentous historical shift from "progressive" slavery to "progressive" emancipation, Davis ranges over a wide array of important... Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation throughout world history--from ancient times... |
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165,94 zł |