Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
9 best books like Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (George J. Sanchez): Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Introduction to Old English, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
| Author | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0807845965 |
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gender and Jim Crow argues that the ideology of...
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
| Author | Lisa McGirr |
| ISBN | 0691096112 |
In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered...
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
| Author | Kathy Peiss |
| ISBN | 0877225001 |
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses.
...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....
Introduction to Old English
| Author | Peter S. Baker |
| ISBN | 0631234543 |
This innovative introduction to the Old English language focuses on what students need to know in order to engage with Old English literary and historical texts.
A pioneering introduction to Old English designed for a new generation of students. Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional...
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
| Author | Charles M. Payne |
| ISBN | 0520251768 |
"In the minds of untold numbers of Americans, for example, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was the civil rights movement. Thought it up, led it, produced its victories, became its sole martyr. Schoolchildren- including Black schoolchildren- are taught this."
-Fred Powledge
Charles...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
| Author | Mae M. Ngai |
| ISBN | 0691124299 |
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Mae...
