Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
10 best books like Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Mary L. Dudziak): Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, Drink Cultura: Chicanismo, Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
| Author | Jonathan Kozol |
| ISBN | 0060974990 |
Two cases of mothers lying about where they reside in order to get their young children into better school districts have made news recently. In Ohio in January, Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to 10 days in county jail and three years probation for enrolling her children in the Copley-Fairlawn...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
| Author | Douglas A. Blackmon |
| ISBN | 0385506252 |
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation,...
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
| Author | Derrick A. Bell |
| ISBN | 0465068146 |
The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of the persistence of racism in America. These essays shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day: affirmative action, the disparity between civil rights law and reality, the...
Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
i havent read it in a while, its funny to me, the folks who foam at the mouth, hating on the crimethinc. kids, and the fan club who take this book as gospel. the funniest thing about the whole thing is that i doubt the authors even give this book the creedence that either of those groups do. i gave 5 stars for what...
| 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....
| Author | José Antonio Burciaga |
| ISBN | 1877741078 |
This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures--the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.
"In some ways a book Erma Bombeck might have written, that is, if she were from El Paso, dressed in Tony Lama boots, and full...
| Author | Richard Delgado |
| ISBN | 0814719309 |
For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life--has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics...
| Author | Tiya Miles |
| ISBN | 0520250028 |
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master...
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
| Author | Juan González |
| ISBN | 0140255397 |
The only reason it gets three instead of four or five stars is, while I like Gonzalez's intent to steer clear of composing a text written in what he terms the "safari approach" (meaning a text geared toward the Anglo -- i.e. non-Latino -- reader in which the writer guides the reader toward knowledge of the...
| Author | Charles W. Mills |
| ISBN | 0801484634 |
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system...
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
| Author | Michael Omi |
| ISBN | 0415908647 |
First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity.
This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed...
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
| Author | David R. Roediger |
| ISBN | 1859842402 |
The point of this book is that it has been hugely influential and it is worth reading for that reason, even though it has merely opened the gate through which many later writers have poured. It does not make exaggerated claims for itself and the author’s preface lists defects in a way that I cannot. Instead...
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
| Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
| ISBN | 0521428386 |
It is hard to believe that this book is over twenty years old. I still refer to it when discussing the Great Depression and the formation of the New Deal coalition of the 1930s. I think the greatest strength of the book is the detailed description Cohen gives us of the social safety net that existed in the...
The Death of the Liberal Class
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 1568586442 |
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define...
Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
| Author | Elaine Tyler May |
| ISBN | 0465030556 |
In the 1950s, the term ”containment” referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the ”sphere of influence” was the home. Within its walls, potentially...
