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Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

8 best books like Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (Crystal N. Feimster): Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, King of Assassins, Blood of Assassins, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, Celia, A Slave

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
AuthorMatthew Desmond
ISBN0553447432
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century...
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
AuthorDanielle L. McGuire
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men.

Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet...
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
AuthorIra Katznelson
ISBN0393328511
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory...
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
AuthorKara Cooney
ISBN1426219776
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.

Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...
King of Assassins
AuthorR.J. Barker
THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING . . .

Many years of peace have passed in Maniyadoc, years of relative calm for the assassin Girton Club-Foot. Even the Forgetting Plague, which ravaged the rest of the kingdoms, seemed to pass them by. But now Rufra ap Vthyr eyes the vacant High-King's throne...
Blood of Assassins
AuthorR.J. Barker
ISBN0316466565
The king is dead, long live the king...

The assassin Girton Club-foot and his master have returned to Maniyadoc in hope of finding sanctuary, but death, as always, dogs Girton’s heels. The place he knew no longer exists.

War rages across Maniyadoc, with three kings claiming the...
Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
AuthorAnne Nelson
The chilling story of the covert group that masterminds the Radical Right's ongoing assault on America's airwaves, schools, environment, and, ultimately, its democracy.

In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil...
Celia, A Slave
AuthorMelton A. McLaurin
ISBN0380803364
In 1850, fourteen-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsom, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the next five years, she was cruelly and repeatedly molested by her abusive master--and bore him two children in the process. But in 1855, driven to the limits of her endurance, Celia...
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