Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
10 best books like Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Tiya Miles): Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, The Comanche Empire, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
| Author | Clayborne Carson |
| ISBN | 0674447271 |
With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and...
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
| Author | Deborah Gray White |
| ISBN | 0393314812 |
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave...
| Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
| ISBN | 0394716523 |
A fascinating, but vitally flawed, book, Roll, Jordan, Roll, is part Marxist-leaning polemic and part well-woven narratives of the slave experience in colonial and antebellum America. At just over 800 pages, Genovese's opus has become a classic in the field for its amazing scope and wide-ranging...
| Author | Pekka Hämäläinen |
| ISBN | 0300126549 |
A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico....
| Author | Jennifer L. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0812218736 |
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery,...
| Author | Peggy Pascoe |
| ISBN | 0195094638 |
A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
| Author | Ned Blackhawk |
| ISBN | 0674022904 |
Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the Land presents the history of the Great Basin Indians and their interactions with the Spanish, British, and American empires. Blackhawk responds in this book to many harmful myths about the conquest of the American West. Most importantly, he undermines the idea...
| Author | Mary L. Dudziak |
| ISBN | 0691095132 |
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States'...
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
| Author | Claudio Saunt |
| ISBN | 0393351157 |
In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters,...
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...
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
| Author | Tom Engelhardt |
| ISBN | 1558491333 |
An "absorbing and provocative" ( "New York Times" ) autopsy of a once-vital all-American myth: the cherished belief that elimination of a less-than human enemy was necessary to achieve our national destiny."An extraordinarily original work that places postwar American history in an entirely new...
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
| Author | Karl Jacoby |
| ISBN | 1594201935 |
Shadows at Dawn is the fascinating story-actually four stories, a southwestern Rashomon-of the massacre of Apaches near Tueson on April 30, 1871, by Anglos, Mexicans, and other Indians. Extending over four hundred years, centering on that awful event, this book is impressively researched and a...
Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History
| Author | Alexandra Harmon |
| ISBN | 0807834238 |
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence...
A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920
| Author | Frederick E. Hoxie |
| ISBN | 0803273274 |
"This is an important book. In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the 'Indian question' through assimilation. . . . The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court...
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
| Author | Susan Sleeper-Smith |
| ISBN | 1469640589 |
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the...
The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
| Author | Joshua L. Reid |
| ISBN | 0300209908 |
The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identity are closely bound to the sea
For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group...
