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Seeing Jefferson anew in his time and ours /

Table of Contents: “…Buckley -- Jefferson and women / Jan Ellen Lewis -- Jefferson in the flesh / Andrew Burstein -- Afterword / Andrew J. …”
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To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / by Wheeler, Rachel M.

Table of Contents: “…Preservation: The village matriarch and the young mother ; Mohican women and the community of the blood -- pt. 4. Persecution: The dying chief and the accidental missionary ; Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge -- Conclusion: Irony and identity ; The cooper and the sachem ; Epilogue : real and ideal Indians.…”
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The American non-dilemma : racial inequality without racism / by DiTomaso, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Introduction : racial inequality without racism -- Jobs, opportunities, and fairness : the stakes of equal opportunity -- Community, networks, and social capital -- The American dream : individualism and inequality -- The transformation of post-civil rights politics : race, religion, class, and culture -- The white electorate : the white working class, religious conservatives, professionals, and the disengaged -- Government, taxes, and welfare -- Affirmative actions and equal opportunity : changes in access to education and jobs for women, African Americans, and immigrants -- Conclusion : Myrdal's dilemma and the American non-dilemma.…”
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Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…: Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate -- Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott -- Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott -- Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Reluctant rebels the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / by Noe, Kenneth W., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil" -- Women : "Do the best you can" -- Hatred : "Vandal hordes" -- Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country" -- pt. 3. …”
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The educational legacy of Woodrow Wilson from college to nation /

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Leslie -- Conservative among progressives : Woodrow Wilson in the golden age of American women's higher education / Victoria Bissell Brown -- Politics and Wilson's academic career / John Milton Cooper Jr -- The unappreciated legacy : Wilson, Princeton, and the ideal of the American state / Mark R. …”
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Key to the northern country the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Brennan -- Taxation and suffrage in revolutionary New York / Jonathan Clark -- The right to choose: suffrage during the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct / William P. McDermott -- "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. …”
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Asian American studies now a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee -- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah -- The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn -- Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan -- Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. …”
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Judging Lincoln by Williams, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…"A Matter of Profound Wonder": The Women in Lincoln's Life 17 3. Abraham Lincoln: Commander in Chief or "Attorney in Chief"? …”
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Diversity in diaspora Hmong Americans in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…The American experience of the Hmong : a historical review / by Kou Yang -- Hmong Americans : a demographic portrait / by Mark Pfeifer -- An analysis of poverty in Hmong American communities / by Yang Sao Xiong -- Civic values and political engagement in two Hmong American communities / by Carolyn Wong -- Electoral participation in the Hmong American community : an initial analysis / by Stephen Doherty -- Great expectations : the struggles of Hmong American high school boys / by Bic Ngo and Pa Nhia Lor -- Women in the Hmong diaspora / by Dia Cha -- Hmong Americans : the conceptualization and experience of aging in the United States / by Linda Gerdner -- The double diaspora : China and Laos in the folklore of Hmong American refugees / by Jeremy Hein -- "Reharmonizing" the generations : rap, poetry, and Hmong oral tradition / by Nick Poss -- Haunting and inhabitation in Yang's Latehomecomer : a Hmong family memoir / by Monica Chiu -- Hmong American studies : a bibliographic essay / by Mark Pfeifer.…”
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American Jewish identity politics

Table of Contents: “…Gurock -- New directions in Jewish theology in America / Arthur Green -- Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula E. …”
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Ethnic historians and the mainstream : shaping the nation's immigration story /

Table of Contents: “…Meagher -- In Our Own Words : Reclaiming Chinese/American/Women's History / Judy Yung -- Ordinary People / Eileen H. …”
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The fate of Texas the Civil War and the Lone Star State /

Table of Contents: “…McCaslin -- The Civil War and the lives of Texas women / Angela Boswell -- Slaves taken to Texas for safekeeping during the Civil War / Dale Brown -- New perspectives on Texas Germans and the Confederacy / Walter B. …”
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Identity in the shadow of slavery

Table of Contents: “…Beckles -- Those who remained behind : women slaves in nineteenth-century Yorubaland / Francine Shields -- 'She voluntarily hath come' : a Gambian woman trader in colonial Georgia in the eighteenth century / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason.…”
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The struggle in Black and brown African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era /

Table of Contents: “…Behnken -- Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza -- The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman -- "Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: Black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson -- Cesar and Martin, March '68 / Jorge Mariscal -- Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler -- Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener -- Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in South Central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas -- A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. …”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics / by Spence, Lester K.

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Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics / by Spence, Lester K.

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America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1917 / by Gould, Lewis L., Shah, Courtney Q.

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Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas

Table of Contents: “…Lezama -- Racism in a racialized democracy and support for affirmative action policy in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour -- Afro-descendant peoples and public policies : the network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women / Altagracia Balcácer Molina and Dorotea Wilson -- Decolonizing the imaging of African-derived religions / Amanda D. …”
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