Search Results - Whites

White girl a story of school desegregation / by Silverstein, Clara, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…-- "Model" schools -- Interim integration -- Busing hits home -- Manners -- Jim Crow's legacy -- Liberal teacher, Southern lady -- The buses roll -- No one wants you here -- Black is beautiful -- Self-segregation -- Separate soundtracks -- In the classrooms -- My flag, my shame -- Girl talk -- Ebony and ivory -- The white boys -- Filmstrip in the dark -- The fox-trot, the cha-cha -- Invisible -- Voice of loneliness -- The liberals -- Legacy of defeat -- No yearbooks, no good-byes -- Singing "Dixie" -- The open high school -- I surrender! …”
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Life in black and white family and community in the slave South / by Stevenson, Brenda E.

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Managing white supremacy race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia / by Smith, J. Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : separation by consent -- A fine discrimination indeed : party politics and white supremacy from emancipation to world war -- Opportunities found and lost : race and politics after world war -- Redefining race : the campaign for racial purity -- Educating citizens or servants? …”
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White women, rape, and the power of race in Virginia, 1900-1960 by Dorr, Lisa Lindquist

“…White women, rape & the power of race in Virginia, 1900-1960…”
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An African republic Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / by Tyler-McGraw, Marie

Table of Contents: “…A small frisson of fear, soon soothed -- The alchemy of colonization -- Auxiliary arms - Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia -- My old mistress promise me -- Revising the future in Virginia -- Virginians in Liberia -- Liberians in Africa and America -- Civil War to white city.…”
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The origins of proslavery Christianity white and black evangelicals in colonial and antebellum Virginia / by Irons, Charles F. (Charles Frederick)

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The historic murder trial of George Crawford : Charles H. Houston, the NAACP and the case that put all-white southern juries on trial / by Bradley, David, 1961-

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Inventing Virginia Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 / by Moran, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…Virginia as a garden : Arthur Barlowe's "first voyage made to the coastes of America" (1584) -- Explaining a failure : Ralph Lane's 1586 Account as apologia -- Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia and the possibilities of settlement -- The English gaze, Virginia, and the Roanoke Indians : John White as ethnographic illustrator -- Renaissance surveying techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de Bry maps of Virginia -- John White and the Renaissance exploration report as personal apologia -- Conclusion.…”
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line / by Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet)

Table of Contents: “…"A Home in a Strange Land" -- Virginia's 1924 "Racial Integrity" Law -- Constructing Native Identities, 1865 to 1931 -- White Ethnographers and Salvage Ethnography -- The Aftermath of the "Racial Integrity" Law, 1930s to 1950s.…”
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line / by Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet)

Table of Contents: “…"A Home in a Strange Land" -- Virginia's 1924 "Racial Integrity" Law -- Constructing Native Identities, 1865 to 1931 -- White Ethnographers and Salvage Ethnography -- The Aftermath of the "Racial Integrity" Law, 1930s to 1950s.…”
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From Jamestown to Jefferson the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia /

Table of Contents: “…Bond -- Religious diversity in colonial Virginia : red, black, and white / Philip D. Morgan -- Sectarians and strategies of dissent in colonial Virginia / Monica Najar -- Establishing new bases for religious authority / Thomas E. …”
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Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965 / by Ooten, Melissa

Table of Contents: “…Movie censorship and Virginia: an introduction -- The project of censorship: debating the movies in 1920s Virginia -- Censorship in black and white: the struggle to maintain racial hierarchies at the movies, 1920s-1930s -- The cultural politics of race and the Cold War -- The search for sexual deviance: regulating and contesting depictions of female sexuality on-screen -- Conclusion: Island in the sun and the demise of the censorship board -- Postcript: Regulating film in the age of the internet -- Appendix A: Board of Motion picture Censorship members -- Appendix B: Elimination records.…”
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Engineering Manhood : Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute / by Miller, Jonson

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Engineering Manhood : Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute / by Miller, Jonson

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The Weaker Sex in War : Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia / by Brill, Kristen, 1986-

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The Weaker Sex in War : Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia / by Brill, Kristen, 1986-

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Brown's battleground students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia / by Titus, Jill Ogline

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