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Ethnicity in the Caribbean essays in honor of Harry Hoetink /
Published 2005“…Warwick University Caribbean studies.…”
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On the edge of freedom the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on "the Edge of Freedom" -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonizationism, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : The Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-1828 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.…”
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Found in multiculturalism : acceptance or challenge? /
Published 2014“…Warsaw Studies in Politics and Society,…”
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Sexual reckonings Southern girls in a troubling age /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…-- "Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency -- "A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality -- "Living in hopes" : an economy of desire -- Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization -- The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions -- School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance -- Would Jesus dance? …”
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Emancipation's diaspora race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.…”
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The Marines of Montford Point America's first Black Marines /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Home towns -- Joining up -- Getting there -- Training at Montford Point -- Resisting segregation in the civilian world -- Fighting segregation in the Corps -- Combat and service: World War II -- Combat and service: Korea and Vietnam -- Legacy -- Epilogue: interviewee biographies.…”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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An African republic Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia /
Published 2007Table 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 killer trail a colonial scandal in the heart of Africa /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…-- Slaving and African warfare -- Conspiracy theories and scandals -- From The heart of darkness to twenty-first-century guilt -- Conclusion : traumatized perpetrators?…”
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Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. …”
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Knights of the razor black barbers in slavery and freedom /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…The origins of black barbers -- Becoming knights of the razor -- Caught between regional origins and the barber's trade -- Self-improvementand self-loathing before the war -- Defining the meaning of freedom -- From barbershops to boardrooms.…”
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America, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…America's global mission: the Cold War era, 1945-89 -- 6. American empire and its denouement: 1990-2007 -- 7. …”
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Black liberation and socialism
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Slavery in the United States -- Abolitionism -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and populism -- Accommodation, racism, and resistance -- The rise of Marcus Garvey -- The Socialist, Communist, and Trotskyist parties -- The roots of the civil rights movement -- The politics of Malcolm X -- Black power -- The Black Panthers and DRUM -- Making race a central wedge issue.…”
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Serving their country American Indian politics and patriotism in the twentieth century /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Prologue: An empire for liberty -- Westward the course of empire -- The defense of the reservation -- World War II battlegrounds -- The Cold War on the Indian frontier -- Nation building at home and abroad -- The last Indian war -- Epilogue: Indian Country in the twenty-first century.…”
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Indian work language and livelihood in Native American history /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. …”
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Oregon and the collapse of Illahee U.S. empire and the transformation of an indigenous world, 1792-1859 /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : historical constructions of Oregon and Illahee -- So many little sovereignties, 1792-1822 -- Disastrous times we had : expansions and epidemic, 1821-1834 -- A vital experimental religion : the Methodist mission colony of lower Oregon, 1834-1844 -- Trophies for God : from mission colony to American colony, 1840-1845 -- The colonization of Illahee, 1843-1851 -- Polaklie Illahee (land of darkness) : identity and genocidal culture in Oregon -- Extermination and empire: money, politics, and the Oregon wars, 1855-1856 -- Conclusion : Illahee, "Indian colonies", and the paternalist state.…”
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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. …”
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The taking of American Indian lands in the Southeast a history of territorial cessions and forced relocations, 1607-1840 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Before European intrusion and early patterns of exploitation -- Jamestown -- Pushing west from the Virginia coastal region (1646-1687) -- England and France compete and clash -- The Cherokee and the French and Indian War -- The Carolinas, Georgia, and the Southern tribes (1663-1763) -- Southern tribes after the Proclamation of 1763 (1763-1775) -- Virginia and the Cherokee agree on a boundary (1768-1771) -- Land grabbers and early Kentucky settlements -- The Southern frontier during the war years (1775-1783) -- The Creek and a vacillating partner (1783-1789) -- The Creek deal with the federal government and Spain (1789-1795) -- The Chickasaw and Choctaw (1783-1795) -- Benjamin Hawkins leads -- The Cherokee, state of Franklin, and North Carolina -- The Cherokee, the Creek, the Chickamauga, and the new federal government (1789-1796) -- Blount's downfall and a 1797 treaty line -- Jefferson and the Southern nations (1801-1809) -- Jefferson after the Louisiana Purchase and anarchy in 1810 -- The Creek War (1813-1814) -- Andrew Jackson's 20 million acres and the Battle of New Orleans (1814-1815) -- Exploiting the Mississippi Territory (1815-1816) -- The Cherokee of the East and West (1817-1828) -- The Chickasaw and Choctaw (1816-1820) -- The Creek (1818-1829) -- Jackson and Florida (1816-1829) -- Removal to the West--Choctaw -- Removal to the West--Chickasaw -- The betrayal of the Creek -- Seminole saga -- The Cherokee versus Georgia -- Cherokee intransigence -- The Trail of Tears -- After the exodus.…”
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Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865 a history of human bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Slavery in the Northwest Territory -- The politics of indentured servitude : slavery in Illinois -- Miners and soldiers : slavery in Wisconsin -- Migrating southerners : slavery in Iowa -- Hoteliers and local slaveholders : slavery in Minnesota -- Dred Scott and the boom in upper Mississippi slavery -- Upper Mississippi slavery in the Civil War years.…”
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A more noble cause A.P. Tureaud and the struggle for civil rights in Louisiana : a personal biography /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Underestimated and misperceived -- Of creole heritage -- Educating Alex -- Southern exodus -- Preparing for a legal career -- Return to New Orleans -- Meeting Lucille -- Growing community involvement -- The war years -- NAACP lawyer -- Law and fatherhood -- "Separate but equal" strengthened in the face of desegregation -- Desegregation of primary and secondary schools -- The politician -- Desegregation battles after Brown -- Enforcing Brown's mandate in New Orleans grade schools -- Catholics and desegregation -- More to the desegregation mandate -- Reconstructing public education -- More direct action -- Courts are the way -- Race against time.…”
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