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Black and brown in Los Angeles : beyond conflict and coalition /

Table of Contents: “….: A Photo Essay / Wendy Cheng -- Spatial Entitlement: Race, Displacement, and Reclamation in Post-war Los Angeles / Gaye T. Johnson -- The Art of Shared Practices: Excerpts from Fallen Nature and the Two Cities and Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful / Nery Gabriel Lemus -- Raiding Los Angeles: The Raider Nation at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Beyond, 1982-1994 / Priscilla Leiva -- What Is an MC if He Can't Rap to Banda?…”
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Shrill hurrahs : women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 / by Gillin, Kate F. C.

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Race and the Cherokee Nation : sovereignty in the nineteenth century / by Yarbrough, Fay A.

Table of Contents: “…A moment of inclusion : Molley -- Racial ideology in transition : Shoe Boots -- The 1855 Marriage Law : racial lines harden -- The Civil War : a missed opportunity -- The Cherokee freedmen's story : the Boles family -- Indian slavery and memory : interracial sex from the slaves' perspective -- The fight for recognition continues : Lucy Allen.…”
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Slavery and freedom in Savannah /

Table of Contents: “…Harris and Daina Ramey Berry -- Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones -- "We defy you!"…”
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The Dred Scott case : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law /

Table of Contents: “…Constitutional law and the legitimation of history : the enduring force of Roger Taney's opinion of the court / David Thomas Konig -- Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott case : the history and memory of a signal moment in American slavery, 1857-2007 / Adam Arenson -- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark Graber -- The legacy of the Dred Scott case : the uncertain course of emancipation in Missouri / Louis Gerteis -- An exaggerated legacy : Dred Scott and substantive due process / Austin Allen -- Emancipation and contract law : litigating human property after the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Dred Scott, human dignity, and the quest for a culture of equality / Christopher Alan Bracey -- Dred Scott, racial stereotypes, and the "enduring marks of inferiority" / Leland Ware -- Unmasking the lie : Dred Scott and the antebellum Southern honor culture / Cecil J. …”
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Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / by Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beyond racial polarization: political complexity in the city and labor movement of the 1950s -- Optimism and crisis in the new liberal metropolis -- Driving desperation on the auto shop floor -- Citizens, politicians, and the escalating war for Detroit's civic future -- Workers, officials, and the escalating war for Detroit's labor future -- From battles on city streets to clashes in the courtroom -- From fights for union office to wildcats in the workplace -- Urban realignment and labor retrenchment: an end to Detroit's war at home -- Conclusion: civic transformation and labor movement decline in postwar urban America -- Epilogue.…”
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Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods / by Boyett, Patricia Michelle

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: roots of revolt -- Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays -- Massive resistance and the making of the movement -- Freedom days and white knights -- Operation freedom summer -- Wars of attrition -- War on the white knights and the white city -- Trials of the Ku Klux Klan -- Stalemate -- Epilogue: road to redemption.…”
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Chauvinism, Polish style : the case of Roman Dmowski (beginnings : 1886-1905) / by Krzywiec, Grzegorz, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The Kilinski revolt -- The collapse of Warsaw student radicalism in the first half of the 1890s in the Kingdom of Poland -- 6. …”
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A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 / by Kimble, Lionel, Jr., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing -- "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.…”
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The Ocean-Hill Brownsville conflict intellectual struggles between Blacks and Jews at mid-century / by Harris, Glen Anthony, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…In the first decades of the twentieth century -- From Franz Boas to Richard Wright -- The 1940s: impeded perceptions -- Liberalism and identity in post-war America -- The commentary factory -- What once was old is now new -- The radicalization of the civil rights movement -- What liberal alliance? …”
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Beyond discrimination : racial inequality in a postracist era / by Harris, Fredrick C., Lieberman, Robert C., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Stulberg -- Racial inequality in employment in post-racial America / Dorian T. Warren -- A measure of justice : what policing racial bias research reveals / Phillip Atiba Goff -- The social psychology of symbolic firsts : how Barack Obama's presidency may affect student achievement and perceptions of racial progress in America / Valerie Purdy-Vaughns, Richard P. …”
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Cool Britannia and multi-ethnic Britain : uncorking the champagne supernova / by Arday, Jason

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British fascism after the Holocaust : from the birth of denial to the Notting Hill riots 1939-1958 / by Mulhall, Joe

Table of Contents: “…The Unbroken Thread: British Fascism during World War II -- 'Wir kommen wieder': The Re-emergence of Fascism 1945- -- A Jewish Invention?…”
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Shipwrecked Identities : Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast / by Pineda, Baron L., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The setting -- Nicaragua's two coasts -- From Bilwi to Puerto Cabezas : Mestizo nationalism in the age of agro-industry -- Company time -- Neighborhoods and official ethnicity -- Costeño warriors and contra rebels : nature, culture, and ethnic conflict -- Conclusion.…”
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African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930 / by Giffin, William Wayne, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Black migrants and wartimes, 1915-1920 -- The Great Migration and its impact -- The color line's changing dimensions -- New organizations and urban issues -- The Twenties and culminating trends -- Rising Black metropolises -- Increasing white intolerance -- New leadership and welfare work -- New leadership and equal rights struggles -- Toward Black political independence.…”
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Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / by Sartorius, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A faithful account of colonial racial politics -- Belonging to an empire : race and rights -- Suspicious affinities : loyal subjectivity and the paternalist public -- The will to freedom : Spanish allegiances in the Ten Years' War -- Publicizing loyalty : race and the post-Zanjón public sphere -- "Long live Spain! …”
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Destination Detroit : Discourses on the Refugee in a Post-Industrial City / by Luthra, Rashmi

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From Jim Crow to civil rights the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality / by Klarman, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…The Plessy era -- The progressive era -- The interwar period -- World War II era : context and cases -- World War II era : consequences -- School desegregation -- Brown and the civil rights movement.…”
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Black Chicago's first century by Reed, Christopher Robert

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Race and racism Canada's challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Halli -- Historical and political reflections on race / Sylvia Wargon -- Race in the Canadian census / Monica Boyd, Gustave Goldman, and Pamela White -- Racial integration: theoretical options / Leo Driedger and Shiva S. …”
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