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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
x, 145 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African Americans lynched...
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the community's first civil rights march in 1965. She weaves together demographic evidence and narratives by black Americans to recount their lives within a white-controlled society. Make a Way Somehow, which reflects the tenor of the gospel song whence it came,...
Author
Publisher
F&G Editores
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
5th edition
Physical Desc
xiii, 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 x 17 cm (10 x 7 in).
Language
Español
Description
Introducción al estudio de las redes familiares como estructuras de poder de larga duración en Centroamérica -- La formación y desarrollo de las redes familiares oligárquicas, 1524 a 1988 : principales entronques de la oligarquía guatemalteca -- Las principales redes familiares de la oligarquía guatemalteca de 1700 hasta nuestros días -- Pensamiento y práctica racista en la oligarquía guatemalteca -- Conclusiones -- Epílogo : Guatemala...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©2009 ;
Physical Desc
x, 216 pages : illustrations, portrait, tables ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech. The reason lay in their temporary-but absolute-power over a client. With a flick of the wrist, they could have slit the throats of the white men they shaved. In Knights of the Razor, Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., explores this extraordinary relationship in the largely untold...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
xiv, 189 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
"An annotated bibliography of more than 700 significant works concerning the function of race in American history. It evaluates the most important historical, sociological, and psychological studies published since 1944."--Publisher's description.
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