This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.
This edition features refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our continued struggles with racism in the twenty-first century.
A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose ...
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
Offers a portrait of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, transformed herself into a pentecostal preacher, and spoke out against slavery and in support of oppressed people
This volume contains a study on the living conditions for African Americans in the United States in the first decade of the 1900s.
... 1832–1920,” in David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr., eds., Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984), 245–247. A few exceptions to this included Jonathan Jasper Wright, ...
Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860-1915
"Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati pulls together newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte's stories published in The Cincinnati Enquirer over a 25-year period starting in 1993.
Newer and often more sophisticated analyses draw attention away from intolerance aspects. They argue that the Klan's attractiveness came mainly from its identification with traditional values. William D. Jenkins and Leonard J. Moore, ...
The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980 Charles H. Martin ... of 1969 Bill Pace finally awarded the school's first football scholarship to an African American, Taylor Stokes of Clarksville, Tennessee.