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  • Racializing Objectivity

    How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow

    by Gwyneth Mellinger ...
    Series series Journalism and Democracy
    **Winner of the 2025 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year AwardWinner of the 2025 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)'s Tankard Book Award and the AEJMC's** History Division Book AwardWhen the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a debate over ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Journalism's Ethical Progression

    A Twentieth-Century Journey

    by Gwyneth Mellinger, Erin K. Coyle, Bailey Dick, Carolyn M. Edy, Elisabeth Fondren, Tim Klein, Ronald R. Rodgers, Michael S. Sweeney, Ken J. Ward, Patrick S. Washburn0, John P. Ferré1 ...
    Using case studies and historical analysis, this book traces changes in ways that journalists understood their ethical responsibilities during the pre-internet twentieth century. Each chapter in this book explores a historical development in the evolution of journalists’ perceptions of their role as professionals. ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

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    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Civil Rights Movement Reader

    Resistance, Resilience, and Justice

    Edited by Marcia Walker-McWilliams ...
    In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Jack M. Bloom ...
    Revised and updated: the award-winning historical analysis of the civil rights movement examining the interplay of race and class in the American South.In Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist Jack M. Bloom explains what the civil rights movement was about, why it was successful, and why it fell short of some of its objectives. With a unique sociohistorical analysis, he argues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Southern Diaspora

    How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

    by James N. Gregory ...
    Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Imagining Black America

    by Michael Wayne ...
    Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in America

    Edited by Charles W. Eagles ...
    The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • African American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Scott Holloway ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans who were enslaved and have suffered from the limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? African American history ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012

    by Martin Kilson ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on his professional research into political leadership and intellectual development in African American society, as well as his personal roots in the social-gospel teachings of black churches and at Lincoln University (PA), the political scientist Martin ... Read more

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  • America's Black Capital

    How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy

    by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar ...
    The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan’s sacred ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Grassroots at the Gateway

    Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

    by Clarence Lang ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    "This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence Lang describes how the advances made in earlier decades were undermined by a black middle class ... Read more

    $23.09 USD