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  • Traveling Black

    A Story of Race and Resistance

    by Mia Bay ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year“This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation…Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.”—Ibram X. Kendi ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • To Tell the Truth Freely

    The Life of Ida B. Wells

    by Mia Bay ...
    "Finally, we have a biography worthy of one of the bravest and most influential activists in U.S. history." ―Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to WinBorn to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless anti-lynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Light of Truth

    Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

    The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneerSeventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells’s career, and—when hate crimes touched her life personally—she mounted what was to ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Race and Retail

    Consumption across the Color Line

    Series series Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
    Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses.Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Folly of Jim Crow

    Rethinking the Segregated South

    Series Book 43 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Traveling Black

    A Story of Race and Resistance

    by Mia Bay ...
    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 4 min

    Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions: How did ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Series series DK Classic History
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  • Ancient Greece

    The Definitive Visual History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Classic History
    Embark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece—its origins, its rise and fall, and its legacy that still permeates the Western world today.Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail—from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of the warring city-states of Athens and Sparta, and from the death of its ... Read more

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  • Rocks & Minerals

    Series series DK Handbooks
    The clearest and sharpest recognition e-guide to more than 500 rocks and minerals.Unearth a treasure trove of knowledge about the rocks and minerals beneath our feet--from their formation to collecting them. Make identification easy and accurate with this compact visual e-guide, includes photographs and details on formation, distinguishing features, and much more. Over 600 high-quality photographs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • World War I

    The Definitive Visual History, New Edition

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
    Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon nation sent their men to join the carnage, combine to present ... Read more

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