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“ryan a swanson”

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  • When Baseball Went White

    Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime

    by Ryan A. Swanson ...
    The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one that most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did the game become so firmly segregated that it required a trailblazer like Robinson? The answer, Ryan A. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    by Melissa V. Harris-Perry ...
    From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefsJezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely ...
    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Willie's Boys

    The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend

    by John Klima ...
    The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legendBaseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball's endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder who hit 660 career homeruns, collected 3,283 hits, knocked in 1,903 runs, won 12 Gold Glove Awards and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Mask of Chivalry

    The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    by Nancy K. MacLean ...
    On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • State of White Supremacy

    Racism, Governance, and the United States

    Edited by Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncovering the false promise of liberalism, State of White Supremacy reveals race to be a fundamental, if flexible, ruling logic that perpetually generates and legitimates racial hierarchy and privilege.Racial domination and violence in the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Notorious in the Neighborhood

    Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861

    by Joshua D. Rothman ...
    Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery — from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor's Battle to Integrate Spring Training

    by Adam Henig ...
    In 1961, when the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida, for spring training, neither team had any idea that an African American physician was about to turn its world upside down.To Major League Baseball, Dr. Ralph Wimbish was just black homeowner able to house the team's African American ball players who were segregated from their white teammates—except ... Read more

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  • Theorizing Empowerment

    Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought

    Edited by Notisha Massaquoi, Njoki Nathani Wane ...
    Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist thought mean to Black Canadian feminists in the Diaspora? What does it means to have a feminist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shut Out

    A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston

    by Howard Bryant ...
    Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, ... Read more

    $270.00 USD

  • Projections of Passing

    Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960

    by N. Megan Kelley ...
    A key concern in postwar America was “who's passing for whom?” Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an important theme in Hollywood movies, one that lasted throughout the long 1950s, as it became a metaphor to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Jackie and Campy

    The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line

    by William C. Kashatus ...
    As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball’s color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rivalry going far beyond the personality differences and petty jealousies of competitive teammates. Behind the bitterness were ... Read more

    $17.99 USD