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  • Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

    by Sharon Block ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Colonial Complexions

    Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

    by Sharon Block ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Inequality and the Labor Market

    The Case for Greater Competition

    Edited by Sharon Block, Benjamin H. Harris ...
    Exploring a new agenda to improve outcomes for American workersAs the United States continues to struggle with the impact of the devastating COVID-19 recession, policymakers have an opportunity to redress the competition problems in our labor markets. Making the right policy choices, however, requires a deep understanding of long-term, multidimensional problems. That will be solved only by looking ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Colonial Complexions

    Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

    by Sharon Block ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Read more

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  • The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its ... Read more

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  • Politics of Public Money

    Spenders, Guardians, Priority Setters, and Financial Watchdogs inside the Canadian Government

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  • Raising Racists

    The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South

    by Kristina DuRocher ...
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    White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order—especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an ... Read more

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    How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

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  • Closer to Freedom

    Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

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    Series series Gender and American Culture
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  • 99 to 1

    How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It

    by Chuck Collins ...
    "America's foremost opponent of inequality brilliantly shows how the 1 percent rigged the rules, looted the country, and got the ninety-nine percent to pay for it."—Juliet Schor, author of Born to BuyOver recent decades, we've seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. In this book, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging ... Read more

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