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Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions

Strategies for Wellbeing in White Spaces and Beyond

by Dona Gudger, Sislena Grocer Ledbetter, Xyanthe Neider, Shari Robinson, Karen McLean Dade ...

Series series Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions: Strategies for Wellbeing in White Spaces and Beyond supports Black women working in predominantly White spaces and further educates their institutions, non-Black counterparts, students, and families in developing an understanding of the challenges and needs of Black women professionals.In the face of world challenges, the authors ... Read more

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Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions: Strategies for Wellbeing in White Spaces and Beyond supports Black women working in predominantly White spaces and further educates their institutions, non-Black counterparts, students, and families in developing an understanding of the challenges and needs of Black women professionals.In the face of world challenges, the authors
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Race and Retail

Consumption across the Color Line

by Mia Bay, Ann Fabian, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Geraldo L. Cadava, Traci Parker, Bridget Kenny, John W. Heaton, Ellen D. Wu, Neiset Bayouth0, Johana Londoño1, Erualdo R. González2, Stacey A. Sutton3, Melissa L. Cooper4, Siobhan Carter-David5, Jerome D. Williams6, Geraldine Rosa Henderson7, Sophia R. Evett8, Anne-Marie G. Hakstian9, Azure B. Thompson0, Sharese N. Porter1 ...

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

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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
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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

by Traci Parker ...

Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and ... Read more

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In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and
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The Teacher Wars

A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

by Dana Goldstein ...

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been
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A Consumers' Republic

The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

by Lizabeth Cohen ...

In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

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In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the
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Collective Courage

A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

by Jessica Gordon Nembhard ...

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Read more

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In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty
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Liberty from All Masters

The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People

by Barry C. Lynn ...

"An eye-opening and persuasive defense of robust antitrust enforcement as essential to the core principles of American democracy" ( Publishers Weekly )."Very few thinkers in recent years have done more to shift the debate in Washington than Barry Lynn. In Liberty from All Masters , he proves himself as a lyrical theorist and a bold interpreter of history.... ... Read more

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"An eye-opening and persuasive defense of robust antitrust enforcement as essential to the core principles of American democracy" ( Publishers Weekly )."Very few thinkers in recent years have done more to shift the debate in Washington than Barry Lynn. In Liberty from All Masters , he proves himself as a lyrical theorist and a bold interpreter of history....
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The Death and Life of American Journalism

The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again

by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...

Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.In The Death and Life of American Journalism, ... Read more

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Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.In The Death and Life of American Journalism,
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

by Noliwe Rooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

Series series Significations
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberationWhen Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is ... Read more

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An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberationWhen Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is
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Don't Blame Us

Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

by Lily Geismer ...

Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily
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Saving America's Cities

Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen ...

"An incisive treatment of the entire urban-planning world in America in the last half of the 20th century" —Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York TimesIn twenty-first century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many ... Read more

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"An incisive treatment of the entire urban-planning world in America in the last half of the 20th century" —Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York TimesIn twenty-first century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.

Activism & Education in Logan Circle

by Ida E. Jones ...

The civil rights leader's life and work in the nation's capital, and her influence around the world, are celebrated in this biography.Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of formerly enslaved people. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she founded the National Council of Negro Women, an organization that supported Black women ... Read more

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The civil rights leader's life and work in the nation's capital, and her influence around the world, are celebrated in this biography.Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of formerly enslaved people. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she founded the National Council of Negro Women, an organization that supported Black women
... Read more

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