Social discrimination and social justice

After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie.

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories-a place that has grown enormously through "e;creative class"e; strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness.

As neighborhoods, cities, and churches become gathering places for people from an astonishing variety of cultures, traditions, races, and ethnicities, racism us a profoundly spiritual concern and it's more important than ever for Christians to see the face of God in one another.

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How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions The US South is a rhetorical landscape that pulsates with division, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground and contaminate the soil.

Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness Unmastering the Script: Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society.

A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status.

Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.

A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.

Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.

A powerful, data-driven investigation into how race, geography, and community shape the reporting and response to child abuse in Alabama.

This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama represents exhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.

WINNER OF THE SUSAN COLVER ROSENBERGER AWARD A foundational work of educational history, Horace Mann Bond's study reveals how race, labor, and power shaped Black schooling in Alabama-and why those lessons still matter today.

Winner of the Florida Historical Society's 2015 Stetson Kennedy Award The 1980 Mariel Boatlift was a profound episode in twentieth-century American history, impacting not just Florida, but the entire country.

"e;A history of the United States that is almost incredible.

A Brookings Institution Press and National Academy for Social Insurance publicationThis new volume from the National Academy of Social Insurance raises a provocative question that goes to the heart of discussion about social insurance and diversityto what extent must social insurance programs address historical, social, and economic inequities?

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For much of the nation's history, the participation of blacks in the armed forces was ap-proximately in line with their proportion in the total population.

In 1929 The Goldbergs debuted on the air, introducing Gertrude Berg-and her radio alter ego, Bronx housewife Molly Goldberg-to the nation.

In Amado Muro and Me, ten-year-old Robert Seltzer discovers that his father, Chester, actually leads two livesone as a newspaperman and father who somehow always knows what his son is thinking; the other as Amado Muro, a passionate and gifted writer whose pseudonym is adapted from the name of his Mexican immigrant wife.

When it comes to race in America, we must face one uncomfortable but undeniable fact.

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

Eyewitness account of the civil disorder in Detroit in the summer of 1967.

Beyond Blaxploitationis a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.

Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American.

This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare's histories and national identity by bringing together two growing bodies of work: early modern race scholarship and adaptation theory.

Hollywood films have been influential in the portrayal and representation of race relations in the South and how African Americans are cinematically depicted in history, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) to The Help (2011) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.

In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924-1987) expresses his profound belief that writers have the power to transform society, to engage the public, and to inspire and channel conversation to achieve lasting change.

The definitive collection of speeches and writings by the labor leader, civil rights activist and founder of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

The year was 1865.

On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally beaten to death for allegedly flirting with a white woman at a grocery store in Money, Mississippi.

This provocative study explores how media coverage of Emmett Till's murder influences regional reactions and reignited the Civil Rights movement.

Bernard LaFayette Jr.

Bernard LaFayette Jr.

Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the organization for more than twenty years.

Roy Wilkins (19011981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the organization for more than twenty years.

Scientific evidence has made it abundantly clear that the world's population can no longer continue its present rate of consuming and despoiling the planet's limited natural resources.

Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship.

"e;An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses .

White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social orderespecially the young members of the next generation.

"e;An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses .

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.

In the 1990s, churches across the southeastern United States were targeted and set ablaze.