The Embarrassment Of Slavery
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Author | : Michael Salman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520240715 |
This book examines the salience of slavery and abolition in the history of American colonialism and Philippine nationalism. The author explains the link between the globalization of nationalism and the spread of antislavery as a hegemonic ideology in the modern world. --book jacket.
Author | : Simon Schama |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520061477 |
In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Paul Beatty |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374712247 |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
Author | : Clifford Simmie Tyus |
Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2011-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781432766993 |
Throughout the history of the world, nations having the audacity to defy the commandments of God were destroyed or ruined beyond repair. Sodom, Gomorrah, Canaan, and the Roman Empire were examples of nations destroyed by Gods awesome power. Recently, the racist government of South Africa brought shame to its nation and to the world through their adaptation of the ungodly conditions of apartheid. Because of this the government was eventually dethroned by the will of God. Empires of wicked rulers and dictators continue to tumble as the Word of God makes its way into the wilderness and far corners of the world. This story tells of the shame of slavery in a nation supposedly founded on Christian principles whose people defied the commandments of God by replacing love with hate and racism.
Author | : David M. Oshinsky |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439107742 |
In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.
Author | : Adam Rothman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674016743 |
Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.
Author | : Ebenezer W. Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783744737890 |
Nellie Norton - or, Southern slavery and the Bible is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author | : Bernard Lewis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195053265 |
From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was the last region to renounce slavery, how do we account for its -- and especially Islam's -- image of racial harmony? This book explores these questions. The research presented in this book was first undertaken as part of a group project on tolerance and intolerance in human societies. The group project was never completed but the material gathered for the project on Islam stimulated the book's study of race and slavery in the Middle East, a subject that appears to have so far encouraged scant study. -- Publisher description.
Author | : Andrew Delbanco |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0735224137 |
A New York Times Notable Book Selection Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award A New York Times Critics' Best Book "Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates This book tells the story of America’s original sin—slavery—through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself. The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. The War Before the War illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.
Author | : Devon W. Carbado |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807069132 |
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship.