That the Blood Stay Pure

That the Blood Stay Pure
Author: Arica L. Coleman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253010500

That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia's racial purity campaign from the perspective of those who were disavowed or expelled from tribal communities due to their affiliation with people of African descent or because their physical attributes linked them to those of African ancestry. Coleman also explores the social consequences of the racial purity ethos for tribal communities that have refused to define Indian identity based on a denial of blackness. This rich interdisciplinary history, which includes contemporary case studies, addresses a neglected aspect of America's long struggle with race and identity.

Race, Incarceration, and American Values

Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Author: Glenn C. Loury
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2008-08-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262260948

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans. The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate—at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising—is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan. Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies. Whatever the explanation, Loury argues, the uncontroversial fact is that changes in our criminal justice system since the 1970s have created a nether class of Americans—vastly disproportionately black and brown—with severely restricted rights and life chances. Moreover, conservatives and liberals agree that the growth in our prison population has long passed the point of diminishing returns. Stigmatizing and confining of a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to Americans. Loury's call to action makes all of us now responsible for ensuring that the policy changes.

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become, a Critical and Practical Discussion

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become, a Critical and Practical Discussion
Author: William Hannibal Thomas
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781015455023

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Negroland

Negroland
Author: Margo Jefferson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101870648

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.” Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs—a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and “the masses of Negros,” and where the motto was “Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.” Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.

No Matter What-- They'll Call this Book Racist

No Matter What-- They'll Call this Book Racist
Author: Harry Stein
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1594036004

Stein attacks the rigid prohibitions that have long governed the conversation about race, not to offend or shock but to provoke the serious thinking that liberal enforcers have until now rendered impossible. Stein examines the ways in which the regime of racial preferences has sown division, corruption, and resentment in this country.

The Negro Family

The Negro Family
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1965
Genre: African American families
ISBN:

The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.

Racial Integrity

Racial Integrity
Author: Arthur Alfonso Schomburg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1990
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780938818427

White America: The American Racial Problem as Seen in a Worldwide Perspective

White America: The American Racial Problem as Seen in a Worldwide Perspective
Author: Earnest Sevier Cox
Publisher: Ostara Publications
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781646066742

A masterful survey of the relationship between racial homogeneity and the preservation of civilization, described against a sweeping historical backdrop which includes Egypt, India, South America, South Africa, and finally the U.S.A. The author proves how racial mixing has in every case led to the collapse of the original founding civilization, and that the only solution to the problem is not segregation, but total physical geographical separation. The only solution for America, this work argues, is the repatriation of its nonwhite population to their continents of origin. Written in the 1930s, the highly accurate predictions of what would happen if a policy of separation was not followed, makes the book's ultimate thesis even more urgent--particularly in light of increasing anti-white hatred and discrimination in America today. "The American problem is not beyond the possibility of permanent solution, but such successful solution will probably depend upon the attitude of the present and the succeeding generation of whites. We know the long continued dwelling together of blacks and whites during the past sixty centuries has had but one ending: amalgamation. "Imagine the mulattoes and the nearer whites of the United States to be greatly augmented in numbers. Eventually the nation would cease to reflect Caucasian ideals and cease to represent Caucasian culture . . . The halls of the national capitol, once familiar to the noblest of the Saxons, would echo to the tread of mulattoes, and a mixed-breed would sit as President." This new edition has been hand edited and completely reset. It contains the complete original text and nine new illustrations and a complete index. Contents: Note from the Publisher (1937 edition) Preface General Introduction Chapter 1: Race Migrations--Prehistoric Chapter 2: Race Migrations--Historic Chapter 3: Hybrids and 'Remnants' Chapter 4: Civilizations That Have Perished Through Contact with Colored Races--Egypt Chapter 5: Civilizations That Have Perished Through Contact with Colored Races--Egypt Continued Chapter 6: Civilizations That Have Perished Through Contact with Colored Races--India Chapter 7: Civilizations That Have Perished Through Contact with Colored Races--China, Mexico, Peru Chapter 8: Civilizations That Are Imperiled Through Contact with Colored Races--Latin America Chapter 9: Civilizations That Are Imperiled Through Contact with Colored Races--South Africa Chapter 10: The Civilization That Has Survived Contact with Colored Races--The United States Chapter 11: Problems of Civilization in Contact with Colored Races--Economic Problems Chapter 12: Problems of Civilization in Contact with Colored Races--Religious and Social Problems Chapter 13: Solution of the Problems of Civilization When in Contact with Colored Races--Separation or Amalgamation; Repatriation A Necessity Chapter 14: The Ideal Negro State Chapter 15: Program of Repatriation Index