wired - Discrimination & Race Relations 12

One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until……続きを見る

In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as th……続きを見る

The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first ma……続きを見る

By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility to free people of color. Coverin……続きを見る

STEWART R. KING is an associate professor of history at Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon. 続きを見る

Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thu……続きを見る

Teaching should never be color-blind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradicating racism is to feign ignorance of our palpable physical differences, a few have led the movemen……続きを見る

From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright……続きを見る

In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, le……続きを見る

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. ……続きを見る

In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North ……続きを見る

The Color of Desire tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics. Focusing on the Federal Republic of Ge……続きを見る

This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society. Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the sla……続きを見る

This book explores the Muslim minority women’s perceptions of how computer education can lead them to social participation. Moreover, it discusses the contribution of (administrative) members of the……続きを見る

La Revolución Francesa marcó un hito en el pensamiento sobre la nación alemana. El reclamo de validez universal de sus principios de libertad, igualdad y fraternidad se conjugó con el universalismo ……続きを見る

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“How did we get here?" is one of the essential questions right now in American politics. How did we go from a country that elected Barack Obama twice to one that, popular vote loss aside, elected Do……続きを見る

The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Y……続きを見る

Mihail Groys wanderte in den 90er-Jahren gemeinsam mit seiner Familie aus dem Donbass in die Bundesrepublik ein. Nun, 25 Jahre später, betrachtet er das Land, das ihm damals neue Heimat geworden ist……続きを見る

In May 1964, Bill McAtee became the new minister at Columbia Presbyterian Church, deep in the Piney Woods of south Mississippi. Soon after his arrival, three young civil rights workers were brutally……続きを見る

Die Linke steht für soziale Gerechtigkeit, ökologische Verantwortung und internationale Solidarität – und doch scheitert sie immer wieder an sich selbst. Dieses Buch geht den Ursachen auf den Grund.……続きを見る

This book demonstrates the epistemic challenges in the South African education system and asks readers to think critically about the university's role in a decolonial future. Wanelisa Xaba reveals h……続きを見る

Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre’s intellectual work ……続きを見る

Mehrgewichtige werden systematisch entmenschlicht. Ob negative Darstellung in den Medien oder öffentliche Diffamierung – Dicken wird abgesprochen, wertvolle Mitglieder der Gesellschaft zu sein. Das ……続きを見る

Die schockierende Wahrheit über Amerikas Aufstieg zur Macht, die Sie nicht erfahren sollen Alles, was Sie über die amerikanische Geschichte gelernt haben, war eine Lüge. Von den ersten europäischen ……続きを見る

What does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A Black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations bega……続きを見る

If the crowd around us says the sky is green, it’s much easier to go along with the crowd than to be the lone standout arguing for blueness. How can people who seem perfectly sane believe seemingly ……続きを見る

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryCo-winner of the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize from the Agricultural……続きを見る

One of the nation’s first highly publicized missing child cases Ten-year-old Beverly Potts was last seen at 9:00 p.m. the evening of August 24, 1951, at Halloran Park on Cleveland’s West Side. She a……続きを見る

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed……続きを見る