SUBJECT INDEX:

SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Discrimination & Race Relations

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: With a Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; James P. Danky, Editor; Maureen E. Hady, Associate Editor; Foreword by Henry Louis Gates; The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography contains over 6,000 entries.; Hardcover 1999

Against Race: Paul Gilroy; Paul Gilroy contends that diving humanity into different identity groups based on skin color has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have become preeminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and contends that much of what was wonderful about black culture has been sacrificed in the service of corporate interests. He argues that the triumph of the image spells death to politics and reduces people to mere symbols.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

American Congo: Nan Elizabeth Woodruff; This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience.; Hardcover 2003

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: Glenn C. Loury; Loury describes a vicious cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes that rationalize and sustain discrimination. His analysis shows how the restrictions placed on black development by stereotypical and stigmatizing racial thinking deny a whole segment of the population the possibility of self-actualization that American society reveres--something that many contend would be undermined by remedies such as affirmative action. On the contrary, this book persuasively argues that the promise of fairness and individual freedom and dignity will remain unfulfilled without some forms of intervention based on race.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Black Is a Country: Nikhil Pal Singh; Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Bright Radical Star: Robert Dykstra; Hardcover

By Order of the President: Greg Robinson; On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order that allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible. Now, using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Greg Robinson reveals the president's central role in making and implementing the internment and examines not only what the president did but why.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery: David Brion Davis; Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

China's Forty Millions: June Teufel Dreyer; Hardcover 1976

Chutes and Ladders: Katherine S. Newman; Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest families benefited from the tight labor markets and good economy in the late 1990s. More than a story of the shifting fortunes of the labor market, Chutes and Ladders asks probing questions about the motivations of low-wage workers, the dreams they have, and their understanding of the rules of the game.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Civility in the City: Jennifer Lee; Hollywood and the news media have repeatedly depicted the inner-city retail store as a scene of racial conflict and acrimony. Civility in the City uncovers a quite different story. Jennifer Lee examines the relationships between African American, Jewish, and Korean merchants and their black customers in New York and Philadelphia, and shows that, in fact, social order, routine, and civility are the norm.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2006

A Class of Their Own: Adam Fairclough; In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.; Hardcover 2007

Clinging to Mammy: Micki McElya; Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.; Hardcover 2007

The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940: Matthew Pratt Guterl; How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

The Dignity of Working Men: Michèle Lamont; Michèle Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men--the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society. They find their identity and self-worth in their ability to discipline themselves and conduct responsible but caring lives. This book also opens up a wider perspective by examining American workers in comparison with French workers. By singling out different "moral offenders" in the two societies, workers reveal contrasting definitions of "cultural membership" that help us understand and challenge the forms of inequality found in both societies.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Exile Within: Thomas James; The experience of the 30,000 Japanese American children torn from their homes and incarcerated in camps left a tangle of social meanings that had not been inspected with the care it deserves until this book was written. Because they were schoolchildren, theirs was an educational history; and James tells it here, fully mindful of the irony of children studying democracy and its ideals while suffering as victims of the most undemocratic of all processes--imprisonment in a relocation camp solely on the basis of their race.; Hardcover 1987

Forging Freedom: Gary B. Nash; This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish neighborhoods and social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children in schools, forge a political consciousness, and train black leaders who would help abolish slavery.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1991

From Prejudice to Destruction: Jacob Katz; Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

Generations of Captivity: Ira Berlin; Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans have a singular vision of slavery, fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Berlin offers a major reinterpretation in which slavery was made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

A Hideous Monster of the Mind: Bruce Dain; The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.; Hardcover 2003

Integration or Separation?: Roy L. Brooks; Integrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of fifty years of "progress" in American racial policy? Is there hope for much better? Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law and a writer on matters of race and civil rights, says with frank clarity what few will admit--integration hasn't worked and possibly never will. Equally, he casts doubt on the solution that many African-Americans and mainstream whites have advocated: total separation of the races. This book presents Brooks's strategy for a middle way between the increasingly unworkable extremes of integration and separation.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume I, I Will be Heard!: William Lloyd Garrison; Edited by Walter M. Merrill; Garrison's letters offer an insight into the mind and life of an outstanding figure in American history, a reformer-revolutionary who sought radical changes in the institutions of his day, and who, perhaps more than any other single individual, was ultimately responsible for the emancipation of the slaves. Included in this first volume are his letters from the earliest known--one to his mother during his apprenticeship in 1822--through the 1831 founding of his famous newspaper, The Liberator; the founding in 1832 and 1833 of the New England and the American Anti-Slavery Societies; his first trip to England to meet with British abolitionists; his courtship and marriage; and his being dragged through the streets of Boston by a mob out to tar and feather the British abolitionist George Thompson.; Hardcover

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II, A House Dividing against Itself: William Lloyd Garrison; Edited by Louis Ruchames; This volume covers the five-year period in which Garrison's three sons were born and he entered the arena of social reform with full force.; Hardcover 1971

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume III, No Union with the Slaveholders: William Lloyd Garrison; Edited by Walter M. Merrill; Though plagued by illness and death in his immediate family throughout the years covered in this volume, Garrison drove himself to win supporters for the radical abolitionist cause. lecturing and touring often with Frederick Douglass. Throughout these years he continued to write extensively for The Liberator and involved himself in a variety of liberal causes; in 1849 he publicized and circulated in Massachusetts the earliest petition for women's suffrage.; Hardcover 1974

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume IV, From Disunionism to the Brink of War: William Lloyd Garrison; Edited by Louis Ruchames; Despite provocation, Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance during this period, though he continued to advocate the emancipation of slaves. Set against a background of wide-ranging travels throughout the western United States and of family affairs back home in Boston, Garrison's letters of this decade make a distinctive contribution to antebellum life and thought.; Hardcover 1976

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume V, Let the Oppressed Go Free: William Lloyd Garrison; Edited by Walter M. Merrill; Hardcover 1979

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume VI, To Rouse the Slumbering Land: William Lloyd Garrison; Edited by Walter M. Merrill; Edited by Louis Ruchames; Hardcover 1981

Making Americans: Desmond King; In the nineteenth century, virtually anyone could get into the United States. By the 1920s, however, U.S. immigration policy had become a finely filtered regime of selection. Desmond King looks at this dramatic shift, and the debates behind it, for what they reveal about the construction of an "American" identity. King gives the most thorough account yet of how eugenic arguments were used to establish barriers and to favor an Anglo-Saxon conception of American identity, rejecting claims of other traditions.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: John Torpey; This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics.; Hardcover 2006

The Miner's Canary: Lani Guinier; Gerald Torres; Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Modern Peoplehood: John Lie; Far from being transhistorical and transcultural phenomena, race, ethnicity, and nation, Lie argues, are modern notions--modernity here associated with the rise of the modern state, the industrial economy, and Enlightenment ideas. Not only is the state responsible for the development and nurturing of feelings of belonging associated with ethnic, racial, and national identity, it is also responsible for racial and ethnic conflict, even genocide.; Hardcover 2004

The New Nuns: Amy L. Koehlinger; In the 1960s, a number of Catholic women in the United States abandoned traditional apostolic works to experiment with new and often unprecedented forms of service among non-Catholics. Koehlinger explores the phenomenon of the "new nun" through close examination of one of its most visible forms--the experience of white sisters working in African-American communities. In this book, Koehlinger captures the confusion and frustration, as well as the exuberance and delight, that they experienced in their new Christian mission.; Hardcover 2007

Playing in the Dark: Toni Morrison; Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature.; Hardcover 1992

Prejudice in Politics: Lawrence D. Bobo; Mia Tuan; In Prejudice in Politics, Lawrence Bobo and Mia Tuan explore a lengthy controversy surrounding the fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The book uses a carefully designed survey of public opinion to explore the dynamics of prejudice and political contestation, and to further our understanding of how and why racial prejudice enters into politics in the United States.; Hardcover 2006

Prisoners of Hope: H. Stuart Hughes; The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.; Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1996

Race and Manifest Destiny: Reginald Horsman; American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850; Paperback

Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: John E. Roemer; Woojin Lee; Karine Van der Straeten; From the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" in the U.S. to the rise of Le Pen's National Front in France, conservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Combining historical analysis and empirical rigor with major theoretical advances, the authors of this book construct a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution.; Hardcover 2007

Reaching beyond Race: Paul M. Sniderman; Edward G. Carmines; If white Americans could reveal what they really think about race, without the risk of appearing racist, what would they say? In this elegantly written and innovative book, Paul Sniderman and Edward Carmines illuminate aspects of white Americans' thinking about the politics of race previously hidden from sight. In a thoughtful follow-up analysis, they point the way toward public policies that could gain wide support and reduce the gap between black and white Americans.; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria, Revised Edition: Peter Pulzer; Paperback 1988

The Rooster’s Egg: Patricia J. Williams; To a culture speaking with barely masked hysteria, this book brings a voice of reason and a reminder of the decency that is missing from so much of our public debate. Patricia J. Williams addresses the wounds in America's public soul, and uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Searching for the Invisible Man: Michael Craton; Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.; Hardcover 1978

Sharing America's Neighborhoods: Ingrid Gould Ellen; The first part of this book presents a fresh and encouraging report on the state of racial integration in America's neighborhoods. It shows that while the majority are indeed racially segregated, a substantial and growing number are integrated, and remain so for years. Still, many integrated neighborhoods do unravel quickly, and the second part of the book explores the root causes.; Hardcover 2001

Shifting the Color Line: Robert C. Lieberman; Shifting the Color Line explores the historical and political roots of racial conflict in American welfare policy, beginning with the New Deal. Robert Lieberman demonstrates how racial distinctions were built into the very structure of the American welfare state.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

The Showman and the Slave: Benjamin Reiss; Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history.; Hardcover 2001

Skin Trade: Ann DuCille; Challenging the increasingly popular argument that blacks should settle down, stop whining, and get jobs, Skin Trade insists that racism remains America's premier national story and its grossest national product. From Aunt Jemima Pancakes to ethnic Barbie dolls, Ann duCille explains, corporate America peddles racial and gender stereotypes.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996

Slaves on Screen: Natalie Zemon Davis; The written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film. Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre was written while she served as consultant to the French film of the same name, now tackles the large issue of how the moving picture industry has portrayed slaves in five major motion pictures spanning four generations.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Staging Race: Karen Sotiropoulos; Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

To Stand and Fight: Martha Biondi; The story of the civil rights movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle for racial equality in the urban North began a full ten years before the rise of the movement in the South. To Stand and Fight demonstrates how black New Yorkers launched the modern civil rights struggle and left a rich legacy.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

To Wake the Nations: Eric J. Sundquist; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

The Two Princes of Calabar: Randy J. Sparks; In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors--and so began their own extraordinary odyssey of enslavement. Their story, written in their own hand, survives as a rare firsthand account of the Atlantic slave experience. Sparks made the remarkable discovery of the princes' correspondence and has managed to reconstruct their adventures from it.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2008

Harvard University Press

SUBJECT INDEX:

SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Discrimination & Race Relations