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The 1940s and 1950s were decades of far-reaching change and
mobilization in the United States. White culture strove to make
nonwhites invisible with segregation and discrimination as Southern
blacks continued the Great Migration north and the government
brought in Mexican labor via the Bracero Program to take up labor
slack while U.S. troops were overseas. The rise of the civil rights
movement and Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down
segregation in schools 1954, were some results. This volume is THE
content-rich source in a desirable decade-by-decade organization to
help students and general readers understand the crucial race
relations of the war years into the Cold War. Race Relations in the
United States, 1940-1960 provides comprehensive reference coverage
of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group,
legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of
inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades with a
standard format coverage per decade, including Timeline, Overview,
Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and
Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene,
Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, Resource Guide.
This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The
bulk of the coverage is topical essays, written in a clear,
encyclopedic style. Historical photos, a selected bibliography, and
index complement the text.
This rich cultural history of African Americans outlines their
travails, triumphs, and achievements in negotiating individual and
collective identities to overcome racism, slavery, and the legacies
of these injustices from colonial times to the present. One of
every five Americans at the nation's beginning was an African
American—a fact that underscores their importance in U.S. growth
and development. This fascinating study moves from Africans' early
contacts with the Americas to African Americans' 21st-century
presence, exploring their role in building the American nation and
in constructing their own identities, communities, and cultures.
Historian and lawyer Thomas J. Davis's multi-themed narrative of
compelling content provides a historical overview of the rise of
African Americans from slavery and segregation in their anti-racist
quest to enjoy equal rights and opportunities to reach the American
Dream of pursuing happiness. The work features portraits of
individuals and treats images of African Americans in their roles
as performers, producers, consumers, and creators, and as the face
of social problems such as crime, education, and poverty.
This book explores the transformative energy and excitement that
African Americans expressed in aesthetic and civic currents that
percolated during the opening of the 20th century and proved to be
a force in the modernization of America. This engaging reference
text represents the voices of the era in poetry and prose, in full
or excerpted from anecdotes, editorials, essays, manifestoes,
orations, and reminiscences, with appearances by major figures and
often overlooked contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. Organized
topically and, within topics, chronologically, the volume reaches
beyond the typical representation of the spirit and substance of
the movement, examinations of which are typically confined to the
New York City community and from U.S. entry into World War I in
1917 to the depths of the Great Depression in 1935. It carries
readers from the opening of the Harlem Renaissance, which began at
the top of the 20th century, to its heights in the 1920s and '30s
and through to its artistic and literary echoes in the shadows of
World War II (1939-1945). Collects more than 100 primary source
documents, excerpting literature and commentary on arts and
activities that produced illustrative images Defines the "New
Negro" within the context of the Harlem Renaissance, explaining how
the identity of the "New Negro" was central to the ideology and
cultural expressions of the Harlem Renaissance Covers more than 60
personalities of the movement, offering both diverse and divergent
perspectives on African American experiences during the first third
of the 20th century Includes both popularly recognized and often
overlooked contributors to the Harlem Renaissance
America has struggled with racial issues since its birth centuries
ago. In this pivotal study of racism in the United States, over 90
primary documents provide compelling evidence of how race has
affected and shaped our country throughout the years. A narrative
overview of each event, expert analysis, the text of primary
sources contemporary to the time of the event, and ready reference
materials will help both high school and college students to
understand how race has affected the country. From the framing of
the Constitution to the removal of American Indians and the Civil
War, students will learn how racism is prevalent even in today's
society, be it in the war on terrorism, anti-immigrant feelings, or
views against casinos on Native American reservations. Documents
include excerpts from speeches, letters, pamphlets, books, essays,
newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, government reports,
congressional debates, laws, and court decisions. This detailed
work includes an overview of racism in America, and is then
followed by compelling and revealing primary documents that help to
illustrate 15 key events in history. These events include:
Constructing the Constitution Indian removal from east to west Nat
Turner's rebellion War with Mexico The Civil War Reconstruction and
post-Civil War The end of the Indian Wars Anti-Asian internment
Segregation and the New Deal Desegregation Casinos on Indian
reservations Affirmative Action Race on Trial New immigrants today
And the war on terrorism Each section concludes with suggested
readings and Web sites. The work is fully indexed.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
More than the story of one man's case, this book tells the story of
entire generations of people marked as "mixed race" in America amid
slavery and its aftermath, and being officially denied their
multicultural identity and personal rights as a result. Contrary to
popular misconceptions, Plessy v. Ferguson was not a simple case of
black vs. white separation, but rather a challenging and complex
protest for U.S. law to fully accept mixed ancestry and
multiculturalism. This book focuses on the long struggle for
individual identity and multicultural recognition amid the
dehumanizing and depersonalizing forces of American Negro
slavery-and the Anglo-American white supremacy that drove it. The
book takes students and general readers through the extended
gestation period that gave birth to one of the most oft-mentioned
but widely misunderstood landmark law will cases in U.S. history.
It provides a chronology, brief biographies of key figures, primary
documents, an annotated bibliography, and an index all of which
provide easy reading and quick reference. Modern readers will find
the direct connections between Plessy's story and contemporary
racial currents in America intriguing.
Description: It's C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters) meets
Christopher Moore (Lamb) in this quirky fable about human
aspirations and the nature of temptation. Timothy McFarland is a
failed theology student turned gift book writer. His 101 Good
Things about Christmas has sold millions. But Timothy finds that
his success has changed nothing; in fact, he seems more stuck in
his life than ever. Wanting to be more than a rich hack, he is
confronted by Lucifer, a Wagner-loving devil who offers to mold
Timothy into a serious writer by teaching him to take a colder look
at life. And it works. Timothy is published in the right literary
and commercial venues, and there's talk of The Great American
Novel. Along the way, Timothy and the devil are having a grand
time, talking religion, catching bad Elvis impersonators at the
casinos, and watching devil-cam, Lucifer's ultimate home video
network. But there's a final step Timothy must take. Can he write
coolly about a tragedy that unfolds before his eyes, as the devil
urges? Will he take on the full weight of the devil's writing gift
and make it his own? All he has to do is change who he really is.
This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the
complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early
sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century.
Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa and Europe
prior to 1500, the work covers chronologically the transatlantic
slave trade, domestic slave trading, slave systems, the abolition
movements, and the aftermath of emancipation throughout the
Americas. Several chapters provide sweeping surveys of broad
regions such as British North America, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica,
the Andean countries and Latin America. Others deal with specific
territories such as the United States, Venezuela, Cuba or Brazil.
The book begins with a chapter on African antiquity and early
contacts with Europe. It continues with a comparative history of
the slave trade and emancipation. Other topics include the role of
free blacks throughout the Americas, women and gender relations,
and African-American relations with Europeans and Native American
populations. Finally, the book concludes with chapters on modern
race and economic relations in the Americas and a chapter on the
continuing ties between African Americans and Africa. "On the whole
Africans in the Americas accomplishes its purpose well, there is a
great deal of fascinating information here. A very useful text."
The International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, 633-65
(1995) Michael L. Conniff earned degrees at UC-Berkeley and
Stanford (Ph.D. 1976) and has published a number of books on modern
Latin American history, most recently A History of Modern Latin
America (with Lawrence Clayton) and Populism in Latin America.
Thomas J. Davis, Ph.D., J.D., teaches history and law at Arizona
State University in Tempe, focusing on race and the law, civil
rights, and U.S. constitutional and legal history. His most recent
publications include "Race, Identity, and the Law: Underlying
Questions in Plessy v. Ferguson," in Race on Trial: Law and Justice
in American History (2002); "The Community of Africans in the
Americas: Colonialism to CARICOM and TransAfrica" Research and
Diversity Journal (2002) and "Conspiracy and Credibility," William
and Mary Quarterly (2002). CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Patrick Carroll ▪
David Eltis ▪ Patience Essah ▪ Alfred Frederick ▪ Dale Graden ▪
Linda Heywood ▪ Richard Lobban ▪ Colin Palmer ▪ Joseph Reidy ▪ John
Thornton ▪ Ronald Walters ▪ Ashton Welch ▪ Winthrop Wright TABLE OF
CONTENTS Preface PART I - Africa, Europe, and the Americas 1.
Africa to 1500 2. Africa and Europe before 1700 3. Early African
Experiences in the Americas PART II - The Slave Trade and Slavery
in the Americas 4. Africans in the Caribbean 5. Africans in Brazil
6. Africans in Mainland Spanish America 7. Africans in the Thirteen
British Colonies PART III - Ending the Slave Trade and Slavery 8.
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade 9. Emancipation in the
Caribbean and Spanish America 10. Emancipation in the United States
11. Emancipation in Brazil PART IV - Africans in the Americas since
Abolition 12. African Americans in Postemancipation Economies 13.
Race and Politics in the United States 14. Race and Politics in
Latin America 15. The Americas' Continuing Ties with Africa
AFTERWORD GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions
inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of
organizations and examines the effect assumptions about
"professional, scientific, nonsectarian" philanthropy have had on
how religious philanthropies carry out their activities. The
organizations examined include the American Friends Service
Committee, the American Soviet Jewry Movement, Catholic Charities
USA, the Salvation Army, the World Council of Churches, and World
Vision (in global comparative context). The book also looks at
Robert Pierce, founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse, and
at matters not bounded by a single religious philanthropy:
philanthropy and Jewish identity, American Muslim philanthropy
since 9/11, and the complexities of the federal program that funds
faith-based initiatives. These essays shed light on how religion
and philanthropy function in American society, shaping and being
shaped by the culture and its notions of the "common good."
The history of the American twentieth century is largely one of
race relations. As the twentieth century unfolded, racial tensions
between major racial and ethnic groups often exploded. From the
backlash against Eastern and Southern European immigration in the
early part of the century to the Civil Rights movement and race
riots of the 1960s to the backlash against Latino immigration at
the century's end, understanding race relations is central to
meeting curricular U.S. history standards. The five-volume Race
Relations in the United States in the Twentieth Century set
incomparably encapsulates the explosive century, with a desirable
decade-by-decade overall organization especially tailored for
student assignments. The set provides comprehensive reference
coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by
group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories
of inter-group interactions that have been evident in the last
century and related to race. Each volume, written by an historian,
covers two decades. The set format includes this coverage per
decade: Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race
Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass
Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of
Race Relations, Resource Guide, allowing comparison of topics
through the century. The bulk of the coverage is topical essays,
written in a clear, encyclopedic style. Each volume contains a
selected bibliography and index. Historical photos complement the
text. Volumes include: BLRace Relations in the United States,
1900-1920 BLRace Relations in the United States, 1920-1940 BLRace
Relations in the United States, 1940-1960 BLRaceRelations in the
United States, 1960-1980 BLRace Relations in the United States,
1980-2000.
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