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Author: Terrion L. Williamson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1948742888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ambitious, honest portrait of the Black experience in flyover country. One of The St. Louis Post Dispatch's Best Books of 2020. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and
Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0804749833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).
Author: Franklin Frazier
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-02-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0684832410
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Author: Lynn T. Ramey
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0813055040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as “evil” and white as “good.” Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of “monstrous peoples” to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.
Author: Mary Pattillo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 022602122X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.
Author: Karyn R. Lacy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-07-03
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0520251164
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Author: Bruce D. Haynes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0300129866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRunyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book—the first history of a black middle-class community—tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class. Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Haynes describes the progressive stages in the life of the community and its inhabitants and the factors that enabled it to form in the first place and to develop solidarity, identity and political consciousness. He shows how residents came to recognize common political interests within the community, how racial consciousness provided an axis for social solidarity as well as partial insulation from racial slights, and how the suburb afforded these middle-class residents a degree of physical and social distance from the ghetto. As Haynes explores the history of Runyon Heights, we learn the ways in which its black middle class dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class.
Author: Jawanza Kunjufu
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling look at the relationship between the majority of African American students and their teachers provides answers and solutions to the hard-hitting questions facing education in today's black and mixed-race communities. Are teachers prepared by their college education departments to teach African American children? Are schools designed for middle-class children and, if so, what are the implications for the 50 percent of African Americans who live below the poverty line? Is the major issue between teachers and students class or racial difference? Why do some of the lowest test scores come from classrooms where black educators are teaching black students? How can parents negotiate with schools to prevent having their children placed in special education programs? Also included are teaching techniques and a list of exemplary schools that are successfully educating African Americans.
Author: Bart Landry
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2018-11-30
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0813593980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.
Author: Bart Landry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987-04-21
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0520064658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this important new book, Bart Landry contributes significantly to the study of black American life and its social stratification and to the study of American middle class life in general.
