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''. . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American race riots.'' -- American Historical Review ''His work fills a serious gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before analyzed by sociologists in the way that the ......
Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies, and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.
''A lively and well-researched analysis of women's roles in the kinship systems of precapitalist African societies turns out to be pertinent to women's struggle for equality everywhere.''-- Ms. ''For any theorist of social organization this is an important book.''-- American Anthropologist ''For anthropologists, historians, social theorists, and ......
Working-Class America represents the new labor history par excellence. Its ten original essays, by some of the best young scholars in the field, are at the frontier of current research and demonstrate the ability of working-class historians to produce exciting new insights into the nature of American society.Working-Class America, however, offers ......
Plain Folk depicts both the ordinary occupations and ethnic and racial diversity of America at the turn of the century. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or ''lifelets'' of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a ......
1909-11. Assistant editors, Geraldine McTigue and Nan E. Woodruff
The Washington papers continue to garner critical acclaim as a major publishing enterprise in Black and American historiography. Throughout their corpus, they reveal the private world of black Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and provide vivid personal perspectives on interracial relations during the ''age of ......
The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination. In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and ......
Few American entertainers have had the explosive impact, wide-ranging appeal, and continuing popularity of country music star Hank Williams. Such Williams standards as ''Your Cheatin' Heart,'' ''I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,'' ''Jambalaya,'' and ''I Saw the Light'' have all entered the pantheon of great American song. Roger Williams recounts the ......
In 1911 and 1912 Washington continued to travel, lecture, and write in America and abroad. In England and Europe he studied working-class conditions and included his observations in The Man Farthest Down (1912). During this same time period, however, he and his Tuskegee Machine suffered systematic shocks from which they only partially recovered. ......
