The intersection of sports and politics has been making headlines over the last few years, but the reality is that this clash has been going on for decades. This book examines the history of sports as a means to advance social change and connects that history to today's world.
Tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and around the world - overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.
The Color, Shape, and Tone of Twenty-First-Century Diversity
This interdisciplinary essay collection explores how the rhetoric of social justice can become a reality in the United States by interrogating matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in a variety of contexts ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement and children's literature to the contemporary workplace and university.
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
A century ago a spate of high-profile trials fuelled public debates in England and France about marriage and divorce laws, women's rights, temperance, homosexual prostitution and lesbian literature. This study of some of those trials addresses the role of the state in regulating sexual morality.
A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation
This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans. Dirt Don't Burn is the ......
Linking narratives and existing literature about Black womens technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation.
"This book traces the long arc of Black women's relationship with technology from the antebellum south to the social media era demonstrating how digital culture transforms and is transformed by Black feminist thought"--
This book follows renowned archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history-including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls caves, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site.
