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  • - African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990
    af Herbert G. Ruffin
    308,95 - 488,95 kr.

    Puts black people back into the picture and dispels cherished myths about California's racial history. Reaching from the Spanish era to the valley's emergence as a center of the high-tech industry, this is the first comprehensive history of the African American experience in the Santa Clara Valley.

  • - The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
    af Dwayne A. Mack
    208,95 - 373,95 kr.

    In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. In Black Spokane, Dwayne Mack recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America.

  • - Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
    af Charlotte Hinger
    278,95 - 438,95 kr.

  • - African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841-1869
    af Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
    278,95 - 438,95 kr.

    Among the diverse peoples who converged on America's mid-nineteenth western frontier were African American pioneers. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom's Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective.

  • - Estelvste and the Creek Nation
    af Gary Zellar
    308,95 - 438,95 kr.

    Tells how people of African heritage came to blend their lives with those of their Indian neighbours and essentially became Creek themselves. Taking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, Gary Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history.

  • - Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico
    af Shirley Boteler Mock
    308,95 - 438,95 kr.

  • - A History of Texas Southern University
    af Merline Pitre
    238,95 - 369,95 kr.

    Texas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an "emergency" state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU.

  • - General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory
    af Linda English
    285,95 - 398,95 kr.

  • - Language Education and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
    af Zevi Gutfreund
    308,95 - 548,95 kr.

    When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, language learning became a touchstone in the emerging culture wars. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Los Angeles. The city is the ideal locus for Zevi Gutfreund's study of how language instruction informed the social construction of American citizenship.

  • - African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
     
    488,95 kr.

    Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West - an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom's Racial Frontier.

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    373,95 kr.

    By considering social justice efforts in western cities and states, this book integrates the West into the historical narrative of black Americans' struggle for civil rights. From Iowa to the Pacific Northwest, and from Texas to the Dakotas, black westerners initiated a wide array of civil rights activities in the early to late twentieth century.

  • - From Watts to East L.A.
    af Robert Bauman
    438,95 kr.

  • - Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890
    af D. Michael Bottoms
    308,95 kr.

    In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California.

  • - The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930-1955
    af Dr Mary Ann Villarreal
    308,95 - 373,95 kr.

  • - A History
    af Kevin Mulroy
    423,95 kr.

    Popularly known as "Black Seminoles", descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness.

  • - Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930
    af Laura J. Arata
    264,50 kr.

    Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford made her way to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. This is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century.

  • - African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
     
    898,95 kr.

    Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West - an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom's Racial Frontier.