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To Advance the Race
From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins's study ranges across educational and …
Counterfeiting Labor's Voice
Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political …
Chicana Liberation
Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goals. Marisela R. Chavez uses a …
Talking with the Children of God
Grounded in direct, systematic observation by neutral observers, Talking with the Children of God is a unique study of the radical religious movement now known as The Family …
How to Think about Information
It is common wisdom that the U.S. economy has adapted to losses in its manufacturing base because of the booming information sector, with high-paying jobs for everything from …
On the Picket Line
Bonnie Ritter Book Award, National Communication Association's Feminist and Women Studies Division, 2008.On the Picket Line uncovers the voices of working-class women, particularly …
Laboring to Learn
The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to …
Tactical Inclusion
The revolution in military recruitment advertising to people of color and women played an essential role in making the US military one of the most diverse institutions in the …
Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanjing and launched six weeks of carnage that would become known as the Rape of Nanjing. In …
Give 'Em Soul, Richard!
As either observer or participant, radio deejay and political activist Richard E. Stamz witnessed every significant period in the history of blues and jazz in the last century. …
New Left and Labor in 1960s
It is a powerful story: the relationship between the 1960s New Left and organized labor was summed up by hardhats confronting students and others over US involvement in Vietnam. …
Racing to a Cure
Racing to a Cure is not a cancer memoir. It is a cancer cure memoir. In 1998 Neil Ruzic was diagnosed with mantle-cell lymphoma, the deadliest cancer of the lymph system, whose …