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Africa

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

Falola Toyin, Chijioke Njoku Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9780300234831, Yale University Press, October 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tr...

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Journey to Freedom Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement

Blansett Kent

ISBN: PB: 9780300255188, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

<p>A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on...

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Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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General

Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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America

Lost Black Scholar Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought

Varel David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226754437, ISBN: HB: 9780226534886, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Allison Davis (1902-1983), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's...

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Last Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War

Nichter Luke A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217803, Yale University Press, September 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did – in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that inf...

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America

Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven

Schultz John

ISBN: PB: 9780226760742, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice...

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Law

Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

Pearson Susan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...

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America

Hope and Scorn Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics

Brown Michael J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226718149, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Intellectuals "have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn", writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: are intellectual public figures essential voi...

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Steam City Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

Schley David

ISBN: HB: 9780226720258, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a "rail-road" that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed thi...

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