HIST 209: Civil Rights in the United States
A bibliography of resources for studying the social and racial implications of urban and regional planning in the United States.
The Path to Freedom
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The Path to Freedom
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The struggle for black freedom and equality is a legacy that belongs to all Americans. In the twentieth century, this story of triumph over injustice inspired the spread of democracy around the world. From the villages of Eastern Europe to the cities of Asia and Africa, people have found new strength, hope and courage in the ways African Americans defeated Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Liberty and equality required the sacrifices of many African Americans who lived and made a difference in New Jersey, including the Russell, Ham and Brown families whom Walter Greason documents in this book. This contemporary narrative of community uplift offers a fresh appreciation of just how long the path to justice is.
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American Metropolitics
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Offers insight into the challenges of suburban growth, and how it affects America's social, political, and economic structure. Features include references, tables, and maps.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 4 HT334.U5 O72 2002Publication Date: 2002 -
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 3 P94 .P63 1985Publication Date: 1985 -
The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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Publisher Fact Sheet Offers a snap shot of the Black Church today, highlighting its worship, its approach to doctrine, and its role in social activism, and contemporary challenges.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 4 BR563.N4 P49 2002Publication Date: 2002 -
A Consumers' Republic
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A social and political history describes how mass consumption and the pursuit of prosperity transformed American life during the second half of the twentieth century.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 4 HC110.C6 C537 2003Publication Date: 2003 -
Desegregating the Dollar
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Despite African Americans' nearly $500 billion collective annual spending power, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the ways U.S. businesses have courted black dollars in postslavery America. Desegregating the Dollar presents the first fully integrated history of black consumerism during the last century.The World War I-era "Great Migration" of African Americans from the rural South to northern and southern cities stimulated initial corporate interest in blacks as consumers. A generation later, as black urbanization intensified during World War II and its aftermath, the notion of a distinct, profitable African American consumer market gained greater currency. Moreover, black socioeconomic gains resulting from the Civil Rights Movement, which itself featured such consumer justice protests as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, further enhanced the status and influence of African American shoppers.Unwilling to settle for facile black-and-white answers, Weems also explores the roles of blacks who promoted the importance of the African American consumer market to U.S. corporations. Their actions, ironically, set the stage for the ongoing destruction of black-owned businesses. While the extent of educational, employment, and residential desegregation remains debatable, African American consumer dollars have, by any standard, been fully incorporated into the U.S. economy. Basing his conclusions on exhaustive research in trade journals and other primary and secondary materials, Robert E. Weems Jr. has given us the definitive account of the complicated relationship between African Americans, capitalism, and consumerism.
Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 1998 -
Root and Branch
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In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life in the region through two and a half centuries.
Hodges chronicles the lives of the first free black settlers in the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the British takeover, the fierce era of slavery, and the painfully slow process of emancipation. He pays particular attention to the black religious experience in all its complexity and to the vibrant slave culture that was shaped on the streets and in the taverns. Together, Hodges shows, these two potent forces helped fuel the long and arduous pilgrimage to liberty.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 4 F128.9.N3 H63 1999Publication Date: 1999 -
The Suburb Reader
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According to the 2000 Census, fifty percent of Americans live in suburbs, signifying a dramatic reversal of patterns since the 1920s. This work collects the best writings on such suburbs and includes scholarly essays, documents, and magazine and newspaper articles.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 4 HT352.U6 S795 2006Publication Date: 2016 -
Uplifting the Race
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Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused an ethos of self-help and service to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black majority as agents of civilization; hence the phrase 'uplifting the race.' A central assumption of racial uplift ideology was that African Americans' material and moral progress would diminish white racism. But Kevin Gaines argues that, in its emphasis on class distinctions and patriarchal authority, racial uplift ideology was tied to pejorative notions of racial pathology and thus was limited as a force against white prejudice. Drawing on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Hubert H. Harrison, and others, Gaines focuses on the intersections between race and gender in both racial uplift ideology and black nationalist thought, showing that the meaning of uplift was intensely contested even among those who shared its aims. Ultimately, elite conceptions of the ideology retreated from more democratic visions of uplift as social advancement, leaving a legacy that narrows our conceptions of rights, citizenship, and social justice.
Call Number: MAC Stacks - Level 4 E185.86 .G35 1996Publication Date: 1996
