Overview :This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-print books, Dan Burley s Original Handbook of Harlem Jive (1944) and Diggeth Thou?... Read More
Overview :This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manif... Read More
Overview :In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite (1936-2014), under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, publishe... Read More
Overview :From its early days as a sport to build "muscular Christianity" among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as ... Read More
Overview :Having skyrocketed from six to fourteen teams between 1966 and 1970, leaders of the National Hockey League had planned to wait a few more ye... Read More
Overview :The evolution of American cultural history pivots on those moments, large and small, where definitions break down, where meaning is conteste... Read More
Overview :A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana's nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to co... Read More
Overview :In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orl... Read More
Overview :Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King... Read More
Overview :Return of the King tells the story of Muhammad Ali's return to the ring in 1970, after a more than three-year suspension for refusing his dr... Read More
Overview :Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United State... Read More
Overview :A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, i... Read More
Overview :This book's predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott N... Read More
Overview :At approximately seven o'clock in the evening on May 7, 1950, Gordon Malherbe Hillman filled an empty bottle with water, capped it, and walk... Read More
Overview :In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his Atlanta Wo... Read More
Overview :In this book Thomas Aiello considers the special cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South over the half century betwee... Read More
Overview :The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest an... Read More
Overview :Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use... Read More