Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
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Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
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Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
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Black Skin, White Masks
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for …
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publica…
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
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From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of court…
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Discourse on Colonialism
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbea…
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