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Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics
The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed the election through the prism of change, while previously acknowledged demographic changes were hastily heralded as the dawn of a "...
To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Critical Moments in American History
On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, was overwhelmed by a larger Confederate force under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest. While the battle was insignificant from a strategic standpoint, the...
To Be Published October 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Museum Meanings
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in African American History
Black members of the military served in every war, conflict and military engagement between 1861 and 1948. Beyond serving only as enlisted soldiers and non-commissioned officers, many also served as commissioned officers in positions of leadership and authority. This book offers the first complete...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
Jesse Owens secured his place as one of the most celebrated athletes of the twentieth-century after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. This book examines the press coverage of the time, which helped to elevate Owens to such status. Pamela C. Laucella utilizes examples not just...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
How do our contemporary societies remember, reenact, conceal, and forget unpleasant aspects of their national histories encompassing enslavement, racism, and segregation of individuals and groups? How is the slave trade past conveyed and displayed in the public space? Over the last twenty...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Critical Moments in American History
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 signaled a shift in official and unofficial negotiations of race in America. Signed by Lyndon Johnson to secure African American voters their legally allowed but historically denied right to vote, the Act symbolized the government's recognition of widespread, systemic...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
