In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era
Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement
A searching and succinct restatement of the many ways race and American racial attitudes affect how we talk about the poor--and how we handle the problem of poverty relief
A milestone study of religion's place in Detroit's protest communities, from the 1930s to the 1960s
Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States
The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers
A classic of labor history, with a new foreword by one of the leading figures in urban studies
The first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River
Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination