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Black Lives, White Lives

Three Decades of Race Relations in America

By: Bob Blauner

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Black Lives, White Lives

Three Decades of Race Relations in America

By: Bob Blauner

Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists. One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. "I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it." Twenty-four years later, Spence had become a respected pillar of that same Mississippi town, serving as its first Black alderman. The story of Howard Spence is just one of the remarkable personal dramas recounted in Black Lives, White Lives. Beginning in 1968, Bob Blauner and a team of interviewers recorded the words of those caught up in the crucible of rapid racial, social, and political change. Unlike most retrospective oral histories, these interviews capture the intense racial tension of 1968 in real time, as people talk with unusual candor about their deepest fears and prejudices. The diverse experiences and changing beliefs of Blauner's interview subjects—sixteen of them Black, twelve of them white—are expanded through subsequent interviews in 1979 and 1986, revealing as much about ordinary, daily lives as the extraordinary cultural shifts that shaped them. This book remains a landmark historical and sociological document, and an exceptional primary-source commentary on the development of race relations since the 1960s. Republished with a foreword by Professor Gerald Early, Black Lives, White Lives offers new generations of scholars and activists a galvanizing meditation on how divided America was then and still is today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520386027

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Still the Big News

Racial Oppression in America

By: Bob Blauner

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Racial Oppression in America

By: Bob Blauner

For more than thirty years, Bob Blauner's incisive writing on race relations has drawn a wide and varied audience. Whether his topic is the Watts riots in 1965, Chicano culture, or the tension between Blacks and Jews, his work is remarkable for its originality and candor. Beginning with the key essays of his landmark book, Racial Oppression in America, this volume makes the case that race and racism still permeate every aspect of American experience. Blauner launched his concept of internal colonialism in the turbulent 1960's, a period in which many Americans worried that racial conflicts would propel the country into another civil war. The notion that the systematic oppression of people of color in the United States resembles the situation of colonized populations in Third World countries still informs much of the academic research on race as well as public discourse. Indeed, today's critical race and whiteness studies are deeply indebted to Blauner's work on internal colonialism and the pervasiveness of white privilege. Offering a radical perspective on the United States' racial landscape, Bob Blauner forcefully argues that we ignore the persistence of oppression and our continui

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Temple University Press

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1566398746

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Black Lives, White Lives

Three Decades of Race Relations in America

By: Bob Blauner

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Three Decades of Race Relations in America

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Still the Big News

Racial Oppression in America

By: Bob Blauner

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Racial oppression in America

By: Bob Blauner

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Racial oppression in America

By: Bob Blauner

Suggests new theories of race relations by revealing the strategic role of racism and racial oppression in the American social structure. Bibliogs

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309

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Harpercollins College Div

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0060407719

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In Scoring Position

40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair

By: Bob Ryan,Bill Chuck

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In Scoring Position

40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair

By: Bob Ryan,Bill Chuck

A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, has scoured his scorecard archives for the most singular events—a switch-hitter being hit by a pitch from both sides of the plate in the same game; a player batting for the cycle off four different pitchers; even back-to-back pinch-hit home runs with two outs in the 9th. Featuring some of the game's biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through baseball history, exuding a pure zeal for this sport that fans of all teams will recognize in themselves. Part of the collection at the library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, this volume also features reproductions of dozens of scorecards from Ryan's collection.

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Triumph Books

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1637270259

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Racial oppression in America

By: Bob Blauner

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By: Bob Blauner

Suggests new theories of race relations by revealing the strategic role of racism and racial oppression in the American social structure. Bibliogs

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Smiling Down the Line

Info-service Work in the Global Economy

By: Bob Russell

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Smiling Down the Line

Info-service Work in the Global Economy

By: Bob Russell

Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at the effects of ever-changing technologies on service work, its associated skills, and the ways in which it is managed.

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345

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University of Toronto Press

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1442609818

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9781442609815

More with Less

Work Reorganization in the Canadian Mining Industry

By: Bob Russell

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Work Reorganization in the Canadian Mining Industry

By: Bob Russell

The massive changes under way in capitalist commodity production include the transition from a traditional or Fordist approach to a post-Fordist one, involving practices such as employee involvement, continuous improvement, and gainsharing. In this research monograph, Bob Russell explores the changing character of industrial relations and labour processes in two staple industries: potash and uranium mining. Using an innovative case-analytic approach, Russell compares the managerial strategies used by five transnational firms. As indicated by his title, More with Less, he sees the shift toward post-Fordism as having more to do with the intensification of labour, accomplished in part through the creation of multitasked positions, than with worker empowerment and the transcendence of class conflict. Russell combines extensive empirical analysis with a review of contemporary writing on work relations and labour processes to provide this intensive political-economic perspective on the capital-labour relation. His meticulous research will interest scholars and professionals in Canada, the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802081789

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9780802081780

Work, Mobility, and Participation

A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry

By: Bob Cole,Robert E. Cole,Professor of Business Administration and Sociology Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Professor of Leadership and Communication Robert E Cole

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Work, Mobility, and Participation

A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry

By: Bob Cole,Robert E. Cole,Professor of Business Administration and Sociology Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Professor of Leadership and Communication Robert E Cole

Comparison of work attitudes, labour mobility and workers participation as related to the overall quality of working life in Japan and the USA - traces the incorporation of employment security into Japan' s value system, and trends in organization behaviour; includes case studies of occupational change of men industrial workers, and innovations in personnel management (quality circles, job design); finds convergence of work organization patterns. Bibliography, graphs, illustrations, statistical tables, tables.

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Univ of California Press

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0520035429

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9780520035423

Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

As the cable TV industry exploded in the 1980s, offering viewers dozens of channels, an unprecedented number of series were produced. For every successful sitcom--The Golden Girls, Family Ties, Newhart--there were flops such as Take Five with George Segal, Annie McGuire with Mary Tyler Moore, One Big Family with Danny Thomas and Life with Lucy starring Lucille Ball, proving that a big name does not a hit show make. Other short-lived series were springboards for future stars, like Day by Day (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), The Duck Factory (Jim Carrey), Raising Miranda (Bryan Cranston) and Square Pegs (Sarah Jessica Parker). This book unearths many single-season sitcoms of the '80s, providing behind-the-scenes stories from cast members, guest stars, writers, producers and directors.

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McFarland

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0786499583

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9780786499588

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My Life in Sports

By: Bob Ryan

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My Life in Sports

By: Bob Ryan

A respected sportswriter for the "Boston Globe" traces his early love of sports, experiences as a dedicated fan, and human observations behind pivotal sports moments.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620405067

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9781620405062

In Sam We Trust

The Untold Story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is Devouring the World

By: Bob Ortega

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In Sam We Trust

The Untold Story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is Devouring the World

By: Bob Ortega

From a single tiny store in a backwater town in Arkansas, Sam Walton created Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. In this business history, the author reveals the retailing genius and obsessive vision of the man.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749431776

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9780749431778

Huxford's Old Book

Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

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Huxford's Old Book

Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

25,000 listings of old books with current values.

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1574320572

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Old Book Value Guide

By: Sharon Huxford,Bob Huxford

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Old Book Value Guide

By: Sharon Huxford,Bob Huxford

Listing nearly 25,000 book titles with current values, this updated and revised 11th edition features a simple and easy-to-use format.

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1574321196

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Book's by Bob Blauner

Black Lives, White Lives

Black Lives, White Lives

Still the Big News

Still the Big News

Black Lives, White Lives

Black Lives, White Lives

Still the Big News

Still the Big News

Racial oppression in America

Racial oppression in America

In Scoring Position

In Scoring Position

Racial oppression in America

Racial oppression in America

Smiling Down the Line

Smiling Down the Line

More with Less

More with Less

Work, Mobility, and Participation

Work, Mobility, and Participation

Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s

Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s

Scribe

Scribe

In Sam We Trust

In Sam We Trust

Huxford's Old Book

Huxford's Old Book

Old Book Value Guide

Old Book Value Guide

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