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Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy

A Reader

By: Herbert Aptheker

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Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy

A Reader

By: Herbert Aptheker

Presenting a collection of essays by Aptheker, including topics like the maroons, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W.E.B. Du Bois, this book shows the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, and points to Aptheker's central place in the development of African American studies.

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University of Illinois Press

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025203029X

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Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy

A Reader

By: Herbert Aptheker

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A Reader

By: Herbert Aptheker

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece

By: W. E. B. Du Bois,Herbert Aptheker

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece

By: W. E. B. Du Bois,Herbert Aptheker

This classic novel by a renowned sociologist and civil-rights leader examines issues of race, class, and gender in early 20th-century America. Its romance between young lovers becomes increasingly urgent and dramatic in the shadow of the "silver fleece" — the cotton industry, which forms a nexus of Northern finance and Southern politics.

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Courier Corporation

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0486460223

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9780486460222

The Nature of Democracy, Freedom, and Revolution

By: Herbert Aptheker

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The Nature of Democracy, Freedom, and Revolution

By: Herbert Aptheker

Explains how the meaning of these basic themes has changed throughout history and how these ideas are understood by the opposing classes. Revolution as the source of effective human emancipation.

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INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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0717801373

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9780717801374

The American Revolution, 1763-1783

A History of the American People: an Interpretation

By: Herbert Aptheker

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A History of the American People: an Interpretation

By: Herbert Aptheker

The causes of the Revolution, popular participation, the cancer of slavery; military and world aspects.

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INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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0717800059

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9780717800056

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

Including the 1831 "Confessions"

By: Herbert Aptheker

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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

Including the 1831 "Confessions"

By: Herbert Aptheker

First full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. The inspiration for the acclaimed 2016 movie Birth of a Nation.

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Courier Corporation

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0486137309

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9780486137308

American Negro Slave Revolts

By: Herbert Aptheker

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American Negro Slave Revolts

By: Herbert Aptheker

A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Exposed the true nature of slavery.

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436

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RSM Press

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0717806057

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9780717806058

C. Vann Woodward, Southerner

By: John Herbert Roper

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C. Vann Woodward, Southerner

By: John Herbert Roper

Traces the life of the noted historian, discusses his concern for social justice and unbiased historical research, and looks at his most influential works

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University of Georgia Press

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0820309338

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9780820309330

Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South

By: John Herbert Roper

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Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South

By: John Herbert Roper

Drawing on his complete access to Green's papers and on interviews with surviving family members, John Herbert Roper covers all the important aspects of Green's life and career. By word and deed, Paul Green spread the faith of liberalism across the New South, which he insistently called the "Real South." Long after literary fashion had left him behind, he wrote daily and remained at the forefront of causes concerning race relations, militarism, women's and workers' rights, and capital punishment."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820324884

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9780820324883

The Magnificent Mays

A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays

By: John Herbert Roper, Sr.

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The Magnificent Mays

A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays

By: John Herbert Roper, Sr.

A comprehensive biography of a dedicated civil rights activist and distinguished South Carolinian Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century. He influenced the lives of generations of students as a dean and professor of religion at Howard University and as longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. In addition to his personal achievements, Mays was also a mentor and teacher to Julian Bond, founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; future Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson; writer, preacher, and theologian Howard Washington Thurman; and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. In this comprehensive biography of Mays, John Herbert Roper, Sr., chronicles the harsh realities of Mays's early life and career in the segregated South and crafts an inspirational, compelling portrait of one of the most influential African American intellectuals in modern history. Born at the turn of the century in rural Edgefield County, South Carolina, Mays was the youngest son of former slaves turned tenant farmers. At just four years of age, he experienced the brutal injustice of the Jim Crow era when he witnessed the bloody 1898 Phoenix Riot, sparked by black citizens' attempts to exercise their voting rights. In the early 1930s Mays discovered the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi and traveled to India in 1938 to confer with him about his methods of nonviolent protest. An honoree of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and recipient of forty-nine honorary degrees, Mays strived tirelessly against racial prejudices and social injustices throughout his career. In addition to his contributions to education and theology, Mays also worked with the National Urban League to improve housing, employment, and health conditions for African Americans, and he played a major role in the integration of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). With honest appreciation and fervent admiration for Mays's many accomplishments and lasting legacy, Roper deftly captures the heart and passion of his subject, his lifelong quest for social equality, and his unwavering faith in the potential for good in the American people.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611171849

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9781611171846

The American Revolution, 1763-1783

A History of the American People: an Interpretation

By: Herbert Aptheker

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A History of the American People: an Interpretation

By: Herbert Aptheker

The causes of the Revolution, popular participation, the cancer of slavery; military and world aspects.

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INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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0717800059

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9780717800056

The Unfolding Drama

Studies in U.S. History

By: Herbert Aptheker

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The Unfolding Drama

Studies in U.S. History

By: Herbert Aptheker

A selection of writings that sharply illustrates the shaping of U.S. society by the struggles of those who labor.

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0717805018

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9780717805013

Decline and Revival in Higher Education

By: Herbert I. London

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Decline and Revival in Higher Education

By: Herbert I. London

This is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. The author has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal values toward relativism and ideological extremism. This volume reflects an awareness of what has been lost, but sees hope for a revival of traditional values as technological change and awareness of failure forces institutions to examine their premise. Herbert I. London has provided here fuel for fundamental redirection in American college and university affairs. Decline and Revival in Higher Education is uncompromising in its concerns, but points the way toward a future linked to the best of the past. The work follows the personal evolution of the author, while at the same time, describes the devolution of university standards in such institutions as Columbia, Duke, the University of California at Berkeley, and New York University. While seeing optimistic trends in oases of traditional programming that can serve as a counterweight to campus orthodoxies, London argues that the dramatic transformation of the academy cannot be denied. The social sciences and humanities in particular have become isolated from mainstream requirements in the nation. London deals with concrete concerns, such as the collapse of classic book programs in the contemporary curriculum, the decline and even vigilante raids on opposition in campus publications, the collapse of moral judgment in favor of pure relativism, the transformation of many museums into a storage houses of debris, and the confusion of coarse language with democratization. These developments lead the author to write this book, for if the culture wars are over, the American people may be the losers.

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Routledge

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1351523260

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How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives

By: Herbert C. Covey,Dwight Eisnach

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How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives

By: Herbert C. Covey,Dwight Eisnach

Drawing from narratives of former slaves to provide accurate and poignant insights, this book presents descriptions in the former slaves' own words about their lives before, during, and following the Civil War. Examining narratives allows us to better understand what life was truly like for slaves: "hearing" history in their own words brings the human aspects of slavery and their interpersonal relationships to life, providing insights and understanding not typically available via traditional history books. How the Slaves Saw the Civil War: Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives draws upon interviews collected largely during the 1930s–1940s as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Because most slaves could not read or write, their perspective on the unfolding history of the war has been relatively unknown until these narratives were collected in the 1930s and 1940s. This book extracts the most cogent and compelling tales from the documentation of former slaves' seldom-heard voices on the events leading up to, during, and following the war. The work's two introductory chapters focus on the WPA's narratives and living conditions under slavery. The remaining chapters address key topics such as slave loyalties to either or both sides of the conflict, key battles, participation in the Union and/or Confederate armies, the day Union forces came, slave contact with key historical figures, and emancipation—and what came after.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216099307

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

By: Herbert G. Gutman

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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

By: Herbert G. Gutman

An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.

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Vintage

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0394724518

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9780394724515

Uninvited Neighbors

African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990

By: Herbert G. Ruffin

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Uninvited Neighbors

African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990

By: Herbert G. Ruffin

In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial discrimination, and subsequent legal reform had surely taken care of the rest. White Americans might even have wondered where the black activists in the late sixties were coming from—because, beginning with the writings of Fredrick Jackson Turner, the most influential histories of the American West simply left out African Americans or, later, portrayed them as a passive and insignificant presence. Uninvited Neighbors puts black people back into the picture and dispels cherished myths about California’s racial history. Reaching from the Spanish era to the valley’s emergence as a center of the high-tech industry, this is the first comprehensive history of the African American experience in the Santa Clara Valley. Author Herbert G. Ruffin II’s study presents the black experience in a new way, with a focus on how, despite their smaller numbers and obscure presence, African Americans in the South Bay forged communities that had a regional and national impact disproportionate to their population. As the region industrialized and spawned suburbs during and after World War II, its black citizens built institutions such as churches, social clubs, and civil rights organizations and challenged socioeconomic restrictions. Ruffin explores the quest of the area’s black people for the postwar American Dream. The book also addresses the scattering of the black community during the region’s late yet rapid urban growth after 1950, which led to the creation of several distinct black suburban communities clustered in metropolitan San Jose. Ruffin treats people of color as agents of their own development and survival in a region that was always multiracial and where slavery and Jim Crow did not predominate, but where the white embrace of racial justice and equality was often insincere. The result offers a new view of the intersection of African American history and the history of the American West.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080614582X

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9780806145822

The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force

An Historical Perspective

By: Herbert Applebaum

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The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force

An Historical Perspective

By: Herbert Applebaum

A major force in American society, the work ethic has played a pivotal role in U.S. history, affecting cultural, social, and economic institutions. But what is the American work ethic? Not only has it changed from one era to another, but it varies with race, gender, and occupation. Considering such diverse groups as Colonial craftsmen, slaves, 19th century women, and 20th century factory workers, this book provides a history of the American work ethic from Colonial times to the present. Tracing both continuities and differences, the book is divided into sections on the Colonial era, the 19th century and the 20th century and includes chapters on both major occupational groups, such as farmers, factory workers, laborers, and gender, racial, and ethnic minorities. This approach, which covers all major groups in U.S. history, enables the reader to discern how the work ethic applied to different occupational and ethnic groups over time. The book subjects the work ethic to an analysis based on historical, sociological, economic, and anthropological perspectives and provides an analysis of current thinking about how the work ethic applied to various groups and classes in different historical periods.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313030103

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9780313030109

Marxism, Revolution and Utopia

Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 6

By: Herbert Marcuse

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Marxism, Revolution and Utopia

Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 6

By: Herbert Marcuse

This collection assembles some of Herbert Marcuse’s most important work and presents for the first time his responses to and development of classic Marxist approaches to revolution and utopia, as well as his own theoretical and political perspectives. This sixth and final volume of Marcuse's collected papers shows Marcuse’s rejection of the prevailing twentieth-century Marxist theory and socialist practice - which he saw as inadequate for a thorough critique of Western and Soviet bureaucracy - and the development of his revolutionary thought towards a critique of the consumer society. Marcuse's later philosophical perspectives on technology, ecology, and human emancipation sat at odds with many of the classic tenets of Marx’s materialist dialectic which placed the working class as the central agent of change in capitalist societies. As the material from this volume shows, Marcuse was not only a theorist of Marxist thought and practice in the twentieth century, but also proves to be an essential thinker for understanding the neoliberal phase of capitalism and resistance in the twenty-first century. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce places Marcuse’s philosophy in the context of his engagement with the main currents of twentieth century philosophy while also providing important analyses of his anticipatory theorization of capitalist development through a neoliberal restructuring of society. The volume concludes with an afterword by Peter Marcuse.

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1317805550

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Early Years of the Republic

From the End of the Revolution to the First Administration of Washington (1783-1793)

By: Herbert Aptheker

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Early Years of the Republic

From the End of the Revolution to the First Administration of Washington (1783-1793)

By: Herbert Aptheker

The Marxist historian traces the course of events from the ratification of the Articles of Confederation to the end of Washington's first term as President

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0717804712

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9780717804719

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