A breath of freedom : the civil rights struggle, African American GIs, and Germany [1. ed.] 9780230104723, 023010472X, 9780230104730, 0230104738

This book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany

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A breath of freedom : the civil rights struggle, African American GIs, and Germany [1. ed.]
9780230104723, 023010472X, 9780230104730, 0230104738

Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights cla

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In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black fre

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Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest i

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Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights moveme

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In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustic

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How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers

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Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction

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Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movem

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In

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