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Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy,Hurricane Katrina:
America's Unnatural
Disasterquestions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans.
This collection of polemical essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were, and are, disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina. Such an engaged study of this tragic event forces us to acknowledge that the ways in which we view our history and life have serious ramifications on modern human relations, public policy, and quality of life.
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\Creative Conflict\: Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale, Collaboration, and Community Activism in Phoenix, 1953-1965
\"Creative Conflict\" examines the lives of Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale and their trail-blazing leadership during the height of the Civil Rights movement in Phoenix, Arizona. Between 1953 and 1965, through dynamic leadership and interracial coalition building, they helped attack racial discrimination and destroy de jure segregation in Phoenix. /// \"Conflicto Creativo\" examina las vidas de Lincoln y Eleanor Ragsdale y sus esfuerzos de liderazgo durante el punto mas alto del movimento derechos civiles en Phoenix, Arizona. Entre 1953 y 1965, a través de su liderazgo y su trabajo de colaboración entre las razas, ellos ayurdaron a atacar la discrminación de raza destruir la segregación \"de jure\" en Phoenix.
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Hurricane Katrina : America's unnatural disaster / edited, and with an introduction, by Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy, Hurricane Katrina:America's UnnaturalDisasterquestions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans.
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A New Day in Babylon
On February 10, 2007, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States in front of the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. In 1858 Abraham Lincoln used this same site to deliver his historic “House divided” speech. The location not only historicized and gave meaning to Obama’s message of unity and hope, but also signaled the progress Americans had made in the realm of race relations. Obama promised progressive change and a fundamental shift in America’s political culture. Among other things, he vowed to bring Americans of all persuasions together in common cause for freedom and democracy. Obama’s
Book Chapter
Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
Whitaker reviews Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest by Dwayne A. Mack.
Book Review
Review: The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941–1978 , by Mark Brilliant and Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles , by Shana Bernstein
The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941–1978 . By Mark Brilliant. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2010. xv + 364 pp. $59.95) Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles . By Shana Bernstein. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii + 339 pp. $24.95 paper)
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