Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group

1) big sea

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

2) black against empire the history and politics of t

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

3) Black Slaves, Indian Masters: A Guidebook

Author

Krauthamer, Barbara

Description

Click to view

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end...

4) Black Wall Street 100: An American city grapples with its historical racial trauma

Author

Johnson, Hannibal B

Formats:

Book, Book - Paperback, eBook

Description

Click to view

Published one hundred years after the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (more commonly referred today as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre), this book distinguishes the Tulsa of today from the Tulsa of a century ago. It reflects on Tulsa's historic Greenwood District, known as the Black Wall Street, from the prodigious entrepreneurial spirit that pervaded it to the carnage that characterized the 1921 massacre, to the post-massacre rebound and rebuilding that raised...

5) block

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

6) Dangerous subjects: James D. Saules and the rise of black exclusion in Oregon

Author

Coleman, Kenneth R

Description

Click to view

"Dangerous Subjects describes the life and times of James D. Saules, a black sailor who was shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon and settled there in 1841. Before landing in Oregon, Saules traveled the world as a whaleman in the South Pacific and later as a crew member of the United States Exploring Expedition. Saules resided in the Pacific Northwest for just two years before a major wave of Anglo-American immigrants arrived in covered wagons. In Oregon,...

7) Dark alliance: the CIA, the Contras, and the crack cocaine explosion

Author

Webb, Gary

Description

Click to view

"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles--a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug profits"--

8) destruction of black civilization great issues of

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

9) dream keeper and other

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

10) Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement

Author

Davis, Angela Y

Formats:

Book, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Click to view

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the...

11) hammer and hoe alabama communists during the great

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

12) How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems In Race, Political Economy, And Society

Author

Marable, Manning

13) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author

Jacobs, Harriet Ann

Formats:

Book, eBook

Description

Click to view

Tormented by her master, a young mother plots a daring escape, in this courageous and captivating slave narrative When her mother dies, six-year-old slave girl Linda Brent is sent to the big house, where she grows up serving a gentle mistress who teaches her to read and write. But the mistress's death brings about a sudden and terrible change in Linda's fortunes. Her lecherous new master torments Linda mercilessly, making her life a living hell. Unable...

14) Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Author

Williams, Gregory Howard

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

Description

Click to view

“Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here

As a...

15) Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor

Author

Saad, Layla F

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, Large Print - Hardback

Description

Click to view

"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...

16) Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present

Author

Washington, Harriet A

17) Playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination

Author

Morrison, Toni

18) Post traumatic slave syndrome: America's legacy of enduring injury and healing

Author

Leary, Joy DeGruy

19) strange fruit the biography of a song

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

20) A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Slave on the Block"

Author

Authors, Various

Description

Click to view

A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Slave on the Block," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.