Politics and public policy

Table of Contents: “…Repression, mobilization, and social policy: The Virginia civil rights movement and the war on poverty; Social movements and social policy; Repression and social policy; Distinguishing types of repression; The War on Poverty: History and measurement; Research design and case selection; Mobilization-countermobilization dynamics in Prince Edward County; Prince Edward's War on Poverty…”
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Black Eden : the Idlewild community by Walker, Lewis, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Some Intended and Unintended Consequences in the Black Community During the Civil Rights EraLiving in a Caste System in the United States; The Civil Rights Movement versus the Caste System; On Integration: A New Phase and a New Crisis; Self-Validation, Self -Actualization, and Identity; The Dual Challenge: Transforming America through Integration versus Racial Solidarity; Some Shortcomings of Public Accommodations Act and Integration; Did Public Accommodations Act Alone Kill Idlewild?…”
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Against the wall : poor, young, Black, and male

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Churches and urban government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994 by Pratt, Henry J., 1934-

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The role of federal military forces in domestic disorders, 1945-1992 by Scheips, Paul J.

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The black press : soldiers without swords

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Fear, anxiety, and national identity : immigration and belonging in North America and Western Europe

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Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work

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Texas Women : Their Histories, Their Lives. by Turner, Elizabeth Hayes

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Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina

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Before Brown : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice by Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-

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American masculinities : a historical encyclopedia

Table of Contents: “…. -- American Dream -- American Revolution -- Antiwar Movement -- Apprenticeship -- Art -- Arthur, Timothy Shay -- Artisan -- Asian-American Manhood -- Atlas, Charles -- Automobiles -- Bachelorhood -- Baseball -- Beat Movement -- Beecher, Henry Ward -- Birth of a Nation -- Bisexuality -- Black Panther Party -- Body -- Bodybuilding -- Bogart, Humphrey -- Boone, Daniel -- Boxing -- Boyhood -- Boy Scouts of America -- Brando, Marlon -- Breadwinner Role -- Buddy Films -- Bureaucratization -- Business/Corporate America -- California Gold Rush -- Capitalism -- Character -- Chivalry -- Citizenship -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil War -- Class -- Cold War -- Confidence Man -- Conscientious Objection -- Consumerism -- Cooper, Gary -- Cop Action Films -- Counterculture -- Cowboys -- Crèvecoeur, J. …”
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Rockin' out : popular music in the USA by Garofalo, Reebee

Table of Contents: “…Popular music and political culture : the sixties -- The civil rights movement and popular music -- Girl groups, male producers and Brill building pop -- Motown: the integration of pop -- "Stop! …”

Science Fiction Criticism : an Anthology of Essential Writings. by Latham, Rob

Table of Contents: “…; 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible ; 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From cyptography to cartography ; 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- 21 The women history doesn't see: Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique / Lisa Yaszek : Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies ; Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative ; The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" ; Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered…”
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Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012

Table of Contents: “…Separate interests to national agendas -- Hispanic-American members of Congress in the Civil rights Era, 1945-1977 -- Precongressional experience -- Family/ethnic roots -- Age relative to the rest of the Congressional population -- Education, professions, and prior political experience -- Crafting an identity -- Committee assignments and leadership -- Numbers of Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Legislative interests -- Unidos Meeting of 1971 -- Depression, war and civil rights -- Hispanics in the Southwest -- Repatriation during the Great Depression -- Hispanic Americans during World War II -- Dennis Chavez and the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee -- The Bracero Program -- Illegal immigration and the end of the Bracero Program -- Hispanic interests and political representation after World War II (1945-1970) -- The Civil Rights Movement and its influence on Mexican Americans -- 1960 presidential election and Mexican-American politics -- Rise of the Chicano Movement -- Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican migration and political participation -- Antecedents of the Estado Libre Asociado (ELA) -- "In the nature of a compact" : the development of ELA -- Reactions to the ELA -- The Nationalists and the ELA -- Changes in the role of the resident commissioner -- Expanding the rights of territorial delegates and the resident commissioner -- Hispanic Americans in Congress and the Cold War -- The founding of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- Stat charts : Party divisions in the House of Representatives, 79th-94th Congresses (1945-1977) -- Party divisions in the Senate, 79th-94th Congresses (1945-1977) -- Hispanic-American members by office, 1945-1977 -- Hispanic-American members by state and territory, first elected 1945-1977 -- Puerto Rican population growth in the United States, 1900-2010 -- Congressional service, for Hispanic Americans in Congress, first elected 1944-1976 -- Jesús T. …”
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Culture wars : an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices

Table of Contents: “…. -- Campaign Finance Reform -- Campolo, Anthony "Tony" -- Canada -- Capital Punishment -- Carson, Rachel -- Carter, Jimmy -- Catholic Church -- Censorship -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Chambers, Whittaker -- Charter Schools -- Chávez, Céacute}esar -- Cheney Family -- Chicago Seven -- Chick, Jack -- China -- Chisholm, Shirley -- Chomsky, Noam -- Christian Coalition -- Christian Radio -- Christian Reconstructionism -- Christmas -- Church and State -- Churchill, Ward -- Civil Rights Movement -- Clinton, Bill -- Clinton, Hillary -- Clinton Impeachment -- Cold War -- Colson, Chuck -- Columbus Day -- Comic Books -- Comic Strips -- Commager, Henry Steele -- Common Cause -- Commoner, Barry -- Communists and Communism -- Comparable Worth -- Compassionate Conservatism -- Confederate Flag -- Conspiracy Theories -- Contemporary Christian Music -- Contract with America -- Corporate Welfare -- Coulter, Ann -- Counterculture -- Country Music -- Creationism and Intelligent Design -- Cronkite, Walter -- Cuba -- Culture Jamming -- Dean, Howard -- Dean, James -- Dean, John -- Deconstructionism -- DeLay, Tom -- Deloria, Vine, Jr. -- Demjanjuk, John -- Democratic Party -- Diversity Training -- Dobson, James -- Donahue, Phil -- Douglas, William O. -- Dr. …”
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Liberty's refuge : the forgotten freedom of assembly by Inazu, John D.

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Liberty's refuge : the forgotten freedom of assembly by Inazu, John D.

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In Visible Movement : Nuyorican poetry from the Sixties to slam by Noel, Urayoán

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Encountering poverty : thinking and acting in an unequal world by Roy, Ananya, Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve, Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku, Talwalker, Clare Vineeta, 1967-

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Racial beachhead : diversity and democracy in a military town : Seaside, California by McKibben, Carol Lynn, 1955-

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A short history of the U.S. working class : from colonial times to the twenty-first century (revolutionary studies) by Le Blanc, Paul, 1947-

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Harlem vs. Columbia University : Black student power in the late 1960s by Bradley, Stefan M.

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Mother Jones : raising Cain and consciousness by Cordery, Simon, 1960-

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Chicano communists and the struggle for social justice by Buelna, Enrique M.

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Selected letters of Katherine Anne Porter : chronicles of a modern woman by Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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A singing army : Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School by Ruehl, Kim

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The border crossed us : rhetorics of borders, citizenship, and Latina/o identity by Cisneros, Josue David, 1981-

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Audre Lorde's transnational legacies

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Domestic disturbances : re-imagining narratives of gender, labor, and immigration by Mata, Irene, 1972-

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Crash course : from the good war to the forever war by Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-

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The border crossed us : rhetorics of borders, citizenship, and Latina/o identity by Cisneros, Josue David, 1981-

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Aztlán Arizona : Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968-1978 by Echeverría, Darius V., 1974-

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Black and blue : African Americans, the labor movement, and the decline of the Democratic party by Frymer, Paul

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Black and blue : African Americans, the labor movement, and the decline of the Democratic party by Frymer, Paul

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Thyra J. Edwards : Black activist in the global freedom struggle by Andrews, Gregg

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The 'American exceptionalism' of Jay Lovestone and his comrades, 1929-40. Volume 1, Dissident Marxism in the United States

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The Black studies reader

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