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The Archaeology Of Race And Racialization In Historic America

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Charles E. Orser, Jr. ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney
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Book, University Press of Florida, 2007
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With the advent of this book, the ability of archaeologists to contribute to the study of race no longer can be doubted. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Archaeology and history · United States · Race · Social aspects · History · Ethnicity · Racism · Social classes · Material culture · Historic sites · Excavations (Archaeology) · Race relations · Antiquities · Orser, Charles E
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(LOWER LEVEL) E159.5 .O77 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E159.5 .O77 2007	AVAILABLE

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Brooklyn Bridge : A Novel

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by Karen Hesse
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Book, 1st ed, Feiwel and Friends, 2008
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Karen Hesse has achieved many honors for her more than twenty books over the course of her award-winning career: the Newbery Medal, the Scott O?Dell Historical Fiction Award, the MacArthur Fellowship ?Genius? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Family · New York (State) · New York · Juvenile fiction · Teddy bears · Social classes · Homeless persons · Immigrants · Russian Americans · Jews · United States · Coming of age · Fiction · Family life · Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) · History · 20th century · Hesse, Karen
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 H587b AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	804 H587b	AVAILABLE

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Bitterly Divided : The South’s Inner Civil War

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David Williams
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Book, New Press, 2008
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From the author of the celebrated A People’s History of the Civil War, a new account of the Confederacy’s collapse from within. From the Confederacy’s very beginnings, Williams shows, white southerners were as likely to have opposed secession as supported it, and they undermined the Confederate war effort at nearly every turn. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Social conflict · Southern States · History · 19th century · Social classes · Confederate States of America · Social conditions · United States · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Social aspects · Race relations · Williams, David, 1959-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F214 .W564 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F214 .W564 2008	AVAILABLE

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Class In America : An Encyclopedia

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edited by Robert E. Weir
Publication Details
Book, Greenwood Press, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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Sample entries: Immigration, Education, Labor Movement, Pink-Collar Workers, AFL-CIO, Strikes, Great Depression, Jacob Riis, Literature, the Rockefellers, Slavery, Music, Academia, Family, Suburbia, McMansions, Taxation, Segregation, Racism, Ivy League, Robber Barons, Philanthropists, Socialites, Religion, Welfare, the American Dream, Dot.com Millionaires, Equal Opportunity, Founding Fathers, Wage Slaves, Industrial Revolution, Capitalism, Economics, Appalachia, Horse Racing, Gender, Communist Party, Country Clubs, Religion, American Indians, Conspicuous Consumption, Studs Terkel, Film, Class-Consciousness, Work Ethic, Media, Television, Puritans, Homelessness, Status Symbols, Assimilation/Melting Pot, Art, Westward Expansion, Poverty, The Great Gatsby, Stock Market, Working Poor, Gated Communities, the Hamptons, Social Climbing, Crime, Lottery, Elitism, WASP, American Dream, Noam Chomsky, Fortune Magazine (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Social classes · United States · Encyclopedias · History · Social conditions · Weir, Robert E., 1952-
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REFERENCE (MAIN) HN90.S6 C564 2007 v.1 AVAILABLE
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Coercion To Compromise : Plea Bargaining, The Courts And The Making Of Political Authority

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Mary E. Vogel
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2007
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- Publisher description
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Plea bargaining is one of the most striking features of American courts. Plea bargaining arose during the 1830s and 1840s as part of this process of political stabilization and an effort to legitimate institutions of self-rule–accomplishments that were vital to Whig efforts to restore order and reconsolidate their political power. Today, when many defendants who come before the court have much less in the way of prospects to lose, leniency may be more likely to be regarded with cynicism, as an act of weakness by the state, and plea bargaining may grow more problematic. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Plea bargaining · Social aspects · United States · History · 19th century · Massachusetts · Boston · 19th century · Social classes · Vogel, Mary E
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(LOWER LEVEL) KF9654 .V64 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	KF9654 .V64 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Archaeology Of Class In Urban America

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Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publication Details
Book, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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- Table of contents only
- Publisher description
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This book explores the material dimensions of class formation in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, and nineteenth-century Lowell, Massachusetts. The two cities reveal contrasting portraits of class identity, one based upon the analysis of material culture and spatial practices, and one based upon the examination of environmental conditions and health. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Social archaeology · United States · Social classes · History · City and town life · Industrial archaeology · Case studies · Urban archaeology · Classes sociales · États-Unis · Histoire · Vie urbaine · Archéologie industrielle · Cas, Études de · Archéologie urbaine · Newport (R.I.) · Antiquities · Lowell (Mass.) · 18e siècle · 19e siècle · Mrozowski, Stephen A
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(LOWER LEVEL) E159.5 .M76 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E159.5 .M76 2006	AVAILABLE

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Taverns And Drinking In Early America

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Sharon V. Salinger
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Book, Johns Hopkins pbks. ed, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
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At a time when drinking water supposedly endangered one’s health, colonists of every rank, age, race, and gender drank often and in quantity, and so taverns became arenas for political debate, business transactions, and small-town gossip sessions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Taverns (Inns) · United States · History · 17th century · 18th century · Drinking of alcoholic beverages · Social aspects · United States · Social classes · Social life and customs · To 1775 · Social conditions · To 1865 · Salinger, Sharon V
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(LOWER LEVEL) E162 .S23 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E162 .S23 2004	AVAILABLE

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Working Americans, 1880-2005

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by Scott Derks
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Book, 1st ed, Grey House Pub, 2000
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Working class · United States · History · 19th century · 20th century · Labor · Occupations · Social classes · Economic conditions · Derks, Scott

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	HD8066 .D47 2000 v.1	AVAILABLE
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Ruling America : A History Of Wealth And Power In A Democracy

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edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle
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Book, Harvard University Press, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country’s ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Elite (Social sciences) · United States · History · Social classes · Political aspects · Power (Social sciences) · Democracy · Fraser, Steve, 1945- · Gerstle, Gary, 1954-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HN90.E4 R85 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HN90.E4 R85 2005	AVAILABLE

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Jump Jim Crow : Lost Plays, Lyrics, And Street Prose Of The First Atlantic Popular Culture

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W.T. Lhamon, Jr
Publication Details
Book, Harvard University Press, 2003
Description
Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow’s first appearance. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow’s sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Rice, Tom, · 1808-1860 · African Americans · Literary collections · Social classes · Popular literature · United States · American literature · 19th century · Blackface entertainers · History · African Americans in literature · Social classes in literature · Minstrel shows · Blacks in literature · Race in literature · Lhamon, W. T
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS509.N4 J86 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS509.N4 J86 2003	AVAILABLE

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American Archives : Gender, Race, And Class In Visual Culture

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Shawn Michelle Smith
Publication Details
Book, Princeton University Press, 1999
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Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. Smith demonstrates that as the body was variously mapped and defined as the key to essentialized identities, the image of the white middle-class woman was often held up as the most complete American ideal. American Archives contributes significantly to the growing field of American visual cultural studies, and it is unprecedented in explaining how practices of racialized looking and the parameters of “American looks” were established in the first place. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Portrait photography · United States · History · 19th century · Social classes · Social life and customs · Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-
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(UPPER LEVEL) TR680 .S59 1999 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	TR680 .S59 1999	AVAILABLE

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Being Black, Living In The Red : Race, Wealth, And Social Policy In America

Attribution
Dalton Conley
Publication Details
Book, University of California Press, 1999
Description
As it currently stands, affirmative action programs primarily address racial diversity in schooling and work–areas that Conley contends generate paradoxical results with respect to racial equity. Instead he suggests an affirmative action policy that fosters minority property accumulation, thereby encouraging long-term wealth equity, or one that–while continuing to address schooling and work–is based on social class as defined by family wealth levels rather than on race. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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African Americans · Economic conditions · Social conditions · 1975- · Social classes · United States · History · 20th century · Race relations · Social policy · 1980-1993 · 1993- · Conley, Dalton, 1969-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E185.8 .C77 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E185.8 .C77 1999	AVAILABLE

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Forced Founders : Indians, Debtors, Slaves, And The Making Of The American Revolution In Virginia

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Woody Holton
Publication Details
Book, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999
Description
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Gentry · Virginia · History · 18th century · Social classes · United States · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Causes · Social aspects · Social conditions · Holton, Woody · Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
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(LOWER LEVEL) E210 .H695 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E210 .H695 1999	AVAILABLE

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Inequality In Early America

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Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger, editors
Publication Details
Book, University Press of New England, 1999
Description
This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Equality · United States · History · 17th century · 18th century · Social classes · Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Revolution, 1775-1783 · 1783-1815 · Social conditions · To 1865 · Race relations · Pestana, Carla Gardina · Salinger, Sharon V
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(LOWER LEVEL) E188.5 .I54 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E188.5 .I54 1999	AVAILABLE

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The Color Of Politics : Race And The Mainsprings Of American Politics

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Michael Goldfield
Publication Details
Book, New Press, 1997
Description
In a brilliant book, Michael Goldfield doggedly documents the persistence of racism in the American nation through a penetrating assessment of racism in the labor movement. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Racism · Political aspects · United States · Social classes · History · 20th century · Race relations · Politics and government · 1989- · 1945-1989 · Goldfield, Michael
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(LOWER LEVEL) E185.615 .G62 1997 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E185.615 .G62 1997	AVAILABLE

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