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1987

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

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Juan Williams - 1987

Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v.

the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Hazel V. Carby - 1987

A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture.

Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.

The Military and the State in Latin America

Alain Rouquié - 1987

Best ofEthnic-Studies

1987

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

The Military and the State in Latin America

Best of
Ethnic-Studies