Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us if the direct correlation ......
For this, their first collaborative work, two of the leading authorities on black history in America have joined with other top scholars in the field to create an essential volume on the major achievements of fifteen twentieth-century black leaders - nationalists and integrationists, the charismatic and the bureaucratic, men and women who came ......
''. . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American race riots.'' -- American Historical Review ''His work fills a serious gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before analyzed by sociologists in the way that the ......
''A lively and well-researched analysis of women's roles in the kinship systems of precapitalist African societies turns out to be pertinent to women's struggle for equality everywhere.''-- Ms. ''For any theorist of social organization this is an important book.''-- American Anthropologist ''For anthropologists, historians, social theorists, and ......
1909-11. Assistant editors, Geraldine McTigue and Nan E. Woodruff
The Washington papers continue to garner critical acclaim as a major publishing enterprise in Black and American historiography. Throughout their corpus, they reveal the private world of black Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and provide vivid personal perspectives on interracial relations during the ''age of ......
In 1911 and 1912 Washington continued to travel, lecture, and write in America and abroad. In England and Europe he studied working-class conditions and included his observations in The Man Farthest Down (1912). During this same time period, however, he and his Tuskegee Machine suffered systematic shocks from which they only partially recovered. ......
The contrast between Booker T. Washington's private actions and public utterances continues to be revealed in this latest volume in the much-acclaimed series. Although very little changes at Tuskegee Institute during this period, Washington's leadership was faltering in the face of a virulent white racism that appeared in the North as well as the ......
''This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century.'' -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Journal of American History ''The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower caste in Georgia.'' -- Lester C. Lamon, American ......
Fame and influence far beyond that accorded any other black leader of the period continued to bolster Booker T. Washington's career in the two years covered by the most recent volume in this major project in black history. Volume 8 finds the Tuskegean becoming more and more a national figure, consolidating his position as presidential adviser and ......
