Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
Book Description
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Author: Directory of American Scholars
Author: Rita C. VelázquezPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Completely updtaed, this 9th edition presents biographical profiles of United States and Canadian scholars currently active in teaching, research and publishing in the fields of philosophy, religion and law.
The Black Tax
Author: Andrew W. KahrlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673062X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes. American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the very people who critically need its support. Not only do taxpayers with fewer resources—less wealth, power, and land—pay more than the well-off, but they are forced to fight for their rights within an unjust system that undermines any attempts to improve their position or economic standing. In The Black Tax, Andrew W. Kahrl reveals the shocking history and ruinous consequences of inequitable and predatory tax laws in this country—above all, widespread and devastating racial dispossession. Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans acquired substantial amounts of property nationwide. But racist practices, obscure processes, and outright theft diminished their holdings and their power. Of these, Kahrl shows, few were more powerful, or more quietly destructive, than property taxes. He examines all the structural features and hidden traps within America’s tax system that have forced Black Americans to pay more for less and stripped them of their land and investments, and he reveals the staggering cost. The story of America’s now enormous concentration of wealth at the top—and the equally enormous absence of wealth among most Black households—has its roots here. Kahrl exposes the painful history of these practices, from Reconstruction up to the present, describing how discrimination continues to take new forms, even as people continue to fight for their rights, their assets, and their power. If you want to understand the extreme economic disadvantages and persistent racial inequalities that African American households continue to face, there is no better starting point than The Black Tax.
Sapelo's People
Author: William S. McFeelyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393313772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history—and enters into the current-day lives—of the people who inhabit Sapelo's Island off the coast of Georgia, descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantations. It is at once a richly detailed work of historical reconstruction, a sensitive portrait of the lives of black Americans in this particular place and in our own time, and a moving meditation on race by a writer who has made its painful dilemmas his life's work as a historian.
The National Magazine
Author: NO DOUBLE JEOPARDY AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Hats and Headdresses Through History
Author: Fiona MacdonaldPublisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836868548
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This book examines the way people of the world wear head coverings from ancient to modern times.
The World of Mykola Lysenko
Author: Taras FilenkoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Fundamentals of Physics, Part 2, Chapters 13-21
Author: David HallidayPublisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471148548
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This four-volume set presents a comprehensive introduction to both qualitative and quantitative explanations of physics concepts.
Love from Pooh
Author: A. A. MilnePublisher:
ISBN: 9781405204422
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Wear your heart on your sleeve with these two heart-shaped books, with words of love from Pooh and Piglet. When you are Pooh honey is your first love, and your best friend loves you despite you being a Silly Old Bear. When you are Piglet love is found in giving and in the company of friends, no matter how small you are. So say you like them, say they are just what you wanted for these two little books are yours with love from Pooh and Piglet.