Böcker i Justice and Social Inquiry-serien

Opposing Jim Crow examines the Soviet policy of antiracism from 1928 to 1937, when leaders gained propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism and the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as U.S. citizens.

Encourages readers to think beyond the black-white dyad and instead to envision policies that can serve constituencies with the greatest needs as well as the general public.

Questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans. This collection of polemical essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were, and are, disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina.

It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which considers relations between blacks and browns during the civil rights era, carefully examines the complex and multifaceted realities that complicate such assumptions and that revise our view of both the civil rights struggle and black-brown relations in recent history.