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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? ... Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--Provided by publisher.

As settlers came west, they discovered there were already people living on this "new" land, discover how this mass invasion of settlers impacted the indigenous peoples of the West.

Based on the work of Tim Wise, the film explores race and racism in the United States through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.

Examines how the writings of Henry James, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison have influenced the formation of racial identities in the United States.

A narrative history of four generations of slaves and slave owners who lived on early-nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister Charles Colcock Jones's coastal Georgia plantations, covering the years 1805-69.

Chronicles the events that occurred in Arizona in 1904, when New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote mining camp to be placed with Catholic, Mexican families, and the town's Anglos formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and priest.

The author relates his experiences living in three predominantly white communities in the United States and presents his thoughts on the negative effects of people seeking refuge from the multicultural reality of America by moving to these types of cities.

"In the wake of 9/11, confronting race relations in American is as daunting as it is necessary. Race Manners shows us how we can begin a civilized, meaningful dialogue-not with evasive abstractions, but with practicality and candor. The second edition, completely revised and updated, is a guide to improving race relations."--From source other than the Library of Congress.

Discusses and analyzes how people think about race and what can be done to stop racism.