Winner of the California Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California, this is a study of Californian history. It makes special reference to Chinese immigration as a crucial issue in the development of organized labour in California during the last third of the 19th century.
In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level - from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels - as well as the philosophical constructions of the ...
Set in the San Francisco Bay area during World War II, the novel illuminates the role of women workers during the war and the efforts of African Americans to achieve regular standing as union members. This novel addresses social issues that still demand attention.
Since September 11, 2001, religion has been at the center of debates about the global future. Religion and the Human Prospect relates these issues systematically to a path-breaking interpretation of the history of religion, its part in human development, and its potential role in preventing or enabling global catastrophe. Religion has made ...
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