In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the
multifaceted US conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth …

Red, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical
discourse. Offering an unflinching account of race and representation, Frank B. Wilderson III …

The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in
altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco …

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their
flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war …

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power--and how it
transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in …

Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell
the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil War, and after Emancipation. Iola Leroy …

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains and illustrates how an African
worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve …

The author of We Mean to Be Counted blends political history with intellectual and cultural
history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession …

Research on women in the military is becoming an increasingly important area of inquiry in
the social sciences. Women are essential to the operation of contemporary armed services …

SAGE Reference is proud to announce the five-volume Encyclopedia of Disability. This
encyclopedia represents the first attempt to bring an authoritative reference resource to the …