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Martha S Jones
An "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one of our country's…
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Martha S. Jones
The place of women’s rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black…
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An elegant and expansive history (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power–and how it transformed America
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new…
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 1848…
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Martha S. Jones (The Johns Hopkins University)
Birthright Citizens examines how black Americans transformed the terms of belonging for all Americans before the Civil War. They battled against black laws and threats of exile, arguing that citizenship…
Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women’s places…
Contends that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. Contributors reveal how emancipation was both a shared experience across…
The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British…
No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed master molecule, DNA is a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. What our parents hand down to…
