The Last Plantation
Author | : Don Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1990-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780962787003 |
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Author | : Don Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1990-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780962787003 |
Author | : James R. Jones |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2024-05-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0691223645 |
A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplace Racism continues to infuse Congress’s daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional employment. In this timely and provocative book, James Jones reveals how and why many who work in Congress call it the “Last Plantation.” He shows that even as the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s and antidiscrimination laws were implemented across the nation, Congress remained exempt from federal workplace protections for decades. These exemptions institutionalized inequality in the congressional workplace well into the twenty-first century. Combining groundbreaking research and compelling firsthand accounts from scores of congressional staffers, Jones uncovers the hidden dynamics of power, privilege, and resistance in Congress. He reveals how failures of racial representation among congressional staffers reverberate throughout the American political system and demonstrates how the absence of diverse perspectives hampers the creation of just legislation. Centering the experiences of Black workers within this complex landscape, he provides valuable insights into the problems they face, the barriers that hinder their progress, and the ways they contest entrenched inequality. A must-read for anyone concerned about social justice and the future of our democracy, The Last Plantation exposes the mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequality in the halls of Congress and challenges us to confront and transform this unequal workplace that shapes our politics and society.
Author | : Itabari Njeri |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The author of "Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone" presents a provocative, timely examination of racial identity. Itabari Njeri lays out with precision and power how limited racial definitions contribute to the psychological slavery that makes the mind "the last plantation".
Author | : Betty Lane Maddox |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1480964239 |
The Last Plantation By: Betty Lane Maddox Betty Lane Maddox was born to Melvin and Robert Duncan Walls in Hollandale, Mississippi. Both of her parents are now deceased. She is the second of twelve children: Rose Smith, Melvin Walls Jr. (deceased), Maxine Walls, Linda Park, Joyce Walls, Rosie Adams, Raymond Walls, Lester Walls, Billy Walls, Sheila Turnipseed, and Lisa Wells. Time was hard when Maddox was young. She grew up on many plantation chopping and picking cotton for the white plantation owners. You never got ahead. At the end of the year, her father had no money coming in because it was all spent on food, a pair of shoes for school from the boss man’s store, and for the shack they lived in. It was years before Maddox even knew what money was and looked like. Maddox has gone through so much in her life. She has been married to a beautiful man for twenty-five years. She is saved by God’s grace and a member of The Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church of Rev. Tyran T. Laws in Chicago, Illinois. Maddox made history when she worked the 2012 re-election campaign of President Obama. She helped make the re-election of the first black president happen. Maddox has come a long way from a sharecropper’s daughter.
Author | : John Baker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2010-01-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416567410 |
Traces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his family's extensive genealogical legacy.
Author | : Janice Shinebourne |
Publisher | : Peepal Tree Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781900715331 |
Unfolding within a framework of two tumultuous weeks, this novel tells of the struggle for autonomy of both a young woman and a repressed country. Interweaving the young woman's gradual growth to consciousness with the death of the British plantation system, this story portrays the demise of an economic and political system paralleling the development of an individual. While presenting Caribbean politics in an understandable way, this tale also includes insight into Afro-Indian relations, traditional healing practices, and family relationships.
Author | : Sally Senzell Isaacs |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781588103017 |
Learn basic history by visiting communities from our past. Each book is filled with photos and reconstruction artwork covering topics such as food, clothing, shelter, education, play, communication, and family life. View important political and geographical events through the lens of everyday life.
Author | : Mac Griswold |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466837012 |
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Catherine Clinton |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1984-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0394722531 |
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.