Matthew F Whitaker

Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West

In God We Trust: 5 Anchor Points for Turbulent Times

When the storm is on the horizon, how do you prepare? Each of us face difficulties, disappointment, challenges andtribulations – it’s just part of life. So how do you survive thestorm? How do you hold on? Equally important, how to youhelp your children grow to be resilient and able to thrive in them...

African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence (Greenwood Icons)

This title offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives and through a lively range of rhetoric styles, and illuminates the history of highly successful and influential individuals, athletes and teams who have transcended mere celebrity to come to represent a g...

Iranian Solution

It was supposed to be an easy mission, but what both men, One a contractor working for the CIA and the other a Colombian Intelligence Agent, would soon find that they would be wanted by both of their countries along with Venezuela, the country they were currently operating in. Wanted for Murder, but...

Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Race and Ethnicity in the American West)

Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoenix, Arizona, in search of freedom and opportunity—a move that would ultimately transform an entire city and, arguably, the nation. Race Work tells the story of th...

Peace Be Still: Modern Black America from World War II to Barack Obama

A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African Americans since World War II, Peace Be Still is also nothing less than an alternate history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing this history around culture, politics, and resistance, Matthew C. Whitaker ...

Hurricane Katrina: America's Unnatural Disaster (Justice and Social Inquiry)

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy, Hurricane Katrina: Am...

Icons of Black America [3 volumes]: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries (Greenwood Icons)

This stunning collection of essays illuminates the lives and legacies of the most famous and powerful individuals, groups, and institutions in African American history.• 100 alphabetically arranged profiles, each accompanied by a photograph

Black Power Principals (Contemporary Black History)