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Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
While bus boycotts, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience were the engine of the civil rights movement, the law was a primary context. Lawyers played a key role amid profound social upheavals, and the twenty-six contributors to this volume reveal what it was like to be a southern civil rights lawyer in this era.
Rescuing Our Roots
The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba
The Country Where My Heart Is
Historical Archaeologies of Nationalism and National Identity
Precarious Passages
The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction
The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America
Bending and Breaking the Rules
Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World
Journeys Through Paradise
Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast
Contrary Destinies
A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti
Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo
The Generalship of Muhammad
Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah
In The Generalship of Muhammad, Russ Rodgers charts a new path by merging original sources with the latest in military theory to examine Muhammad’s military strengths and weaknesses.