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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

A Photographic History

by Karlos K. Hill

Foreword by Kevin Matthews

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and disturbing, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable legacy of racial violence in U.S. history.
 

Tulsa, 1921

Tulsa, 1921

Reporting a Massacre

by Randy Krehbiel

Foreword by Karlos K. Hill

Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence. With the clarity and descriptive power of a veteran journalist, author Randy Krehbiel digs deep into the events and their aftermath and investigates decades-old questions about the local culture at the root of what one writer has called a white-led pogrom.

Most American

Most American

Notes from a Wounded Place

by Rilla Askew

Foreword by Susan Kates

In the wake of increasing gun violence and heightened national debate about race relations and social inequality, Askew’s reflections could not be more relevant. With a novelist’s gift for storytelling, she paints a compelling portrait of a place and its people: resilient and ruthless, decent but self-deceiving, generous yet filled with prejudice—both the best and the worst of what it means to be American.

Violence and Crime in Latin America

Violence and Crime in Latin America

Representations and Politics

Edited by Gema Santamaría and David Carey

Preface by Cecilia Menjívar

Epilogue by Diane E Davis

Violence and Crime in Latin America makes a substantive contribution to understanding a key problem facing Latin America today. In its historical depth and ethnographic reach, this original and thought-provoking volume enhances our understanding of crime and violence throughout the Western Hemisphere.

The Taken

The Taken

True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War

by Javier Valdez Cárdenas

Translated by Everard Meade

In his informative introduction to the volume, translator Everard Meade orients the reader to the broader armed conflict in Mexico and explains the unique role of Sinaloa at its epicenter. Reports on border politics and infamous drug traffickers may obscure the victims’ suffering. The Taken helps ensure that their stories will not be forgotten or suppressed.

Warrior Nations

Warrior Nations

The United States and Indian Peoples

by Roger L. Nichols

During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Nichols writes about the fights between the United States and the Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware tribes in the Ohio Valley, the Creek in Alabama, the Arikara in South Dakota, the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Wisconsin, the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota, the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Colorado, the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona, and the Nez Perce in Oregon and Idaho.

Savage Perils

Savage Perils

Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

by Patrick B. Sharp

Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between “civilization” and “savagery” in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of...

Gunfighter Nation

Gunfighter Nation

Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, The

by Richard Slotkin

Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin’s trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an...

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter

Man or Myth?

by Joseph G. Rosa

The gunfighter was a man bred in a lawless and violent era of civil war, range wars, and greed for land and gold. He played a real and deadly part in a period when men were conditioned to settle...

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