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Us and them : a history of intolerance in America Jim Carnes ; preface by Justice Harry A. Blackmun ; illustrations by Herbert Tauss
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 184 .A1 C335 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carnes, Jim, author.
- Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999, author of preface.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Discrimination--United States--Case studies.
- Race riots--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Race riots--United States--Case studies.
- Prejudices--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- United States--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.
- Prejudices.
- Toleration.
- Racism.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 131 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- History of intolerance in America
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, ©1996.
- Summary:
- Us and Them illuminates the dark corners of our nation's past and traces our ongoing efforts to live up to the American ideals of equality and justice. Fourteen case studies -- enhanced through the use of original documents, historical photos, newly commissioned paintings, and dramatic narrative -- bring readers a first-hand account of the history and psychology of intolerance. We read about Mary Dyer, executed for her Quaker faith in Boston in 1660. We learn how the Mormons were expelled from Missouri in 1838. The attack on Chinese miners in Wyoming in 1885, the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, the Ku Klux Klan activities in Mobile, Alabama in 1981, and the Crown Heights riot in 1991 are among the grim episodes presented in clear, evocative language that brings to life history that is often forgotten or slighted.
- Contents:
- The silencing of Mary Dyer (1660): A Quaker woman in colonial Massachusetts risks her life for religious liberty
- Blankets for the dead (1830s): Forced from their homeland, the Cherokee people walk into exile on the Trail of Tears
- No promised land (1838): Tension between early settlers and Mormon newcomers breeds violence on the Missouri frontier
- Harriet Jacobs owns herself (1842): A North Carolina slave girl escapes a nightmare and follows her dreams to freedom
- In the city of brotherly love (1844): A Philadelphia school controversy brings Protestant nativists and Catholic immigrants to blows
- A rumbling in the mines (1885): Chinese laborers face deadly racial hatred in Wyoming
- Ghost dance at Wounded Knee (1890: The government's campaign to subdue Native Americans culminates in a massacre on the plains
- The ballad of Leo Frank (1913): A Northern Jew becomes a scapegoat for Southernors' fears
- Untamed border (1971): Mexican Americans endure a reign of terror by the Texas Rangers
- A town called Rosewood (1923): White Floridians wipe an African American community off the map
- Home was a horse stall (1942): A young Japanese American woman ponders the meaning of freedom behind barbed wire
- Nightriding with the Klan (1981): A troubled Alabama teenager enters the brotherhood of hate
- A rose for Charlie (1984): A gay man's lifetime of harassment ends on a bridge in Maine
- Street justice (1991): In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, two worlds collide
- Out of the shadows.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 129) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carnes, Jim. Us and them.
- ISBN:
- 9780195131253
- 0195131258
- 9780195103786
- 0195103785
- OCLC:
- 32589362
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