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RACE AND ETHNICITY / ETHNIC STUDIES
FORTHCOMING
How the Recession Changed
Contemporary African
American Families
DOROTHY SMITH-RUIZ
Prince George’s County, Maryland, features docking stations for Potomac River yachts and
a spectacular view of the nation’s capital. It is also the richest county in the United States
where African Americans live. To show how the 2007–2009 recession changed the lives
of black families who had achieved success, this book examines the home of the nation’s
largest concentration of affluent African Americans and details how, in just two-to-three
January 2018, 206pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-4214-6 short years, their American Dream was shattered.
$48.00, £37.00, €44.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-4215-3 FEATURES
• Explores contemporary African American family life and how structures and roles have
shifted in recent times
DOROTHY SMITH-RUIZ, PhD, is
associate professor of Africana studies • Examines the broader changes and shifts in family life as a result of a changing society
at The University of North Carolina at • Applies new approaches in sociology to help readers understand how black family life is
Charlotte. a product of the society that shapes it and is shaped by it
• Presents sociological facts that are relevant to black families, countering the myths that
have surrounded those families since the publication of the Moynihan Report in 1965
FORTHCOMING
Sharp Knife
Andrew Jackson and the American Indians
ALFRED A. CAVE
Contrary to popular belief—and to many textbook accounts—in 1830, Congress did not
authorize the forcible seizure of Indian land and the deportation of the legal owners of
that land. In actuality, U.S. President Andrew Jackson violated the terms of the Indian
Removal Act of 1830, choosing to believe that he was not bound to protect Native Indian
individuals’ rights.
Sharp Knife: Andrew Jackson and the American Indians draws heavily on Jackson’s own
September 2017, 341pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 writings to document his life and give readers sharp insight into the nature of racism in
Print: 978-1-4408-6039-3
$58.00, £45.00, €53.00 ante-bellum America.
eBook: 978-1-4408-6040-9 Noted historian Alfred Cave’s latest book takes readers into the life of Andrew Jackson,
paying particular attention to his interactions with Native American peoples as a militia
general, treaty negotiator, and finally as president of the United States. Cave clearly
ALFRED A. CAVE is professor depicts the many ways in which Jackson’s various dishonorable actions and often illegal
emeritus of history at the University of
Toledo. means undermined the political and economic rights that were supposed to be guaranteed
under numerous treaties. Jackson’s own economic interests as a land speculator and slave
holder are carefully documented, exposing the hollowness of claims that “Old Hickory”
was the champion of “the common man.”
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