Author: Robert J. Norrell
Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality.

Author: Nathan J. Kelly
This book revolves around one central question: Do political dynamics have a systematic and predictable influence on distributional outcomes in the United States? Utilizing data as well as theoretical insights, Kelly shows that income inequality is a fundamental part of the U.S. macro political system.

Editors: Fran Ansley and Jon Shefner
In recent decades, Latino immigration has transformed communities and cultures throughout the southeastern United States-and become the focus of a sometimes furious national debate. This book examines Latino migration at the local, state, national, and binational levels.

Author: La Vinia Delois Jennings
Toni Morrison’s fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols play in her work.

Editors: Caula A. Beyl and Robert N. Trigiano
This book emphasizes plant propagation principles applied in temperate and tropical environments. It combines essential concepts with laboratory exercises that demonstrate how theories behind the concepts work in real-world environments.