UDM Libraries Book of the Week

Climbin’ Jacobs Ladder: the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O’Dell by Jack O’Dell This book collects for the first time the black freedom movement writings of Jack O’Dell and restores one of the great unsung heroes of the civil rights movement to his rightful place in the historical record. Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder puts O’Dell’s historically significant essays in context and reveals how he helped shape the civil rights movement. From his early years in the 1940s National Maritime Union,...

African Americans and the Presidency: the Road to the White House by Bruce A. Glasrud African Americans and the Presidency explores the long history of African American candidates for President and Vice President, examining the impact of each candidate on the American public, as well as the contribution they all made toward advancing racial equality in America. Each chapter takes the story one step further in time, through original essays written by top experts, giving depth to these inspiring candidates,...

Love, friendship, & the self: initmacy, identification and the social nature of persons by Bennett W. Helm Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought that persons are self-determining and autonomous, where these are understood to be capacities we exercise most fully on our own, apart from others, whose influence on us tends to undermine that autonomy. Love, Friendship, and the Self...

Sold: Fighting the new global slave trade (DVD) Films for the Humanities & Science Evoking the spirit of 19th-century abolitionism, this program enters the lives of three anti-slavery activists in today’s developing world. Symphorienne Kessouagni works to protect vulnerable children in rural Togo, keeping them away from traffickers and helping young slaves escape. Sunitha Krishnan is a former Hindu nun in Hyderabad, India, who runs 17 schools for former brothel workers and lobbies officials to enforce anti-slavery laws. Ansar Burney...