From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice
At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 / Taylor Branch
Social solutions to poverty : America's struggle to build a just society
The Civil Rights movement in American memory
Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965
The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights
Christianity and human rights : influences and issues
Religion, terrorism and globalization : nonviolence : a new agenda
Gandhi and beyond : nonviolence for an age of terrorism
The dream long deferred : the landmark struggle for desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century
Many minds, one heart : SNCC's dream for a new America
Challenging U.S. apartheid : Atlanta and Black struggles for human rights, 1960-1977
Frontiers of justice : disability, nationality, species membership

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Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on the food industry
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways
The international politics of genetically modified food : diplomacy, trade and law
Safe trip to Eden : 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown
Agroecology in action : extending alternative agriculture through social networks
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Food biotechnology in ethical perspective
Evolution of the human diet : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable
Medieval cuisine of the Islamic world : a concise history with 174 recipes
Curry : a tale of cooks and conquerors
Food in world history
Food in the ancient world
Organic, inc. : natural foods and how they grew
Two for the road : our love affair with American food
Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
The hundred-year lie : how food and medicine are destroying your health
The end of food
Alcohol : a social and cultural history
Food, film and culture : a genre study
Crunchy Cons
Voracious children : who eats whom in children's literature
The way we eat : why our food choices matter
Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food
Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America
Worlds of food : place, power, and provenance in the food chain
Eating in Eden : food and American utopias
Ethical markets : growing the green economy
The revolution will not be microwaved : inside America's underground food movements
Everyone eats : understanding food and culture
The classical cookbook
Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote
Recipes for reading: community cookbooks, stories, histories
Cooking the Gullah way, morning, noon, and night
Around the Roman table : with more than 150 original recipes
Fields of plenty : a farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it
A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances
Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories (online)
The American cookbook : a history
The women in God's kitchen : cooking, eating, and spiritual writing
Food in colonial and federal America
From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food

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Knowledge monopolies : the academisation of society
Privilege and diversity in the academy
Technology and diversity in higher education: new challenges
The American faculty : the restructuring of academic work and careers
Higher ground : ethics and leadership in the modern university
Engaging departments : moving faculty culture from private to public, individual to collective focus for the common good
Planning effective instruction : diversity responsive methods and management
Rights and wrongs in the college classroom : ethical issues in postsecondary teaching
Black women in the ivory tower, 1850-1954 : an intellectual history
Indoctrination U. : the left's war against academic freedom
Universities in the age of corporate science : the UC Berkeley-Novartis controversy
Assessing organizational performance in higher education
The art and politics of academic governance : relations among boards, presidents, and faculty
American educational history : school, society, and the common good
Searching for higher education leadership : advice for candidates and search committees
Diversity across the curriculum : a guide for faculty in higher education
To restore American democracy : political education and the modern university
Erotic mentoring : women's transformations in the university
Enhancing scholarly work on teaching and learning : professional literature that makes a difference
Creating a new kind of university : institutionalizing community-university engagement
Our underachieving colleges : a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more
College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now
The handbook of blended learning : global perspectives, local designs
Academic freedom at the dawn of a new century : how terrorism, governments, and culture wars impact free speech
The spirit of service : exploring faith, service, and social justice in higher education
Excellence without a soul : how a great university forgot education
What's happening to public higher education?
Instructing and mentoring the African American college student : strategies for success in higher education
Advancing campus efficiencies : a companion for campus leaders in the digital era
The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges

See Also:
The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Now available via our Research Databases section: The Oxford African American Studies Center, a scholarly database containing primary source materials, photographs, maps, charts, tables, and 7,500 articles from core reference works. TIP: Do a full text search for "Asheville" to find references to local African American history.

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The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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