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African American Studies



African American Studies

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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
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A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was... (read more)

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Malcolm X
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley
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An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more)

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Black Heritage
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The Black Book
The Black Book
by Middleton A. Harris
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Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward... (read more)

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Folklore
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Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
by Linda Goss
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Compilation of tales from Afro-American folklore. Among the storytellers included are Zora Neale Hurston, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leadbelly.... (read more)

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Slavery and Reconstruction
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
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"Pathbreaking....and very moving" (Edmund S. Morgan) — the multigenerational story of Thomas Jefferson's hidden slave family. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically... (read more)

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Schomburg Library
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckley
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"Invaluable...Elizabeth Keckley's memoir of her life as a White House dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln...[is a] curious gem"--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable vantage point on the Civil War"--Chicago Sun Times... (read more)

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Martin Luther King Jr
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Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
by David J Garrow
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Federal voting rights legislation and the civil rights protests in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965. Emphasis on Martin Luther King, Jr., as leader of SCLC.... (read more)

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Civil Rights Movement
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My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (American Ways)
My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (American Ways)
by John A Salmond
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A lively, compact narrative, concentrating on the years between the Brown decision and the Fair Housing Act. Most impressive....Salmond manages a surprising amount of detail in such a small space....A powerful education that deserves a wide audience... (read more)

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Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line
Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line
by Michael Eric Dyson
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"You couldn't ask for a fairer-minded, better-informed, or more enjoyable guide."<BR>--"Elle <BR>As a former welfare father who is also an ordained Baptist minister and a Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is one of those rare intellectuals... (read more)

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Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West
Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West
by William H. Leckie and Shirley A. Leckie
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Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable... (read more)

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