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Featured Titles in African American Studies - New Arrivals
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A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
by Sarah Culberson
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Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a white, West Virginia couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. In 2004, Sarah hired a private investigator to track down her biological parents. ... ( read more)
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Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
by Gabor Boritt
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This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and responded to freedom. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we... ( read more)
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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
by Raymond Smock
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From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been... ( read more)
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My Life and Battles
by Jack Jacobson
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African American historian Gerald Early refers to Jack Johnson (1878-1946), the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, as the first African-American pop culture icon. Johnson is a seminal and iconic figure in the history of race and... ( read more)
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African American Biographies, 3: Profiles of 631 Current Men and Women
by Walter L. Hawkins
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This book provides capsule biographies of 909 of the nation's most notable African Americans. The entries are arranged alphabetically, with all individuals meeting two general criteria for inclusion: They were born or they spent their childhoods in the... ( read more)
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The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism
by Walton M. Muyumba
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Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especially a passion for music. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their thinking, and, as The Shadow and the Act reveals... ( read more)
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Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
by Katie Mccabe
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From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nationas capital, from the white male bastion of the World War II Army to the male stronghold of Howard University Law School, from the pulpits of churches where women had... ( read more)
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The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
by W. Ralph Eubanks
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A powerful story about race and identity told through the lives of one American family across three generations In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black... ( read more)
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The African-American Odyssey: Special Edition, Combined Volume (Myhistorylab)
by Darlene Clark Hine
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More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history - not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably... ( read more)
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Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
by David Waldstreicher
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Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were... ( read more)
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On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
by Robert Whitaker
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In this heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of courage and will, journalist Robert Whitaker carefully documents—and exposes—one of the worst racial massacres in American history. Whitaker’s important book commemorates a legal... ( read more)
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Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
by Michael Eric Dyson
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Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America’s most visible—and quotable—public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums... ( read more)
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I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful Single Black Women Speak Out
by Nika C. Beamon
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Women once saw living single as a transitional period--singles marked time till they found “the one.” But now marriage is the transitional stage, connecting one unmarried period of life to another. ... ( read more)
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Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History)
by Catherine Fosl
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Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide... ( read more)
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Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
by Brendan I Koerner
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An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white... ( read more)
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Step by Step: A Memoir of Living the American Dream
by Bertie Bowman
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In 1944, Bertie Bowman-a poor, impressionable thirteen-year-old-heard South Carolina senator Burnet Maybank declare: If you all ever get up to Washington, D.C., drop by and see me Bertie took those words to heart, and when he arrived in Washington... ( read more)
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African Americans: A Concise History, Special Edition
by Darlene Clark Hine
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African-Americans: A Concise History is a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. Readers will learn an appreciation of the central place of black people and black culture in this country, and a better understanding of both... ( read more)
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White Prescriptions?: Black Males and the Dangerous Social Potential of Ritalin and Other Psychotropic Drugs
by Terence D. Fitzgerald
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For all the debates about black males and their role in American society, there has been little attention to a dangerous and growing trend: the overprescription of Ritalin and other behavioral drugs. This book reveals how and why black males are... ( read more)
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