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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
by Andrew Ward  Publisher Comments The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed. Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century...
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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Lewis R. Gordon Publisher Comments In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that...
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What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination
by Ricky L. Jones Synopsis Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching - and disturbing - shifts in black leadership in post-Civil Rights America....
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Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America
by Lee A. Daniels Publisher Comments In the twentieth century, a broad consensus to fight racial discrimination linked black Americans of all social classes, and gave birth to a movement that paved the way for black political power. Now, however, Black America is facing a moment of crisis...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karoly Smardz Frost Publisher Comments It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was...
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Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun
by Gregory S. (edt) Parks Publisher Comments During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such...
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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Lewis R. Gordon Publisher Comments In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that...
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Sound Bites of Protest
by Yvonne Scruggs-leftwich Publisher Comments Urban issues and creative African American leadership are addressed in this compendium of art, quotations, and critical essays. As the media and the internet continue to change the face of American culture, the tradition of political tomes and textbooks...
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
by Benjamin Drew About the Author In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30...
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Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher (Classics in Progressive Education)
by James Haskins Publisher Comments This classic work, long out of print, recounts the experiences of an African American teacher during his first year working in a Harlem elementary school in the 1960s. Though written more than forty years ago, the diary still rings true to the experience...
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Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life
by Beverly Lowry Publisher Comments From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People. Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook...
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Big Black Penis: Misadventures in Race and Masculinity
by Shawn Taylor Publisher Comments Being black and male is a serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often...
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All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hopand why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics. One of the most outspoken voices in America...
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Complete Poems (American Poetry Recovery)
by Claude Mckay Publisher Comments Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked...
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T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
by Shawn L. (edt) Alexander Publisher Comments Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The editorship of three prominent black newspapers--the New York Globe, New York Freeman, and New York Age-...
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William Grant Still (American Composers)
by Catherine Parsons Smith Publisher Comments In this compact introduction to the life and work of eminent African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), Catherine Parsons Smith tracks the composer's interrelated careers in popular and concert music. Still merged both musical traditions...
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Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro
by Barbara Foley Publisher Comments With the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was a landmark decade in African American political and cultural history, characterized by an upsurge in racial awareness and artistic creativity. In Spectres of 1919 Barbara Foley traces...
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Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
by China Galland Publisher Comments By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn...
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Ebony Jr!: The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Black Children's Magazine
by Laretta Henderson
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Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835
by Cedrick May
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