Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts on the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B. DuBois
by Stanley Crouch
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Stanley Crouch teams up with noted journalist Playthell Benjamin for this thought-provoking look back at The Souls of Black Folk, the epochal, prophetic work by the great African-American intellectual W. E. B. DuBois. Crouch--an internationally...
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One Hundred Years of the Souls of Black Folk: A Celebration
by Ro Gooding Williams
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Originally published in 1903. The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois's biting critique of the racist and nationalist ideologies that animated the political culture of post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow America. This special issue of Public Culture...
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Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir
by Karl Fleming
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Legendary civil rights reporter Karl Fleming was born in North Carolina's flattest, bleakest tobacco landscape. Raised in a Methodist orphanage during the Great Depression, he was isolated from much of the world around him until an early newspaper job...
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Black Pilgrimage to Islam
by Robert Dannin
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This book offers a comprehensive ethnographic study of African-American Muslims. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted over a period of several years, Dannin provides an unprecedented look inside the fascinating and little understood world of black...
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Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Antilavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)
by J R Kerr Ritchie
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This exciting new study examines the role of British Abolition celebrations in the mobilization against American slavery in the Atlantic world between 1830 and 1860. Kerr-Ritchie's argument is constructed through an analysis of social, political, and...
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True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity
by John W Fountain
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John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare...
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, JR.
by Wil Haygood
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"Born to a legacy of elite black Baptist ministry, Powell (1908-72) stood as the 'New Negro' whose triumphs over racial discrimination moved some to call him 'Mr. Civil Rights.' To others, the longtime Harlem congressman was either a prodigal son or...
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The Atlantic Slave Trade (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500-1900,)
by Johannes Postma
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Essays on the capture of slaves and the Middle Passage, the identities of the enslaved and their lives after capture, the economics of the slave trade, the struggle to end slavery, and the slave trade's legacy, as well as biographies of important figures,...
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Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party
by Flores Alexa Forbes
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Amid the social turmoil of the 1960s and '70s, Flores Forbes was drawn to the Black Panther Party's mission of organizing resistance to police brutality. Eagerly joining the revolution, he soon found himself immersed in a culture of Mao-inspired rigor...
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Twilight People: One Man's Journey to Find His Roots
by David Houze
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The author was 26 when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo were his sisters, left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country at the height of apartheid to start a new life in Mississippi, with Houze's American...
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Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
by Luisah Teish
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Chapter One Growing Up Tipsy "Somehow I knew that there was much more going on than was apparent on the surface. My existence and that of the things going on around me caused me to question everything, always looking for the deeper meanings."read more)
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The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory
by Scot French
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In this richly detailed study spanning the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights, French places the contested history and enduring memory of Nat Turner's Rebellion within a broader American discourse on race, slavery, and the...
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Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation
by Elizabeth Jacoway
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the "Little Rock Nine," this landmark work of history--30 years in the making--presents a searing and groundbreaking account of one of the most dramatic events in the Civil Rights movement. of photos....
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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
by Alan Huffman
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-315) and index....
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Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars
by Howard W Odum
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The second novel in Howard W. Odums Black Ulysses...
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The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
by J Patrick Oconnor
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Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police...
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Something Must Be Done: One Black Woman's Story
by Peggy Wood
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A retired social worker and longtime civil rights activist, Wood now
resides in Syracuse, New York. Born in the South in 1912, she
recounts her journey from Alabama's Tuskegee Institute in the 1920s,
to Atlanta and the School of Social Work in the...
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Life After Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption
by Evans D Hopkins
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Life After Life is the haunting and gloriously redemptive tale of Evans D. Hopkins's many lives, a sweeping journey from promising middle-class youth to civil rights militant, from criminal and convict to celebrated writer and enlightened man. Evans D...
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Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Baha'is in North America, 1898-2004
by Gwendol Etter Lewis
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This groundbreaking work uncovers the role played by black people in the emergence of the Bah'i faith in North America. Drawing on a wide range of sources including personal essays, letters, and journals, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of...
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Slavery and Human Progress
by David Brion Davis
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Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-...
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