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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Marvin Surkin Publisher Comments Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore: The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s Publisher Comments Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland s Lower Eastern Shore traces the beginnings and development of commercial poultry production in this very important region. African Americans were mainly involved in poultry production on the labor supply side... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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The Baker's Son: My Life in Business by Lowell Hawthorne Publisher Comments "In gripping narrative that is both inspirational and instructive, Lowell Hawthorne shares how an idea infused with tenacity, intellect, and passion can become a dream realized. The Bakers Son offers a successful playbook for any entrepreneur who seeks... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown by Ishmael Reed Publisher Comments Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence—including Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn—it argues that, in some ways, the... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Boots Riley: Lyrics in Context, 1993-2012 by Boots Riley Publisher Comments "Every line brims with the grit of the underdog, burns with rage and tenderness. It's no secret he is one of the most influential poets of this generation."—Jeff Chang, Can't Stop, Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "Boots' lyrics... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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From Sit-Ins to Sncc: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by Iwan Morgan Publisher Comments In the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college students, From Sit-Ins to SNCC brings together the work of leading civil rights scholars to offer a new and... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $85.50 New - Hardcover
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Barack Obama, Post-Racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation by Terry Smith Publisher Comments Barack Obama, Post-Racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation examines black voters' relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial America. Using interviews with members of the Congressional... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts (Women in American History) by Dawn Rae Flood Publisher Comments Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiated the extraordinary challenges of rape, as either victims or accused perpetrators. Drawing on... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris (Blacks in the Diaspora Blacks in the Diaspora Blacks in the) by Elisa Joy White Publisher Comments Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies) by Larry Eugene Rivers Publisher Comments This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records,... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History by Kidada Williams Publisher Comments Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical opinion, from anarchism to social... (read more) Available July 9, 2012 Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions by Michael Emerson Publisher Comments Conventional wisdom holds that Christians, as members of a “universal” religion, all believe more or less the same things when it comes to their faith. Yet black and white Christians differ in significant ways, from their frequency of praying... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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I Still Believe Anita Hill by Amy Richards Publisher Comments In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country's attention, when she testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss, and was about to ascend to the Supreme Court. We know... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies) by Darlene Clark Hine Publisher Comments Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War by David S. Cecelski Publisher Comments Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America by Michael O'malley Publisher Comments From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of God... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Baker's Son by Lowell Hawthorne Publisher Comments "Lowell Hawthorne's chronicle of the development of a small Jamaican business into the highly successful Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill, an American business empire, is an invaluable guide to business success as well as an inspiring... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology by Sandra L. Barnes Publisher Comments This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people? Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Publisher Comments David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $23.00 New - Trade Paper
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Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity by Jonna Perrillo Publisher Comments Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $103.75 New - Hardcover
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