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Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against Subjection
Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against Subjection
by Nadine Ehlers
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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the... (read more)

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Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against Subjection
Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against Subjection
by Nadine Ehlers
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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the... (read more)

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Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
by Randal Maurice Jelks
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Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya... (read more)

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The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by Brian Dolinar
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How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist... (read more)

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The Erotic Life of Racism
The Erotic Life of Racism
by Sharon Patricia Holland
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A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of... (read more)

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The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America
The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America
by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
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Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. Charles Ogletree, one of the... (read more)

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Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
by Kenneth W Mack
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Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of African American lawyers who worked in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking justice for diverse... (read more)

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Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life--From LBJ to Obama
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life--From LBJ to Obama
by James T. Patterson
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In Freedom is Not Enough, award-winning historian James Patterson narrates the birth, life, and afterlife of the explosive Moynihan report, which altered the way we view race in America. In 1965, President Johnson was leading an optimistic nation toward... (read more)

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The Black Cultural Front
The Black Cultural Front
by Brian Dolinar
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How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist... (read more)

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Lincoln and Race
Lincoln and Race
by Richard Striner
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Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, yet his personal views on race have long been debated. Since his death, his legend has been shadowed by the mystery of his true stance toward non-whites. While Lincoln took many actions to fight slavery... (read more)

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Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
by Alan Gilbert
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We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound... (read more)

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The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Vintage)
The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Vintage)
by Randall Kennedy
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Renowned for his insightful, common-sense critiques of racial politics, Randall Kennedy gives us a shrewd and penetrating analysis of the complex relationship between the first black president and his African-American constituency. Kennedy tackles such... (read more)

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The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption
The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption
by Rodney King
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On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon... (read more)

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Across That Bridge
Across That Bridge
by John Lewis
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Black Majority
Black Majority
by Peter Wood
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African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
by Jas M. (edt) Sullivan
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The Skin Color Syndrome among African-Americans
The Skin Color Syndrome among African-Americans
by Sr. William a. James
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Think about It!: The Question Book for Those Curious about Race
Think about It!: The Question Book for Those Curious about Race
by Ronald L. Jackson
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Resource for Vintage Black Movies & Videos
Resource for Vintage Black Movies & Videos
by Fred W. Hawkins
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Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
by Itabari Njeri
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