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Struggle for Freedom : History of African Americans (07 Edition)
by Clayborne Carson  Publisher Comments "The Struggle for Freedom, "a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical...
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Black Is a Country : Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (04 Edition)
by Nikhil Pal Singh Publisher Comments Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin...
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Promiseland: A Century of Life in a Negro Community
by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel Publisher Comments A compelling portrait of a dynamic African American community in the rural South....
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
by Robin D G Kelley Publisher Comments ." . . [a] bold and provocative celebration of the black radical imagination in the 20th century."<BR>--The New York Times Book Review <BR>Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the...
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Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
by Roger Wilkins Publisher Comments An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet...
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Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
by William Van Deburg Publisher Comments Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, "Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American history and popular culture....
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To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History
by Dianne D Glave Publisher Comments “To Love the Wind and the Rain” is a groundbreaking and vivid analysis of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in U.S. history. It focuses on three major themes: African Americans in the rural environment, African...
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Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America
by Jeanne (edt) Theoharis Publisher Comments Over the last several years, the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement as largely a southern phenomenon, organized primarily by male leaders, that roughly began with the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights Act of...
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Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 19631973
by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two...
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
by David Blight Publisher Comments Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group....
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Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (02 Edition)
by Patrick Rael Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael...
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The Slave Narratives of Texas
by Ron Tyler Publisher Comments Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave remarked, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is--'tis he who has endured." Here are the tales of...
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Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
by Kevin Powell Publisher Comments Step Into A World <P>" Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the fearlessness. Step into a World is a kaleidoscope into the world not...
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Slavery and Public History : the Tough Stuff of American Memory (06 Edition)
by James Oliver Horton Publisher Comments Takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history--"the existence of slavery in a country dedicated to freedom--"and offers a bracing analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw from it...
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Black Power Movement : Rethinking the Civil Rights-black Power Era (06 Edition)
by Peniel E. (ed.) Joseph Publisher Comments Often misunderstood and ill-defined, the Black Power Movement remains one of the most controversial eras in post-war America. Peniel Joseph provides a dynamic and fresh historical reinterpretation of this period, that during the 1960s started a movement...
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Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
by Jane Rhodes Publisher Comments A fascinating look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America. "They've been calling us niggers, thugs, and hoodlums for 400 years, that ain't gon' hurt me, I'm going to check out what these brothers is doing."—Bobby...
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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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Africans in Colonial Louisiana (92 Edition)
by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Publisher Comments 'Africans in Colonial Louisiana opens to view a new translational conception of American culture that grew from slavery and from slave resistance, and describes a process of creolization whose full effects have perhaps become only apparent, at least to...
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
by Lerone Bennett Publisher Comments The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to the present day--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the...
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She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Herbert R Kohl Publisher Comments The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks: a "Detroit News" pick for notable books on Rosa Parks. <BR>Originally published in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa...
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