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Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
by Toure F. Reed  Publisher Comments Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, TourA(c) Reed explores the ideology and policies of the National, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century.. Reed argues that racial uplift in...
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The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II: The Study Commissioned by the United States Army to Investigate Racial Bias i
by Elliott V. Converse Synopsis The purpose of this study, commissioned by the Army, was to document the process by which the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded from December 7, 1941, through September 1, 1948; to identify units in which African Americans served; to identify by...
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When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories
by Bernestine Singley Publisher Comments When Race Becomes Real is a critically acclaimed collection that pushes the boundaries of current discussions about race. In these personal and evocative essays, thirty contemporary black and white writers describe their own intimate experiences with...
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The Struggle for Black Equality: 25th-Anniversary Edition
by Harvard Sitkoff Publisher Comments The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the...
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A Tree Without Roots: The Guide to Tracing British, African and Asian-Caribbean Ancestry
by Paul Crooks Publisher Comments Designed for people researching their family connections in the Caribbean, this guide is particularly useful for those whose ancestry is complicated by mixed parentage or multiple migrations between Britain, Africa, and the Caribbean...
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Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
by Hannah Rosen Publisher Comments The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after...
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Circle of Stone
by Verne Jackson Publisher Comments A group of friends fights to overcome severe opposition in this empowering novel, which takes place in Arkansas during the Great Depression. When Ralph, a young black boy from Colored Town, is unfairly accused of murdering two white people,...
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Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
by Toure F. Reed Publisher Comments Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, TourA(c) Reed explores the ideology and policies of the National, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in...
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
by Molefi K. Asante About the Author M.K. Asante, Jr. is an award-winning poet, filmmaker and a creative writing professor at Morgan State University. He is also the author of Like Water Running Off My Back and Beautiful. And Ugly Too. ...
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Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville
by Michelle R. Boyd Publisher Comments In the Jim Crow era of the early twentieth century, Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood on the city’s South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality and a destination for thousands of Southern blacks seeking new...
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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor
by Elizabeth Publisher Comments "In Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized...
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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
by Kate Culkin Publisher Comments Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in...
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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor
by Elizabeth Young Publisher Comments "In Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized...
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Black Panthers
by Howard Bingham Synopsis Forty years after Life magazine sent writer Gilbert Moore and photographer Howard Bingham to document and tell the story of the Black Panthers. The very secretive Panthers and their Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver would only allow Life to do...
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest)
by Charles Lumpkins Publisher Comments On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the...
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100+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face...
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest)
by Charles Lumpkins Publisher Comments On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
by Paul Tough Publisher Comments A page-turning dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children whose bold approach to inner-city poverty has been called by Barack Obama an all-...
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Becoming King: Martin Luther King JR. and the Making of a National Leader (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen)
by Troy Jackson Publisher Comments Without question, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the face of the civil rights revolution that reshaped the social and political landscape of the United States. Although many biographers and historians have examined Dr. King’s activism, few have...
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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
by Michelle R. Scott Publisher Comments As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including...
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