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From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston
by Patricia S Prather  Book News Annotation Retells the life of an unusual man who was born a slave in Alabama in 1822 and who served General Houston's family as blacksmith, carpenter, architect, wheelwright, and driver. Houston freed him in 1862, and his free life was productive and successful....
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Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York
by Roger Waldinger Publisher Comments Still the Promised City?addresses the question of why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrantshave done so well. Does the increase in immigration bear some responsibility for the failure...
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Loose canons :notes on the culture wars
by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William...
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Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Black Middle Class: Atlanta, 1870-1900
by Joseph O. Jewell Publisher Comments Periods of time characterized by large scale social change encourage reinterpretations of the meanings of categories like race and class, strategies for their reproduction, and their relationship to one another as social structures. The racialized nature...
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A Narrative of the Negro
by Leila Amo Pendleton Book News Annotation Pendleton's A Narrative of the Negro (1912) was intended for young readers and links the themes of literacy and the struggle for freedom in profiles of such figures as Frederick Douglass, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Wilkes's volume...
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Reconstructing the Black Image
by Gordon Mothe Publisher Comments An original approach to refuting the negative perceptions of black people in western society. For over a decade, Gordon de la Mothe has used images as his point of departure in his teaching. His study of the social and historical context in which...
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Postnegritude Visual & Lit. Cultur (SUNY Series Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
by Mark A. Reid Synopsis Shows how film, literature, photography, and television news broadcasts construct myths about race, gender, sexuality, and nation and reinforce socialized ways of looking at these identities, and examines how some creative works and public reactions...
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Great Black Jockeys the Lives & Times
by Edward Hotaling Publisher Comments More than a century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, black athletes were dominating America's first national sport. The sport was horse racing, and the greatest jockeys of all were slaves and the sons of slaves...
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On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley
by Gregory Stephens Publisher Comments Heroes of black history and consciousness reconsidered for a contemporary understanding of multiracial culture....
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Ceres Series #1: Arid Ways: Cultural Understanding of Insecurity in Fulbe Forest Conservation and Sustainibility in Amazonia
by Willem Assies Publisher Comments This book is about the ways in which the agro-pastoral Fulbe in the Sahel deal with insecurity in their lives. It focuses on the dynamic interplay between various ecological and historical realities in which ecological, social and political insecurities...
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Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements
by Susan Eckstein Publisher Comments A wide-ranging investigation of the causes and consequences of protest movements, using Latin America as a case study. The essays examine rural guerilla movements, discuss multiclass protests, and analyze different popular movements....
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Cornel West & Philosophy (Africana Thought)
by Clarence Shole Johnson Publisher Comments Cornel West's reputation as a public and celebrity intellectual has overshadowed his important contributions to philosophy. Professor Clarence Shole Johnson provides a rectification of this situation in this benchmark, thought-provoking book. After a...
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Contributions in American History #190: Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina
by Akiko Ochiai Publisher Comments From early in the Civil War, the Sea Islands of South Carolina set the stage for an exciting experiment in freedpeople's independence. Lowcountry South Carolina is particularly significant, not only for its aristocratic planters and its high profile in...
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African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
by Shaun L. (edt) Gabbidon Publisher Comments This anthology provides a collection of classic articles in criminology//criminal justice written by black scholars and researchers beginning with W E B Dubois up through Lee Brown, the current mayor of Houston, TX. Articles focus on crime and the black...
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Picturing us :African American identity in photography
by Deborah Willis Publisher Comments Winner of the International Center of Photography's Award for Writing on Photography. Writers, filmmakers, poets, and cultural critics use photographs to analyze the modern African-American experience....
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Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Class: Culture)
by James C. Davis Publisher Comments Commerce in Color explores the juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including...
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Representing the Other: A `Feminism & Psychology' Reader
by Publisher Comments Identifying a range of key concerns related to representation and difference, Representing the Other offers a provocative agenda for the future development of feminist theory and practice. The book's contributors, including many key international...
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The Negro Family in the United States (African American Intellectual Heritage Series)
by Edward F. Frazier Publisher Comments The 1939 edition of Howard University Professor E. Franklin Frazier's book, The Negro Family in the United States, was hailed as "a highly important contribution to the intimate history of the people of the United States". It was the first comprehensive...
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The color of our future
by Farai Chideya Book News Annotation ABC news correspondent Chideya talks with young people in a variety of situations throughout the US to sample their opinions, beliefs, values, and behavior regarding the shift of the population away from a majority of European descendants that will...
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What Else But Love? : the Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (96 Edition)
by Philip M. Weinstein Publisher Comments Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and describing how differently their "Americanness" resonates in both writers' works, "What Else But Love?" considers the legacy of slavery in a variety of ways, from the meaning of mammies and...
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