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Salvation : Black People and Love (01 Edition)
by bell hooks  Publisher Comments Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, "Salvation" takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans....
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Slave Religion : the Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South, Updated Edition (04 Edition)
by Albert J. Raboteau Publisher Comments Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the...
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
by Colin Grant Publisher Comments Marcus Mosiah Garvey was once the most famous black man on earth. A brilliant orator who electrified his audiences, he inspired thousands to join his Back to Africa movement, which aimed to create an independent homeland through Pan-African emigration...
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This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience
by Juan Williams Publisher Comments Introduction African-American religious life has played a pivotal but largely unheralded role in shaping many of the ideals that are central to our notions of democracy and justice in America today. Arriving on ships with names like Brotherhood and John...
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Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media
by Pamela Newkirk Publisher Comments Through anecdotes culled from interviews with over 100 broadcast and print journalists, Newkirk exposes the trials and triumphs of African American journalists as they struggle in pursuit of more equitable coverage of racial minorities....
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Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Adam Green Publisher Comments Black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and ’50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. In fact, Adam Green argues, this vibrant period in Windy City...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library)
by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois' s The Souls of Black Folk struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the black experience in America, introducing the now famous " problem of the...
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Strange Career of Jim Crow, Commemorative Edition (3RD 02 Edition)
by C. Vann Woodward Publisher Comments C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly...
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Water, Race, and Disease (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
by Werner Troesken Publisher Comments Arguing that in this case, racism led public officials not to deny services but to improve them - the only way to "protect" white neighbourhoods against waste from black neighbourhoods was to install water and sewer systems in both - Troesken shows that...
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Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib
by Jaiya John Publisher Comments The author opens the floodgates on his own childhood with this piercing memoir. Three months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., he was adopted by a white couple. Here is an honest glimpse into the mind and heart of that child....
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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to...
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Rhapsodies in Black
by Richard J. (edt) Powell Publisher Comments Harlem has captivated the imagination of writers, artists, intellectuals, and politicians around the world since the early decades of this century. Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance examines the cultural reawakening of Harlem in the...
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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can't Win
by Shelby Steele Publisher Comments In Shelby Steele's beautifully wrought and thought-provoking new book, A Bound Man, the award-winning and bestselling author of The Content of Our Character attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is...
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
by Laura Wexler 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264)....
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ACT Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity
by Crispin Sartwell Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X—their words speak firmly, eloquently, personally of the impact of white America on the lives of African-Americans. Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest...
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Nigger : the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (02 Edition)
by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-174) and index....
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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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Developing Positive Self-images and Discipline in Black Children (84 Edition)
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement....
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From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
by Endesha Ida Holland
Publisher Comments After being raped by a white employer at the age of 11, Holland became a rebel, turning to prostitution and delinquency. But when she stumbled across the civil rights movement, the trouble-maker found herself developing into a leader -- only to encounter...
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Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro
by John David Smith Publisher Comments A compelling story of racial self-hatred in America and of a black man who became a pariah among his own people....
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