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Encyclopedia of African American Culture & 5 Volumes
by Jack Salzman  Synopsis The "Encyclopedia" is a 5-volume set and a supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses...
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Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity
by Kevin Bell Publisher Comments For years critics have held that literary modernism was both apolitical and solipsistic. While the former charge began to give way with the recession of New Criticism, the latter has grown in strength as a lead-in to the claim that postmodernism is...
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Sapphires and Other Precious Jewels: Discover and Celebrate the Beauty of Women of Africandescent
by Terri Mcfaddin Publisher Comments Women of African Ancestry Shine With the Beauty, Value, and Uniqueness of Precious Jewels. If any race of women should recognize that their value is far above rubies, pearls, and sapphires, says author Terri McFaddin, it is those of African ancestry...
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African American Folk Healing
by Stephanie Y. Mitchem Publisher Comments "An exploration of the history and practices of black healers and healing illuminating the vital cultural, intellectual, and spiritual expression of a people. This fine multidisciplinary work draws deeply and thoughtfully from the experiences and words...
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Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
by Mike Marqusee Publisher Comments Marqusee puts Muhammad Ali in his true historical context to explore the 1960s crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. 16 photos....
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Hoop Roots
by John Edgar Wideman Publisher Comments This multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, and race is Wideman's first nonfiction work since his National Book Award finalist, "Fatheralong." Bringing "a touch of Proust to the blacktop" ("Time"), "Hoop Roots" tells of Wideman's love for a...
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Envy of the World on Being a Black Man
by Ellis Cose Publisher Comments With a compassionate eloquence reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a realistic examination of the challenges facing black men in modern America. Black men have never had more opportunity for success than today -- yet...
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The Social Psychology of Organizations
by Daniel Katz Publisher Comments Analyzes the essential problems of human organizations—the motivation to work, the resolution of conflict, the exercise of leadership, and the creation of organizational change. Examines the relations between organizations and their...
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The Journey Home: A Father's Gift to His Son
by Clifton L Taulbert Publisher Comments A son connects to his father's history. Clifton Taulbert had given his twenty-year-old son, Marshall, all of the necessities and many of the extras, but had Marshall gotten the most important things? A journey home to the Mississippi Delta community of...
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I'm a Man Who Happens to Be Black
by Brian Bolden Publisher Comments As a race, we can no longer hold the entire Caucasian race responsible for what their parents and grandparents did to our parents and grandparents because they had nothing to do with it. Through the actions of many men and women who happened to be white,...
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The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life
by Freddie Mae Baxter Publisher Comments Told with the irrepressible warmth and humor of a natural-born storyteller, The Seventh Child is the chronicle of a remarkable woman's life, and of three generations of an African-American family. The seventh of eight children, Freddie Mae Baxter was...
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The Fatal Sleep: Africa's Killer Disease That Went Undiscovered for Centuries
by Peter Kennedy Publisher Comments Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, continues to be largely neglected by the Western world and pharmaceutical companies. In this expos, Kennedy pens the true story of Africa's killer disease that had gone undiscovered for centuries and...
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Successful African American Men: From Childhood to Adulthood
by Sandra Griffin Publisher Comments Statistics emphasize that one out of every five men is incarcerated. The background experiences of dysfunctional black men are often explored while few studies focus on the motivating triggers for high achieving black men. Successful African American Men:...
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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States and Officia (Classics in Black Studies)
by Martin R. Delany Publisher Comments A preeminent African American abolitionist, author, public intellectual, physician, the highest ranking Black officer during the Civil War, and a notable activist for the emigration of Blacks to Africa, Martin Robison Delany has left an enduring legacy...
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The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music
by Craig L. Wilkins Publisher Comments Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L. Wilkins observes, that diary includes far too few narratives of the diverse cultures in U.S. society...
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The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport
by David K. Wiggins Publisher Comments This extraordinarily rich compendium of primary sources charts the significant, intertwining history of African Americans and sport. The Unlevel Playing Field contains more than one hundred documents--ranging chronologically from a challenge issued by...
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Privatization of Parastatals: : Implications for Socio-Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
by George B. Samah Ph. D. Publisher Comments In the pursuit of policies and approaches that would sustain and accelerate economic development after the declared departure of colonial powers, African governments set up parastatals to serve as conduit for economic development through which...
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Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
by Gwendolyn D Pough Publisher Comments Examines how young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are grappling with the gender politics of a predominately masculine space....
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A Social History of the American Negro. a History of the Negro Problem in the United States Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia.
by Benjamin Brawley Publisher Comments Immediately after the war legislation enacted in the South made severe provision with reference to vagrancy. Negroes were arrested on the slightest pretexts and their labor as that of convicts leased to landowners or other business men. When, a few years...
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Black Wealth / White Wealth : New Perspective on Racial Inequality -10TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)06 Edition)
by Melvin Oliver Publisher Comments The award-winning "Black Wealth / White Wealth "offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiros' groundbreaking research analyzes wealth -total assets and debts rather than income...
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