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Risks of Faith : the Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 (99 Edition)
by James H. Cone  Publisher Comments "American religious thought at its best."--Michael Eric Dyson, author of I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.<BR>From the birth of Black Theology to James Cone's seminal work on the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr., and...
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Time on the Cross : the Economics of American Negro Slavery ((2ND)89 Edition)
by Robert William Fogel Publisher Comments Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery....
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy Roberts Publisher Comments The image of the "Welfare Queen" continues to dominate white America's perceptions of black women and to shape our government's policies concerning black women's reproductive decisions. In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts explodes the myths about...
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Kokopelli Cassanova of the Cliff Dwellers
by John V. Young Publisher Comments The traveling salesman/hunchbacked flute player may have used the flute as a notice to villagers that he was coming in peace - a personality, an individual, the personification of a legend, a beneficent god to some and a confounded nuisance to others....
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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
by Anne Farrow Publisher Comments Rich with historical documents and photos, this narrative dispels the myths surrounding the history of slavery in this country, revealing the North's deep dependence on slave commerce and its own exploitation of slave labor....
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Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man (97 Edition)
by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments "This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates...
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington 
Publisher Comments From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only...
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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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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
by Patricia Hi Collins Publisher Comments In "Black Sexual Politics", one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today....
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Sound Bites of Protest
by Yvonne Scruggs-leftwich Publisher Comments Urban issues and creative African American leadership are addressed in this compendium of art, quotations, and critical essays. As the media and the internet continue to change the face of American culture, the tradition of political tomes and textbooks...
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Born to Be (Blacks in the American West)
by Taylor Gordon Publisher Comments Famous in the 1920s as a singer of Negro spirituals, Taylor Gordon was born into the only black family living in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. His rough-and-ready upbringing in that mining boom town is warmly remembered in Born to Be. Gordon describes...
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The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier (Sourcebooks in Negro History)
by Edward Fran Frazier Publisher Comments Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion....
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Gentleman Jigger
by Richard Bruc Nugent Publisher Comments An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the...
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Roots
by Alex Haley Publisher Comments It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The...
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Hip Hop Generation : Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (02 Edition)
by Bakari Kitwana Publisher Comments Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American...
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Black Skin, White Masks Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation...
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Dark Child (54 Edition)
by Camara Laye Publisher Comments "The Dark Child "is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's...
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No Disrespect (94 Edition)
by Sister Souljah Publisher Comments Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any African...
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Woodholme: A Black Man's Story of Growing Up Alone
by Dewayne Wickham Publisher Comments DeWayne Wickham was just eight years old when his father murdered his mother and then killed himself. Woodholme is his poignant memoir about growing up haunted by this traumatic event and about how he eventually overcame the reality of his loss. A...
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Shakedown
by Kenneth R Timmerman Publisher Comments Jesse Jackson is a modern day highway robber, says veteran investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman, who uses cries of racism to steal from individuals, corporations, and government, to give to himself. Until now, however, no one has been brave enough...
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