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An African Republic: Black & White Virginians in the Making of Liberia (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Marie Tyler-mcgraw  Publisher Comments The 19th-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the...
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An American Story
by Debra J Dickerson Publisher Comments A powerfully compelling, unsparing memoir from a widely admired African-American journalist. Debra Dickerson's parents were share-croppers who migrated north after World War II. Born in 1959, Dickerson is an amalgam of her background--rural southern...
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Black Fathers: An Invisible Presence in America
by Michael E. Connor Publisher Comments In the parlance of social psychology, social work, and urban social scientists, African American fathers have often been described as "absent," "missing," "non-residential," "non-custodial," "unavailable," "non-married," "irresponsible," and "immature...
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African Americans in the U.S. Economy
by James Steart Publisher Comments The forty-three chapters in African Americans in the U.S. Economy focus on various aspects of the economic status of African Americans, past and present. Taken together, these essays present two related themes: first, when it comes to economics, race...
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Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
by Clifton L Taulbert Publisher Comments In this beautifully evocative tale of life in the segregated South, the author of The Last Train North looks back at his "colored" childhood with deep pride, striking honesty, and unusual affection. Soon to be released as a major film from BET Pictures...
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Paul Robeson Speaks
by Philip Foner Publisher Comments Many remember Paul Robeson for his magnificent singing voice and acting ability. But how many are aware that Robeson wrote and spoke about African culture? Thirty years before "black is beautiful", he described his pride in being Negro. Paul Robeson...
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Black Fatherhood: Reconnecting with Our Legacy
by Dana E. Ross Publisher Comments This book and accompanying documentary illustrates despite mounds of derogatory statistics regarding Black men in their roles as fathers, there is a strong legacy of Black men (from slavery to the present) who were/are very proactive fathers. Filmmaker...
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Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)
by Larry G. Murphy Publisher Comments "This colection brings together two generations of scholarship on many important topics in African-American religious history. . . . A useful and judiciously chosen compilation that should serve well in the classroom." — Religious Studies Review...
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A History of Us (History of Us 8)
by Joy Hakim Publisher Comments Teacher's Guide that accompanies A History of US Book 8: An Age of Extremes. The eighth in a set of 10....
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Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation (New Directions in Southern Studies)
by Jessica Adams Publisher Comments Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property....
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Memory of Kin: Stories about Family by Black Writers
by Mary Hel Washington Publisher Comments Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige the...
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Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success (97 Edition)
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments How to reduce the dropout rate and motivate black children....
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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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Crisis of the Black Intellectual
by W. D. Wright Publisher Comments A reexamination of Harold Cruse's classic "Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," published in 1967 at the height of the civil-rights movement and now required reading in African American studies courses, this polemic pays tribute to the earlier book's...
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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
by Stanley Crouch Publisher Comments Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on...
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Black Holocaust for Beginners (95 Edition)
by S. E. Anderson Publisher Comments Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many "African" human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust-from the start of the European slave trade (c.1500) to the Civil War (1865)?...
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Self Esteem in Black Americans
by Joseph A. Bailey Publisher Comments A historical perspective of self-esteem, including terminology, is extensively discussed from the dawn of mankind to the present. Nine major syndromes prominently found in Black people are featured. Several special forms of self-esteem problems occurring...
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Prophetic Fragments
by Cornel West Publisher Comments "This collection of writings, drawn from a wide variety of sources, reveals the intellectual depth and breadth of the author. The articles include political commentary, cultural critique, literary analysis, extended book reviews, and even a short story...
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Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: Afrikan American Families in Transition: Essays in Discovery, Solution, and Hope
by Haki R Madhubuti Publisher Comments Here is the seminal and critical work that helped solidify Haki Madhubuti as an informed, passionate, and caring commentator on Black life, culture, relationships, and the development and stability of the Black community. In Black Men, an integral text...
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Worlds Great Men of Color Volume 1
by J A Rogers Publisher Comments An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history. <P>In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historical figures before Christ-- including Akhenaton, Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the...
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