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Worlds Great Men of Color Volume 1
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Worlds Great Men of Color Volume 1
by J A Rogers

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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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The Rodney King Rebellion: A Psychopolitical Analysis of Racial Despair and Hope
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The Rodney King Rebellion: A Psychopolitical Analysis of Racial Despair and Hope
by Brenda Wall

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Examines the frustration, racism, and anger that led to the uprising in Los Angeles....
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Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality (Suny Series in African American Studies)
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Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality (Suny Series in African American Studies)
by David P. (edt) Varady

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Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries....
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Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer
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Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer
by Paul Bass and Douglas W. Rae

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In this white-knuckle journey through a turbulent America, the authors chronicle the events of May 20, 1969--when four members of the revolutionary Black Panther Party trudge through woods outside of New Haven, Connecticut, but only three men return--and...
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The African Meets the Black American
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The African Meets the Black American
by Kwame A. Insaidoo

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The African has been separated from his Black American brothers and sisters since the dawn of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Millions of Africans were forcibly ejected from their native soil, separated from their loved ones-their mothers, fathers...
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Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
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Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
by Melvin L. Oliver

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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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Race, Reform and Rebellion : Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 (3RD 07 Edition)
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Race, Reform and Rebellion : Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 (3RD 07 Edition)
by Manning Marable

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An updated edition of a book that has become a standard in the study of African American...
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Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860
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Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860
by Harvey Amani Whitfield

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A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia....
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Freedom Bound
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Freedom Bound
by Rosalie T. Turner

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Slave traders capture 13 yr.old Anta Majigeen Ndiaye, a village princess. Anta's family dies on a slave ship and Anta begins her quest for freedom. The road to freedom takes her from Africa to Spanish East Florida-from village to plantation--from a...
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The Skin Color Syndrome Among African-Americans
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The Skin Color Syndrome Among African-Americans
by Sr. William A. James

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William A. James, Sr., has created a cogent book of essays that deals with a perplexing problem found among African-Americans. James calls it "The Skin Color Syndrome. His book is divided into four sections, consisting of seven chapters. Within those...
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Farther To Go
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Farther To Go
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Part documentary anthology, part literature review, and part bibliography, FARTHER TO GO gives students a thorough historical grounding in the field of racial politics. Dr. Gilliam imparts a strong working knowledge of the civil rights movement, as well...
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Artificial White Man
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Artificial White Man
by Stanley Crouch

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In this penetrating collection of original essays, legendary gadfly and esteemed critic Stanley Crouch tackles the notion on authenticity — what it is, what it isn't, and what we make of it, for good or for bad. While the question of who's the real...
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Missing Pages : Black Journalists of Modern America : an Oral History (07 Edition)
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Missing Pages : Black Journalists of Modern America : an Oral History (07 Edition)
by Wallace Terry

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An oral history of modern American journalism by trailblazing black journalists such as Ed Bradley, Max Robinson, and Karen Dewitt....
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Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History
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Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History
by Walter T. Howard

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Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro, an account of a neglected chapter in the story of the Scottsboro saga, gives voice to a segment of the African American community that has often been ignored or distorted: black Communists....
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Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
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Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
by Albert J Raboteau

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Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America's best-known champion of civil liberties-was a Baptist minister. Father Divine, a fiery...
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Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America
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Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America
by Elliott Lewis

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Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people, who are challenging how we think about race today. "What are you?" This seemingly ordinary but politically charged question...
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
by Allen Dwig Callahan

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The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip...
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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
by Claudia Tate

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Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all...
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Routes of Passage: Volume 1, Part 2: Rethinking the African Diaspora (African Diaspora Research Project)
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Routes of Passage: Volume 1, Part 2: Rethinking the African Diaspora (African Diaspora Research Project)
by Ruth Simms (edt) Hamilton

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Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic...
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The Souls of Black Folk: One Hundred Years Later
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The Souls of Black Folk: One Hundred Years Later
by Dolan Hubbard

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Published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois was an immediate achievement, one that moved American philosophy beyond the structures of both pragmatism and positivism while addressing new questions about American social and political...
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