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Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
by Camille Forbes

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It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and... (read more)

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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
by Zora Neale Hurston

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“ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more)

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Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King

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In this intimate portrait, Dexter King reveals for the first time what it was like growing up in the shadow of greatness, and how his father's lessons continue to inspire and inform his own ideas on race in America today. photo insert.... (read more)

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Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture) Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)
by Michele Wallace

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The latest publication in the award-winning Discussions in Contemporary Culture series, Black Popular Culture gathers together an extraordinary array of critics, scholars, and cultural producers. 30 essays explore and debate current directions in film... (read more)

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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics) The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics)
by Harold Cruse

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First published in 1967 in the wake of race riots and integration fears, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual is an indispensable history and urgent critique of the black left from the Harlem Renaissance through the black arts movement. Memorably... (read more)

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Autobiography of Malcom X (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes Autobiography of Malcom X (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Ray Shepard

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This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim movement, his life story is provocative and engrossing.... (read more)

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America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
by Henry Louis Gates

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Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns to the Warner list with this stirring and authoritative companion to the Fall 2003 PBS documentary America Behind the Color Line. A companion to the eponymous PBS four... (read more)

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Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
by Joyce King

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On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within... (read more)

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Three Negro Classics Three Negro Classics
by John Hope Franklin

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UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for... (read more)

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A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
by Jacqueline Goldsby

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This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a... (read more)

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Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inquality Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inquality
by Melvin Oliver

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Taking issue with those who point to an expanding black middle class as evidence of greater racial equality, Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of wealth--total assets and debts rather than income alone--uncovers a qualitatively... (read more)

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The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom
by Deetta Demaratus

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In the Late 1980s, author DeEtta Demaratus happened upon a story that wouldn't leave her alone. She had been intending to write an article about Biddy Mason, a former slave who, at the time of her death in 1891, had become a well-known philanthropist and... (read more)

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The World the Slaveholders Made The World the Slaveholders Made
by Eugene Genovese

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A seminal and original work that delves deeply into what slaveholders thought. Outstanding . . . One of the few books that systematically explores what slaveholders thought. A great book, essential for black history courses and for intellectual studies--... (read more)

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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr (Nabat) Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr (Nabat)
by James Carr

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"When I was nine years old I burned down my school." James Carr started fighting when he was very young, and never gave up. A child prodigy of crime in the streets of the L.A. ghettos and scourge of half a dozen boys' homes, his career in armed robbery... (read more)

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Libation: A Literary Pilgrimage Through the African-American Soul Libation: A Literary Pilgrimage Through the African-American Soul
by Estella Conw Majozo

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Libation explains how the cakewalk reaffirms connections with the past among African Americans; how its intricate patterns reflect the landscape of the American South and the pilgrimage of Black Americans from Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman to... (read more)

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No Free Ride No Free Ride
by Kweisi Mfume

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Courageous. Uplifting. Triumphant. The story of Kweisi Mfume is a classic American saga. Uprooted from the rural tranquillity of Turners Station and thrust upon the gritty streets of west Baltimore, the child born Frizzell Gray seemed fated to become... (read more)

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From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas
by Janet Langhar Cohen

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Janet Langhart Cohen's life has always seemed to defy the naysayers. She's an African-American Democrat married to the white, Republican former Secretary of Defense; a poor girl from the projects who grew up under the crushing legacy of segregation to... (read more)

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Parallel Time: Growing U: Growing Up in Black and White Parallel Time: Growing U: Growing Up in Black and White
by Brent Staples

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In this evocative memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the oldest son among... (read more)

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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
by Carol B Stack

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All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the... (read more)

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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
by Kate Cliffor Larson

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Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to... (read more)

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