Analyzing the triumphs and failures of race relations within the Castro regime, this book challenges arguments that the regime eliminated ...
Friday, August 29, 2014
Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern...
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools ...
Academically Gifted African American Male College Students
At a time when so many studies of African American students focus on the factors of failure, Academically Gifted African American Male Col...
Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown
An all-too-popular explanation for why black students aren't doing better in school is their own use of the "acting white" s...
A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the United States still has a long way to go to attain true integration of our educational ...
Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students
This landmark book offers a new beginning on its often ignored subject: the effort to end underachievement among gifted black students and...
Monday, August 25, 2014
Tales Of Dark Skinned Women: Race, Gender And Global Culture
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The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century’s most dynamic and fierc...
Saturday, August 23, 2014
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
Paradoxically, in the decades following the Revolution, slavery in Baltimore gained strength even as slaves were being freed in record num...
Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools
When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the mos...
No Middle Ground: Eubank, Benn, Watson and the Last Golden era of British Boxing
2014 will mark the 25th anniversary of Nigel Benn and Michael Watson stepping into a purpose built tent in Finsbury Park to contest the WB...
Who Was Nelson Mandela?
As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and champi...
The Work of Recognition: Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country'...
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rai...
Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation
Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of Ame...
Friday, August 22, 2014
Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O'Connell
Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland in the summer of 1845, the start of a two-year lecture tour of Britain and Ireland to champion freed...
Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown
Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and mar...
Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division
Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era. As a touchstone issue in American history, segrega...
Neo–Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature
This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo–segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were ...
Success Runs in Our Race: The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the Black Community
A completely updated and revised edition of a bestselling book that has helped tens of thousands of people learn how to network effectivel...
Click: Ten Truths for Building Extraordinary Relationships by George Fraser
One of America’s foremost authorities on networking reveals how you can connect with other people to realize business and life goals Perso...
Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945
Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the NAACP lies the almost forgotten story of the women who not only participated in the...
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 offers a newly inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely fro...
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
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Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion
An anthology honoring the work of the influential historian Winthrop D. Jordan [David_J._Libby__Paul_Spickard__Susan_Ditto__Sheil_bookos-...
Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement
When did the intimate dialogue between Africa, Europe, and the Americas begin? Looking back, it seems as if these three continents have al...
Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialis...
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The History of Northern Africa (Britannica Guide to Africa)
Examines the history of northern Africa, including an overview of each of the countries that comprise that area of the continent. [Amy_Mc...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria
Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western society, and distorted by Hollywood, SanterÃa is at last emerging from the shadow...
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The History of Southern Africa (The Britannica Guide to Africa)
This book examine the history of southern Africa, including an overview of each of the countries that comprise that area of the continent....
Stony the Road' to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations
This intra-group anthropological study examines the impact of history, memory, space, and the concept of belonging on the social structure...
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present
This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 year...
The Book of Vodou
Vodou is magic. But it's also much more! It's a religion of charms and rituals intended to empower life and bring good fortune to ...
Modern Politics by C. L. R. James
Back in print for the first time in 30 years, this volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant...
How Long Will They Mourn Me?: The Life and Legacy of Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur was larger than life. A gifted rapper, actor, and poet, he was fearless, prolific, and controversial–and often said that he n...
Friday, August 15, 2014
Integration or Separation?: A Strategy for Racial Equality
Integrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of fifty years of "progress" in American racial policy? Is ther...
Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970
This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues...
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exp...
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectua...
The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century—not only in its deadly military conflict, ...
Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis
Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the constru...
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