Will Smith: A Biography of a Rapper Turned Movie Star (African-American Icons)

From silly kid to Grammy-winning rapper, Will Smith has taken the fast track to superstardom. His popular rap music opened doors for Smith...

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We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (2015 Edition)

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discriminati...

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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this b...

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of res...

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The American Prejudice Against Color

In 1853, William G. Allen, the "Coloured Professor" of Classics at New York Central College, became engaged to Mary King, a stud...

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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dom...

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History of The Negro Race In America 1619 To 1800

George Washington Williams was an American Civil War veteran, minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and groundbreaking historian of Af...

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Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, 1st Edition

From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police...

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Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking ...

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Chris Rock: Comedian and Actor (Black Americans of Achievement)

Each title features: - In Their Own Words boxes offering selected quotations from the subject - Did You Know? boxes that highlight fascina...

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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he ha...

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Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Explorin...

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Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix (Penguin Studio Books)

Often cited as one of the most innovative and influential rock musicians, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix had a short and turbulent life, succ...

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Changing Times for Black Professionals (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)

This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States. Though they have alw...

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Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook—an underground cultural institution created by the black w...

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Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace

Augusta Rohrbach broadens our understanding of the American literary tradition by showing how African American literature and culture grea...

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You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide

Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have foc...

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The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics

The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains ...

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The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935

In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and i...

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Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali

Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties a...

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