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 Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

Presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt • Reveals black Africa to ...

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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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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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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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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and Afri...

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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 ...

8:21 AM

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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Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities

A group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?...

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Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, Second Edition

The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in ...

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What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over th...

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Imagining Black America

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity....

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Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or...

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Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester

Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and c...

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The Anthology of African American Literature: Volume 1, 1746 - 1920

The Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiograph...

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Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of ...

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