Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the...

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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, ...

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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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