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Steel Drivin' Man : John Henry : the Untold Story of an American Legend (06 Edition)
by Scott Reynolds Nelson  Publisher Comments The ballad John Henry is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson...
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First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
by Michael G. Long Publisher Comments “Brings together not only an extraordinary set of documents by and about the postbaseball Robinson but, through these letters, an extraordinary account of the times.” —Gerald Early, BookForum Jackie Robinson’s courage on the...
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
by Jabari Asim Publisher Comments A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The N Word reveals how the term nigger has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was...
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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor
by Elizabeth Young Publisher Comments "In Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized...
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid
by Frank B., Iii Wilderson Publisher Comments "[Frank B.] Wilderson [will] become a major American writer. Mark my word."-Ishmael Reed In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson...
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Honoring the Ancestors
by James Cherry Publisher Comments The frustration, anger, and restlessness caused by African American oppression are exorcised in this moving collection of poetry. Speaking initially from the perspective of black struggle, these works evolve to invoke the common...
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When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories
by Bernestine (edt) Singley Publisher Comments When Race Becomes Real is a critically acclaimed collection that pushes the boundaries of current discussions about race. In these personal and evocative essays, thirty contemporary black and white writers describe their own intimate experiences with...
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Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus
by Margo Natalie Crawford Publisher Comments After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light skin as well as the counter-fetishism of dark skin. Moving beyond the longstanding focus on the tragic...
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Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus
by Margo Natalie Crawford Publisher Comments After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light skin as well as the counter-fetishism of dark skin. Moving beyond the longstanding focus on the tragic...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
by Paul Tough Publisher Comments A page-turning dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children whose bold approach to inner-city poverty has been called by Barack Obama an all-...
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Black Troops, White Commanders and Freedmen During the Civil War
by Howard Westwood Publisher Comments Recounting the experiences of black soldiers in the Civil War In the ten probing essays collected in this volume, Howard C. Westwood recounts the often bitter experiences of black men who were admitted to military service and the wrenching problems...
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Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War
by Stephen V Ash Publisher Comments A nearly forgotten Civil War episode is restored to history in this masterful account. In March 1863, nine hundred black Union soldiers, led by white officers, invaded Florida and seized the town of Jacksonville. They were among the first African...
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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor
by Elizabeth Young Publisher Comments "In Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized...
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Law, Society and Politics in the Midwest)
by Charles L. Lumpkins Publisher Comments On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the...
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Law, Society and Politics in the Midwest)
by Charles L. Lumpkins Publisher Comments On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the...
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The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97
by Richard A Pride Publisher Comments Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and...
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Making the American Dream Work: A Cultural History of African Americans in Hopewell, Virginia
by Lauranett Lee Synopsis What can a small industrial city in Virginia named Hopewell tell us about its experiment in possibilities? Located at the intersection of the Appomattox and James Rivers, this wondrous place was poised to yield the greatest hope ever. From America's...
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Come in and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street
by Patrick Burke Publisher Comments Between the mid-1930s and the late ’40s, the center of the jazz world was a two-block stretch of 52nd Street in Manhattan. Dozens of crowded basement clubs between Fifth and Seventh avenues played host to legends such as Billie Holiday and Charlie...
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Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African-American Township
by Alice C. Royal Synopsis The untold story of the only town in California founded by African Americans, former slaves and their descendents, led by Colonel Allensworth...
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South with CD (Audio)
by William H. (edt) Chafe Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book-and-audio set of interviews about African American life in the segregated South, now available on an MP3 audio CD. Hailed as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly) and "a multimedia triumph" (Kansas City Star), Remembering Jim...
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