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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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A New Deal for Blacks
by Harvard Sitkoff Publisher Comments A watershed decade in U.S. history, the 1930s witnessed a struggle on various fronts--fought by many different Americans--that raised the country's awareness of the inequalities and injustices suffered by African Americans. Featuring a new preface and an...
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The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
by Sheryll Cashin Publisher Comments During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent...
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Nat Turner
by Kyle Baker Publisher Comments The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights...
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South with CD (Audio)
by William H 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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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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Nat Turner
by Kyle Baker Publisher Comments The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights...
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Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama
by Steve Dougherty Publisher Comments No political figure in recent memory has generated the excitment that surrounds Barack Obama. This forty-six-year-old Senator's message of hope has galvanized a generation of new voters and breathed new life into American politics. Once considered a long...
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Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
by Ishmael Reed Publisher Comments A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,...
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
by Andrew Ward Publisher Comments The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed. Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karoly Smardz Frost Publisher Comments It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was...
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Ebony Jr!: The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Black Children's Magazine
by Laretta Henderson Book News Annotation In this detailed study, Henderson (information studies, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) places the magazine Ebony, Jr.--which catered to African American youth from 1973 to 1985--in context relative to the numerous and often contradictory ideologies of...
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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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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Lewis R. Gordon Publisher Comments In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that...
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What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination
by Ricky L. Jones Synopsis Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching - and disturbing - shifts in black leadership in post-Civil Rights America....
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Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America
by Lee A. Daniels Publisher Comments In the twentieth century, a broad consensus to fight racial discrimination linked black Americans of all social classes, and gave birth to a movement that paved the way for black political power. Now, however, Black America is facing a moment of crisis...
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Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
by Gena Caponi Tabery Publisher Comments If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded Jumping at the Woodside, and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came a new dance step...
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Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun
by Gregory S. Parks Publisher Comments During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such...
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William Grant Still (American Composers)
by Catherine Parsons Smith Publisher Comments In this compact introduction to the life and work of eminent African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), Catherine Parsons Smith tracks the composer's interrelated careers in popular and concert music. Still merged both musical traditions...
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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Lewis R. Gordon Publisher Comments In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that...
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