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Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation (Space, Place, and Society) Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation (Space, Place, and Society)
by David Wilson

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This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black"--"referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased identities, and rampant physical decay made American blacks... (read more)

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Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives
by Patricia Bell Scott

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A new and exciting collection from the editor of the enormously successful Life Notes and the award-winning Double Stitch. With a foreword by Marcia Ann Gillespie. To tell the flat-footed truth is a southern saying that means to tell the naked truth... (read more)

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Equal justice under law :an autobiography Equal justice under law :an autobiography
by Constance Ba Motley

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When it struck down racial segregation in public schools in 1954, the Supreme Court set in motion two revolutions: in black civil fights and in women's rights. One has carried black Americans into the middle class; the other has moved women from the home... (read more)

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The Color Complex The Color Complex
by Kathy Russell

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A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families.... (read more)

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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
by Judson L Jeffries

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Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black... (read more)

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The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt
by Robert E Washington

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This book challenges the long-held assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. Offering a novel sociological approach, Washington delineates the social and political forces that shaped the leading black... (read more)

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Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey
by William J Switala

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Tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. Pinpoints major routes in the states, with maps and information for locating them today.... (read more)

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Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
by Ira Berlin

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Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, transcripts, and records depicting the drama of Emancipation in the midst of the nation's bloodiest conflict. Drawn from the award-winning Freedom: A... (read more)

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African American Lives African American Lives
by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography,... (read more)

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Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
by Eleanor Alexander

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A remarkable story of tortured love among the African American elite When acclaimed African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar saw a photo of Alice Ruth Moore in a literary magazine in 1895, he sparked off one of the most important-and turbulent-romances... (read more)

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Atlas of African-American History (Facts on File Library of American History) Atlas of African-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)
by James Ciment

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With authoritative text and a wealth of full-color maps and... (read more)

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Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage
by Elaine Bell Kaplan

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One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's... (read more)

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Encyclopedia of African American Culture & 5 Volumes Encyclopedia of African American Culture & 5 Volumes
by Jack Salzman

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The "Encyclopedia" is a 5-volume set and a supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses... (read more)

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Hoop Roots Hoop Roots
by John Edgar Wideman

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This multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, and race is Wideman's first nonfiction work since his National Book Award finalist, "Fatheralong." Bringing "a touch of Proust to the blacktop" ("Time"), "Hoop Roots" tells of Wideman's love for a... (read more)

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Envy of the World on Being a Black Man Envy of the World on Being a Black Man
by Ellis Cose

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With a compassionate eloquence reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a realistic examination of the challenges facing black men in modern America. Black men have never had more opportunity for success than today -- yet... (read more)

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The Journey Home: A Father's Gift to His Son The Journey Home: A Father's Gift to His Son
by Clifton L Taulbert

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A son connects to his father's history. Clifton Taulbert had given his twenty-year-old son, Marshall, all of the necessities and many of the extras, but had Marshall gotten the most important things? A journey home to the Mississippi Delta community of... (read more)

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I'm a Man Who Happens to Be Black I'm a Man Who Happens to Be Black
by Brian Bolden

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As a race, we can no longer hold the entire Caucasian race responsible for what their parents and grandparents did to our parents and grandparents because they had nothing to do with it. Through the actions of many men and women who happened to be white,... (read more)

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The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life
by Freddie Mae Baxter

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Told with the irrepressible warmth and humor of a natural-born storyteller, The Seventh Child is the chronicle of a remarkable woman's life, and of three generations of an African-American family. The seventh of eight children, Freddie Mae Baxter was... (read more)

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The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport
by David K Wiggins

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This extraordinarily rich compendium of primary sources charts the significant, intertwining history of African Americans and sport. The Unlevel Playing Field contains more than one hundred documents--ranging chronologically from a challenge issued by... (read more)

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The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of Sncc The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of Sncc
by Cleveland Sellers

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The River of No Return is, quite simply, one of the two or three most important books to come out of the Civil Rights Movement. [Sellersas] book is as timely now as it was when he wrote it nearly two decades ago.aaJohn Dittmer... (read more)

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