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Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans,...
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A Bibliographical Guide to Black Studies Programs in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography
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A Bibliographical Guide to Black Studies Programs in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography
This book represents the first comprehensive compilation of information about Black Studies programs, departments, institutions, and centers, as well as about the discipline itself. Works by both Black and white writers are covered. Chapter one includes seventy-nine major books and...
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Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 1: Reference Materials
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Biography and the Black Atlantic
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and...
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The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
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Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Leading experts from the disciplines of history, literature, art history and anthropology examine black African experiences and representations from slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and...
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Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Leading experts from the disciplines of history, literature, art history and anthropology examine black African experiences and representations from slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and...
$168.00
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events (The Multicultural History & Heroes Collection)
A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American commissioned officer in the...
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Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
“An important book, significant because it highlights the diversity and richness of Afro-American intellectual life throughout our nation’s history.” ―Jerry G. Watts, New York Times Book Review Black Intellectuals offers a centuries-deep analysis of black life, beginning with the arrival of...
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Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century (FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies))
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualized within contemporary thought. Markers of identity are too often isolated and presented as definitive, then examined and theorized, a...
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Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
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Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it "one of the most brilliant and successful studies in...
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Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas
Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at...
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Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the...
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Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America
“The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia,” Malcolm X declared in a 1962 speech, “is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black...
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Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
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Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African...
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Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street
Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863–1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on...
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as...
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as...
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Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in...
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Why Not Win?: Reflections on a Fifty-Year Journey from the Segregated South to America’s board rooms – and what it can teach us all
Aspiring business owners and executives seeking to climb to the next rung, young to mid-career professionals seeking tools for life achievement, and general readers interested in biographies of successful people will like Larry Thornton’s Why Not Win?. The book is a...
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Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Gifty is a...
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author...
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African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East
African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East
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Almost There-A Twisted Tale
Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic institutions in America.In ALL YOU HAVE TO...
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Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows...
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A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust
A Garden for Black Boys invites the reader into a world where tough questions are unpacked and answers are presented raw, extremely intimate, and containing a breath of their own. Each poem applauds the humanity of black people, that is...
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Great Negroes: Past and Present: Volume One (1)
More than 170 historically organized biographies of African Americans famous in the fields of education, science, music, and more are offered in this compelling collection.
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Harlem Shadows
Defiant, eloquent, and thoroughly modern, Claude McKay’s early collection of celebrated poems is widely recognized as having helped to spark the Harlem Renaissance. In Harlem Shadows, McKay gives precise and poignant expression to the injustices of white oppression in many forms....
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood...
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Manchild in the Promised Land
With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.Published...
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