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African American Rhetorics: Interdisciplinary Perspectivesby Ronald L. Jackson, Elaine B. Richardson, Jacqueline Jones RoysterISBN 0809325659 (0-8093-2565-9)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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All Saints: New and Selected Poemsby Brenda Marie OsbeyISBN 0807121983 (0-8071-2198-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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American Negro Poetryby Arna Wendell BontempsISBN 0809015641 (0-8090-1564-1)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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This edition, issued in 1996, reprints the poems in Bontemps's revised volume along with updated biographical notes. Nearly seventy poets are represented, their works indexed by both author and title.More editions of American Negro Poetry:
The American Revolutionby Edward CountrymanISBN 0809025620 (0-8090-2562-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The American Revolutionby Eric Foner, Edward CountrymanISBN 0809025639 (0-8090-2563-9)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Americans: A Collision of Historiesby Edward CountrymanISBN 0809015986 (0-8090-1598-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Nealby James R. McGovernISBN 0807117668 (0-8071-1766-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 080944237X (0-8094-4237-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slaveryby John Michael VlachISBN 0807844128 (0-8078-4412-8)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Black Identity & Black Protest in the Antebellum Northby Patrick RaelISBN 0807849677 (0-8078-4967-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860by R.J.M. BlackettISBN 0807127973 (0-8071-2797-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Capitalism and Slaveryby Eric E. WilliamsISBN 0807844888 (0-8078-4488-8)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared. [via]
Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900by William Ivy HairISBN 0807113484 (0-8071-1348-4)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black Historyby Jacqueline GogginISBN 0807121843 (0-8071-2184-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance A Biographyby Wayne F. CooperISBN 080712074X (0-8071-2074-X)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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David Walker's Appealby David Walker, Charles M. WiltseISBN 0809000733 (0-8090-0073-3)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together With a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Tby David WalkerISBN 0809015811 (0-8090-1581-1)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921by Scott EllsworthISBN 0807117676 (0-8071-1767-6)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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But in another part of town, a small group of black men, many of them World War I veterans, decided to risk lives for a different vision of justice. Before it was all over, Tulsa had erupted into one of America's worst racial nightmares, leaving scores dead and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed.
Exhaustively researched, 'Death in a Promised Land' is compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating race riots, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, hedonism, and human perserverance. [via]More editions of Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921:
Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Visionby Barbara RansbyISBN 0807856169 (0-8078-5616-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officersby Joseph T. GlatthaarISBN 0807125601 (0-8071-2560-1)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Colorby Gary B. MillsISBN 0807102873 (0-8071-0287-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740by Anthony S. ParentISBN 0807854867 (0-8078-5486-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900by Jeffrey R. Kerr-RitchieISBN 0807824607 (0-8078-2460-7)
Hardcover, University of North Carolina Press
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From Plantation to Ghettoby August MeierISBN 0809001225 (0-8090-0122-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern Worldby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0807117684 (0-8071-1768-4)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depressionby Robin D.G. KelleyISBN 0807842885 (0-8078-4288-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Homeplaceby Marilyn Nelson WaniekISBN 0807116416 (0-8071-1641-6)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, And the Sensesby Mark M. SmithISBN 080783002X (0-8078-3002-X)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journeyby Langston HughesISBN 0809015501 (0-8090-1550-1)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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The Langston Hughes Readerby Langston HughesISBN 0807600571 (0-8076-0057-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861by John ErnestISBN 0807855219 (0-8078-5521-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Light in Augustby William FaulknerISBN 0808563386 (0-8085-6338-6)
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Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning After Brown V. Board of Educationby Catherine PrendergastISBN 080932525X (0-8093-2525-X)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Malcolm X: A Graphic Biographyby Andrew J. Helfer, Randy DuburkeISBN 0809095041 (0-8090-9504-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Readerby Martin R. Delany, Robert S. LevineISBN 080785431X (0-8078-5431-X)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education: 1925-1950by Mark V. TushnetISBN 0807855952 (0-8078-5595-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Narrowsby Petry, Ann (Lane)ISBN 0807083038 (0-8070-8303-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrows'Book summary:When Link Williams, a college-educated twenty-six-year-old African-American man, falls for Camilo Sheffield, a wealthy married white woman, things will never be the same in the sleepy New England town of Monmouth, Connecticut. Set in the 1950s, this unforgettable classic deftly evokes a tragic love affair and offers a window onto the powerful ways in which class, race, and love intersected in midcentury America. [via]
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The Negro in the American Revolutionby Benjamin QuarlesISBN 0807846031 (0-8078-4603-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861by Joshua D. RothmanISBN 0807854409 (0-8078-5440-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlandsby J. William HarrisISBN 0807122653 (0-8071-2265-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961by James Hunter MeriwetherISBN 0807849979 (0-8078-4997-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroitby Victoria W. WolcottISBN 0807849669 (0-8078-4966-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Return of Simpleby Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper, Akiba Sullivan HarperISBN 080901582X (0-8090-1582-X)
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Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South During the First World Warby Jeanette KeithISBN 0807828971 (0-8078-2897-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The River Nigerby Joseph A. WalkerISBN 080908239X (0-8090-8239-X)
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Root and Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey, 1613-1863by Graham Russell HodgesISBN 080784778X (0-8078-4778-X)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American Southby Dan T. CarterISBN 0807104981 (0-8071-0498-1)
Softcover, Louisiana State University Press
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Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, And The Making Of American Democracyby David QuigleyISBN 0809085135 (0-8090-8513-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Shine Poemsby Calvin ForbesISBN 0807126675 (0-8071-2667-5)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and Their Allies, 1619-1865by Merton Lynn DillonISBN 080711653X (0-8071-1653-X)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narrativesby Paul D. EscottISBN 0807813435 (0-8078-1343-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritageby Michael D'Orso, Dorothy Spruill RedfordISBN 0807848433 (0-8078-4843-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Spin a Soft Black Songby Nikki Giovanni, Charles BibleISBN 0809087952 (0-8090-8795-2)
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Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum Southby Gladys-Marie FryISBN 0807849952 (0-8078-4995-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Undertaking a national search to locate slave-crafted textiles, Gladys-Marie Fry uncovered a treasure trove of pieces. The 123 color and black and white photographs featured here highlight many of the finest and most interesting examples of the quilts, woven coverlets, counterpanes, rag rugs, and crocheted artifacts attributed to slave women and men. In a new preface, Fry reflects on the inspiration behind her original research--the desire to learn more about her enslaved great-great-grandmother, a skilled seamstress--and on the deep and often emotional chords the book has struck among readers bonded by an interest in African American artistry. [via]
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Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated Southby Susan TuckerISBN 080712799X (0-8071-2799-X)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0808592777 (0-8085-9277-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne'er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:
Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.
And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him.Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent: His Dispatches from the Virginia Frontby R.J.M. BlackettISBN 0807115169 (0-8071-1516-9)
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Transfigurations: Collected Poemsby Jay WrightISBN 0807126306 (0-8071-2630-6)
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The Voice at the Back Doorby Elizabeth SpencerISBN 080711927X (0-8071-1927-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voice at the Back Door'Book summary:In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a pace where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitable intertwined. When Laceys fair-haires boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private convictions about the equality of blacks before the law, and the combined threat and promise he represents to the understood order of things in Lacey affects almost every member of the community. In the end, Harper succeeds in pointing the way for individuals, both black and white, to find a more harmonious coexistence, but at a sacrifice all must come to regret.
In The Voice at the Back Door, Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer gives form to many voices that shaped her view of race relations while growing up, and at the same time discovers her own voiceone of hope. Employing her extraordinary literary powersSpencer makes palpable the psychological milieu of a small southern town hobbled by tradition but lurching toward the dawn of the civil rights movement. First published in 1956, The Voice at the Back Door is Spencers most highly praised novel yet, and her last to treat small-town life in Mississippi. [via]
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Whistle for Willieby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0808525557 (0-8085-2555-7)
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White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812by Winthrop D. JordanISBN 0807845507 (0-8078-4550-7)
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old Southby Elizabeth Fox-GenoveseISBN 080784232X (0-8078-4232-X)
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Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipationby C. Peter RipleyISBN 0807844047 (0-8078-4404-7)
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