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  American Slavery: 1619-1877

  by Peter Kolchin

  The single best short survey in America, now updated. Includes a New Preface and Afterward In terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay. It remains the best book to introduce a subject of... (more)
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  The Church Series: Book 2

  So You Call Yourself A Man

  by Carl Weber

  The acclaimed national bestselling author of such smart, sexy novels as The Preacher’s Son and Player Haters returns with a tale of three best friends who’ve grown from boys to men together. But now that they’re each either married or about to be, they’re coming up against some of the real tests of manhood… James Robinson and his wife, Cathy, have had their rough patches. But seven years into their marriage,... (more)
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  Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

  by Randall Kennedy

  It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger , and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and... (more)
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  What's Going On

  by Nathan McCall

  Current Affairs / African American Studies "Filled with essays that challenge America's myths.... His easy reading style unsuspectingly pricks the conscience." --USA Today ith the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races... (more)
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  The Mugging of Black America

  by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

  Is the prison system cost effective with an eightyfive percent recidivism rate? What is the relationship between alcohol and the reservation, drugs and the Black community? Earl exposes the hype and offers solutions.
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  Darktown Strutters: A Novel

  by Wesley Brown

  This historic novel about blackface minstrels explores below the surface. Eric Lott, writing for African American Review, described it as "A novel of ideas devoted to exploring the complex fate of black and white Americans caught, as ever, in a racial history they can neither surmount nor escape".
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  The Color Complex

  by Kathy Russell

  A 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. "A much needed and insightful examination of color prejudices which persist among African Americans."--Alvin F. Poussaint.
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  The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion

  As the first book exclusively dedicated to humanists of African descent, THE BLACK HUMANIST EXPERIENCE gives Black humanists the opportunity to discuss their many and varied reasons for leaving the religious fold and embracing a humanist life stance. As a minority within a minority in the United States, African American humanists often feel isolated and misunderstood. And across the globe humanists are in the... (more)
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  Stars in the Texas Sky

  by Stephen J. Matlock

  STARS IN THE TEXAS SKY is a story about 13-year-old Henry Valentine. He's the school's star pitcher, intoxicated by first love of a young girl, and all seems right with his world of 1952 racially separated East Texas. Then he is confronted by an unlikely antagonist, a colored boy who challenges him in his town, bests him in a pitching duel, and fights him in the vacant lot outside of town. A wary distance... (more)
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  Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience : The Concise Desk Reference

  by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  A landmark in reference publishing, Africana is an incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world-a vital resource for families, students, and educators everywhere. Inspired by the dream of the late African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and assisted by an eminent advisory board, Harvard scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah have created the first scholarly encyclopedia to... (more)
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  Shakedown Exposng the Real Jessie Jackson

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  Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (A New Republic Book)

  by Keith B. Richburg

  In “the most honest book to emerge from Africa in a long time” (USA Today), a black american correspondent for the Washington Post reports on the horrors he witnessed in Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, and other troubled African nations-and reflects on his own identity. Map; updated with a new afterword.
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  A Dream Deferred

  The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

  by Shelby Steele

  From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first one being segregation--emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse... (more)
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  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

  by David Levering Lewis

  This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.
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  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the... (more)
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  Bad Blood

  The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition

  by James H. Jones

  From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the... (more)