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Blues people; Negro music in white America.
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LeRoi Jones
First published in 1963 as textual commentary on the music emanating from radios all over America, this guide concerns the avant-garde "black music" that deeply influenced white culture during the 1960s. The poet/activist Amiri Imamu Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, has concerned himself with the music scene for decades, and wonders why there have been ...
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Five Smooth Stones
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Ann Fairbairn
David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who achieves great success and then sacrifices everything to lead his people in the difficult, day-by-day struggle of the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the beloved and vital white girl who loved David from the moment she first saw him, but they struggled over David ...
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No more lies; the myth and the reality of American history
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Different Drummer
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William Melvin Kelley
Tucker Caliban is the quiet, determined descendant of an African chief brought to America in chains. In his tiny, backwater Southern town, Tucker suddenly salts his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock, and takes his wife and child off to parts unknown, precipitating a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population.
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Puttin' on Ole Massa : the slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown and Solomon Northup
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Gilbert Osofsky
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Negro builders and heroes
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
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Soulside: Inquiries Into Ghetto Culture and Community
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Professor Ulf Hannerz
Originally published 35 years ago, 'Soulside' has become a classic of urban anthropology. It dispelled many false impressions about ghetto life and questioned the idea of a 'culture of poverty'. In a new afterword, Hannerz discusses the book's place in both past and present contexts.
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Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Families in a Federal Slum
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Lee Rainwater
This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St. Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character of the family life there shares much with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it ...
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Soul sister
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Grace Halsell
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Raymond Lufkin (Illustrator), Emma Gelders Sterne
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First Book of American Negroes
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Margaret B Young
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New world a-coming.
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Roi Ottley
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Understanding Negro history
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Dwight W. Hoover (Compiled by)
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The Negro in Brazilian society.
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Florestan Fernandes
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No More Lies
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Marching toward freedom; the Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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James M. McPherson
Passages from contemporary letters, songs, speeches, newspapers, and autobiographical material bound by the author's own narrative examine the Negro's role in and contribution to the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War. Describes his record of service and the resulting climate of change in his position as a citizen.
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Black Anglo-Saxons
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Nathan Hare
A penetrating exposition of the Black middle class individuals who do not accept their role and responsibilties as advocates for all African Americans.
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The rediscovery of black nationalism
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Theodore Draper
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Myth of Black Capitalism
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Great documents in black American history
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Pleas for Progress
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Atticus G Haygood
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Men of mark; eminent, progressive and rising
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From Plantation to Ghetto
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August Meier
This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery, post-Civil War urban life, the place of religion in African American life, political activism, and the changing occupational and economic status of blacks.
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Black Power : the radical response to White America
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Thomas Wagstaff
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Ghetto revolts; the politics of violence in American cities
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Joe R. Feagin, Harlan Hahn
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