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Inventing the new Negro
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Daphne Mary Lamothe |
"It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur col… |
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Blacks, Reds, and Russians
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Joy Gleason Carew |
"One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment … |
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Lucia Raatma |
An introduction to the period in the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance, when the expression of African American creativity in many forms flourished. |
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Against the odds
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Louis Kushnick,Paul Grant,Benjamin P. Bowser |
"Over the course of the past century the struggle against racism took many forms, from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and marches. This book records the testimony of eleven scholar-activists who c… |
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Bruce Grit
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William Seraile |
"John Edward Bruce (1856-1924) witnessed the dying days of American slavery, the turbulence of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the development of American imperialism. As … |
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Cornel West
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Jack Morrison,John Morrison |
Profiles Cornel West, a scholar in African-American Studies who has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and written many books including "Race Matters." |
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Beyond respectability
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Brittney C. Cooper |
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. E… |
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The new Negro
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Jeffrey C. Stewart |
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawren… |
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The original Black elite
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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor |
"Chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era embodied in … |
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Dark princess
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
29, 311 p. 24 cm |
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Dusk of dawn
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,W. E. B. Du Bois,Irene Diggs,Anthony Appiah |
"In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significan… |
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The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome
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Norman Kelley |
The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics offers a post-civil rights analysis of African American leadership from the 1970s to the eve of the 2006 senate election Barack Obama. |
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