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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Just us girls Just us girls Wendy Rountree vi, 124 p. ; 23 cm OL11913918W
Thriving on a riff Thriving on a riff David Murray - undifferentiated,Graham Lock This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity… OL18784718W
What truth sounds like What truth sounds like Michael Eric Dyson "In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansbe… OL19736259W
The original Black elite The original Black elite 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 … OL20048194W
Spectres of 1919 Spectres of 1919 Barbara Foley x, 313 pages : 24 cm OL3721179W
Critical memory Critical memory Houston A. Baker "From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges… OL4315226W
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition Aberjhani,Sandra L. West,Clement Alexander Price In this, the world’s first *Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance*, readers do something more than witness the triumphs and tragedies of poets such as Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, novelists like… OL5968389W
Black Power Movement Black Power Movement Peniel E. Joseph The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has colle… OL8105074W