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Inventing the new Negro Inventing the new Negro 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… OL11869518W
Crossing the continent, 1527-1540 Crossing the continent, 1527-1540 Robert Goodwin The true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer—an African slave named Esteban DorantesCrossing the Continent takes us on an epic journey from Africa to Europe and America as Dr. Robe… OL12037108W
Seven spools of thread Seven spools of thread Angela Shelf Medearis When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa. Includ… OL15680337W
Afro-American folktales Afro-American folktales Roger D. Abrahams The 107 tales demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life in the New World. OL15860339W
Bitita's diary Bitita's diary Carolina Maria de Jesus "Carolina (1915-77), whose childhood nickname was Bitita, evokes the hardships of her early life in 1920s-30s rural Minas Gerais. Volume was written in 1970s and posthumously published, first in Fren… OL1810393W
More harm than good More harm than good Susan C. Boyd In an era when the "war on drugs" has resulted in increasingly militarized responses from police, harsh prison sentences and overcrowded prisons, a re-examination of drug policy is sorely needed. Are… OL19083290W
Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Reginald Hudlin 1 volume (unpaged) : 26 cm OL20183149W
Becoming Human Becoming Human Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open … OL20776260W
Inkvoël Inkvoël Maretha Maartens A book about two families living in one house. OL2084907W
Queer Freedom Queer Freedom Ana-Maurine Lara Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her eng… OL21678009W
Go Tell It on the Mountain Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral st… OL228705W
Contemporary Black biography Contemporary Black biography Galè Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, inc… OL24691406W
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nancy Farmer From the Publisher: The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister-the children of Zimbabwei's chief of security-have escaped from their father's estate to explore the dangerous city of Ha… OL2696046W
Songs and stories of Afro-Americans Songs and stories of Afro-Americans Paul Glass Briefly tell the stories of black men and women who made noteworthy contributions to American music and of events in Negro history that inspired various songs. Includes music and words to many repres… OL28177453W
Dark princess Dark princess W. E. B. Du Bois 29, 311 p. 24 cm OL28596W
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power Greg Thomas The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and cl… OL3362766W
Bearing arms for his majesty Bearing arms for his majesty Ben Vinson "This study uses the participation of free-colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining ra… OL5727392W
Rush Home Road Rush Home Road Lori Lansens "When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s. It was told to her like a storybook legend - and altho… OL5832106W
Marchin' the pilgrims home Marchin' the pilgrims home Stephen D. Glazier Stephen D. Glazier's Marchin' the Pilgrims Home offers an ethnographic analysis of the beliefs and practices of the Spiritual Baptists on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Variously known as Shouters… OL5913049W
More than Black More than Black Susan D. Greenbaum "This ethnography follows Cuban exiles from Jose Marti's revolution to the Jim Crow South in Tampa, Florida, as they shape an Afro-Cuban-American identity over a span of five generations. Building on… OL6213609W
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