Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Let's get free Let's get free Paul Delano Butler Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who traded in his corporate law salary to fight the good fight. It was those years on the front lines that convinced him that the A… OL13691684W
A nation under our feet A nation under our feet Steven Hahn This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural Afr… OL15838669W
News for all the people News for all the people Juan Gonzalez "Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have… OL18149199W
Turning south again Turning south again Houston A. Baker Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue t… OL4315233W
The Blacks in America 1492-1977 The Blacks in America 1492-1977 Irving J. Sloan A chronology of blacks in America with such additional lists of information as major Afro-American organizations and publications, libraries withblack history and literature collections, and a statis… OL4642642W
Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race Dean McWilliams "Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private … OL4789106W
To tell a free story To tell a free story William L. Andrews Discusses the writings of Richard Allen, Solomon Bayley, Henry Bibb, Henry Box Brown, John Brown, Leonard Black, William Wells Brown, Lewis Clarke, William Craft, Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany… OL5478583W
Colored pictures Colored pictures Michael D. Harris "In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses… OL5954019W