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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Sapphira and the slave girl	Willa Cather	Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.	OL12821W
Sitting in Darkness	Peter Schmidt	Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i…	OL1452983W
Outlaw Culture	Bell Hooks	Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran…	OL15053153W
Fight against fear	Clive Webb	"In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an…	OL15326841W
The Warmth of Other Suns	Robin Miles,Isabel Wilkerson	In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citize…	OL15380640W
Renegade Poetics	Evie Shockley	Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s <em>Renegade Poetics</em> separates what we think …	OL15916935W
Globetrotting	Damion L. Thomas	x, 209 pages ; 23 cm	OL16591941W
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
Rock of Ages	Tonya Bolden	In her moving homage to the Black Church, Tonya Bolden has written a poem spanning centuries of oppression, freedom, prejudice, and joy. From times when slaves worshipped secretly in fields at night …	OL1969472W
More dimensions than you know	Jack Whitten	More Dimensions Than You Know takes as its focal point nearly 25 paintings created in the years from 1979 to 1989, highlighting Whitten's propensity for pushing the technical and aesthetic boundaries…	OL19730748W
African American religions, 1500-2000	Sylvester A. Johnson	"This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the re…	OL20050288W
Black Salt	Ray Costello	During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam,…	OL21248015W
Feminist theory	Bell Hooks,Noomi B. Grüsig,Nassira Hedjerassi	A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction…	OL31115W
The anatomy of racial inequality	Glenn C. Loury	Why are black Americans so persistently confined to the margins of society? And why do they fail across so many metrics—wages, unemployment, income levels, test scores, incarceration rates, health ou…	OL3525828W
We shall not be moved	Pratt, Robert A.	"In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply…	OL4112100W
American apartheid	Douglas S. Massey	Traces the development and consequences of white society's attempts to segregate and isolate blacks as they migrated from the South to other parts of America during the 20th century.	OL4286645W
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
American patriots	Gail Lumet Buckley	American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American milit…	OL4963314W
At the hands of persons unknown	Philip Dray	It is easy to shrink from our country's brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation's closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thous…	OL5731370W
The Afro-American periodical press, 1838-1909	Penelope L. Bullock	Appendices include lists of periodicals according to publication data, geographic origin, and chronology.	OL6437696W