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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream
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S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
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The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
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Heart & Soul: A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975
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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
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The Meaning of Mariah Carey
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
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Black Talk
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
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The Story of the Blues
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Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King – The Blues King's Honest Story of Triumph and American Success
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
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The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
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Dick Gregory's Political Primer
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
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The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
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Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
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Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
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Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Volume 7)
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
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Immigration and the Remaking of Black America
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Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
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Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition And The Cultural Politics Of Race
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
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Middle Passage
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
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The Work of Frances E.W. Harper
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The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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The Walls of Jericho
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A Gathering of Old Men
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The Conjure-Man Dies
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In Search of Satisfaction
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
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Eight Men
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Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – The Towering Biography of the Flamboyant Congressman Known as 'Mr. Civil Rights'
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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Readings in Black American Music
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Black Art: A Cultural History (Second Edition)
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Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015
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Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
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African American Dance: An Illustrated History
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
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Souls Grown Deep Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
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Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music
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On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
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Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series)
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Blacks
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Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
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Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900)
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America
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The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
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Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
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From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918
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The Black Culture Industry
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
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Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
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Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance
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From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore: An Anthology (Norton Paperback)
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Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
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Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
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Paul Robeson: A Biography
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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
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Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie
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The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
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I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
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Bruce W. Talamon. Soul. R&B. Funk. Photographs 1972–1982
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Going There: Black Visual Satire
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Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights
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Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America (Waynebook)
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