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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg
This is the first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, …
Black People Are My Business
"Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation studies the works of Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and …
Bobweaving Detroit
This is the final collection of poems from Murray Jackson. A highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, Jackson offers work rich in the history and hope of …
Caribbean Labor and Politics
Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radical perspective in modern …
Churches and Urban Government
This study analyses the relationship between two powerful forces - church organizations and urban politics - within New York City and Detroit from the late 19th through the 20th …
Dear Chester, Dear John
This is a revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists.Chester Himes and John A. …
Discarded Legacy
This work approaches Frances Harper as a feminist and as a writer. The author, Melba Boyd, reflects upon the impact of Harper's legacy on another artist/activist - herself.
Dreaming Suburbia
Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization. Questions of race, class, and gender are explored …
From Bourgeois to Boojie
Collects a diverse assortment of pieces that examine the generational shift in the perception of the black middle class, from the serious moniker of bourgeois to the more playful, …
Gettin' Our Groove on
Looks at the African American vernacular tradition and how it is expressed in contemporary culture through hip-hop.
If We Must Die
In If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls, author Aimé J. Ellis argues that throughout slavery, the Jim Crow era, and more recently in the proliferation of the prison …
Just for a Thrill
"Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet who has read widely and has taken his cue from some of the most important vanguard poets of the past century and a half-Whitman, …