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1. 8 Steps to Help Black Families Pay for College: (Thomas LaVeist and Will LaVeist, foreword, Tom Joyner) “Learn how to make informed action pay off now, and in the long run, so that one day you can give back to your alma mater—and your community.” back cover

2. The Abolitionists & the South 1831-1861: Challenges fundamental historiographical assumptions regarding the abolitionists’ impact on the southern states and their role in causing the Civil War.

3. Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible: (Hugh B. Price) “If education is the door through which our children must pass to claim their rightful heritage as Americans, then this book is one of the keys to that door. But the children, alone, cannot open it, not even with the help of their teachers. It takes us—the whole village!—to encourage and support them both. This book will show us how.” Ossie Davis/back cover

4. Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race: (Sarah Susannah Willie) “This important book shows that providing equitable education for Black students is more than a matter of numerical representation and should be required reading for college administrators and faculty.” Margaret L. Anderson/back cover

5. Affirmative Action in Medicine: Improving Health Care for Everyone: ( James L. Curtis, M.D.) “A rare combination of riveting personal reflections, previously unpublished data, and heartfelt philosophical declarations by a man who has not only lived through but has also contributed significantly to one of the most important social transformations in American history.” Jordan J. Cohen/back cover

6. African American Adolescents in the Urban Community: (Judith L. Rozie-Battle)

7. African-American Art: (Sharon F. Patton) “A much needed text… breaks down the barrier between folk and formal art, and articulates an interrelationship of both concepts to African American people and their culture” Keith Morrison/back cover

8. The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps (Olen Cole, Jr) Between 1933 and 1942, nearly 200,000 young African-Americans participated in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s most successful New Deal agencies. In an effort to correct the lack of historical attention paid to the African-American contribution to the CCC, Olen Cole, Jr., examines their participation in the Corps as well as its impact on them.

9. African-American Freemasons: Why They Should Accept Al-Islam: (Mustafa El-Amin)

10. African American Islam: (Aminah Beverly McCloud) An introduction to the varied expressions of African American Islam in the United States from the point of view of an Islamic scholar. She focuses on the breadth of Islam, looking at five early Muslim communities and thirteen contemporary Muslim communities.

11. African American Life In Louisville: (Bruce M. Tyler) Louisville’s African-American community dates back to the early 1800s. Before the 1850s, many Black churches such as the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church were founded in the area. Prominent African Americans, including Whitney M. Young, Woodford Porter, Frank Stanley, and Calvin Winstead, became Louisville’s pioneer families in modern business and politics. Within the pages of this volume are many of the families who worked to become institution builders and leaders—in Louisville and around the world.

12. African American Males in School and Society: Practices and Policies for Effective Education: (edited by Vernon C. Polite & James Earl Davis, foreword by Edmund W. Gordon) Chapters range from explorations into identifying giftedness and responsive teaching styles to educating African American males in the suburbs. The contributors to this volume offer differing methodologies and focuses to document how the social and educational worlds of African American males cross, and the editors suggest policy implications that derive from these studies.

13. African American Performance and Theater History: (Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. & David Krasner) Revealing the dynamic relationship between race and theater, this volume illustrates how the social and historical contexts of production critically affect theatrical performances of blackness and how African American cultural, social, and political struggles have been profoundly affected by theatrical representations and performances.

14. African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness: (Milton C. Sernett) This widely heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today.

15. African American Student’s Guide to College: (Marisa Parham with Manie Barron) “The importance of this book cannot be exaggerated. A digest of it should be in every Headstart, kindergarten and elementary school classroom. A philanthropist sincere about making a difference should buy every edition and give them to high schools and churches in the American community, and should inundate the offices of the Unitied Negro College Fund.” Maya Angelou/back cover

16. African American Women and the Vote 1837-1965: (ed., Ann D. Gordon) This is an exciting and pathbreaking collection containing many exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking, insightful essays on a subject that has never before received this concentrated attention.

17. African American Women Speak Out On Anita Hill – Clarence Thomas: (Geneva Smitherman) An essential voice has been added to the ongoing national debate and public discourse on race, class and gender. This commentary on the Anita Hill – Clarence Thomas confrontation written exclusively by African American Women. Margaret Walker Alexander, Angela Y. Davis, Darlene Clark Hine, Harriette McAdoo, Julianne Malveaux, and other scholars and writers offer reflections and in-depth analyses on one of the most wrenching public dramas in recent history.

18. African Americans In the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender: (Edited by Hans A. Baer and Yvonne Jones) This volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences. Comprising nine papers and related commentary, African Americans in the South examines racism, class stratification, and sexism as they bear on the African American struggle for social justice, equality, and cultural identity in the South.

19. African Beginnings: When we think of the year 1492, we immediately think of Christopher Columbus setting sail to the New World, but most of us don’t call to mind an African empire in which manuscripts and books were more prized than any other merchandise. And yet, the kingdom of Songhay was flourishing when Columbus set sail, one of the greatest in a succession of African empires dating back to before Christ.

20. African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason: (Helena Woodard) This book examines the impact of notions of racial hierarchy, racial exclusion, and racial vulnerability and availability on nonblacks who held, resisted, explored, or altered those notions.

21. The African American Book of Values: Classic Moral Stories: (Edited by Steven Bardoza) Like a patchwork quilt finely crafted by your grandmother, this book brings to life such forgotten concepts as courage, self-discipline, faith, responsibility, respect, friendship, loyalty, love, compassion, tenacity, self-esteem, and community.

22. The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm: (Edited by Graham Russel Hodges) Historians agree that the African American church has played a vital role in African American life in the United States. Primarily a religious institution but much more because of the restrictions imposed on African Americans, the African American church provided many functions. A refuge in a hostile world, a promoter of business, a sponsor of education, a dispenser of benevolence, the church has also been the major preserver of African American culture.

23. The African American Encounter with Japan & China: (Marc Gallicchio) In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century.

24. The African American Heritage Cookbook: (Carol Quick Tillery) The fragrances, emotions, and tastes of the famous Tuskegee Institute, founded by former slave Booker T. Washington in 1881, are evoked in this collage of personal vignettes, pictorial accounts, poetry, and more than 200 traditional recipes.

25. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities: (Edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Davis and Ali Mazrui) This book examines the character of New World black cultures and their relationships with the plural societies within which they function.

26. African Origins of the Major “Western Religions”: The Black Man’s Religion Vol. I: (Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan) “The critical examination of the history, beliefs and myths, which are the foundatiuon of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, remains instructive and fresh. By highlighting the African influences and roots of these religions, Dr. Ben reveals and untold history that many would prefer to forget.” back cover

27. The African Presence in the Bible: Gospel Sermons Rooted in History: (William Watley and Raquel St. Clair) This true picture of the African presence in Scriptures is portrayed in a historically accurate and decisive manner. The lessons learned from the teachings of the African experience in the Bible also address many contemporary issues for people of all races.

28. The African: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: (Olaudah Equiano) Equiana’s narrative tells, in his own poignant words, of his life in Nigeria before enslavement and his captivity in European hands. His detailed account includes his adventures with General Wolfe in Canada during the seven Years War, his time with Admiral Boscawen in the Mediterranean, voyages to the Arctic in the 1772-73 Phipps expedition as well as many other travels.

29. Africana Studies: (James L. Conyers, Jr.) The History of change in nomenclature in African Americn Studies illustrates the political and social mandates in the academic study of the African diaspora. This book is a disciplinary quest for both theory as well as method.

30. African Style: Down to the Details: (Sharne Algotsson) “With more than 200 color photographs, expert design advice, and creative how-to projects, including a simple standing screen, Ghanaian-inspired stencils, and raffia woven seat cushions, African Style: Down to the Details is a complete guide to expressing the beauty of Africa in any home.” back cover

31. The Afro-American Cinematic Experience: An Annotated Bibliography & Filmography: (Edited by Marshall Hyatt) Both the black and the participation of blacks in American films have experienced significant transitions during the twentieth century. Although early films portrayed stereotypical characters, often utilizing whites in blackface rather than attempting to break the industry’s color barrier, the history of Afro-Americans’ appearance on the screen is a significant element of the cinematic experience.

32. The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor: (By Patricia Williams) Williams is an original and imaginative mind, an unstultified, insubordinate thinker who jumps off cliffs and lands on her feet, who flies close to the sun and never melts her wings. She accomplished the near impossible: simultaneous depth of engagement in law and world.

33. American Patriots: (Gail Buckley) Dramatic and deeply moving, American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. Inspired by her family history, Gail Buckley, daughter of the legendary Lena Horne, interviewed hundreds of veterans of every war since World War 1 to bring to life her vibrant chronicle of America’s black military heroes, from Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell.

34. The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren: (William Bedford Clark) This book surveys the full six decades of Warren’s career, combining close reading with a historian’s eye for social and political context. While pointedly avoiding the reductive pitfalls of the “new historicism,” Clark documents the informing role the Great Depression played in shaping Warren’s attitudes toward art and politics, and he demonstrates the necessity of regarding Warren’s major achievements in fiction and verse as of “public speech.”

35. Am I Black Enough For You? Popular Culture From the ‘Hood and Beyond (Todd Boyd) “One of the most important and insightful books yet written on Black popular culture. Boyd weds careful analysis to critical appreciation as he helps us understand the music, sports, and cinema of Black culture.” Michael Eric Dyson/back cover

36. The Angela Y. Davis Reader: A truly inspiring collection. Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

37. The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes: (R. Baxter Miller) Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, Miller explores Hughes’ life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters.

38. The Art of Ellis Wilson: One of Kentucky’s most significant African American artists, Wilson graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. He spent five more years in the city before moving to New York, where he lived for the rest of his life. Black workers were a favorite subject: field hands, factory workers, loggers, fishermen, and more.

39. Africentric Christianity: A Theological Appraisal for Ministry: (J. Deotis Roberts) Africentrism has captured the imagination of many in the African American community who are intent on discovering their cultural heritage on the African continent. Scholars in many disciplines have revised their thinking in light of Africentric ideals.

40. Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba: (Edited by Pedro Perez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs) Based on vivid firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race effects daily life on the island.

41. Afrocentric Sermons: The Beauty of Blackness in the Bible: (Kenneth L. Walters, Sr.) Afrocentricity seeks to rescue African history and heritage from its exile within our culture and encourage within African Americans the God-given self-esteem and dignity that have been eroded over the years.

42. Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History: (Wilson Jeremiah Moses) Afrocentrism and its history have long been disputed and controversial, and this is the first book to present a critical and nuanced view of the issues. Moses traces the origins of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth century and examines the combination of various popular mythologies—some of them mystical and sentimental, others perfectly reasonable.

43. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line: (Paul Gilroy) This book is imperative reading not only for those coming to grips with political culture beyond the color line, but for any serious scholar interested in “cosmopolitan cultures,” or in questions of identity.

44. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism: (bell hooks) This volume examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black

45. Al on America: (Reverend Al Sharpton)

46. Applied Development Science: (Lisa R. Jackson and James L. Rodriguez)

47. A Book Of The Beginnings (vol. 1): (Gerald Massey) Containing an attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origins of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Languages, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace.

48. A Book Of The Beginnings (vol. 2): (Gerald Massey) Containing an attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origins of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Languages, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace.

49. A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader: (Francis Smith Foster) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist on the nineteenth century.

50. A Kind of Grace: Jackie Joyner-Kersee: (Sonja Steptoe) Jackie is known throughout the world as the best female athlete ever—the winner of six Olympic medals, three of them gold. She grew up in East St. Louis in a house “little more than wallpaper and sticks.” Until now, few have known of the chronic affliction that has nearly killed her three times, or the grueling sacrifices that have vaulted her to heights never before seen.

51. All About Love: New Visions: (bell hooks) Here is a brave, intelligent, vulnerable look at the most sought-after and least examined emotion. By being honest about the barriers to love, bell hooks makes it more possible.

52. All Our Kin: (Carol B. Stack)

53. All The Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life: (Debrena Jackson Gandy) The author shifts the reader’s spiritual gears from conditioned time-lock living to better “energy or life force” management that will enhance your “joy” ratio. Oh what joy will flood your soul after reading this book.

54. All The World Is Here: The Black Presence at White City: (Christopher Robert Reed) According to Reed, African Americans’ expectations of the fair varied, reflecting the disparate interest and backgrounds found among seven and a half million Black citizens. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation, but membership, at the highest level of decision making and planning.

55. All We Had Was Each Other: The Black Community of Madison Indiana: (Don Wallis) In the Black community, family meant everything. We didn’t belong just to our own family. We belonged to the community. The whole community was our family. I thought everybody lived that way. I didn’t know there was anything different about the way I lived until they closed Broadway High School and I had to go to Madison High School.

56. America Now: Short Reading from Recent Periodicals: (Robert Atwan) People write for all kinds of reasons, but one of the most compelling is to express their views on matters of current public interest. Browse any newsstand or library magazine rack and you’ll find an overabundance of articles, features, and opinion columns written in response to current issues or events.

57. An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing World: (ed. Obie Clayton, Jr.) Fifty years after the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal’s epochal study of racism and black disadvantage, An American Dilemma Revisited confronts the pivotal issue of race in American society and explores how the status of African Americans has changed over the past half century. Using Myrdal as a benchmark, the contributors analyze historical developments, examine current conditions, and investigate strategies for positive change within the core arenas of modern society—political, economic, educational, and judicial.

58. An American Dilemma: Vol. 2, The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy: (Gunnar Myrdal) In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.

59. An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962: (William Doyle) An American Insurrection is the true story of the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War and of a major turning point in American history. This book unearths the unsung heroes—more than a few villains—of a dark and violent event that has remained buried in the historical shadows until now.

60. An American Story: Debra J. Dickerson: (Debra J. Dickerson) In this book Dickerson bears brilliant witness to her rich, tumultuous life: the crippling self-doubt of her adolescence and her belief in education as a way out; her transformation in the U.S. Air Force into a distinguished intelligence officer; her years at Harvard Law School and metamorphosis into a “neurotic attorney with a Gold Card”; and, finally, her current position as a journalist in demand for her refreshing and controversially sane views on social issues.

61. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Glenn C. Loury) In this book, Loury has reoriented the public discussion on black-white inequality. He has drawn on economic and sociological analyses to emphasize the historical roots essential to understanding the social stigma which underlines the more overt forms of discrimination and inhibits the development of black capabilities.

62. Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World vols. 1 &2:

63. A Life is More than A Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High: (Will Counts) Little Rock seemed an unlikely place for such violent hatred; it did not even see itself as part of the Deep South and had voluntarily decided to desegregate the schools. Essays by Will Campbell, Bob McCord, and Earnie Dumas chart the path leading to the crisis, as well as the impact of the crisis on the national civil rights movement.

64. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks: (George E. Kent) This first full-scale biography of one of America’s premier poets, written by a leading black literary scholar, reveals the many influences that formed the background to Gwendolyn Brooks’s poetic output.

65. A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) & Black Power Politics: (Komozi Woodard) This book examines Baraka’s cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development.

66. A New Reader’s Guide to African Literature: (Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy, & Virginia Coulon) Rich growth and new directions in African literature and publishing over the last decade have necessitated a major revision of this essential reference tool.

67. A Question of Manhood: (Derlene Clark Hine & Earnestine Jenkins) How do we determine how black men construct manhood and express masculinity? Specifically, what social, economic, political, and cultural forces have helped shape black male identity, and what has been the mal-gendered response of black men to historical events and change? This reader is grounded in a sociohistorical approach. Major historical events and social phenomena are of course recognized as important influences on masculine and feminine behavior.

68. A Romance of the Republic: (Lydia Maria Child) The novel advocates interracial marriage as an earnest attempt to foster toleration and communication between Anglo-and African Americans.

69. A Scholar’s Conscience: (Faith Berry)In this first published anthology drawn from Redding’s books, essays, and speeches, Faith Berry has compiled representative selections from every period and genre in which Redding wrote: autobiography, fiction, biography, history, journalism, travelogue, and literary criticism.

70. “And don’t call me a racist!”: A Treasury of Quotes on the Past, Present, and Future of the Color Line in America: (Ella Mazel) In this treasury of over 1,000 quotes, you will find – in the voices of Langston Hughes and the Delany sisters, for example – some of the bittersweet humor that has helped sustain blacks in this country through their long, oppressive history.

71. And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students: (Miles Corwin) The real story is the students, and Corwin wisely keeps them front and center. His detailed and unabashedly sympathetic descriptions are riveting.

72. Angel on My Shoulder: ((Natalie Cole & Digby Diehl) Now Natalie Cole tells her uniquely insightful, deeply personal story. As the daughter of legendary singer Nat King Cole and an elegantly reserved, upwardly striving mother, Natalie was a tomboy who delighted in mischief and music.

73. Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism: (Alice Walker) Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics—religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change—Wlaker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism.

74. Appalachian Frontiers Settlement, Society & Development in the Preindustrial Era: (Robert D. Mitchell) The first interdisciplinary examination of the changes that occurred in the Appalachian region between the early European explorations and the onset of industrialization in the 1880s, this book provides a revisionist interpretation of one of the most distinctive regional experiences in American history.

75. Apocalypse In African-American Fiction: (Maxine Lavon Montgomery) An interesting twist in interpretation of a longstanding literary trope—an apocalypse—carried beyond a traditional Eurocentric analysis to an Afrocentric analysis grounded in black culture, including its own language, its own style, its own trickster tales, and its own legitimate folk heroes.

76. Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity: (Phillip Brian Harper) This book rises head and shoulders above all the publications on the trendy subject of black masculinity. Harper writes courageously and without rancor about the common homophobic ground in black high– and low-brow culture, and the common structure of discrimination in white “serious museum” as well as popular culture.

77. Armstrong, Louis: In His Own Words: (edited and with an introduction by Thomas Brothers) Trumpeter. Singer. Actor. Entertainer. In his life, Louis Armstrong thrilled audiences world-wide and influenced countless musicians. But beyond being a revolutionary musician and an enchanting stage personality, Louis Armstrong was a writer—and he was prolific.

78. As Long As They Don’t Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods: (Stephen Grant Meyer) Despite the commonly held perception that most Northern citizens embraced racial equality, As Long As They Don’t Move Next Door graphically demonstrates the variety of methods—including violence and intimidation, unjust laws, restrictive covenants, discrimination by realtors and mortgage lenders, and white flight to suburban enclaves—used by whites to thwart the racial integration of their neighborhoods.

79. Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities: Who Succeeds and Why?: (Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.) What does it mean to be Black in the predominantly White, middle-class community of “Sun Beach,” a place some call “paradise?” Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness?

80. At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa’s Wildlife: (Raymond Bonner) “This book should be mandatory reading for the next generation of environmentalists. Ray Bonner is a superb reporter, and he doesn’t let emotion cloud his insight into what works—and what doesn’t.” Bill McKibben/back cover

81. Aunt Jane of Kentucky: (Eliza Calvert Hall) Well known for her gentle folk wisdom, the elderly fictional Aunt Jane vividly describes a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century.

82. Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties: (Margo V. Perkins) As Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown recount events in their lives, they impart unique views and insights not shared by their male activist counterparts. They dispute mainstream assumptions about race, class, and gender and reveal how the Black Power struggle profoundly shaped their respective identities.

83. Autobiography of a Slave: Juan Francisco Manzano (1797?-1854?), an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba’s colonial slave society, wrote the only known autobiographical account of Latin American slavery.

84. Awake Arise & Act: A Womanist Call for Black Liberation: (Marcia Y Riggs) In this probing analysis of the history and future of the African American experience, Riggs explains how social stratification has not only damaged cooperation among Blacks, but has also nurtured a dysfunctional class competition—competition that continues to dim hopes of justice, solidarity, and liberation in the black community.

85. Back From Westminster: British Members of Parliament and Their Constituents: (Philip Norton & David M. Wood) The British House of Commons has entered a period of substantial change, moving from a state of party cohesion and party leadership toward a more individualistic and active policy-making role.

86. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity: (Ann Arnett Ferguson) “This remarkable book takes the reader into everyday school life as it is experienced by African American youth who have been labeled ‘bad boys.’ The insights are fresh, compelling, practical, and humane. Bad Boys is MUST reading for those who care about social justice, educational opportunity, and the creation of more equitable schools. It’s one of the important book of our time.”” Barrie Thorne/back cover

87. Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times: (Karen Grigsby Bates & Karen Elyse Hudson) This book is for everyone. Want to know how to host a dinner to close that deal? Need some guidance on what to wear to that all-important first job interview? Planning your first big party? Or your annual open house? Wondering what to give the new high-school graduate or the littlest ballerina for her first recital? Basic Black can help.

88. Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard’s Negro (1934): (Alan Warren Friedman) Beckett’s involvement with Negro is extraordinary. It fit in with his natural compassion for human misfortune, for the pain at the heart of life, and it fit in with his recognition of man’s capacity to keep going, to endure.

89. Before Big Blue: Sports at the University of Kentucky 1880-1940: (Gregory Kent Stanley) In the heart of the Bluegrass, basketball is king of collegiate athletics. But it wasn’t always so. Before Big Blue chronicles the early history of organized sports at the University of Kentucky, from the tenuous beginnings under student leadership, through the early scandals, financial instability, and clashes with administration, to the Purge of 1938 that paved the way for basketball’s ascendancy.

90. Before the Bomb: How America Approached the End of the Pacific War: (John D. Chappell) Through his exploration of print and visual media, John D. Chappell offers a unique and valuable study of the final months of the Pacific War. In particular, his insights into the efforts of military and civilian leaders to respond to and shape diverse public opinion should be of interest not only to scholars of the war but to those more generally interested in the dynamics of American wartime policy making.

91. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture: (William J. Mahar) Mahar demonstrates how prior analyses of minstrelsy have focused largely on racial issues and, without denying that racial issues are important, shows how much has been missed by that single-minded focus. He presents thorough analyses of aspects of the minstrel show that have previously received very little attention and effectively sets these against the backdrop of contemporary popular culture focus. He presents thorough analyses of aspects of the minstrel show that have previously received very little attention and effectively sets these against the backdrop of contemporary popular culture.

92. Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949-1961: (R. C. Hickman) These photographs are powerful reminders that, for much longer than many believe, black Americans have been an important part of mainstream America…. These are images of the ordinary lives of extraordinary people who succeeded in spite of all the obstacles in their path, and who eventually demanded and, in important ways, won their rights. R.C. Hiickman’s photographs are important documents that capture a significant moment in twentieth-century American life.

93. Being Black, Living In The Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America: (Dalton Conley) America’s racial wealth gap is both an enigma and a cause for concern. With authoritative data, Conley shows how people with educational credentials and good jobs can nonetheless fall far behind in wealth if their parents lacked wealth. His insights into this puzzle of race and generations take the sociology of wealth and inequality to a new level.

94. Being Real: The Student-Teacher Relationship and African-American Male Delinquency: (Camille Gibson)

95. Beloved: (Toni Morrison) A novel full of insights, both piercing and tender…lyric beauty…memorable characters…a brilliantly conceived story…a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America…it should not be missed.

96. The Banana Men: American Mercenaries & Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930: (Lester D Langley and Thomas Schoonover) Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and mercenaries who dramatically altered Central America’s political culture, economies, and even its traditional social values populate this lively story of a generation of North and Central Americans and their roles in the transformation of Central America from the late nineteenth century until the onset of the Depression.

97. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life: (Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray) At the top, a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence. At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage.

98. Best Colleges for African American Students, The 100: (Erlene B. Wilson) “Do you want a school where you are one of a handful of African-Americans, but have the opportunity for a great scholarship? Do you prefer a primarily Black university known for its ability to educate the future leaders of this country? A college that can help you fulfill your career goals? As an African-American you have all the same needs and concerns of any prospective college student—plus a few more.” back cover

99. Between God and Gangsta Rap: (Michael Eric Dyson)

100. Between Black Women: Listening With the Third Ear: (Joy Jones) The idea that listening helps to develop patience, and patience is the foundation of good appreciation, understanding and serenity, is refreshing.

101. Beyond Black: Biracial Identity In America:(Kerry Ann Rockquemore & David L. Brunsma) Using in depth interviews and survey data, the authors document how biracial people develop a number of different racial identities and how these self understandings are derived from ingrained social, cultural and psychological processes.

102. Beyond Black & White: (Manning Marable)

103. Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice: (John Baugh) This highly accessible book avoids technical linguistic jargon in favor of a dispassionate survey spanning from Ebonics’ birth to its hostile reception by the overwhelming majority of people who repudiated the term. Baugh’s investigation exposes flaws in competing definitions of Ebonics, as well as racial tensions that flared throughout this controversy.

104. Beyond Roots: In Search of Black in the Bible: Alex Haley’s search for his “roots” restored to many Black Americans a long-lost sense of heritage. But it also made many of us wonder just how deep our roots might sink into the fertile ground of human history. Does the legacy passed on to us-reach back to a time when Christ walked with up-perhaps even to the moment of creations? For the Christian, the questions become even more pointed: What role did dark-skinned people play in the early days of historical Christianity?

105. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Societies: (Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, & Rebecca J. Scott) In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography—the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slave owners, and the societies in which they lived.

106. Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad: (Ann Hagedorn) “History worth remembering is likely to have been made by men and women who cared about ideals and took risks for them. Nothing in the history of the United States more closely approaches this notion of history worth remembering than the Underground Railroad.” Staughton Lynd/back cover

107. The Big Sea: Langston Hughes recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the “Harlem Renaissance.

108. Black American Cinema: (Manthia Diauara)In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first time. Individual essays consider such topics as what a Black film tradition might be, the relation between Black American filmmakers and filmmakers from the diaspora, the nature of Black film aesthetics, the artist’s place within the community, and the representation of a Black imaginary. Black American Cinema also uncovers the construction of Black sexuality on screen, the role of Black women in independent cinema, and the specific question of Black female spectatorship. A lively and provocative group of essays debate the place and significance of Spike Lee.

109. Black American Literature and Humanism: (R. Baxter Miller) Fresh and rather surprising. This book does not tell a pretty story, but it is a necessary one, and sheds a great deal of light on a neglected chapter in our legal history.

110. Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: (John U. Ogbu)

111. Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder: (Mary White Ovington) (1865-1951) was a New York settlement worker before she co-founded the NAACP, an organization she served for nearly forty years. In 1947 she published The Walls Came Tumbling Down, a history of the NAACP.

112. Black Boy: (Richard Wright) A classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright’s journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man’s coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.

113. Black Camelot: African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980: (William L. Van Deburg) In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning pop icons, such as Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Pam Grier, projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and reflected both the possibility and the actuality of a rapidly changing American landscape.

114. Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles: (Janice E. Hale-Benson) Contemporary black Americans, Hale-Benson states, continue to participate in a cultural heritage derived from West American roots. As black children are acculturated at home and in the black community, they develop cognitive patterns and behaviors that can prove to be incompatible with the school environment. Cultural factors produce group differences, and they must be addressed in the educational process.

115. Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict 1780-1980: (Ronald L. Lewis) No work in recent memory has placed as much sound emphasis upon the nature of everyday work routines in field and farmhouse as Boles’s study. Not only does the reader obtain an understanding of slave agricultural pursuits as they evolved but also a sense of how these activities affected the slaves themselves.

116. Black College Student: Survival Guide: (Jawanza Kunjufu) This book takes a look at why Black students attend college, and factors involved in selecting college. It looks at the habits and discipline that are necessary to become successful. It looks at retention, which is only 32 percent in the African American community. It looks at Greek life for African Americans, and it also looks at male/female relationships.

117. Black Conservatism: Essays in Intellectual and Political History: (Peter Eisenstadt) The recent emergence of black conservatism provides an opportunity to take a long overdue look at the history of conservative thought among African Americans. Its history is long, and its impact has been pervasive.

118. Black Economics: Solutions for Economic and Community Empowerment: (Jawanza Kunjufu) We have worked the plantations and the factories, with high technology, but with the exportation of jobs there s now less need for our labor. It becomes imperative that African Americans need themselves by creating jobs in their own communities.

119. Black Excel: African American Student’s College Guide: (Isaac Black) “Whether you’re a superstar student shooting for the Ivy League or a high school underachiever who needs a “second chance,” African American Student’s College Guide will give you that much-needed edge—including the “real rules,” insider’s tips, and how to beat the admissions odds.” back cover

120. Black Freemasonry and Middle-Class Realities: (Loretta J. Williams)

121. Black Hair: Art, Style, and Culture: (ed., Ima Ebog) “From head to toe, no other physical attribute for a black woman is as culturally, socially, or politically charged as her hair. Black Hair celebrates the diversity and creativity of black women’s hairstyles, from traditional and ceremonial styles to the urban twists and turns of modern styling.” Inside cover

122. Black Inventors: (Nathan Aaseng) “Black Inventors profiles the lives and achievements of 10 African-American men and women whose inventions have revolutionized technology and provided many of the modern conveniences we take for granted today. Included are aarret morgan, inventor of the gas mask and the traffic signal; Elijah McCoy, who inspired the phrase “the real McCoy”; Granville Woods, holder of more than 60 patents, including one for the railway telegraph, who was know as “the Black Edison”;…” back cover

123. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban: (James W. Coleman) This book is the first to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central prospective. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Trey Ellis, David Bradley, and Wesley Brown.

124. Black Male White Female: (ed. Doris Y. Wilkinson) This book explores the many aspects of the most common form of interracial marriage in America. The editor has brought together many noted contributors in an attempt to deal with a subject too long ignored by the social sciences. The book does not advocate a particular position. Rather, it presents for the first time an objective sampling of the findings and opinions about this phenomenon.

125. Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High: (Signithia Fordham) This innovative portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students, exploring the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigating the price students pay for attaining it.

126. Black Faith and Public Talk: (Dwight N. Hopkins) This collection of critical voices—both black and white, male and female—assesses the significance of Cone’s initial work and the subsequent progression of Black Theology. How has black faith fashioned a public discourse that combines ethical, political, and theological concerns?

127. The 761st “Black Panther” Tank Battalion In World War 11:(Joe Wilson, Jr.)This is a complete history of the 761st, told in large parts through the words of the surviving members of the unit.

128. Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystems Approach: (Nancy Boyd-Franklin) This pioneering work is the most comprehensive book on Black families in therapy to appear in the clinical literature. It is unprecedented in its attention to the cultural diversity among Black families, its emphasis on the utilization of cultural strengths in therapy, and on its applicationof the concept of clinical empowerment. Dr. Boyd-Franklin also gives thoughtful attention to the therapist’s use of self and the subtleties which are often involved in the treatment process.

129. The Black Book: The True Political Philosophy of Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz): This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the political thought of the great African-American Muslim martyr, Malcolm X. It is the first to illustrate the influence of his Islamic faith and his international experience upon his constantly developing political vision.

130. The Black Church in the African American Experience: The Black Church in America has long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institution in black communities. Based on a ten-year study, The Black Church in the African American Experience is the largest nongovernmental survey of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study since the thirties.

131. The Black Culture Industry: (Ellis Cashmore) Developing a history of black culture from the post-emancipation period to the present – from Negro spirituals to rap – Cashmore argues that inflating the value of a commodified “black culture” may actually work against the interests of racial justice, and that its most significant – and pernicious – effect may be in signaling the end of racism while keeping the racial hierarchy essentially intact.

132. A Black Educator in the Segregated South: Kentucky’s Rufus B. Atwood: (Gerald L. Smith) “Black college presidents in the era of segregation walked a tightrope. They were expected to educate black youth without sufficient state and federal funding. Yet in the African American community they were supposed to represent power and influence and to be outspoken advocates of civil rights, despite the continual risk of offending the white politicians on whom they were dependent for funding.” back cover

133. The Black Feminist Reader: (Edited by Joy James and T. Sharpley-Whiting) This volume brings together ten key essays in the development of black feminism. The selections reflect the literary, social, and political critiques that mark this form of feminist and antiracist thought as unique and transformative.

134. Black Foremothers: Three Lives: (Dorothy Sterling) This book brings alive three heroic women whose stories, in the works of Margaret Walker, “every woman, man, and child should know.” Ellen Craft: The Valiant Journey tells of the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition. The career traced in Ida B. Wells: Voice of A People is that of the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the conscience of a nation. Mary Church Terrell: Ninety Years for Freedom presents a vivid portrait of a gifted and untiring leader in the movements for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace.

135. Black Health Library Guide: Stroke (LaFayette Singleton, M.D. with Kirk A. Johnson) Written by and for black Americans, the Black Health Library Guide to Stroke provides important information on why blacks are at greater risk of stroke, how to assess your odds of suffering one, and what you can do to avoid or survive it.

136. Black Health Library Guide: Diabetes (Lester Henry, Jr., M.D. with Kirk A. Johnson) Black Health Library Guide to Diabetes explains everything you need to know about preventing and controlling diabetes.

137. Black Identity & Black Protest in the Antebellum North: (Patrick Rael) “In recent years so much attention has been given to African American slaves that we are all the more in need of a comprehensive book like Patrick Rael’s, which serves as a prelude to post-emancipation black history.” David Brion Davis/back cover

138. Black Judas: Willaim Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro: (John David Smith) Black Judas is a deeply researched, gracefully written, and richly detailed treatment of an African American soldier, preacher, lawyer, teacher, trial justice, state legislatuor, and journalist.

139. Black Leadership: Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights: (Manning Marable) Historian, Marable takes a close look at this struggle by examining the styles, strategies, triumphs, and failures of four black leaders whose legacies speak to the challenges of race, class, and power: Booker T. Washington, Louis Farrakhan, Chicago mayor Harold Wahsington, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

140. Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography: (James L. Conyers, Jr.) Here is an important contribution to African American history, culture, and literary studies. The fifteen scholars in this volume offer insights into the…African, African American, and Caribbean experiences of people of African ancestry…. The contributors have helped to advance scholarly attention on the worldwide impact of the black experience.

141. Black Looks: Race and Representation: (bell hooks) The critical essays in this collection are gestures of defiance. They represent my political struggle to push against the boundaries of the image, to find words that express what I see, especially when I am looking in ways that move against the grain, when I am seeing things that most folks want to simply believe are not there…

142. Black Love Signs: (Thelma Balfour) An astrological guide to passion, romance, and relationships for African Americans.

143. The Black Male in America: (Doris Y. Wilkinson, and Ronald L. Taylor) This is an impressive and valuable scholarly synthesis of the views of eminent sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and psychiatrists on the position of the black male in our modern racist society.

144. Black Man Emerging: Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America: (Joseph L. White & James H. Cones, III) This is a wide-ranging, thoughtful look at the history of Black men in the U.S. that takes a position on how to repair the damage of racism.

145. Black Man of the Nile and His Family: (Dr. Yosef A. A. Ben-Joehannan) In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose “Europeanized” African history. He points up distortion after distortion made in the long record of African contributions to world civilization. Once exposed, he attacks these distortions with a vengeance, providing a spellbinding corrective lesson in Our Story.

146. Black Man’s Religion: Can Christianity Be Afrocentric? (Glenn Usry & Craig S. Keener) This book is one of the first of its kind, a pro-Christian reading of religion and history form a Black perspective. Fascinating and compelling, it is must reading for all concerned for African-American culture and issues of faith.

147. Black Men Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The Afrikan American Family in Transition: (Haki R. Madhubuti) Rightly dividing the word of truth, Haki strips away foggy thought, takes deadly aim at hypocrisy and fear, and leads the mental liberation charge one more time in this series of timely essays and poems. This generation of African people does not lack a prophet.

148. Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: (Devon W. Carbado) In this ground--breaking anthology, Carbado and his contributors change the terms of the debate over racism, gender, and sexuality in black America. The essays range widely, covering the legal construction of black male identity, domestic abuse in the black community, the enduring power of black machismo, and politics of black male/white female relationships, racial essentialism, the role of black men in black women’s quest for racial equality, and the heterosexist nature of some black political engagements.

149. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City: (St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton) Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration fieldworkers in the late 1930’s, it is a historical sociological account of the people of Chicago’s South Side, the classic urban ghetto.

150. Black Movements in America: (Cedric J. Robinson) Robinson describes accommodation as informed by republicanism in the early American national period and an identification with the values, ideals, and aspirations articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

151. Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought: (Dean E. Robinson)

152. Black Nationalism in America: (John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick)

153. Black Newspapers & America’s War for Democracy, 1914-1920 (William G. Jordan): The periodicals examined in this book are intended to be a representative sampling of the black press, including not only newspapers from different geographic regions but also newspapers of different sorts. These journals range from the highly influential and well-circulated Crisis to the relatively obscure California Eagle.

154. The Black Panthers Speak: (Edited by Philip S. Foner) From its founding by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 to contemporary attempts to censure its history and revise its significance, the Black Panther Party has aroused fear, hope, misunderstanding, pride, vilification, and government-sponsored oppression. The trials of Huey Newton, the Chicago Eight, and the Panther 21, as well as the unprovoked killing of Fred Hampton in his bed by the Chicago police, made it enormously difficult for many Americans to discern the propaganda from the philosophy; the media’s indifference to the Panthers’ free breakfast programs, neighborhood clinics, and liberation schools only complicated the problem.

155. Black Picket Fences: (Mary Pattillo-McCoy) Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class.

156. The Black Presence in the Bible: (Walter Arthur McCray) This book guides the reader in a compact and insightful overview of the study’s breadth and depth. Highly documented, it focuses on definitions and terminology, the identification process, Cushite prominence, the Bibical time-setting, and Blackness of the Old Covenant community. It is Christ-centered, Biblically based, African oriented, and historically and culturally reliable.

157. Black Religion and Black Radicalism: (Gayraud Wilmore) Wilmore demonstrates the extent to which the history of African Americans can be told in terms of religion, and to what extent this religious history has been inseparably bound to the struggle for freedom and justice. From the story of the slave rebellions and emancipation, to the rise of Black nationalism and the freedom struggles of recent times, up through the development of Black, womanist, and Afrocentric theologies, Wilmore offers an essential interpretation of African American religious history for students of religion, history, and Black and cultural studies.

158. Black Religious Leadership From the Slave Community to the Million Man March: Flames of Fire: (Felton O. Best) Scholars of African-American Studies have argued that Black communities in urban and rural sectors of America have deteriorated since the 1970’s. The plight of black children and the elderly suggests that the once vulnerable and protected after the modern Civil Rights Movement are the new victims of hideous crimes in urban cities.

159. Black Resistance Movements in the United States and Africa, 1800-1993: (Felton O. Best) Historians and scholars have debated the issue of whether African Americans in the United States accepted racial oppression without retaliation and resistance. Chief among the historians at the turn of the century to argue that docility was a common characteristic of the “Negro” was Ulrich B. Phillips. He painted an image of slavery through southern eyes and argued that the Negro was innately intellectually inferior to his white counterpart and that slaves were cheerful and content with their status. Herbert Aptheker challenged this docility thesis arguing that one of the most common overt methods of resisting oppression used by the enslaved Africans was through revolts such as the seventeenth-century Stone Rebellion and Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831.

160. The Black Rose: (Tananarive Due) “Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America’s first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful beauty company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary heroine, and before his death in 1992, he embarked on the research and outline of a major novel based on her life. Now with The Black Rose, critically acclaimed writed Tananarive Due brings Haley’s work to an inspiring completion.” back cover

161. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860: (Larry Koger)

162. Black Southerners 1619-1869: (John B. Boles) This crisply written interpretation of the black experience in the South revealingly emphasizes the evolution of slavery over time and the emergence of a rich, hybrid Afro-American culture. From an incisive discussion on the origins of slavery in the Chesapeake colonies, John Boles embarks on an interpretation of a vast body of demographic, anthropological, and comparative scholarship to depict the character of black bondage in the American South.

163. Black Square & Compass: (Joseph A. Walkes, Jr.) 200 Years of Prince Hall Freemasonry.

164. The Black Student’s Guide to Scholarships: 700+ Private Money Sources for Black and Minority Students: (ed., Barry Beckham) “This is a great book, a must for any black family.” Bill Cosby/front cover

165. Black Students. Middle Class Teachers.: (Jawanza Kunjufu) “While there are many books on educational improvement, this one provides a fresh view from a different perspective and is recommended for academic and public libraries. Library Journal/back cover

166. Black Teachers on Teaching: (Michele Foster) Of interest not only to black teachers, parents, and school administrators, Black Teachers on Teaching gives all readers frank firsthand reactions to school integration and its results for teachers and students…Foster provides frontline reports on subjects that many people know only form a distance.

167. Black Theology and Black Power: (James H. Cone) While Cone, in his new introduction, reviews areas in which his language and analysis have evolved, he stands by the essential challenge of his original: “Insofar as racism is still found in the churches and in society, theologians and preachers of the Christian gospel must make it unquestionably clear that the God of Moses and of Jesus makes an unqualified solidarity with the victims, empowering them to fight against injustice.

168. A Black Theology of Liberation: (James H. Cone) This twentieth anniversary edition includes critical responses by prominent theologians. From a variety of perspectives, they address the continuing challenge of this classic work.

169. The Black Underclass: Poverty, Unemployment and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth: (Douglas G. Glasgow) This book was born in flames, in an inferno that raged for four August days in 1965. The place was Watts, Los Angeles; the young men who ignited it were typical of ghetto youth across the country. What held them together was their common condition: They were jobless and lacked salable skills and the opportunities to get them; they had been rejected and labeled as social problems by the police, the schools, the employment and welfare agencies; they were victims of the new camouflaged racism.

170. Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French: (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting) This volume is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting argues that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men, whose repulsion, attraction, and anxiety, gave rise to the primitive narrative of Black Venus.

171. Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies: (Michael C. Dawson) In Black Visions, Michael Dawson brings us the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationship of black political thought to black political identity and behavior. Combining a historical perspective with conceptual sophistication and empirical evidence, Dawson identifies which political ideologies are supported by blacks, then traces their historical roots and examines their effects on black public opinion, not only among intellectuals and activists, but also at the grassroots level.

172. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality: (Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro) This definitive book about black-white differences in assets tells us why that difference is so very large three decades after the civil rights revolution and what may be done about it. Rather than ending with a description of the black-white difference in wealth or with comments about the need to eliminate discrimination, the authors propose strategies.

173. The Black-White Test Score Gap: (Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips editors) “The issue of the racial test score gap is one of the most important and sensitive in all of American politics. I would trust few writers to deal effectively with its complex empirical, moral, and methodological facets. But these are the right authors, and regardless of whether one likes or agrees with their findings, one must from now on come to terms with them. This is a terrific book, and a real service to us all. (Jennifer l. Hochschild/back cover)

174. Black Woman’s Guide to Beautiful Hair: (Lisa Akbari) “Today there are many sisters who do not respect, appreciate, or understand their own hair in its natural state. Therefore, we abuse, misuse, bully, and try to change our hair in a misguided effort to control or manage it. We spend tons of money, time, and energy on weaving, waving, straightening, blow-drying, and curling, as we solon hop to find a way to have better hair.” Introduction

175. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (volumes I & II): (Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown & Rosalyn Terborg-Penn) Thanks to this encyclopedia there will never be a generation of Americans, black or white, who will grow up in ignorance of the role Black women have played throughout history to make their lot and America’s better.

176. Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner: (Carol Allen) No longer can one believe that black women from 1880 to 1940, except for Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Zora Neale Hurston, remained passive (or at least silent) in regard to racial and gender oppression.

177. Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic: (Madhu Dubey) Over the last decade or so, the works of black American women novelists have become increasingly visible in the academy, and have engendered a burgeoning and vigorous black feminist critical discourse.

178. Black Women Scientists in the United States: (Wini Warren) White scholars routinely point to the so-called marginal participation of Blacks in science as the typical justification for their neglect in histories of American science. While they speak about the hardships Blacks faced, they make little effort to identify or discuss those who did participate. Recent studies indicate that by the early 1980s, Black females had outstripped Black males in the attainment of doctorates in disciplines other than the sciences. This volume is an effort to increase awareness of the participation of minorities in the sciences, and of their contributions to the history of science in America.

179. Black Writers in French: A Literary History of Negritude: (Lilyan kesteloot) Negritude, according to Aime Cesaire, is the awareness of being black, the simple acknowledgment of a fact which implies the acceptance of it, a taking charge of one’s destiny as a black man, of one’s history and culture.

180. Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (Michael Keith Honey) Black Workers Remember is an oral history told in many voices. It provides both a personal account of the particular experiences of black southerners in Memphis, Tennessee, and a larger story about the experience of African Americans as workers.

181. Blanche Among The Talented Tenth: (Barbara Neely)

182. Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story: (W. Edward Orser) Like many suburbs, Edmondson Village, a post-World War I rowhouse development with 20,000 residents, saw a dramatic shift in its population between 1955 and 1965. Behind this change lay blockbusting techniques adopted by realtors in which scare tactics were used to encourage white owners to sell cheap, followed by drastic markups for potential black buyers who lacked access to conventional bank mortgages.

183. Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930: (Irma Watkins-Owens) Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the twentieth century. Between 1900 and 1930, 40,000 Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City and joined with African Americans to create the unique ethnic community of Harlem.

184. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: (Angela Y. Davis) From one of the country’s most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.

185. The Bluest Eye: (Toni Morrison) With its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child’s yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment, this book remains Morrison’s most powerful, unforgettable novels—and a significant work of American fiction.

186. The Bondwomen’s Narrative: (Hannah Crafts)

187. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood: (bell hooks) Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, this book show the unfolding of female creativity and on strong-spirited child’s jouorney toward becoming a writer.

188. Booker T. Washington and the Adult Education Movement (Virginia Lantz Denton) Born into slavery in 1856, Booker T. Washington overcame staggering obstacles to lead emancipated blacks into a quiet revolution against illiteracy and economic dependence. Virginia Lantz Denton establishes his stature as an agent for social change through adult education, focusing particularly on Washington’s work at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which he founded and led as principal from 1881 until his death in 1915.

189. Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics: (Scott Michaelsen & David E. Johnson) This collection begins with a provocative premise—A theory of borderlands nee not return to the homelands—in order to critique one of the most recent grand themes within the humanities and social sciences. Challenging the proprietorship, exclusion, and universal humanism often implicit in this book, it offers a series of impressive essays that do not take the “boarder” for granted as the privileged site for a critical utopia or cultural identity, but cross it nonetheless.

190. Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons: (Nancy Boyd Franklin) Teenage years for most kids and parents today are trying in the best of circumstances. For African American families who are raising teenage sons, the challenges are often overwhelming and may include racism, prejudice, and discrimination. Now, in the first book of its kind a survival guide that gives hope and inspiration to parents, teachers, counselors, and community members by drawing on strong African American family values, cultural and spiritual strengths.

191. Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life: (bell hooks & Cornel West) In this provocative and captivating dialogue, hooks and West grapple with the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. Creating a spiritual, progressive, feminist, and ultimately organic definition of Black intellectuality, they passionately discuss issues ranging in subject matter from theology and the Left, to contemporary music, film, and fashion.

192. Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction: (Terry McMillian) A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade.
193. The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics: In a work that will significantly alter the political landscape with respect to race and class politics, one of the country’s most influential sociologists focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it.

194. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race 1938-1948: (Barbara Dianne Savage) The World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a broadcast medium in the United States; it also witnessed a rise in African American activism against racial segregation and discrimination, especially as practiced by the federal government itself.

195. A Broken Silence: voices of African American Women in the Academy: (Lena Wright Myers) “This book, about the voices of African American/black women in the academy, could not be more timely and appropriate than at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Black women scholars employed in predominantly white colleges and universities are a rather recent phenomenon. The 1970s started the entry of black women into these institutions, but this entry has not resulted in any significant increase. Most of these African American women have been and are still employed in community colleges or non-major research institutions.” Foreword/Essie Manuel Rutledge

196. Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality: (Eric Arnesen) From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America’s historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vutal American institution—the story of African Americans on the railroad.

197. Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education: (ed., Lee Jones, foreword, Na’im Akbar) “These brothers of the academy represent the kind of role models which, unfortunately, are in short supply in our communities. Just as importantly…they capture the pulse of the issues impacting African Americans in the academy.” Nathan McCall/back cover

198. Brown Girl, Brownstones: (Paule Marshall) This is both a coming-of-age tale and a vivid portrait of one family’s struggle to achieve the American Dream.

199. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: (Tim Madigan) With chilling detail, humanity, and the narrative power of compelling fiction, The Burning re-creates the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity; explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between Tulsa’s black residents and the neighboring white population; recounts the events leading up to and including the holocaust of Greenwood.

200. But Some of us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies: Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, & Barbara Smith) Affirmations and the beginning of a new era, where the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’

201. By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: (Malcolm X) Through these speeches from the last year of his life, Malcolm X takes his place as one of the twentieth century’s outstanding revolutionary thinkers and leaders. Malcolm sought, as he put it, to “internationalize” the fight against racism.

202. A Call To Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard) “Martin Luther King, Jr., was the Voice of the Century. No voice more clearly delineated the moral issues of the second half of the twentieth century, and no vision more profoundly inspired people. Martin’s voice was more than the communication of intellectual ideas and spiritual vision. It was a call for action.” –Ambassador Andrew Young

203. Camp Nelson, Kentucky: (Richard D. Sears)

204. Can Somebody Shout AMEN! Inside the Tents and Tabernacles of American Revivalists: (Patsy Sims) With descriptive, evocative prose, Sims allows readers to vicariously experience old-time religion: a revivalist attempting to raise his son from the dead, a week with an east Tennessee congregation of snake handlers, the opening-night jitters of a beginning evangelist, and the loneliness of the road for the veterans. Sims offers an unbiased rendering of what goes on in the tents and tabernacles of America by allowing the people and events to speak for themselves.

205. Cane River: (Lalita Tademy) On a Creole plantation on the bakns of Louisiana’s Cane River, four generations of astonishing women battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent early years of the twentieth century.

206. Capitalism & Slavery: (Eric Williams) Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams’s study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development.

207. Careers in Science and Engineering: A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond: (National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE) & Institute of Medicine (IOM)) As science and technology advance, the needs of employers change, and these changes continually reshape the job market for scientists and engineers. Such shifts present challenges for students as they struggle to make well-informed career choices.

208. Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900: (William Ivy Hair) “Carnival of Fury is an excellent book and may well become a model for other studies on little-known but significant black protest leaders.” American Historical Review/back cover

209. Case For Black Reparations, The: (Boris I. Bittker) “Through his research into the history and theory of reparations—namely the development and enforcement of laws designed to compensate groups for injustices imposed on them—he found that it wasn’t a “crazy, far-fetched idea.” Back cover

210. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics: (Thomas Byrne Edsall & Mary D. Edsall) Three volatile issues—race, rights, and taxes—drive American politics today. They have come to intersect with an entire range of domestic issues, from welfare policy to suburban zoning practices. In an explosive chain reaction, a new conservative voting majority has replaced the once-dominant Democratic presidential coalition, and a new polarization has pitted major segments of society against one another.

211. Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery: (Na’im Akbar) Are African-Americans still slaves? Why can’t Black folks get together? What is the psychological consequence for Black and Whites of picturing God as a Caucasian?

212. The Challenge of Democracy:

213. The Changing Same: Black Women’s Literature, Criticism, and Theory (Deborah McDowell) McDowell looks at defining moments in African American Women’s fiction and its reception: the “Women’s Era” of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the “New Black Renaissance” of the 1970s and 1980s. She maps this history in readings of Emma Dunham Kelley, Frances E. W. Harper, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Sherley Ann Williams. Within this black female literary tradition—“the changing same”—McDowell examines representations of slavery, sexuality, and homoeroticism; the reception of African American women’s fiction in the 1980s; and African American feminist writing in the “Age of Theory.”

214. Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women: (Cheryl A. Wall) Writing by and about black women—an activity once regarded as marginal—has become an activity central to our consideration of the role of literature in society. Black women’s writing raises issues of race, class, gender, canon formation, traditions and how they are created and perpetuated, the control of mass media over our perceptions of what matters and who controls the media, and the relationship between literary history and theory.

215. Channel Surfing: Racism, The media, and the Destruction of Today’s Youth: (Henry A. Giroux) Giroux most fascinating and intriguing book yet, is sure to create controversy and debate at the same time that it calls for a more ethical attitude toward the prospect of our children’s future.

216. Charles H. Wesley: The Intellectual Tradition of a Black Historian: (James L. Conyers, Jr.) This study seeks to present selected writings of Charles Harris Wesley, in the cognitive fields of: Africana Diasporic History; Biography; Social and Political Thought; Black History; and Black Studies. The purpose for this research is to enhance knowledge and information about, one of the leading black American intellectuals of the twentieth century.

217. The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966: (Christopher Robert Reed) The Chicago NAACP was one of the first branches created in an effort to attain first-class citizenship for African-Americans. Through the first six decades of white resistance, black indifference, and internal group struggle, the branch endured the effects of two world wars, national depression, the Cold War, and growing class differentiation among blacks.

218. The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership 1910-1966: The Chicago NAACP was one of the first branches created in an effort to attain first-class citizenship for African Americans. Through the first six decades of white resistance, black indifference, and internal group struggle, the branch endured the effects of two world wars, national depression, the Cold War, and growing class differentiation among blacks.

219. The Children: (David Halberstam) A brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people-the Children-who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there quality, The Children is a story one of America’s preeminent journalists has waited years to write, a powerful book about one of the most dramatic moments in recent American history.

220. Children, Families, and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial and Therapeutic Issues: (Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Gloria L. Steiner, & Mary Boland) This much-needed work presents a family-focused, culturally sensitive, and systems coordinated approach for the provision of effective service delivery and care to HIV/AIDS children and their families. The first to combine a psychosocial perspective with in-depth clinical case examples, it describes an array of modalities including family, individual, and group treatment, as well as hypnotherapeutic techniques for non-pharmacologic pain management.

221. ( Chinua Achebe) No Longer At Ease: In this novel Achebe has created a classic story of both personal and moral struggle, and turbulent social conflict. Obi Okonkwo’s foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. The agony of choosing between traditional values and the demands of a changing world is dramatized with unequaled clarity and poignancy.

222. I Choose To Stay: A Black Teacher Refuses to Desert the Inner City: (Salome Thomas-El) “This book shows how one dedicated educator who believes in the potential of all our kids can make a huge difference and how, under the proper circumstances, urban education can work.” Edward G. Rendell/back cover

223. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928: (Leonard J. Moore) Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s. Using a unique set of Klan membership documents, quantitative analysis, and a variety of other sources, Moore provides a comprehensive analysis of the group’s statewide membership patterns.

224. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles: (Mike Davis) No metropolis has been more love or more hated. In this book Davis reconstructs L.A.’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it.

225. Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption: Blacks Seeking a Culture of Enlightened Empowerment: (Haki R. Madhubuti) This is not a “nature” book; however it is a book about the most precious of natural resources, human beings—specifically Black people in the United States—and our relationship to other people, the earth and its resources.

226. Class Notes: Posing as Politics and other Thoughts on the American Scene: (Adolph Reed, Jr.) In a conservative, age the academic left has retreated to the Kingdom of Culture, where speaking “truth” to power is lucrative, not dangerous. Brutally hones and trenchant, Reed stands tall on traditional radical principles and courageously holds the line against the demonization of the poor and the retreat from social responsibility.

227. Coal Miners’ Wives: Portraits of Endurance: (Carol A.B. Giesen) Few people in America today live with the dangers and deprivations that Appalachian coal mining families experience. But to the eighteen West Virginia women Carol Giesen interviewed for this book, hard times are just everyday life. These coal miners’ wives, ranging in age from late teens to eighty-five, tell of a way of life dominated by coal mining-and shadowed by a constant fear of death of injury to a loved one.

228. The Clansman: (Thomas Dixon) The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War there began, for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon describes the social, political, and economic disintegration that plagued the South during Reconstruction, depicting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the reactions of two families to racial conflict.

229. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes: (Edited by Arnold Rampersad) Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.

230. The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century: (John Hope Franklin) The Color Line originated as three lectures delivered at the University of Misouri-Columbia in April 1992, just one day after the “not guilty” verdict was returned in the trial of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King.

231. The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education: (Jeffrey R. Henig, Richard C. Hula, Marion Orr, and Desiree S. Pedescleaux) Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools? How does the politics of race complicate the challenge of bouilding coalitions for improving urban schools? Here a group of political scientists examines education reform in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., where local governmental authority has passed from white to black leaders.

232. The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South: (Gail Williams O’brien) On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store.

233. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty: (Jill Quadagno) Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class.

234. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940 (Volume 1) Volume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his second, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem Renaissance.

2)The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1941-1950 (Volume 2) Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow’s Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1949).

235. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1951-1967 (Volume 3) Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes’s life. It includes Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), Ask Your Mama (1961), and The Panther and the Lash (1967).

236. A College for Appalacia: Alice Lloyd on Caney Creek: (P. David Searles) Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was a New England woman with a mission in life. In 1916 she settled on Caney Creek in Eastern Kentucky, determined to bring higher education to this remote corner of Appalachia. The school she founded, now Alice Lloyd College, continues to serve the area and its people and to stand as a tribute to Lloyd’s remarkable energy, determination, and vision.

237. The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980: (Timothy J. Minchin) Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South’s major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the struggle to integrate southern paper mills.

238. Coming Apart At the Seams: Biblically Unravelling The Evils of Greek Fraternities and Sororities: (Minister Fred Hatchett) “This is a book desperately needed on college campuses and in high schools as well. It is also a must need for parents. Christians need this witnessing tool to keep their brothers and sisters from falling into the deceptive hands of Greek-lettered organizations.” back cover

239. Condi, The Condoleezza Rice Story: (Antonia Felix)

240. The Cornel West Reader: (Cornel West) Cornel West has for the last decade been one of the nation’s premiere public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. For the first time, the breadth of West’s work regarding racial and economic justice, sexuality and gender, history and politics is contained in one volume.
241. Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: (Charles W. Chestnutt) This collections contains all the stories in Chestnutt’s two pioneering volumes of short fiction, The Conjure Woman (1899) and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899).

242. Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera: (Jennifer Hayward) Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre-one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text. Ranging from installment novels, mysteries, and detective fiction of the 1800s to the television and movie series, comics, and advertisements of the twentieth century, serials are loosely linked by what may be called “family resemblances.”

243. Contemporary Black Men’s Fiction and Drama: (edited by Keith Clark) Demonstrating the extraordinary versatility of African-American men’s writing since the 1970s, this forceful collection illustrates how African-American male novelists and playwrights have absorbed, challenged, and expanded the conventions of black American writing and, with it, black male identity.

244. Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools: (Amy J. Binder) “The genius of this study is the comparison between two social movements that are ostensibly quite different in their constituencies but are structurally nearly identical. The author leverages this comparision to produce insights about each movement that would otherwise be elusive. Enjoyably written and always clear, it is a significant contributions to the study of culture and to the field of social movements research.” Paul DuMaggio

245. Contingency, Hegemony, University: (Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, & Slavoj Zizek) In this ground-breaking project, the authors engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as three contributions each that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the left in a globalized economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory.

246. Conversations with Kentucky Writers: (L. Elisabeth Beattie) Whether they left and returned, as Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason did, or adopted the Commonwealth as home, like James Still, or grew up and left for good, like Michael Dorris, Sue Grafton, and Barbara Kingsolver, these writers have one connection: they share a Kentucky influence on their writing and their lives, an influence that Elisabeth Beattie explores in twenty intimate interviews.

247. Countering The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. III: (Jawanza Kunjufu) Volume I came as a result of witnessing a large number of African American boys in special education and lower tracked classes, along with a disproportionate number of suspensions. Volume II reviewed the relationship between mothers and their sons and the whole issue of responsibility. Unfortunately, the problems have worsened since Volume II. Over the past years the African American male prison population has increased. We now have 909,000 involved with the penal system while possessing only 536,000 in college.

248. The Counter Revolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina: (Marnisha Sinha) In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a fresh look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War.

249. Coup de Grace: (Marguerite Yourcenar) Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Erick becomes an unbearable burden.

250. Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color: (Sybil Kein) Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and through their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature. Creole is a project that both defines and celebrates this ethnic identity. In fifteen essays, writers intimately involved with their subject explore the vibrant yet understudied culture of the Creole people across time—their language, literature, religion, art, food, music, folklore, professions, customs, and social barriers.

251. Critical Issues in Educating African American Youth: (Jawanza Kunjufu) This book is a collection of the most challenging questions received since 1974 on issues related to the education of Black youth. The questions are categorized as they relate to: teachers and pedagogy, curriculum, learning styles, special education, Black boys, self-esteem, motivation, educational administration, parenting, and community involvement.

252. Critical Perspectives on Leon Gontran Damas: This critical perspectives offers a wide range of essays on the entire life and career of the poet from his schooling at home, later in Martinique, through his great creative years in Paris as a student, writer, polemicist, member of the French chambers du Deputes, to his final, quieter years as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

253. The Crisis Of The Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis Of The Failure Of Black Leadership: The most important theoretical analysis of Black life ever written by an American, and one of the most important pieces of social analysis ever produced about American society.

254. Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora: (Darlene Clark Hine & Jacqueline McLeod) The essays assembled in this book reflect the international dimensions, commonalities, and discontinuities in the histories of diasporan communities of color. People of African descent in the New World (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) share a common set of experiences: domination and resistance, slavery and emancipation, the pursuit of freedom, and struggle against racism.

255. Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture: (Gayle Wald) Wald begins her reading of twentieth-century passing narratives by analyzing works by African American writers James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen, showing how they use the “passing plot” to explore the negotiation of identity, agency, and freedom within the context of their protagonists’ restricted choices.

256. Crusade for Justice: (Alfreda M. Duster)
The autobiography of Ida B. Wells.

257. Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, & Practice: (Geneva Gay) In this wonderful new volume, Geneva Gay makes a convincing case for using culturally responsive teaching to improve the school performance of under-achieving students of color. She combines insights from multicultural education theory, research, and classroom practice to demonstrate that African, Asian, Latino, and Native American students will perform better, on multiple measures of achievement, when teaching is filtered through their own cultural experiences and frames of reference.

258. Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America: (Hazel V. Carby) Carby’s analyses of diverse aspects of contemporary culture are invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain.

259. Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander: (Kent Masterson Brown) A beautifully written and researched biography of a young officer who lost his life defending Cemetery Ridge against the famous Confederate assault on July 16, 1863.

260. Daddy Was A Number Runner: (Louise Meriwether) It is truth lived in the vernacular—a Black girl’s humor and empathy as she comes to understand Harlem’s dreams and tragedies…from inside out.

261. Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place: (George Lipsitz) Dangerous Crossroads presents a plea: for connection, empathy and kinship like none we’ve heard before. A major voice of conscience in US cultural studies…Lipsitz’s range is as breathtaking as his insights are shrewd.

262. Dark Prisms: Occultism in Hispanic Drama: (Robert Lima) The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history of esoteric themes in theatre from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain and the Americas.

263. Daughters of Caliban: (Consuelo Lopez Springfield) Caribbean Women are “daughters of Caliban,” born into a region where all the “major players” were “newcomers” transported from foreign lands—the African slave, the white merchant, overseer, and colonial administrator, and the Asiatic “serf” brought in after the abolition of slavery in the British colonies to work on the huge sugarcane estates.

264. A Death In Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption: (Dina Temple-Raston) An extraordinary feat of reporting and narrative, Temple-Raston’s A Death in Texas is not only the authorative account of an infamous killing, but a provocative, deeply affecting story of race in America.

265. A Death In The Delta: The Story of Emmett Till: (Stephen J. Whitfield) “A brilliant piece of work—the definitive book on the Till case.” Hodding Carter, III

266. The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks: America is indebted to her black people, and Randall makes the case for why we must not and cannot accept a check marked “insufficient funds.”

267. Deep Down in the Jungle: (Roger D. Abraham) Black American folklore has often been stereotyped as consisting of only spirituals, work songs, and animal tales—the traditional products of southern rural life. But this book broadcasts the voice of the urban black—loud and clear.

268. Dele’s Child: (O.R. Dathorne) This novel, is set against the background of a revolution – political and spiritual. Three men, first seen as students in America, are all in love with Dele. She has a child, Sunday, and they all try to claim him as a kind of absolution.

269. Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad: (Randolph Paul Runyon) His riveting account reveals the intrigues that surrounded the at times hesitant abolitionist Delia Webster. In piecing together the complex puzzle of Ms. Webster and her cohorts, Runyon has illuminated a fascinating, little-known slice of anti-slavery history.

270. Delta Time: Mississippi Photographs (Ken Light): Ken Light’s work on the Mississippi Delta will be an important contribution to the documentation of this culturally rich but historically troubled region. The photographs reveal how shockingly little the economic condition of the people has changed in the past three decades.

271. Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy: (David S. Cecelski & Timothy B. Tyson) At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens.

272. Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago: (James Miller) Because the 1960s generation is now moving into positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early history is crucial to our understanding. Miller, in his new Preface, puts the 1960s into a context for our time, claiming that something of value did happen.

273. The Desegregated Heart:

274. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of A Race From 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.: This book is a contribution to the understanding of Black civilization and the way of life of African people. For once here is documentation put forth by a Black Scholar.

275. The Devil Finds Work: essays: (James Baldwin) Bette Davis’s eyes, Joan Crawford’s bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit’s stereotype, Sidney Poitier’s superhuman black man…..These are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin….and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies. Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist, offering us a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions.

276. A Determined Man: (George W. Simmons) The successful struggle of a Black man to achieve an education through the difficulities that he faced is indeed a current topic that should inspire others to do the same.

277. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children: The problem of educating Black children in the American context is as old as the presence of Blacks in this setting. The ancient function of education was to do no less than to develop positive self-images and discipline for the adherents of the educational system.

278. A Dictionary Of Freemasonry: (Robert Macoy) Here is a remarkable history, encyclopedia and symbolic dictionary of Freemasonry all in one convenient volume and attractively illustrated with 300 nineteenth-century engravings.

279. They Didn’t Put That in the Huntley-Brinkley!: A Vagabond Reporter Encounters the New South: (Hunter James) Far from the storm centers of the American civil rights movement, off-camera and outside most reporters’ beats, countless, nameless individuals reached their own accords with the era’s massive changes. Unsure of what was expected of them—or even who expected it—blacks and whites taught themselves how to live and work in a new world, often not of their own making.

280. Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society: (Drs. Darlene Powell Hopson and Derek S. Hopson) Succeeding at parenthood is one of the most difficult human challenges. It is profoundly sad that racism can make this success even more difficult for African-American parents.

281. Discourse on Colonialism: (Aime Cesaire) This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

282. Disforming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular: (Ronald A. T. Judy) In this book Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges the claim of traditional Enlightenment discourse that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture.

283. Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order: (Howard Zinn) “Among the first Americans to commit acts of civil disobedience in protest against the war in Vietnam were young black civil rights workers in the South. In the summer of 1966, six members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were arrested for invading an induction center in Atlanta.” Preface

284. Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community: (Edmond T. Gordon) Disparate Diasporas is not a conventional ethnography. Rather than being just an observer, Gordon actively participated in the life of the community, intent on contributing to its political processes. A basic premise of his book is that engagement and activity can enhance ethnographic insights and sharpen theoretical understanding.

285. Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience: This book brings together an impressive array of intellectuals to examine the African American experience. The result is a lively and insightful debate that provides us with a framework for dealing with the last remnants of colonialism.

286. Disputed Waters: Native Americans & the Great Lakes Fishery: (Robert Doherty) This disturbing study of the struggle of the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians for traditional fishing rights in the Great Lakes raises legal and public policy questions that extend far beyond that region.

287. Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals: (Donald R. Kinder & Lynn M. Sanders) Here is the most accurate and thorough examination in decades of American attitudes toward race and racial policies. Kinder and Sanders reveal that racial resentment remains the most powerful determinant of white opinion in such racially charged issues as welfare, affirmative action, school desegregation, and the plight of the inner city.

288. The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities: (Lawrence C. Ross jr) Today, America’s nine black fraternities and sororities are two-and-one-half million members strong and among the most powerful and influential groups in African American society—with chapters at major universities and colleges across the country, including Stanford University, Howard University, and University of Chicago Many of America’s most prominent business leaders, scientists, politicians, entertainers, and athletes took their first steps toward making a difference in the world in a fraternity or sorority.

289. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the end of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (Kari Frederickson): In this compelling study fo the 1948 “Dixiecrat Revolt,” Kari Frederickson recovers a critical chapter in American political history. Her book offers fresh insight into how the politics of states’ rights and white supremacy transformed southern and national politics in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

290. Dixie’s Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, The Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement: (James Dickerson) Only recently unsealed and released to the public, the secret files of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission have already received wide coverage in the national media including NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time Magazine.

291. A Documentary Account Of Prince Hall And Other Black Fraternal Orders: (Henry Wilson Coil, Sr. and John MacDuffie Sherman)

292. A Documentary History Of The I.B.P.O. Elks of The World: (Wilson, Coplin and Murray)

293. Doing What’s Right: How To Fight For What You Believe-And Make A Difference: (Tavis Smiley) Truth be told, we’re not doing the things we know we ought to be doing to preserve our society. We’re not voting. We’re not participating in the process. We’re not helping each other the way we should. We barely know our neighbors…We have to get out there and take up the reins of our communities and our lives. There is work to do-and only we can do it.

294. Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837: (Jeffrey Robert Young) This volume offers a surprising answer to the long-standing question about slaveholders’ relationship with the proliferating capitalistic markets of early-nineteenth-century America. Whereas previous scholars have depicted southern planters either as efficient businessmen who embraced market economics or as paternalists whose ideals placed them at odds with the industrializing capitalist society in the North, Young instead demonstrates how capitalism and paternalism acted together in unexpected ways to shape slaveholders’ identity as a ruling elite.

295. Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement: (Pat Watters) Part history and part meditation and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist’s intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. Pat Watters followed the movement from the early days of sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides through the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign in the summer of 1968.

296. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics: The Dred Scott Case presents a skillful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War, discussing the legal bases of slavery, the debate over the Constitution, and the dispute over slavery and continental expansion.

297. Dreads: (Francesco Mastalia and Alfonse Pagano) Dreads is an exquisite artistic testament to the individuality of the men and women who make dreads not only a look but a way of life. These cross-cultural images demonstrate that the human visage is the first artistic canvas we have access to.

298. The Dreamkeeper: Successful Teachers of African American Children: Here is an invaluable, challenging look at the deteriorating American public school system and how some teachers have decided to return quality, value and integrity to the classroom. It eloquently underlines the fact that our youth deserve nothing less than the best from the people entrusted with the care and feeding of their young minds.

299. Dreaming Black: Writing White: (Janet Gabler-Honer) This book examines how the Hagar story was representative of the ways in which African Americans shaped the cultural identity of nineteenth-century America even as whites continued to disavow their contributions. The perception of Hagar as black meant that she could represent a combination of sexual passion and artistic creativity that empowered women in the process of taking on male roles of economic authority in American Society.

300. Dressing Smart in the New Millennium: 200 Quick Tips for Great Style: You’re smart, you’re talented, and you look like a million dollars…your head-to-toe image can help you land your dream job or the man you’ve been dreaming about! Your appearance influences the way people perceive you and the way you behave. Look as if you don’t have a clue, and people perceive you don’t know much—look great and people think you know even more than you do!

301. Driving While Black: (Kenneth Meeks) A book written to save lives, Driving While Black is not just for people of color, but for anyone who likes to wear a baseball cap, baggy jeans, sneakers, and a tee shirt and finds they are often treated like a “suspect”

302. Du Bois and His Rivals: (Raymond Wolters) Biographical materials, events, and conflicts are cogently written and readily understandable. These are characteristics that will also make this book attractive to students and scholars who are interested in an up-to-date treatment of W.E.B. Du Bois’s career as a civil rights leader.

303. Du Bois on Religion: (Edited by Phil Zuckerman) Phil Zuckerman here gathers together Du Bois’s writings on religion and makes a compelling case for Du Bois to be recognized among the leading sociologists of religion. Du Bois on Religion includes selections from such well-known works as The Souls of Black Folks to poems, prayers, stories, and speeches less widely available.

304. Dubious Victory: The Reconstruction Debate in Ohio: (Robert D. Sawrey) Historians generally have shown far less interest in northern goals than in what terms southerners were willing to accept. Robert Sawrey now seeks to redress the balance by examining the post-Civil War attitudes of a representative northern state, Ohio.

305. Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Heath: (Keith Wailoo) Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation’s first sickle cell clinics, this book reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine.

306. Educating African American Males: Detroit’s Malcolm X Academy Solution: (Clifford Watson & Geneva Sitherman) At Detroit’s Malcolm X Academy, the Ma’atic principles of truth, justice, and righteousness go hand in hand with academic excellence. Watson and Smitherman’s book demonstrates the practical application of Africentric theory to the growing crisis in educating Black males.

307. The Education of Black in the South, 1860-1935: (James D. Anderson) Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters.

308. Eight Men: (Richard Wright) Each of the eight stories in this book focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright’s views about racism in our society and his fascination with what he called “the struggle of the individual in America.”

309. Elston and Me: The Story of the First Black Yankee: (Arlene Howard, with Ralph Wimbish) The first book to describe the life and career of the first African-American to play for the most notorious bastion of the tradition of white baseball in the post-1947 era, the New York Yankees—a man, moreover, who was both a truly fine baseball player and ultimately a significant baseball presence in the country’s most important baseball market.

310. The Emergence of Standard English: (John H. Fisher) Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. Fisher challenges this view, and by studying the role of royal and bureaucratic initiatives in England beginning in the fifteenth century, he shows that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces.

311. Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right: (edited by Jeffery Kaplan) In this groundbreaking volume, Jeffery Kaplan brings to light the workings of white supremacy movements in the United States and Europe in the years since World War II. For scholars of race, religion, politics, or social movements, the Encyclopedia of White Power is an essential resource.

312. The End of Racism: (Dinesh D’Souza) In this daring and highly provocative exploration of the history, nature, and ultimate meaning of racism, bestselling author Dinesh D;Souza challenges deeply held orthodoxies about race and racism in America.

313. Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism: In Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: (Peter Edgerly Finchow) For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist.

314. The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America: (Ellis Cose) His conversations with brothers from across the country present a compelling examination of the frustrations that we feel throughout our lives in America.

315. The Evidence of Things Not Said: (Lawrie Balfour) Lawrie Balfour, a rising young scholar, offers a bright new perspective on an important ongoing discussion: James Baldwin’s engagement in the interplay of political theory and race.

316. Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success: (Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner & Samuel L. Myers, Jr.) “In this unique book, the authors examine some of the underlying assumptions and myths and offer fresh approaches, perspectives, and strategies for improving the situation. They focus not only on Africans, but on Asian Pacific Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and other minorities of both series.” Inside cover

317. Fall on Your Knees: (Ann-Marie MacDonald) The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives—even destroy them (Novel).

318. Families in Cultural Context: Strengths and Challenges in Diversity: (Mary Kay DeGenova) The text explores cultural variations in family structure, life cycle, functions, and controls; discusses the impact of history, values, philosophies, and religions upon families; and examines changes and adaptations made by families who have recently immigrated to the United States.

319. Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change: (Marian Wright Edelman) A graphic and eloquent documentation of how the hopes and accomplishments of the 60s were undermined by the inflation of the 70s, and today are virtually destroyed as a seemingly indifferent society tolerates a growing class of permanently impoverished families.

320. Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity: (ed. Harriette Pipes McAdoo) This book offers an excellent review of the demographic characteristics of the major ethnic families in the United States today, with much invaluable information.

321. Famous Black Quotations: (ed., Janet Cheatham Bell) “Powerful words. Provocative words. Words that move your heart and words that move you to action. Now, over 300 quotations—the best known, plus several sure to become better known—by persons of African descent can be with you always, in a single, easy-to-use, easy-to-carry volume. From Aesop to Maya Angelou, from Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, from Nat Turner to Nelson Mandela, from James Baldwin to James Brown, here are the words you want, for effective speaking and inspired thinking, on the subjects of love and life, resistance and responsibility, history and hope.” Helen Baker/back cover

322. Fanon: For Beginners: (Deborah Wyrick, Ph.D.) Philosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, propagandist, prophet…although difficult to categorize, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and one of our most powerful writers on race and revolution. This book provides a clear, detailed introduction to the life and work of the man Jean-Paul Sartre called the voice of the Third World.

323. Feminist Theory From Margin To Center: (bell hooks) This carefully argued and powerfully inspirational work is a comprehensive examination of the core issues of sexual politics, including political solidarity among women, men as partners in struggle, and the feminist movement to end violence.

324. The Feminist Thought: (Patricia Hill Collins)

325. Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954: (John A. Hardin) Exposes both black capitulations to racism and small triumphs by other blacks over travails associated with racially segregated higher education.

326. Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II: (Maggi M. Morehouse) Told in their own words, the stories in this book of fifty men and women from two segregated black infantry divisions will change the way we think about World War II. These black “citizen soldiers” fought on two fronts—against a fascist enemy abroad and against the racial segregation pervasive in 1940s America, including the U.S. Army.

327. Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War: (James E. Westheider) A fascinating analysis of racial conflict in the military during the Vietnam War. Westheider examines the structural roots of racial unrest during the Vietnam War era and dispels the notion that the conflict which erupted was caused by a few black militants. Racial discrepancies practiced by selective service draft boards and the military justice system, and a command structure which was apathetic to black cultural needs were catalysts for the rise of black solidarity in the armed services.

328. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial” Self: (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) This insightful book, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism—the language of the text—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. advocates the use of a close, methodical analysis of language, made possible by modern literary theory.

329. Financial Aid for African Americans: (Gail Ann Schlanchter & R. David Weber) Described here are 1,500 grants, scholarships, fellowships, loans, awards, prizes, and internships (representing billions of dollars) open specifically to Black or African Americans.

330. The Fire Next Time: (James Baldwin) At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice—to both the individual and the body politic—The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature.

331. Fire On The Beach: (David Wright and David Zoby) “Combining a thrilling narrative pace with meticulous research, David Wright and David Zoby have restored for us all a vibrant chapter of our common history that should never be forgotten.” Phillip Graham

332. Fire On The Prairie: Chicago’s Harold Washington and the Politics of Race: (Gary Rivlin) “The election of Harold Washington to be Chicago’s first black mayor was a triumph of civil rights movement politics over America’s last big-city political machine….Gary Rivlin captures the rewarding and the heartbreaking moments of those passionate days. The result chronicles a moment in history that should be studied by everyone who is interested in the future of American cities and the resolution of conflicts among their increasingly racial and ethnic groups.” back cover

333. Forever England: Reflections on Masculinity and Empire: (Jonathan Rutherford) This book is a series of reflections, accessibly written, on the effects on white English masculinity of Britain’s history of Empire, from Victorian times to the present day.

334. Forgotten Texas Census: (L.L. Foster) “Rare for a document of its era, this agricultural report notes, in a county-by-county format, questions of gender, labor, and ethnicity not available anywhere else.” (Back cover)

335. Freedom’s Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi: (NonaLee Frankel) African American women both accepted and defied conventional definitions of private and public spheres. As freed women and men tried to minimize interference by their former owners, practically everything considered private became a public issue: marriage, mobility, parenthood, housing, and control over African American women’s sexuality.

336. Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier: (Juliet E.K. Walker) The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary.

337. Free Men in an Age of Servitude: Three Generations of a Black Family: Lee H. Warner) Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free black in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place.

338. Freedom At Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America 1780-1865: (Carol Wilson) Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans.

339. Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900: (Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie) Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia’s tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability o f their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture.

340. Freemasonry: A Journey Through Ritual And Symbol: (W. Kirk MacNulty)

341. Friends, Lovers, & Soul Mates: A Guide to Better Relationships Between Black Men and Women: (Derek S. Hopson, and Darlene Powell Hopson) Filled with self-assessments, dozens of case studies, and an appendix of organizations. It is a guide you can use at any stage in your life, whether you want to figure out why you don’t currently have a relationship or want to enhance your existing relationship.

342. From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England: (Robert J. Cottrol) This notable volume brings together five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Robert Cottrol provides an introduction in which he discusses the significance of the narratives and the window they open on the lives of these men and women as they moved from eighteenth-century slavery to freedom and the struggle for equality in the nineteenth century.

343. From Afrikan Captives to Insane Slaves: (Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan) Based on the simple and straightforward premise that trying to address, much less solve, the mental health crisis facing Afrikan people worldwide – and in the United States in particular – without a profound and active understanding of holistic Afrikan history is nonsense at best and dishonest at worse, this book is vital to the saving and restitution of a woefully fragmented race.

344. From Black To Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans:(Kathleen Odell Korgen) This book describes the transformation and explains why it has occurred and how it has come about. Through extensive research and dozens of interviews, Korgen describes how the transformation has its roots in the historical and cultural transitions in U.S. society since the civil rights era.

345. From Bomba to Hip-Hop: (Juan Flores) Flores considers the uniqueness of Puerto Rican culture and identity in relation to that of other Latino groups in the United States—as well as to other minority groups, especially African Americans.

346. From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community: (Lorena S. Walsh) This book highlights forces and experiences that shaped eighteenth-century black Virginians’ lives in a tidewater slave community. Scholars of colonial North America and of American slavery will profit from it.

347. From One Brother to Another: Voices of African American Men: (William J. Key & Robert Johnson-Smith II) A wonderful book of meditations for and from African American men.

348. From the Browder File (Revised and Expanded): (Anthony T. Browder) To inform means to form or shape the mind or character through study, learning experiences or instruction. The mind, like any computer, is only capable of responding to the information which is in its memory. If the information is not there, you cannot draw upon it. If the information is incorrect, then your responses will also be incorrect.

349. From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935: (Thomas J. Hennessey) Hennessey’s detailed examination of early American jazz chronicles the music’s evolution from its humble roots in Southern African American traditions to tis mainstream acceptance by the white American middle-class as swing in the 1930s. Hennessey has collected a formidable mountain of information on this important and intriguing period in American musical and cultural history.

350. From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College: (Ethel Morgan Smith) This book examines the dynamics of an institution built on the foundations of slavery and so steeped in tradition that it managed to perpetuate servitude for generations. Interviewing senior community members, Smith gives recognition to the invisible population that provided and has continued to provide the labor support for Hollins College for more than 150 years.

351. Fugitive Slaves And The Underground Railroad In The Kentucky Borderland: (

352. Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia: Vol. 1 – A (Ameri) (Leon L. Bram, William H. Hendelson, Joseph Laffan, Morse)

353. Further To Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment: (Sheila Radford-Hill) While acknowledging that African American women have made major contributions to the black struggle for justice in America, Radford-Hill emphasizes that more needs to be done. She call for black women to revive their legacy of activism and reclaim the tradition of nurturing in the black community, while offering specific tactics to revitalize community support networks and guide interactions between people

354. The Future of the Race: (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West) Almost a hundred years ago the great W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of a “talented tenth,” an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Gates and West, reassess that relationship and its implications for the African American future.

355. Gather Together in My Name: (Maya Angelou) This is the story of a great heroine who knows the meaning of a struggle and never loses her pride or dignity.

356. Gender, Class, Race and Reform in the Progressive Era: (Noralee Frankel & Nancy S. Dye) With its massive industrialization, rapid urban growth, and immense social change, the Progressive Era as a period of reform marks the birth of contemporary American institutions, policies, and values.

357. Gender, Race and Class in Media: (edited by Gail Dines & Jean M. Humez) This is one of the few books that really attempts to take the topic of mass media seriously while demonstrating a range of languages and approaches that illustrate what doing cultural studies is actually about.

358. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves: (Ira Berlin) “Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when American slaves grew cotton, resided in the Deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. The reality, however, is far more varied and complex. Here, Berlin offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of slavery, revealing how slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity.” Inside cover

359. A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten: (Julie Winch) “This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.” Ossie Davis/back cover

360. Georgia In Black and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950: (Edited by John C. Inscoe) The eleven essays in this collection explore the variety of ways in which whites and blacks in Georgia interacted from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the civil rights movement. They reveal the extent to which racial matters infused politics, religion, education, gender relationships, kinship structure, and community dynamics. They provide vivid testimony to the complexity and diversity that have always characterized southern race relations.

361. Giovanni’s Room: A Novel: (James Baldwin) Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin’s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

362. Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race and Nation: (Edited by Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard) Global Multiculturalism is a collection of original essays, each on a different country, analyzing how tensions play out between the state and the diverse ethnic, racial, or cultural groups that make it up. Through case studies drawn from five continents, this volume explores the discourses and conflicts through which states negotiate their internals ions.

363. Go Tell It On the Mountain: (James Baldwin) Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the attitudes of two generations of an embattled family, Go Tell It on the Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change.

364. God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Pre-emancipation Jamaica: (Shirley C. Gordon) This important text describes the impact of evangelical Christianity on slaves in Jamaica (the overwhelming majority of the island’s population) in the eighty-four years between the arrival of the first European Protestant missionaries and the emancipation of British slaves in 1838.

365. God in the Stadium: Sports & Religion in America: (Robert J. Higgs) From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image.

366. God’s Rascal: (Barry Hankins) Colorful and outrageous, influential yet despicable. One of the most despised men in traditional Southern Baptist circles, he was also the man most responsible for bringing hard-edged fundamentalism to the South. The life of this religious rapscallion makes 1990s televangelists seem like naughty toddlers.

367. Going to Meet the Man: Stories (James Baldwin) The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water.

368. The Golden Age of Black Nationalism 1850-1925: (Wilson Jeremiah Moses)

369. Good Brothers Looking For Good Sisters: (Jawanza Kunjufu) Why do some brothers have a difficult time finding good sisters? Why do some sisters overlook god brothers? Where is the best place to meet a good brother? What is a good brother? What do good brothers look for in a good sister? These are some of the questions that are answered in this thought provoking book.

370. Great Black Men of Masonry: (Joseph Manson Andrew Cox)

371. Great Negroes: Past and Present: (Jawanza Kunjufu, Erica Myles and Nichelle Wilson) The book was the first of its kind. This was before the Black Power movement. It encourages, reconfirms, and teaches Americans the rich legacy and contributions of African people.

372. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice: (D.H. Melhem) A comprehensive biocritical study which traces the development of Brooks’ poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville and the Pultizer Prize winning Annie Allen, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark.

373. Haile Sellassie I, The Formative Years: 1892-1936: (Harold G. Marcus) Always controversial during his lifetime (189201975), a political icon to some, a monster to others, and to all a legend. There is no understanding modern Ethiopia without a grasp of the emperor’s life.

374. Handbook of Tests and Measurements for Black Populations (vol. 1): (Reginald L. Jones) In volumes 1 & 2 there are compilations of test and measures developed or modified for use with African Americans. The two volumes include more than 100 measures and assessment approaches in 86 chapters. They were developed because of a pressing need to present tests and measures that more accurately reflect the psychological characteristics and behavior of African Americans than do conventional methods.

375. Handbook of Tests and Measurements for Black Populations
(vol. 2): (Reginald L. Jones) In volumes 1 & 2 there are compilations of test and measures developed or modified for use with African Americans. The two volumes include more than 100 measures and assessment approaches in 86 chapters. They were developed because of a pressing need to present tests and measures that more accurately reflect the psychological characteristics and behavior of African Americans than do conventional methods.

376. Happy to Be Nappy: (bell hooks& Chris Naschka) An exuberant, rhythmic read-aloud celebration about the joy and beauty of “nappy” hair.

377. The Harlem Group of Negro Writers: (Melvin B. Tolson) The collection provides source material on Tolson’s works and on the literacy, artistic, and social legacy of the Harlem Renaissance.

378. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White: (George Hutchinson) By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance—or blamed for corrupting it –George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and White) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States.

379. Harlem: The Vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith:

380. Harriet Tubman: (Ann Petry)

381. The Harvard Guide to African-American History: This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering compendium of information and interpretation relating to more than 500 years of the experiences of people of African descent in America.

382. Harvest of Hope: Family Farming/Farming Families: (Lorraine Gankwich, Janet L. Bokemeier, & Barbara Fate) Although the United States is still by far the world’s leading overall producer of agricultural products, the number of American families making their livelihood through farming is much diminished, and if our demographers are correct, the number of family-operated farms is destined to fall still further in the coming decades as consolidation, cycles of boom and bust and corporate invasions redefine who will farm the land.

383. The Heart of a Woman: (Maya Angelou) In the fourth volume of her highly acclaimed autobiography, Maya Angelou continues one of the most remarkable—and inspiring—personal narratives of our age.

384. Heartwood: (Nikky Finney) Deep in the center of every tree, you’ll find the heartwood. The characters in this new book by poet Nikky Finney are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You’ll meet Buck Jones and Mae Bennet, whose anger has twisted them up inside, Arizona Scott and Queenie Sims, who can see the good in people, and Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan, two young women who discover how much they are alike despite their different skin color.

385. Hegemony & Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli (Benedetto Fontana) Hegemony and Power presents a brilliant comparative and textual examination of Gramsci interpretation of Machiavelli’s political analyses.

386. Hegemony & Socialist Strategy Towards a Radical Democratic Politics: (Ernesto Laclan & Chantal Monffe) Left-wing thought today stands at a crossroads. The ‘evident truths’ of the past – the classical forms of analysis and political calculation, the nature of the forces in conflict, the very meaning of the Left’s struggles and objectives – have been seriously challenged by an avalanche of historical mutations which have driven the ground on which those truths were constituted.

387. Hell-Bent for Music: The Life of Pee Wee King: (Wade Hall) In the 1970s and 1980s he began to slow down professionally, but the honors continued to come. In 1980 he was inducted into John Hobbs’s Music Valley Museum of the Stars, which is right across the street from the entrance to Opryland in Nashville.

388. Helping African American Men Succeed in College: (ed., Michael J. Cuyjet) “Although the actual number of African American men enrolled in the nation’s colleges and universities has been increasing slightly during the 1990s, both the percentage and the number are disturbingly low and small enough to be perceived as fragile. Given that frailty, higher education administrators concerned about this issue are seeking ways to nurture and retain those African American men who are successful in coming to the campus.” back cover

389. Henry Clay and the American System: Maurice G. Bayler) This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System—a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government intervention—reveals the important economic and constitutional aspects of what was perhaps Clay’s greatest contribution to national policy, a contribution that has received surprisingly little study until now.

390. Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker: (Beverly Lowry) “This beautifully written biography of Madam C.J. Walker—the African-American cosmetic millionaire from Louisiana—puts the Horatio Alger story to shame. With crystal-clear prose, lively anecdotes and dutiful research Beverly Lowry tells how Walker, against all odds, became a pioneer business woman and civil rights activist extraordinaire.” Douglas Brinkley/back cover

391. Heritage: The Lexington African-American Discovery Guide: (Mayor Pam Miller) Discover the people, places and accomplishments that make up Lexington’s rich African-American heritage. All facets of life in Lexington and the Bluegrass, from arts, religion and education to business, the racing industry and public service, have been shaped by the contributions of our African-American citizens.

392. Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews: (D.H. Meihem) Since the 1960s, the poet hero or leader has characterized a significant segment of Black American Poetry. The six poets studied here—participate in and to an extent shape the vanguard of this movement.

393. Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History: (Darlene Clark Hine) In this collection of essays the richly intertwined community-making and self-making that shaped the historical experience of African American women shines out like a beacon.

394. Hip Hop America: (Nelson George)

395. The Hip Hop Generation (Bakari Kitwana) “The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament to Black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics to create a fresh and nuanced picture of the issues facing African-American youth today. Back cover

396. Hip-Hop vs. MAAT: A Psycho/Social Analysis of Values: (Jawanza Kunjufu) What are Hip-Hop and MAAT? Hip-Hop is a highly dynamic culture whose very nature is change. MAAT is expressed in the seven cardinal virtues of righteousness, truth, justice, harmony, balance, ricprocity, and order.

397. Hip Hoptionary: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology: (Alonzo Westbrook) “The inventive sounds of hip-hop have echoed far from their Bronx beginnings of twenty years ago. Making its way from Compton sidewalks to suburban malls, garnering commentary from The Wall Street Journal and Fortune 500 magazine as well as Vibe and The Source, hip-hop by definition delivers its messages in the most creative and fluid language possible.” back cover

398. Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980: (Timothy J. Minehin) In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry’s workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South’s largest industry in growing numbers.

399. The History of Pioneer Lexington 1779-1806: (Charles R. Staples) In this landmark study of pioneer life in Kentucky, Charles R. Staples creates a colorful record of Lexington’s first twenty-seven years. He writes of the establishment of an urban center in the midst of the frontier expansion, and in the process documents Lexington’s vanishing history.

400. History of the Improved Benevolent and protective Order of Elks of the World: (Charles H. Wesley)

401. A History of The Links: (Marjorie Holloman Parker)

402. The History of The O.E.S Among Colored People: (Mrs. S. Joe Brown)

403. A History of the Supreme Council, 33: (George Adelbert Newbury and Louis Lenway Williams) “Masonry is one of the most conservative of all human institutions. This is inherent in the very foundation stones on which it is built,-- the three cardinal virtues, Brotherly Love, Relief (or Charity), and Truth; and the four tenets of our profession,--Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice.” Preface

404. Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur: (Michael Eric Dyson) This book provides the most profound analysis of the significance of Tupac Shakur and the most sophisticated understanding of the complexity of today’s hip-hop culture and the plight of its major creators—black young people.

405. Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews With Former Slaves Living in Indiana: Here is an invaluable record of the lives and thoughts of former slaves who moved to Indiana after the Civil War and made significant contributions to the evolving patchwork of Hoosier culture.

406. The Hood Come First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop: (Murray Forman) “Forman’s examination of the special issues of hip-hop is a welcome and informative addition to the existing scholarship on the subject. His focus on the various conversations that took place in industry journals like Billboard give this book a “real time” feel. He brings together information from many disparate sources to present a useful summary of the various artists, industry executives, promoters and visionaries who helped develop hip-hop into the viable commercial form that it is today.” Mark Anthony Neal/back cover

407. Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love: (John Edgar Wideman) Here is Wideman’s memoir of discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitable, the story of the roots of black basketball in America – a story inextricable from race, culture, love, and home.

408. The House Behind the Cedars: (Charles W. Chestnutt) First published in 1900 during an era when many white American leaders waxed hysterical about the threat to “Anglo-Saxon civilization” posed by racial intermixing, The House Behind the Cedars sensitively explores the lives and fates of John and Rena Walden, two young African-Americans who decide to cross the color line in order to claim their share of the American dream.

409. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: (Manning Marable) Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically – and today.

410. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: (Walter Rodney) The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups.

411. How Race is Lived in American: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart: (Joseph Lelyveid) Whether it’s the struggles of a biracial partnership in a high-tech start-up, the tension-filled merger of a white church with a black church in the South, or the simmering resentments of a multiracial slaughterhouse workforce, the powerful and intimate stories in this book follow real people leading complex lives, often but not always side by side.

412. How to Love a Black Man: Perceptive, compassionate, concise, and filled with dozens of practical, empowering “Satisfaction Actions” to improve your relationship.

413. How to Love a Black Woman: (Dr. Ronn Elmore) Straightfoward, insightful, filled with dozens of practical, life-transforming “policies and procedures” and relevant, real-life examples.

414. The House That Race Built: In this cutting-edge collection of essays, a group of today’s most important and provocative intellectuals, including Cornel West, Toni Morrison, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and Angela Y. Davis, share their thoughts on the most critical issues facing American culture along the fissure of race.

415. The Human Tradition in The Old South: (James C. Klotter) “The Human Tradition in the Old South offers thoughtful new observations on some prominent figures and reveling first perspectives on others less familiar. It reminds us forcefully that while, as the sum of its human parts, ‘the South’ may exist as fact, the generic ‘Southerner’ is and always has been a fiction.” back cover

416. Hurtson: (Zora Neale Hurston)

417. I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy: (ed., Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee) “A significant and sure to be controversial attempt to demonstrate the existence of a black philosophical tradition….It makes available a valuable collection of essays that teachers of philosophy and black studies alike will wish to use in their courses.” Robert Gooding-Williams/back cover

418. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: (Maya Angelou) This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts and lives of all black men and women.

419. I Love Myself: When I am Laughing…and then again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive: (Alice Walker) This well-made collection of her work…should give momentum to the rediscovery of Zoral Neale Hurston as the intellectual and spiritual foremother of a generation of black women writers.

420. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.: (Michael Eric Dyson) So much has changed since the glory days of the civil rights movement—and so much has stayed the same. African Americans command their place at every level of society, form the lunch counter to the college campus to the corporate boardroom—yet the gap between the American middle class and the black poor is as wide as ever.

421. I Shared the Dream: The Pride, Passion and Politics of the First Black Woman Senator From Kentucky: (Georgia Davis Powers) Experience the Civil Rights movement through the eyes of the woman allowed into the inner circle of King, Abernathy, Young, and Jackson.

422. Identities: (Kwame Anthony Appiah & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) The study of identity crosses a number of disciplines to address such issues as the multiple intersections of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, the interrelations of post-colonialism, nationalism, and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies, and so on.

423. I’d Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You: The thing that will impress you the most, is Linda’s string of almost unbelievable losses and setbacks—and the equally unbelievable way she’s dealt with them. How did she perservere? She will tell you about the subway rides and the cleaning binges, the loneliness, the relentless spiritual questing, and all-night sessions with the saddest movies she could find. And then she’ll tell you about the healing—how the process slowly revealed itself and how she has used it to heal others.

424. If Beale Street Could Talk: (James Baldwin) Like the blues—sweet, sad, and full of truth—this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love—the affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of the black family.

425. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (Dwight A. McBride)

426. The Imprisonment Of African American Women: (Catherine Fisher Collins) This book is about causes, conditions, and future implications of women.

427. In Europe’s Image: The Need for American Multiculturalism: (by O.R. Dathorne)

428. In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture: (Kwame Anthony Appiah) A ground-breaking—as well as ground-clearing—analysis….Mr. Appiah delivers what may very well be one of the handful of theoretical works on race that will help preserve our humanity and guide us gracefully into the next century.

429. In Search of Africa: (Manthia Diawara) In 1996 Nanthia Diawara returned to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Expecting to be welcomed as an insider, Diawara was shocked to discover that he was not.

430. In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the challenge of the Black Sorority Movement: (Paula Giddings) This history of the largest black women’s organization in the United States is not only the story of (DST), but also tells of the increasing involvement of black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America.

431. Incidents In The Life Of a Slave Girl: (Harriet Jacobs)

432. Inner-City Kids: (Alice McIntyre)

433. Inside The Nation of Islam: A Historical and Personal Testimony by a Black Muslim: (Vibert L. White Jr.) This detailed study of a internal workings of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan examines the evolution of the organization since 1977 and its strange ideological menu of Black Nationalism, political-economic development, anti-Semitism, and conservative Republican ideals.

434. Interdisciplinarity: Essays from the Literature: (William H. Newell) This volume provides the best that has been written about the potential of interdisciplinary study and about solutions to many practical problems encountered by interdisciplinary programs located in a university structured around disciplines.

435. Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption: (Randall Kennedy) “A must-read, an analytical tour de force that challenges readers to go beyond ideology to resolve the most vexing questions of race and justice.” American Lawyer/back cover

436. Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law: (Werner Sollors) Among the most pervasive, enduring, and overlooked themes in American history and literature is the intense anxiety over black-white interracial sexual relations, interracial marriage, and interracial descent. Beginning with a statute in colonial Maryland in 1661, legal prohibitions against interracialism in much of the United States survived the Revolution, Civil War, and the First and Second World Wars, and the formation of the United Nations. Such prohibitions were declared unconstitutional only in 1967 by the Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia.

437. It’s Like That: A Spiritual Memoir: (The Reverend Run) Run of RUN – D.M.C., one of the first rappers to achieve nationwide recognition and top-selling albums, seemed to have it all in his heydey. But the dizzying effects of fame soon left Run feeling empty and dissatisfied. Stuck in a pit of despair, he went through the motions of his public life while grappling with his loss of direction and a family life that was falling apart. Here is the story of how he turned his life around, discovering a wellspring of spirituality within himself and a special connection with God.

438. It’s The Little Things: The Everyday Interactions That Get Under The Skin of Black and Whites: (Lena Williams) An excellent book, Williams presents a clear, honest yet humorous picture of the little things that often interfere with communication and friendship between blacks and whites. The examples she uses are pointed and eye opening.

439. Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream: Here is a major contribution to the scholarship and anecdote of this critical historical event. It should be required reading for students of the game as well as students of the American civil rights movement in the latter half of the century.

440. James Baldwin Now: (Edited by Dwight A. McBride) James Baldwin Now takes advantage of the latest interdisciplinary work to understand the complexity of Baldwin’s vision and contributions without needing to name him as exclusively gay, expatriate, black, or activist. This book finally addresses the man who spoke, and continues to speak, so eloquently to crucial issues of the twentieth century.

441. The Jazz Cadence of American Culture: (Edited by Robert G. O’meally) This book offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form on our world. Robert G. O’Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews about the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life.

442. Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back: (Robert Penn Warren) In 1979 Warren returned to his native Todd County, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.

443. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: (August Wilson) When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boarding-house after seven years’ impressed labor on Joe Turner’s chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger.

444. Journal of Caribbean Studies: (Humphrey A. Regis & Roy Clayton) The perception by Anglo-Caribbean immigrants of actual or assumed commonalities with each other may be the consequence of endogenous communication factors, such as expenditure of effort by the immigrants in the acquisition of information that nurtures the perception.

445. Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth: (Jacqueline Bernard) Known for her wit, her courage, her songs, and her great common sense, the remarkable woman known as Sojourner Truth was born a slave in New York State, gained her freedom when she was in her thirties, and at age forty-six began a new life, traveling the country to preach about her God and crusade against slavery.

446. The Joy Of Motherhood: (Buchi Emecheta) Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman, is ceremoniously married only to be cast off when she fails to conceive. When she finally succeeds in becoming a mother in a second marriage, Nnu Ego gains the respect of her family and her people. But, as her family of eight children prows, the values of her tribe, her people, and her country undergo bewildering changes, ultimately leaving her bereft of the pleasures that would traditionally be accorded her as a mother.

447. Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights: (edited by: Jane Dailey, Glenda E. Gilmore, and Bryant Simon) From a study of the segregation of household consumption to a fresh look at critical elections, from an examination of an unlikely antilynching campaign to an analysis of how miscegenation laws tried to sexualize black political power, these essays about specific southern times and places exemplify the latest trends in historical research.

448. Just Above My Head: (James Baldwin) The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses—and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.

449. Just Don’t Marry One: Interracial Dating, Marriage, and Parenting: (ed. George A. Yancy) “A practical and profound book filled with biblical insight and the honest wisdom of men and women who have lived all angles of this issue. As our nation—and the world—becomes increasingly multiracial, the insights from these pages will become required reading for Christian leaders who want to understand the unique challenges (and blessings) faced by interracial families and individuals.” back cover

450. Just Over the Line: Chester County and the Underground Railroad: (William C. Kashatus) “The Underground Railroad has assumed such a major role in American folklore that it is almost impossible to separate the valid historical past from the legendary stories created after Emancipation. But William Kashatus has succeeded in doing just that for Chester County, Pennsylvania. Just Over the Line presents a much more comples scenario than exclusively white abolitionists assisting passive fugitive slaves to freedom.” Larry Gara

451. Killing Rage: Ending Racism: (bell hooks) Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance. These twenty-three essays are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it. They address a spectrum of topics having to do with race and racism in the United States.

452. Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms: (Michael Porter)

453. King of the World: There were mythic sports figures before him—Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio—but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself.

454. King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.: (Charles Johnson & Bob Adelman) King is the first true photobiography of a hero’s journey. Never before has Martin Luther King’s life been so richly chronicled from so many different points of view.

455. Know Thy Self: Knowledge is the hallmark of civilized human life. That special attribute which distinguishes human life from all other forms of life on this planet is the unique ability to acquire knowledge. Knowledge is the capacity to know oneself, and to have the ability to communicate that knowledge to others.

456. LaBelle Couisine: Recipes to Sing About: For Patti, cooking is about love. Taught by the great Southern cooks in her family—her mother, father, and aunts Hattie Mae and Joshia Mae—Patti LaBelle has dept these family heirlooms close to her heart. But now, she invites you into her kitchen and serves up more than 100 of her favorite recipes.

457. The Land of Saddle-Bags: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia: This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have “had a profound and lasting impact on how we think about Appalachia and, indeed, on the fact that we commonly believe that such a place and people can be readily identified.

458. This Land, This South: An Environmental History: (Albert E. Cowdrey) Here is the story of the long interaction between humans, land, and climate in the American South. It is a tale of exploitation and erosion, of destruction, disease, and defeat, but also of the persistent search for knowledge and wisdom. It is a story whose villains were also its victims and sometimes its heroes.

459. A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia: (Hans Ostrom) A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia is intended to be useful to undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, scholars, and general readers who are interested specifically in Hughes or in topics somehow connected to him, his work, or his era. Because Hughes produced work in almost every genre imaginable, the encyclopedia contains information potentially significant to those interested in poetry, short fiction, the novel, autobiography, drama, musical theatre, opera, the blues, and other popular songs, children’s literature, anthologies, and journalism.

460. The Last Train North: (Clifton L. Taulbert) This is the story of what happened when, at age 17, Taulbert boarded the Illinois Central train on one of its last runs out of Greenville, Mississippi, to St. Louis, the city of his dreams. This is the story of one naïve and hopeful “colored boy” struggling to become the strong, successful black man his southern community had sent him north to be.

461. Leading Issues in African-American Studies: (ed. Nikongo BaNikongo) This updated work examines a broad range of topics and fields of interest to the student of the peoples and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora. Essays by leading experts from around the world provide educated, diverse and thought-provoking insights into African history, music, art, science, literature and religion.

462. Leading Issues in Black Political Economy: (ed. Thomas D. Boston) This book brings together the foremost experts on issues ranging from employment and training to the education of African Americans. It also emphasizes on long-term trends of black-owned businesses. The work emphasizes welfare considerations in an anti-welfare epoch, and the role of affirmative action now that it is under attack. Attention is given to the role of race in the continuing disparity of income distribution in American society.

463. Learning While Black: (Janice E. Hale)

464. Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Prejudice in America: (Philip Perlmutter) Philip Perlmutter argues that, in the U.S., ethnic, religious and racial hatred have always been intertwined and have expanded as the country has grown. Nonetheless, he finds that, “whatever America’s shortcomings, it is the least bigoted country in the world.”

465. Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future: (Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., and Bruce Sharpiro) “The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested issures in America today. Evidence continues to mount that many innocent people have been executed or are currently living on death row, and that myth of deterrence has been revealed to be false, and an increasing number of Americans are beginning to question their support for capital punishment.” back cover

466. Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir: (Mamie Garvin Fields) Born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1888, Mamie Garvin Fields looks back on her family, her friends, and the social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth. She takes us to the one-room schoolhouse where she taught “behind God’s back” and the Boston sweatshop where she worked side by side with Polish and Italian immigrants.

467. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: (Edited by Manning Marable and Leitn Mullings) The voices of famous activists like Du Bois, Douglass, and Malcolm X, joined by those of laborers, women, and other African American citizens, reveal how the historical record of oppression and resistance coalesced into a national and international movement.

468. Let’s Flip The Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature and Learning: (Keith Gilyard) Gilyard broadens the debate about language and education. Fusing insights derived from practical experience with knowledge drawn from an impressive and interdisciplinary array of texts, he examines—always with an eye on the state of African America—connections among language, politics, expressive culture, and pedagogy.

469. Lexington Kentucky: Black America Series: (Gerald L. Smith Ph.D.) “Lexington’s African-American community has survived and flourished despite obstacles that may have proven insurmountable to some. A citizenry enriched by diversity and filled with fortitude, they have made their mark on black history as well as the Bluegrass State’s heritage.” (Back cover)

470. The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones (Jesse Hill Ford) Penetrating the mind and temper of the small-town South during the first stirrings of the civil rights movement, The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones is a powerful tale of the antagonisms and brutalities wrought by racial division. The novel unveils a host of richly drawn characters as it follows the tragic consequences of a black undertaker’s decision to file a lawsuit against his adulterous wife.

471. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad: (Larry Gara) The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study.

472. Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945: (Richard W. Thomas) The process of black community building was not smooth or free of conflict. There was much trial and error and more than a little rancor between its chief builders and benefactors. Notwithstanding those impediments, by 1945 the black community in Detroit had developed into one of the major centers of black progress.

473. Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem: (Julian Bond and Sondra Kathryn Wilson, Editors) Written by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson in 1900, it has become one of the most beloved songs in the African American community. Bon and Wilson have collected one hundred essays by artist, educators, politicians, and activists reflecting on their personal experiences with the song.

474. Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946: (Nina Mjagki) From the time of its emergence in the United States in 1852, the Young Men’s Christian Association excluded blacks from membership in white branches but encouraged them to form their own associations and to join the Christian brotherhood on “separate but equal” terms

475. The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology: (Scott Michaelsen) This book offers a persuasive critique of multiculturalism as it has emerged in the United States. It is most valuable and original in its treatment of relatively unknown Native American writers of mid-century who had diverse and fascinating independent careers as organic intellectuals, so to speak, but who were also paired and partnered with pioneering White anthropologists and interpreters of Native American experience

476. A Literary Biography: (Zora Neale Hurston)

477. The Living is Easy: (Dorothy West)

478. Long Memory: The Black Experience in America: (Mary Frances Berry & John W. Blassingame) This powerful, provocative survey of Afro-American history focuses on themes and subjects which reveal the complexities of the black experience: family and church, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, black nationalism.

479. The Longest Shot: Lil E. Tee and the Kentucky Derby: (John Eisenberg) On the first Saturday in May every year in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after 5:30 PM, a new horse attains racing immortality. The Kentucky Derby is like no other race, and its winners are the finest horses in the world. Covered in rich red roses, surrounded by flashing cameras and admiring crowds, these instant celebrities bear stellar names like Citation, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew.

480. Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America: More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch, McWhorter represents an original and provocative point of view. With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among black intellectuals.

481. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s: (Pete Daniel) This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the 1950s took some unexpected turns.

482. Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class: (Eric Lott). Lott’s commitment to connecting the cultural to the political, and to exploring rather than castigating the ‘structure of feeling’ behind blackface, make Love & Theft a model for how to study popular culture.

483. Lunch at the 5 & 10: (Miles Wolf) This is the story of the Greensboro sit-ins: how four African-American college students sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina and ignited the civil rights movement in America.

484. Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation: (ed., Gerald Early) “A more pertinent question than ‘What am I?’ is ‘How can I be who I am and still hack it in America? This poses a perplexing issue for all those whose controlling assumptions are that most black Americans have a ‘Cinderella wish’ to be white Americans. This fearsome bugaboo accounts for the national preoccupation with securing the gates and manning the barricades at all costs…” C. Eric Lincoln

485. The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative: (ed. Christopher Metress) “In more than 100 documents covering nearly 50 years, Christopher Metress puts the reader in the courtroom and fixes the Emmett Till atrocity firmly in our memory. This is a must-read by historians, students, and those curious to see this crime as it was seen in 1955—and as we must see it now.” Julian Bond/back cover

486. Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930: (Gregory A. Waller) This series examines the place and function of film and television within societies, cultures, and ideologies, emphasizing the historical contexts in which these media developed.

487. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America: (Nathan McCall) In this blistering memoir, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, ultimately, to the newsrooms of the Washington post, where he is now a respected journalist. His story is at once devastating and inspiring. For even as he recounts his transformation, McCall compels us to recognize that racism is as pervasive in the newsroom as it is in the inner city, where it condemns so many black men to prison, dead-end jobs, or violent deaths. At once an indictment and an elegy, Makes Me Wanna Holler is sure to take its place among the classics of African-American experience.

488. Making It On Broken Promises: African-American Male Scholars Confront the Culture of Higher Education: (ed., Lee Jones, foreword Cornel West) “This book provides an occasion to examine the complex conjuncture between the White supremacist realities of the American Academy and the often threatening presence of brilliant Black men in the Academy. This challenging book should also serve as an inspiration for a new generation of Black men deeply devoted to the life of the mind in or outside the Academy.” Cornel West

489. Making Malcolm: (Michael Eric Dyson)

490. The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League: (Horace A. Porter) “The Making of a Black Scholar recaptures in often vivid and convincing detail the later twentieth-century experience and reflections of Horace Porter. His energy, ambition, and talent carried him from a segregated childhood in a rural black family in Georgia to the higher halls of American education—Amherst, Yale, Dartmouth, Wayne State, Stanford, and Iowa.” Albert E. Stone/back cover

491. Making the Second Ghetto: Race & Housing in Chicago 1940-1960: (Arnold R. Hirsch) Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a “pioneer in developing concepts and devices” for housing segregation and that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles on Chicago’s South Side.

492. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and statements: (Edited by George Breitman) These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last eight tumultuous months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Beginning with his break from the Black Muslims, he moved increasingly away from the dogmas of black nationalism, separatism, and violent revolution as the only means to achieve freedom.

493. Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America: (Michael Tonry) Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals, the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison--and for longer terms—than any other western nation.

494. The Marrow of Tradition: (Charles W. Chesnutt) One of the most significant novels in American literature, The Marrow of Tradition is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Some of Charles Chesnutt’s relatives lived through the violence, and their accounts inspired this powerful and passionate novel.

495. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (Adam Fairclough) Fairclough charts the major stages of King’s philosophical and political growth, examining his opposition to the Vietnam War, his response to Black Power, and his growing concern for economic justice. Fairclough rounds out his portrait with an assessment of King’s legacy to America and his continuing relevance to the struggle throughout the world for freedom and equality.

496. Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World: In this volume, Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Elaine M. Smith examine the complex career of this black leader and demonstrate her role as states woman, politician, educational leader, and visionary.

497. Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives: A stunning achievement, an instance in which a heretofore “marginal” literature is revealed in its astonishing complexity by a critical method not before applied to those very texts.

498. Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth: (Danny Bernard Martin) “No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured, African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance and persistence among African-American students who clearly possess the ability to do well, who come from varied family and socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum?” back cover

499. Maximum Insight: (Bill Maxwell)

500. Meaning over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture & History: (Peter N. Stearns) A blueprint for the kinds of changes needed in the teaching of history and the humanities. This book demands a wide, national audience; it should be a spark for productive critical debate and ultimately for reform, at all levels of teaching.

501. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography: (Sidney Poitier) “In this powerful book, [Poitier] shares his touchstones with us and makes us question what foundations guide our own lives.” Ebony

502. Media and Revolution: (Edited by Jeremy D. Popkin) This book brings together substantive research papers on the role of the press in major revolutionary moments and periods in early modern and modern European and American history. The volume illuminates the importance of media—of communications systems and their changes—in the process of revolution from the English revolution of the 17th century to revolutions which brought the end of State Socialism in Eastern Europe and threatened it in China in 1989.

503. Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: (edited by Brian Ward) Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies.

504. Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties: (James C. Hall) “By weaving his study around such a diverse array of writers, musicians, and artrists—including John Coltrane, Paule Marshall, Romare Bearden, William Demby, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Robert Hayden—Jim Hall has set a new standard for the literary and cultural work of the sixties.” Mary Helen Washington/back cover

505. Middle –Class Blacks In A White Society: (William A. Muraskin)

506. Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr.: (Dennis C. Dickerson) During the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy for achieving equality for African Americans. Young blended interracial mediation with direct protest, demonstrating that these methods pursued together were the best tactics for achieving social, economic, and political change.

507. The Millionaires’ Club: How to Start & Run Your Own Investment Club and Make Your Money Grow: This book teaches the essentials of running an investment club. Comprehensive without being complicated, this easy-to-follow guide covers everything from choosing a broker and running effective meetings to investing online and analyzing your club’s results.

508. The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy: (Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres) In this pioneering new book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres warn us that we ignore race at our peril, and propose a dramatic, hopeful shift in the way we think about race and put it to political use.

509. The Mis-Education of the Negro: (Carter G. Woodson) When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his “proper place” and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

510. Miss Muriel and Other Stories: ( Ann Petry)

511. Modernist Fiction: An Introduction: (Randall Stevenson) To many writers of the early twentieth century, modernism meant not only the reshaping or abandonment of tradition but also an interest in psychology and in new concepts of space, time, art, and language. Stevenson’s important new analysis of the genre presents a lucid, comprehensive introduction to modernist fiction.

512. Monterrey Is Ours! The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana 1845-1847: (Edited by Robert H. Ferrell) Dana’s lucid, observant text reads as if written today. Between descriptions of dusty or muddy marches, the setting-up of camps, and the violence of battles, Dana speculated quite cannily on strategy, denounced incompetent seniors, denigrated Mexicans admired scenery, and lamented the condition of his wardrobe.

513. More Than Black?: Multiracial Identity And The New Racial Order:(G. Reginald Daniel) This book is a carefully researched, informative, and balanced treatment about multiracial identity.

514. This Mother’s Daughter: (Nelvia M. Brady) Women share their full stories…often with eye-averting frankness….Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always real.

515. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success: (Jawanza Kunjufu)The seeds for the problem of the 13-21 age group were planted, watered and cultivated long before, and bear the distinctive bitter fruits of motivation. We as a society continue to reap a weak, bitter harvest because we sow such weak, bitter seeds.

516. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times: (Thomas Hauser) Thirty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold medal light-heavyweight at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali is still a magical figure. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend—the two fights with Sonny Liston, when he proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and proved he was; the three epic wars against Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire; and the shocking loss and final win that made him the first man to win back the heavyweight crown twice, fourteen years after he had first claimed it.

517. Mulatto America: (Stephan Talty) “Mulatto America is an important and inspired work of scholarship. From the secret history of the white slave to the telegenetic tumult of contemporary hip-hop, Stephan Talty brilliantly explores the blending of white and black worlds that has obsessed, perplexed—indeed, defined—America for four hundred years.” Douglas Century/back cover

518. Mules and Men: (Zora Neale Hurston) For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of black America’s folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. As Zora Neale Hurston writes about her trip to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, where she went to gather material: “It was a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the story telling…

519. Multicultural Gifted Education: (Donna Y. Ford and J. John Harris, III) Bridging the fields of gifted and multicultural education, this path-breaking volume provides a comprehensive and practical resource for raising the expectations and level of instruction for gifted minority students.

520. The Multicultural Campus: Strategies for Transforming Higher Education: (Edited by Leonard A. Valverde and Louis A. Castenell jr.) This book brings together administrators, faculty, and students to offer strategies that will alter the academic environment of the future. Hispanic, African American, and Asian American educational leaders examine the obstacles they have faced, as minorities, climbing up the predominantly white career ladder in American universities.

521. My American Journey: (Collin Powell with Joseph E. Persico)

522. Narrative of Sojourner Truth: (Paul Negri)

523. Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglass: (Blassingame, McKivigan, and Hinks)

524. The Narrows: (Ann Petry)

525. National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men: (Dana Nelson) Few studies combine the historical breadth and theoretical sophistication of National Manhood, and none puts together the topics of gender and nation, whiteness and masculinity with the efficacy of this work.

526. Native Sons in No Man’s Land: (Philip Auger)

527. Natural Hair Care and Braiding: (Diane Carol Bailey) “This book redefines what is ethnically aesthetic in the hair braiding industry and aims to bring about a set of industry standards for the care of black hair without chemical processing. This instructional handbook introduces the technical skills and craft of braiding, styling and grooming chemical-free naturally textured hair for both men and women.” Back cover

528. Natural Health for African Americans: (Marcellus A. Walker and Kenneth B. Singleton) African Americans face a full-blown health crisis: more heart attacks, diabetes, high blood pressure…and shorter life expectancies.

529. Natural Psychology and Human Transformation: (Na’im Akbar) In this book, Akbar asserts that we are more than the sum total of our actions and more than the makeup of our physical selves. He also indicates that the essence of us is spiritual and that, as creations of God, we have growth and development potential that reaches far beyond our limited—and—limiting perception of ourselves.

530. Negro Freemasonry and Segregation: (Donna A. Cass)

531. Negro Masonry: Being a Critical Examination of Objections to the Legitimacy of the Masonry Existing Among the Negroes of America: (William H. Upton)

532. Negroes with Guns: (Robert F. Williams) First published in 1962, a story of a southern black community’s struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement.

533. Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form: (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy) This book studies the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form—the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative.

534. A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: (Arthur Edward Waite) “Masonry, or Freemasonry, is a 600-year-old fraternity with a 3,000-year-old tradition. The oldest, largest, and most widely know fraternal organization in the worls, it is the prototype of most modern fraternal societies and service organizations.” back cover

535. New Essays on: Go Tell It On The Mountain: (Edited by Trudier Harris) This overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretative methods and prominent contemporary ideas on the text.

536. The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop: (Todd Boyd) “Those who are hip have always know that Black music is about more than simply nodding your head, snapping your fingers, and patting your feet. Like the proverbial Dude, back on the block, Dr. Todd Boyd, in his groundbreaking book The New H.N.I.C., tells us that like the best of this oral tradition, hip hop is a philosophy and worldview rooted in history and at the same time firmly of the moment.” Quincy Jones/back cover

537. The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance Edited by Alain Locke: (Edited by Alain Cocke) To many scholars and critics of the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance—that dramatic upsurge of creativity in literature, music, and art within black America that reached its Zenith in the second half of the 1920s—The New Negro is its definitive text, its bible.

538. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word: (Randall Kennedy) Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of “the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience.”

539. Night Riders: In Black Folk History: (Gladys-Marie Fry) During and following the slavery period in the United States, one of the means used by whites to control the black population was a deliberate system of psychological pressure that fostered in blacks a dread of the supernatural. Gladys-Marie Fry has tapped the source largely neglected and misunderstood by historians, the most vital source for understanding black Americans-their own oral traditions.

540. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths Vol. 1: (Anthony T. Browder) The civilization of Egypt, and of Africa in general, is the most written about and the least understood of all known subjects. This is not an accident or an error in misunderstanding the available information. Except for Egypt, African people have been programmed out of the respectable commentary of history.

541. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System: (David Cole) This book shows just how pervasive race-and class-based double standards are in virtually every criminal justice setting, from police behavior, to jury selection to sentencing.

542. Official History Of Freemasonry Among The Colored People In North America: (Wm. H. Grimshaw)

543. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker: (A’Lelia Bundles) “In black America, hair is the personal and political all rolled up in one. In choosing hair care as a domain, Madam C.J. Walker seized the social power behind these seemingly trivial tendrils and became a pioneer of American enterprise whose story should be studied in every business school. Who better to tell her story, and with such grace and feeling, than her namesake and great-great-granddaughter.” Farai Chideya/back cover

544. On Lynchings: (Patricia Hill Collins)

545. One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race: (Scott L. Malcomson) Why has a nation dedicated to freedom and universal ideals continually produced, through its obsession with race, an unhappily divided people? Scott L. Malcomson’s search for an answer took him to communities across the country and deep into our past.

546. Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor: (Jerry Butle) This book presents a portrait of a remarkable performer, as well as an up-close and personal look at the world of rhythm and blues from the perspective of an insider. Filled with anecdotes about such R&B legends as Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, Patti LaBelle, Sam Cook, and Dionne Warwick, Butler’s compelling, sometimes hilarious narrative is told against the backdrop of 1960s America.

547. The Original African Heritage Study Bible: Of the many Bible editions and translations on today’s market, this is the only Bible that details and documents Africa’s contribution to the formation of Judaism and Christianity. There are 2200 pages of scripture and footnotes with contributions from more than 300 ancient and modern historians and theologians. This edition is all one need to study and understand the Black presence in the Bible.

548. The Other Reconstruction: (Erika M. Miller) This book investigates lynching and its metaphorical implications in several works that examine the relationship between physical and textual race violence in the United States after Reconstruction.

549. Our Kind of People: (Lawrence Otis Graham) Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha’s Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack and Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.

550. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations: (bell hooks) Outlaw culture-the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfranchised, of racial and other minorities-lies at the heart of bell hooks’s America. Raising her powerful voice against racism and other forms of oppression in the United States, hooks unlocks the politics of representation and the meaning of that politics for and in our lives.

551. Out of the Mouths of Slaves: (John Baugh) When the Oakland, California, school board called African American English “Ebonics” and claimed that it “is not a black dialect or any dialect of English,” they re-ignited a debate over language, race, and culture that reaches back to the era of slavery in the United States. In this book, John Baugh, an authority on African American English, sets new parameters for the debate by dissecting and challenging many of the prevailing myths about African American language and its place in American society.

552. The Outsider: (Richard Wright) “Wright created in this fast-paced, riveting narrative…one of the most complex characters in African-American fiction: a black intellectual, freed of his past, who plays out the Sartrean belief that ‘Existence precedes essence.’”

553. Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women: (Freeman A. Hrabowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene & Geoffrey L. Greif) “Overcoming the Odds presents workable strategies for enabling young women to realize their full potential. It bears testament to wisdom of the Meyerhoff Program in creating an environment of technical and social support in its model approach to engendering success.” Kweisi Mfume/back cover

554. The Pact: (Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt) All to often we hear about the dangers of male friendships in which peer pressure prevails over common sense. But for George Jenkins, Sampson Davis, and Rameck Hunt, strong and supportive male friendship was a powerful antidote to the temptations and pitfalls of street life in Newark, New Jersey, where they grew up. It led three boys to make a vow to be there for one another, until they overcame the odds- and became doctors.

555. Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements: (Ronald W. Walters) Walters presents a brilliant analysis of modern Pan Africanism. Walters, a distinguished scholar of African American politics, cultivates new ground in the study of Pan African organizations and their political activities inside Black communities. Based on original materials, gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews, and solid empirical field research, it changes the way we think about Pan Africanism by providing a window into the making of Pan African politics on a global scale.

556. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Vol. II: Rediscovering Precious Values: More than two decades after his death, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas—his call for racial equality, his faith in the ultimate triumph of justice, and his insistence on the power of nonviolent struggle to bring about a major transformation of American society—are as vital and timely as ever.

557. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Vol. III: Birth of a New Age: More than four decades after he first attracted international attention as a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott movement, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words and deeds continue to inspire the struggle for justice and peace.

558. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Vol. IV: Symbol of the Movement: King’s call for racial justice and his faith in the power of nonviolence to engender a major transformation of American society is movingly conveyed in this authoritative, multi volume edition.

559. Paradise: (Toni Morrison) Everything is resonant here: the most casual gestures are informed by the facts and myths of gender and race, by our notions of civilization and lawlessness, body and spirit, Christianity and witchcraft. Morrison’s lyrical prose displays great confidence in her readers’ intelligence, demands their unflagging attention, and rewards them generously—with a memorable work of epic range and monumental ambition.

560. Parting The Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63: (Taylor Branch) Moving from the fiery political baptism of a young Southern minister named Martin Luther King to the FBI and the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against political realities and the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, Parting the Waters is a vivid tapestry of our nation, torn and finally transformed by revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War—the American civil rights movement.

561. Passing: (Nella Larsen) First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkably candid exploration of the destabilization of racial and sexual boundaries. Larsen depicts with trenchancy “the golden days of black cultural consciousness” and unapologetically “critiques as societal insistence on race as essential and fixed.”

562. Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd: (Wade Hall) In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd Successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state’s formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate.

563. Payne Hollow Journal: (Harlan Hubbard) He was Kentucky’s Thoreau, and his journals are intimate records of a life lived in harmony with nature. For more than fifty years the artist, writer, and homesteader described daily activities and keen observations as he sought to live simply and authentically.

564. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: (Paulo Freire) An inspiring and inspired document arising out of concrete experience with peasants, urban laborers, and middle-class converts to freedom.

565. Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice: (Greg Dimitriadis) “Performing Identity/Performing Culture is a bold and powerful book. Departing from the work of others. Dimitriadis draws together textual analyses of rap music and film with nuanced and carefully drawn ethnographic accounts of how black youth in a community center appropriate what appear to be packaged meanings. Offering a new way of looking at texts as well as those critical performances emanating from texts.” Lois Weis/back cover

566. The Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey: Or, Africa for the Africans: (Compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey) As we approach the 1987 celebration of the centennial of Marcus Garvey’s birth, the time seems appropriate for the United States and Jamaican governments to declare null and void the legal proceedings that unjustly sent him to jail in both countries. Nor should a mere ‘pardon’ suffice, presupposing as it does, the presence of guilt to begin with.

567. The Pledge: (Rob Kean) A novel: “At Simsbury College’ most exclusive frat house, a teenage boy is found dead—battered, his bones broken, with sick rhymes scrawled all over his naked body…” back cover

568. The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America: (James Jennings) In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, James Jennings focuses on both the behavioral aspects, such as individual and group characteristics of voting and nonvoting and elections, as well as more fundamental philosophical and cultural questions regarding Black politics.

569. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics: (George Lipsitz) In this unflinching look at white supremacy, Lipsitz probes into the ways that race determines life chances and structures experience in the contemporary United States.

570. The Power, Passion, & Pain of Black Love: (Jawanza Kunjufu) Much has been said about the current condition of male/female relationships. Those who are single, married, emotionally or physically separated, or divorced will draw encouragement from this book.

571. Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture: (founded by: W.E.B. DuBois) In the fall of 1897 W.E.B. DuBois moved from Philadelphia to Atlanta University to take charge of its work in sociology and to institute conferences on the problems of Negroes. The efforts of DuBois to build “an increasing body of scientifically ascertained fact, instead of the vague mass of the so-called Negro problems” made Atlanta University “the only institution in the world carrying on a systematic study of the Negro and his development, and putting the results in form available for …scholars.

572. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65: (Taylor Branch) This book covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965—Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBI’s Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma.

573. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination: (Toni Morrison) The Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that changes the way we read American literature and opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.

574. Police Brutality: (Edited by Jill Nelson) This book should be read by anyone concerned about ending brutality, and should be required reading in police academies throughout America.

575. Politics and the African Development Bank: (Karen A. Mingst) The African continent has long been plagued by economic problems. During the 1970s, with famines and two oil crises, the attention of the international donar community was riveted on Africa.

576. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader: (Edited by David Levering Lewis) The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. With an introduction, chronology, and contextual headnotes by David Levering Lewis, the volume includes the work of some forty-five Renaissance figures.

577. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore: There are few Americans who would not recognize Charles Moore’s most famous photographs. His images of police dogs and fire hoses being turned on demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 became instant symbols, here and abroad, of the black struggle for equality.

578. Prejudice: Dimensions of Ethnicity: (Thomas F. Pettigrew, George M. Fredrickson, Dale T. Knobel, Nathan Glazer, & Reed Ueda) The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. Dimensions of Ethnicity is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions.

579. Preparing Student Teaching in a Pluralistic Classroom: (Timothy R. Blair & Deneese L. Jones) The purpose of this book is fourfold: first, to prepare teacher education students for teaching in a culturally pluralistic society; second, to cover the essential information on the components of the student teaching experience; third, to provide future teachers with the content and strategies of effective teaching methods for all students; and fourth, to help future teachers develop a questioning, self-monitoring, and reflective attitude toward their own decision-making in teaching.

580. The Presence of Camoes: Influences on the Literature of England, America & Southern Africa: Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camoes remains perhaps the least known outside his native Portugal, and his influence on literature in English has not been fully recognized.

581. Prime Time Blues: Network Television: (Donald Bogle) Bogle traces the changing roles of African Americans on primetime—from the blatant stereo-types of television’s early years to the more subtle stereotypes of recent eras.

582. Prince Hall: (Arthur Diamond)

583. The Prince Hall Counsellor: A Manual of Guidance Designed to Aid Those Combatting Clandestine Freemasonry: (Prepared and Published under the auspices of The Prince Hall Grand Masters’ Conference) “The first Negro Freemason to be made in America was initiated at Boston, Massachusetts, 190 years ago. The first Negro subordinate lodge of legitimate Masons in America was chartered under the name of African Lodge No. 451, 181 years ago.” Introduction

584. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland: The stereotypical image of manumission involves a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in the border states where manumission was much more common.

585. The Problem of Race in the 21st Century: A stimulating, insightful, and highly readable analysis of the historical trajectory of race and racism in the modern and postmodern eras. A provocative and cogent discussion.

586. The Prodigal Husband: (Jacquelin Thomas) In spite of Jake’s betrayal, Tori cares deeply for her husband. If they are to reconcile, though, changes must be made. Complicating things is Sheila Moore, Jake’s sexy, conniving business partner, who lured him into her bed once, and is now determined to hook him for good. But she underestimates the power of a wife in love—one who has no intention of giving up without a fight.

587. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it changed America: Between 1940 and 1970 five million African-Americans left the rural South for the promised land of the urban North in the greatest mass migration in our country’s history. This book gives that movement faces and voices.

588. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (Beth Tompkins Bates) By placing the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the context of the complex racial politics in Chicago, Beth Tompkins Bates demonstrates how grassroots organizing and national protest networks were mutually reinforcing.

589. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture: (Siobhan B. Somerville) Here is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States.

590. Quilting the Black Eyed Pea: (Nikki Giovanni)

591. Race and Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Multicultural Education: (Mary Dilg) This book examines some of the many uncomfortable contradictions that white teacher faces in a racially polarized society. Mary Dilg shows how her teaching helps her students discuss their racial identities in the context of the larger issues of history, power, and politics.

592. Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana 1915-1972: (Adam Fairclough) Race and Democracy is the first history of the civil rights movement in Louisiana, and the most comprehensive and detailed study yet of the movement at the state level. In recounting more than five decades of struggle for justice and equality in the South’s most politically intriguing, ethnically diverse, and racially complex state, Adam Fairclough marshals a wealth of research to enrich and revise our understanding of the civil rights movement.

593. Race and Ethnicity: A Study of Intracultural Socialization Patterns: (J. Owens Smith & Carl E. Jackson) Until the mid 1960s, social scientists took for granted the melting-pot concept as a reality for white European ethnic groups. The notion of the melting pot rested on the proposition that all white ethnic groups would eventually be melted into one pressure pot and come out as 100 percent American.

594. Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates: (ed. Stephen Steinberg) This volume brings together some of the clearest and most incisive recent scholarship on race and ethnicity, and the sweeping changes in racial public policy. The first half of the book focuses on the dismantling of anti-racist policies in the post-civil rights era.

595. Race & IQ: (Ashley Montagu) In now classic essays, this thought-provoking volume critically examines the terms “race” and IQ” and their applications in scientific discourse. The twenty-four contributors—including such eminect thinkers as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, W.F. Bodmer, and Jerome Kagan—draw on fields that range from biology and genetics to psychology, anthropology, and education.

596. Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture:(Arthur K. Spears) This book proposes a new understanding of racism by examining a variety of issues that show how racism and colorism, along with other forms of oppression, are interconnected and maintained by language, symbolism, and popular culture.

597. Race and Place in Birmingham (Bowman & Littlefield)

598. Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and Neighborhood Movements (Bobby M. Wilson): This pioneering book explores the implications of postmodernism for the black community through an analysis of the civil rights and neighborhood movements in Birmingham.

599. Race and Reparations: A Black Perspective for the 21st Century: (Clarence J. Munford) “Interpreting the skein of evidence trailing from the racism inherent in white civilization, the author of this book rescues Black nationalism from junk-jive hallucinations and grounds it in the political-economic realities of racist America.” back cover

600. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory: (David W. Blight) Essential for anyone interested in the ways that Americans have dealt with their most searing differences. Impressively researched, this work depicts America’s struggle with the intractable issues of race and reconciliation with panoramic scope and poignant grandeur.

601. Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta: (Rondald H. Bayor) An important and ground-breaking study of Atlanta and its development during the twentieth century.

602. Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx: (Maghan Keita) “Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals.” Insert

603. RACECHANGES: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture: (Susan Gubar) “This rich and fascinating study testifies to the long history of white Americans’ ingenious and insatiable envy of blackness.” Barbara Johnson

604. Race, Class, and Gender Common Bonds, Different Voices: (ed. Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Doris Wilkinson, and Maxine Baca Zinn) This new anthology—significantly derived from a special issue of the journal Gender & Society—seeks to bring understanding to the complex intersections of race, class, and gender.

605. Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: (Paula S. Rothenberg) This new edition undertakes the study of issues of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class.

606. Race Consciousness: What is the significance of race, blackness, and African-American culture in American society as America exits its first century without chattel slavery and enters its first century without legally codified segregation? Where does African-American studies fall amidst the growing academic interest in the politics of identity, and what insight do the lessons of the past hold for contemporary scholars in the discipline? These questions and many others are addressed in this book.

607. Race, Crime, and the Law: (Randall Kennedy) In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Not only does he uncover the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection; analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair; examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another.

608. Race for Success: The Ten Best Opportunities for Blacks in America: (George C. Fraser) This book is both an inspiration and a game plan for people just starting out, as well as for those looking for a career change. Infused throughout with Fraser’s passionate, positive message and clear-cut direction, it is backed by profiles of ten top Black achievers who share the secrets of their success.

609. Race Matters: With a New Preface by the Author (Cornel West): West’s subject matter ranges from the crisis in black leadership and the myths surrounding black sexuality to affirmative action, the new black conservatism, and the strained relations between Jews and African Americans.

610. Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King: (Ronald N. Jacobs) Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public views. Jacobs tell the stories of these newspapers, showing how they increased black visibility within white civil society and helped to form separate black public spheres in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

611. Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America: (Renee C. Romano) “This is an important and timely study, based on wide, deep, and imaginative research. Romano’s complex investigation shows an ironic truth, that while opposition to such marriages has reflected white supremacist (and also black nationalist) attitudes, increasing acceptance does not suffice to prove racism’s end.” Nancy Cott/back cover

612. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class: (Robin D.C. Kelly) This book is African American history at its challenging and transformative best. Kelley’s exquisite interweaving of cultural and political dynamics illuminates obscure and unseen sites of Black working-class resistance throughout the 20th century. This is an extraordinary and provocative book.

613. Race, Religion & Racism Volume 1: A Bold Encounter with Division in the Church: (Frederick K.C. Price, D.D.) Finally, after years of research, the message God gave Frederick K.C. Price to deliver on racism and racial prejudice is now in book form. The controversial teaching that shocked the Church and sent waves of reaction through television audiences around the nation is now gathered in one highly readable work. Once scorned as divisive, now lauded as a visionary, Price has maintained one goal: to see the Church in America unified under Christ. No more black Church. No more white Church. One Church under God.

614. Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma: (C. Eric Lincoln) In Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma, C. Eric Lincoln reevaluates what Gunnar Myrdal called “the American dilemma” and studies particularly the influence of the black church.

615. Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line: (Michael Eric Dyson) From the O.J. Simpson trial to the generational politics of gangsta rap, and from Colin Powell to Louis Farrakhan, Dyson takes on the most contentious issues of the 1990s. Again and again he shows us that, in a society that prides itself on being color-blind, race is more important—and more pernicious—than ever.

616. Race to Incarcerate: The Sentencing Project: ( Marc Mauer) A tremendously disturbing and important book about the devastating increase in our prison population in the final quarter of this century. This book packs almost everything you need to know to understand the destructive human and fiscal cost of so much of our anticrime policy in America.

617. Racial Equality in America: (John Hope Franklin) Now available for the first time in paperback is distinguished historian John Hope Franklin’s eloquent and forceful meditation on the persistent disparity between the goal of racial equality in America and the facts of discrimination.

618. Racialized Politics: The Debate About Racism In America: (Edited by, David O. Sears, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Bobo) Political scientists, sociologists, and psychologists explore the current debate surrounding the sources of racism in America.

619. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and “Legal Lynchings”: (George C. Wright) “Despite Wright’s modulated tone, even a jaded reader will be shocked by the scope and sadism of the violence endured by blacks in what was supposedly one of the more moderate Southern states.” Virginia Quarterly Review/back cover

620. Racism 101: (Nikki Giovanni)

621. Racism: (Albert Memmi) His controversial statements about racism and call to each of us to devote ourselves to its eradication—futile though this effort will be-are straightforward and lucid, yet also powerful and universal. In this remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of contemporary life, Memmi investigates racism as social pathology-a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another.

622. Racism: (Editied by Martin Bulmer & John Solomos) This reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary focus of racist ideas and institutions. It seeks to locate the historical origins of racism, bringing together material from different theoretical perspectives in an attempt to make sense of the way which racism has exerted such a powerful influence on the history of humanity.

623. Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project: (Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.) “Befor anyone in Congress or the White House says another word about education reform, they owe themselves a few hours with Moses’ new book. Moses cuts through cant and phony debates with the serene urgency of someone who risked his life in the civil rights revolution.” E.J. Dionne/back cover

624. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power: (Timothy B. Tyson) This thoughtful, eloquent book, much more than a biography, offers us a chance to re-examine some of the assumptions that have long undermined our national discourse on race. It turns out that Rosa Parks and the gun-toting Robert Williams are not so far apart, a fact that cannot be explained in the context of the traditional civil rights paradigm.

625. The Rage Of A Privileged Class:(Ellis Cose) “The Rage Of A Privileged Class” is a revelatory, highly original exploration of a neglected aspect of our nation’s greatest most enduring problem.

626. Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children: James P. Comer, M.D. & Alvin Poussaint, M.D.) Along with the traditional demands of parenthood, today’s parents must grapple with such daunting issues as drugs, AIDS, violence, and educational pressures. But black parents face an even more challenging task; they must actively combat negative messages of racism while teaching their children to succeed in a white-dominated culture.

627. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop: (W.T. Lhaman, Jr.) Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in blackface wasn’t the “approved” reading, but then, blackface wasn’t the “approved” culture either—yet somehow we’re still dancing to its renegade tune. Jumpin’ Jack Flash is the descendant of Jumpin’ Jim Crow. The story of an insubordinate, rebellious, truly popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to hip-hop is told for the first time in this book.

628. Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story: (Michael Datcher) “Deeply reflective, occasionally offbeat and tearful, Datcher’s memoir combines attitude, honesty, and romance…This triumphant tale is a stunning tribute to perseverance, courage, and the power of positive thinking.” Publishers Weekly/back cover

629. Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History: (Rodger Streitmatter) As long as the Afro-Americans of this country sit supinely by and raise no voice against the injustice heaped upon them, conditions for them in this country will grow worse. Each chapter is a biographical sketch of a black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, and thereby changed history.

630. Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity: Here is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture.

631. Raising Up Queens: Loving Our Daughters Loud and Strong: (Esther Davis-Thompson) “Sing your most real songs loud enough and strong enough so your daughter will come to know her own voice.” With these empowering words, Esther Davis-Thompson weaves inspiring wisdoms of deep hope and love for every mother and daughter.

632. Reaching Beyond Race: (Paul M. Sniderman & Edward G. Carmines) If white Americans could reveal what they really think about race, without the risk of appearing racist, what would they say? In this elegantly written and innovative book, Sniderman and Carmines illuminate aspects of white Americans’ thinking about the politics of race previously hidden from sight. And in a thoughtful follow-up analysis, they point the way toward public policies that could gain wide support and reduce the gap between black and white Americans.

633. Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions: (Nancy Boyd-Franklin & Brenna Hafer Bry) Reaching out to families in the everyday settings in which they live can be a powerful mode of therapeutic intervention, particularly for families who face complex, multiple problems. This volume presents a valuable framework for conducting family therapy sessions in the home, school, and community.

634. Reading Africa Into American Literature: Epics, Tables, and Gothic Tales (Keith Cartwright) In this book, Cartwright focuses on Africa’s Senegambian region to trace its impact on writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alex Haley, and Toni Morrison. He also probes the differing need that led white southerners creolized “soundings.”

635. Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century: (Aldon Lynn Nielsen) Reading Race examines the work of twentieth-century white American poets from Carl Sandburg to Adrienne Rich, from Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg, revealing within their poetry and casual writings a body of literature that transmits racism, even as it sometimes speaks against it.

636. The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children: In this book some of our most important educators, linguists, and writers, as well as teachers and students reporting from the field, examine the lessons of the Ebonics controversy and unravel complexities of the issue that have never been acknowledged.

637. The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe Each Other: (Randall Robinson) In “The Reckoning”, Robinson provides startling insights into prominent Americas roles in the crime and poverty that grip much of urban and rallies black Americans to speak out-and reach back-to ensure that the largely forgotten poor of black America get their chance at the American dream.

638. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation: (Alfred L. Brophy foreword by Randall Kennedy) In Reconstructing the Dreamland, Alfred Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded.

639. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist: (Hazel V. Carby) A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a form for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women’s fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture.

640. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies: (bell hooks) comes to film not as a film critic but as a cultural critic, fascinated by the issues movies raise—the way cinema depicts race, sex, and class. Reel to Real brings together hooks’ classic essays (on Paris is Burning or Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It) with her newer work on such films as Girl 6, Pulp Fiction, Crooklyn, and Waiting to Exhale, and her thoughts on the world of independent cinema.

641. Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights: (Cynthia Stokes Brown) “Making the stories of white allies more visible is an important contribution to multicultural education and anti-racist literature, and I believe this book will be of interest to many educators. I am not aware of any other text which provides this kind of biographical material about white allies of historical significance.” Beverly Daniel Tatum/back cover

642. Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate: (Daniel L. Dreisbach) A unique historical contribution to the discussion of church-state issues…Dreisbach’s careful, balanced, and objective analysis enables readers interested in religion, history, politics, and sociology to evaluate the respective sides of the debate.

643. Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit: (Victoria W. Wolcott) African American women have largely been absent from traditional narratives of the Great Migration because they were excluded from industrial work. By placing these women at the center of her study, Victoria Wolcott reveals their vital role in shaping life in interwar Detroit.

644. Remembering Generations: (Ashraf A. Rushdy) This book examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some contemporary intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility – of recognizing that the slave past continues to exert an influence on contemporary American society.

645. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (hardcover book and two compact discs) Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear the voices of black southerners who were firsthand witnesses to one of the most heartbreaking and troubling chapters in America’s history.

646. Remembering Slavery: (Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, & Steven F. Miller) This groundbreaking book-and-tape package of interviews and transcripts includes a selection of the only known original recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement. Early in the 1930s, interviews from the Federal Writers’ Project combed the South in search of former slaves. The interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston and John Lomax, spoke with hundreds of elderly people about their experiences in slavery and preserved the voices of some on primitive recording devices.

647. Reporting Civil Rights: Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963: “Drawn from eyewitness newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, Reporting Civil Rights offers a panoramic perspective on the struggle to overthrow segregation in the United States. Back Cover

648. Representing Black Men: (Marcellus Blount & George P. Cunningham) This book provides the first critical forum for contesting and explicating the ways in which “the black man”—his sexuality, and his relationship to manhood and family—is represented in our culture.

649. Representing: hip hop culture and the production of black cinema: (S. Craig Watkins) In a book that displays expert knowledge of both cinema and social relations, Craig Watkins analyzes the flowering of a ‘ghettocentric imagination’ among black filmmakers during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when black youths were faring very badly in society, films about black youths began to flourish. Watkins explores this contradiction in original and imaginative ways, showing some unexpected consequences of deindustrialization, the rise of conservative politics, and the demonization of inner city youth by mainstream media outlets.

650. Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America: (Cornel West) This book has all the freshness, all the spontaneity of good conversations anywhere, and benefits greatly from the integrity and wisdom of its contributors.

651. Restoring the Village, Values, and Commitment: Solutions for the Black Family: (Jawanza Kunjufu) How can African Americans reduce their divorce rate of 66 percent? What are the four stages of a relationship? Why do African American females lead the world in teenage pregnancy? Why don’t more fathers stay with their children? Can Black families survive if the Black man does not submit to God and can’t find employment? What impact will the Million Man March have on the Black family? These are some of the questions that are answered in this thought provoking book.

652. Resurrecting Mingus: (Jenoyne Adams) “Resurrecting Mingus is the story of a young woman lost—striving to find her won identity while dealing with powerful and painful questions that force her to confront everything and everyone that matters to her.” inside cover

653. Rethinking Race: (Franz Boas) This informative, provocative, and well researched book provides both factual information and thoughtful insight into the origins of the modern social sciences. Williams demonstrates that many of the ideas dominating the Afrocentrism and multiculturalism controversies of recent years were well developed ninety to one hundred years ago.

654. The Return of Nat Turner: History, Literature, & Cultural Politics in Sixties America: (Albert E. Stone) In The Return of Nat Turner, primarily a cultural study of sixties America, Albert E. Stone presents a comprehensive history of the various representations of the violent or rebellious slave in American culture and examines the Nat Turner rebellion as both historical fact and cultural narrative.

655. Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students: Promising Practices and Programs: (Donna Y. Ford) This book challenges the way educators approach and look at the problems facing gifted Black students, and offers a rich and detailed analysis of the psychological, socio-emotional, and academic factors that shape the students’ development.

656. Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States: Mexico and the United States share a border of more than 2,000 miles, and their histories and interests have often intertwined. The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and continued in one form or another for the next forty years, was keenly observed by U.S. citizens, especially those who were directly involved in Mexico through property ownership, investment, missionary work, tourism, journalism, and education.

657. Rice: (Nikky Finney) Rice feeds readers who are hungry for the deep love and lyricism that imbues Black life. Nikky Finney is a writer who carries the traditions of her ancestors with the exquisite care they deserve.

658. Rioting in America: In this wide-ranging survey of rioting in America, Gilje argues that we cannot fully comprehend the history of the American people without an understanding of the impact of rioting. Riots are an opportunity for people in the street to make themselves heard, for the “inarticulate” to become articulate.

659. Rite of Passage: Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life I not his own, but a foster family. And now he is being sent to live with someone else. Shocked by the news, Johnny does the only thing he can think of: he runs. Leaving his childhood behind forever, Johnny takes to the streets where he learns about living life—the hard way.

660. River, Cross My Heart: (Breena Clarke) A genuine masterpiece… full of grace and beauty and profound insights.

661. River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley: Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North.

662. Roosevelt: The Party Leader 1932-1945: FDR—the wily political opportunist glowing with charismatic charm, a leader venerated and hated with equal vigor—such is one common notion of a president elected to an unprecedented four terms. But in this first comprehensive study of Roosevelt’s leadership of the Democratic party, Sean Savage reveals a different man.

663. Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey, 1613-1863: Graham Russell Hodges) In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the bloody Draft Riots of 1863.

664. The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938: (ed. Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch) This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American Writers.

665. Roots of Resistance: The Nonviolent Ethic of Martin Luther King, Jr.: (William D. Watley) This book provides a chronicle of a pivotal period in American history…a journal of the personal pilgrimage of one of this century’s most influential individuals….Most helpful is the inspiring and challenging manner in which the volume encourages a nonviolent lifestyle both for persons and nations in this all-too-volatile world.

666. The Sacred Art, Preaching and Theology in the African American Tradition: (Olin P. Moyd) This book meets a great need in the rich history of black preaching. Moyd is perceptive as he describes preaching as context and theology as content. In his volume, black theology has come of age in the black church, in worship and ministry. The book is at once inspirational and informative.

667. Sacred Bonds: Black Men and their Mothers: (Keith Michael Brown, James McBride, & Adger W. Cowans) The stories you are about to experience will hit you square in the chest. Some will make you laugh out loud. Others will bring tears to your eyes. None will leave you unmoved.

668. Sankofa: Stories Of Power, Hope, And Joy: (Jawanza Kunjufu) People who cannot remember the major points in a speech or sermon will however, remember the stories almost verbatim. We usually think that stories are for children. The reality is that stories are beneficial for everyone.

669. Satan, I’m Taking Back My Health: (Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu) Do you want God’s best for your life? Do you know God’s healing scriptures? Would you like to live a drug free energetic life? Is you doctor “saved”, drug free, and energetic? Does medicine eliminate the problem or accept it? Why is the incidence of cancer greater today than a century ago? Why is the incidence of heart disease greater today than a century ago? Are we living longer, but not feeling better? If you eat three times a day, how many times do you eliminate? Where is the food you did not eliminate? What damage is it causing? These questions are answered in this thought provoking book.

670. Say Amen, Brother: Old-Time Negro Preaching: A Study in American Frustration: This book examines the rich and lively tradition of black preaching. The book is a publication in the African American Life Series.

671. Scarring the Black Body: (Carol E. Henderson)

672. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso: Black Bibliophile & Collector: (Elinor DesVerney Sinnette) 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, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out the hidden records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals.

673. Search and Destroy: African American Males in the Criminal Justice System: (Jerome G. Miller) Miller has spent a lifetime understanding our criminal justice system. He has worked to make it more progressive and more just. He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color. That is the story told here in devastating detail.

674. The Seed of Sally Good’n: A Black Family of Arkansas 1833-1953: Spencer Polk was born of an African-Indian slave woman known as Sally, and her master, Taylor Polk, a descendant of one of America’s first families and one of the earliest white settlers in the Arkansas Territory. A favored slave, Spencer Polk became a prosperous farmer and landowner in southwestern Arkansas and the founder of a numerous and energetic family.

675. Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South: (Robert Penn Warren) First published in 1956, Segregation is a collection of Robert Penn Warren’s informal conversation with southerners in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Warren traveled through this native region to talk with scores of individuals-taxi drivers, NAACP leaders, members of White Citizens groups, college students, preachers—to report their responses to the Court’s decision.

676. Seizing The New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston: This book sheds light on the strategies used by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to freedom and the efforts they made to battle attempts by whites to regain control.

677. Seizing the Word: History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois: (Keith E. Byerman) Seizing the Word makes available for the first time a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of nineteenth- and twentieth- century America. A historian, journalist, novelist, poet, and social and literary critic, this extraordinary man profoundly influenced our understanding of the African-American experience.

678. A Servant’s Journey: The Life and Work of Thomas Kilgore: (Thomas Kilgore, Jr. with Jini Kilgore Ross) Taking courage, commitment, and compassion to be companions with his boundless energy and incomparable optimism, D. Kilgore prayerfully disciplined his gifts to honor God and help humankind. I assure you this book will empower you for reflective and responsible living in an age that worships technology and neglects the spiritual hunger of the human heart.

679. Seven Attitude Adjustments For Finding A Loving Man: (Audrey B. Chapman) With compassion for both genders- and a lot of common sense- Audrey B. Chapman leads the discussion on how Black men and women can move from destructive relationships to healthy loving.

680. Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective: (Kelly Brown Douglas) This book tackles the “taboo” subject of sexuality that has long been avoided by the Black church and community. Douglas argues that this view of Black sexuality has interfered with constructive responses to the AIDS crisis and teenage pregnancies, fostered intolerance of sexual diversity, frustrated healthy male/female relationships, and rendered Black and womanist theologians silent on sexual issues.

681. Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process (A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.) In Shades of Freedom, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law—the judicial system—instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. Shades of Freedom is a superb work of history—and a mirror to the American soul.

682. Shantyboat Journal: (Harlan Habbard) Harlan and Anna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Harlan is an artist and a writer with poet’s eye for the beauty of the world. Ana is a musician and an elegant master of the arts of graceful living. For seven years (1944-1951) the Hubbards make their home on their little boat, drifting with the river, camping on the land.

683. Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations: (ed., Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D.) “Should America Pay? Offers a comprehensive look at a topic of increasing importance. The inclusion of dissenting voices and historical documents makes the argument for reparations even more urgent and compelling.” Herb Boyd/back cover

684. Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans: (Daryl Cumber Dance) This collection of 565 individual pieces of black folklore provides a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty….this first-rate anthology is recommended for…general readers and specialists.

685. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism: (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition’s theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system of interpretation and a power vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World.

686. Simple Justice: (Richard Kluger) It is history, law, sociology and human emotion blended into one great story. For the first time the whole melancholy century of black history, from Emancipation until now, has been set down with accuracy and skill.

687. Sister CEO: The Black Woman’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business: In this idea-packed, can-do handbook on entrepreneurship, successfully self-employed businesswoman Cheryl Broussard shows you how to take control of your destiny by taking control of your work.

688. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery: (Bell Hooks) bell hooks addresses the inner well-being of black women and how their development is shaped by the daily assault of institutionalized structures of domination. Tackling such issues as addiction, truth-telling, work, grieving, spirituality, eroticism, reconciliation and forgiveness, community, and estrangement from nature, hooks shares numerous strategies for self-recovery that can heal individuals and empower effective struggle against racism, sexism, and consumer capitalism.

689. Sister to Sister: Devotions: (Suzan D. Johnson Cook, editor) Sister to Sister is a powerful and inspiring collection of stories, confessions, and truth telling. The writers are an awesome bunch of African-American women who find joy in pain, faith in uncertainty, and hope in despair.

690. Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education: (ed., Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela & Anna L. Green) “Sisters of the Academy is a scholarly presentation of the facts of life in academia, as seen by and for black women. The authors reflect a common spirit and commitment to make a difference through sharing.” Freddie L. Groomes/back cover

691. The Sisters of Theta Phi Kappa: (Kayla Perrin) “The Sisters of Theta Phi Kappa will keep you guessing and will make you think about the depths of friendship, the price of loyalty, and the bonds of sisterhood.” inside cover

692. The Skin That We Speak: (Lisa Deplit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy)

693. Slave and Freeman: The Autobiography of George L. Knox: (Edited by Willard B. Gatewood) By the 1890s George L. Knox was generally recognized as the most prominent black citizen in Indiana. Born a slave in Tennessee, he migrated to Indiana shortly before the end of the Civil War and settled in Greenfield where he embarked upon a career as a barber. In time he expanded his barber-shop, purchased real estate, participated in local politics, and acquired a wide circle of acquaintances, including the poet James Whitcomb Riley.

694. Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South: (Albert J. Braboteau) Necessary reading. It is well-written, richly documented history.

695. Slavery, Race, and American History: Historical Conflict, Trends, and Method, 1866-1953: (John David Smith) These essays by award-winning historian John David Smith examine the history of slavery and race through the eyes of a broad range of early American historians and social scientists.

696. Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision: (Natalie Zemon Davis) The written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film.

697. Slim Down Sister: The African-American Woman’s Guide To Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss: The first weight-loss book written especially for African-American women, it offers a comprehensive, get-down-to-it program of diet and exercise that empowers sisters to take control of their weight and health.

698. Slim’s Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity: (Mitchell Duneier) The author manages to fling open windows of perception into what it means to be working-class black, how a caring community can proceed from the most ordinary transactions, all the while smashing media-induced stereotypes of the races and race relations.

699. Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures: (Paul Gilroy) This book moves the politics of race and ethnicity far beyond what have become the established frames of reference.

700. Smart Money Moves for African Americans: Most of us dream of financial security. But how do we pay for a college education? Finance a business? Invest in the stock market? Retire comfortably? And to whom do we turn for advice? Basic money management was not taught by the church, the civil rights movement, or the public school system. And while many authors write about financially successful African Americans, few of them show specifically how to make the money dream your own.

701. Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left: (Richard Iton) A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism.

702. “Somebody’s Calling My Name”: Black Sacred Music and Social Change: (Wyatt Tee Walker) Tracing the history of Black sacred music and its relationship to social change, Wyatt Walker observes, “…if you listen to what Black people are singing religiously, it will provide a clue as to what is happening to them sociologically.” For students of Black history and music, Walker presents a detailed study tracing the musical expressions of the Black religious tradition from its ancestral roots in Africa through its development in the “invisible church” of the slave society to its influence upon the Black religious experience today.

703. Song of Solomon: (Toni Morrison) An unusual dramatic story of the black experience in America…of unrequited loves and bitter hates, of thruths and revenges, of intense loyalties.

704. Sons of Mississippi: (Paul Hendrickson) “Intelligence, subtlety, and the nuances of history glitter on every page of this elegant and moving book.” Melissa Fay Green/back cover

705. The Soul Of Black Folk: (W.E.B. Du Bois)

706. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: (Jacqueline Jones Royster)

707. By Southern Playwrights: Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville: (Michael Bigelow Dixon & Michele Volansky) Playwrights from the South have always figured largely in the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s contribution of new work to the repertoire of American dramatic literature. Southern playwriting is a distinctive force in the American theater.

708. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson (Cynthia Griggs Fleming): Fleming lifts an important activist out of historical neglect while using her life as a base to discuss the concerns of young women like her, who were confronted by racism and sexism within their own organizations. This poignant account provides a glimpse into the life of an extraordinary woman and the prejudices against which she fought.

709. Sorority Sisters: (Tajuana “TJ” Butler) A novel: “Sorority Sisters examines the issues facing women walking a thghtrope between the teen years and adulthood…The fact that the author provided a peek into the pledge process of African-American sororities made the book even more tastey.” Seventeenmag.com/back cover

710. Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic: (Mark Anthony Neal) This book reads across an incredible spectrum of media and keeps you turning the pages. It will be a classic that we return to again and again. As usual, Neal reads as a black feminist, and he reminds the reader that in order to understand the complexity and beauty of African-American life and letters we will have to borrow from what we know and create something where there is nothing to get the job done.

711. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market: (Walter Johnson) This book takes us inside the New Orleans slave market—the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold. Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. He reveals not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved, as well as the centrality of this “peculiar institution” in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike.

712. Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections from African-American Churches: (Joyce White) All the recipes in this book came from church people. They came from those unsung women and men, too, who work long and unpaid hours on church kitchen committees, cooking with heart and soul. They came from church sisters who-like many mothers-during anniversary celebrations, homecomings and revivals carry their best culinary creations to the church.

713. Soulstepping: African American Step Shows: (Elizabeth C. Fine) “Elizabeth Fine takes us on a journey of discovery with Soulstepping, all the way back to its African roots and all the way up to our moment. All groups have dance steps that the group performs together for the pure joy of celebrating life. Soulstepping brings out that joy, that exhilaration, that love of like. This celebration is long overdue.” Nikki Giovanni/back cover

714. South Africa In Black And White: South Africa’s history id one of conflict – conflict between Boer and Briton, between black and white. In South Africa in Black and White, Juhan Kuus has captured the tragedy of South Africa today, a society in turmoil and on the brink of civil war. His descriptive and graphic images of violence and unrest sit alongside reflections of everyday life in South Africa. The result is an arresting photographic portrait of a nation in crisis, by one of South Africa’s most prominent photographers.

715. Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South: (John Egerton) Here is an astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate but equal” division of the races.

716. Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism: By denouncing a dehumanizing racism, Speaking Truth to Power announces history as possibility in our search for substantivity of a radical democracy.

717. Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English: (John Russel Rickford and Russel John Rickford) This book provides a profound portrait of the power, passion, and poignancy of Black English beyond the Ebonics controversy and the perplexing paradox of linguistic prejudice.

718. The Spook Who Sat By The Door: (Sam Greenlee) Your city is in the sight of a weapon so powerful you can’t escape its best, a weapon loaded with 300 years’ worth of hate and hostile neglect. The weapon—a united Black America. This is the story of what could happen when the weapon strikes…it could happen before you finish the book.

719. Stage-Coach Days in the Bluegrass: (J. Winston Coleman jr.) With three companies operating over the Bluegrass routes, great rivalry sprang up among the drivers, whose great delight would be to whip up the horses and pass the other state just as it entered the town or village. Hard down Main Street flying before its cloud of dust would come the stage, the high and read-splotched body swaying above racing wheels, the horn blasts, and the four spirited foaming horses, the commotion of the halt, sliding in with a whirlwind of excitement and driver’s shouts.

720. Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade: (Edward Reynolds) In this graphic portrait of the Atlantic slave trade, Edward Reynolds uses primary and contemporary sources to present a realistic and balanced picture of the trade and its consequences.

721. Standing Outside On the Inside: (Olga M. Welch and Carolyn R. Hodges)

722. State of Emergency: We Must Save African American Males: (Jawanza Kunjufu) There was a time when one of every ten African American males was involved in the penal system. Later it became one of five then one of four, and now it is one of three. It is projected that by 2020, two of every three African American males will be involved in the penal system! This is not a Black problem, nor is it an education, economic, prison, or drug problem. This is a moral problem, which requires moral solutions.

723. States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons: (Edited by Joy James) This book confronts us all with the nation’s hidden shame—the two million people locked in its prisons by a system that marks for special punishment the poor, the non-white, the helpless. This book is and enormously useful treasury of information, joining powerful personal stories with bold, thoughtful analysis.

724. Stickin’ To, Watchin’ Over, and Gettin’ With: An African American Parent’s Guide to Discipline: (Howard C. Stevenson, Gwendolyn Davis, and Saburah Abdul-Kabir) “Stickin’ To, Watchin’ Over, and Getting’ With is a must-read for educators, social workers, and others focused on the success of African American children.” Kaye E. Burnside/back cover

725. Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era: (Adolph Reed jr.) Reed examines the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions as a proxy for white elites.

726. Stolen Childhood: (Wilma King) Most slave societies in the New World used massive importation of Africans to maintain their populations. In the United States, by contrast, the population sustained itself through reproductions. Less than one million Africans were imported into the country before the Atlantic slave trade ended in 1808. Although enslaved children fell into an “actuarially perilous category,” the population had increased to 3,952,760 by 1860. Of that population 56 percent were under twenty years of age. The ability to reproduce the population is the most distinctive feature of slavery in North America.

727. Stories of Freedom in Black New York: (Shane White) “A splendid book. Stories of Freedom in Black New York digs deep into the antebellum city, and unearths far more treasures than scholars have assumed existed. It probing investigation of the subtleties of race relations, its intertwining of theater and everyday life, its exhumation of language, perceptions, and folkways, are remarkable.” Mike Wallace

728. Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux: (J. Ronald Green) Micheaux was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift of African Americans.

729. Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song: (David Margolick) Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, “Strange Fruit” is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South.

730. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York 1900-1940: (Lillian Serece Williams) This book discusses the creation of an African American community as a distinct cultural entity. It describes values and institutions that the Black migrant population brought with them from the South, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with Blacks native to the city and the city itself.

731. The Street: (Ann Petry)

732. Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit: (Shane White and Graham White) Focusing on such variegated indicators of black style as dress, hair, body language, and dance, the authors reveal an evolving semiotics of black self-creating that has been designed from its very outset to impose a degree of individuality on the numbing uniformity bred of slavery, poverty, Jim Crow laws, and white racism.

733. Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color: (ed., Mildred Garcia, foreword, Yolanda Moses) “For any academic institution that cares about retaining and nurturing faculty of color, this book is illuminating. It should be required reading for every academic administrator who should, in turn, purchase copies for every department chair.” Carol Geary Schneider/back cover

734. Success Strategies for African-Americans: A Guide to Creating Personal and Professional Achievement: Designed specifically to meet the challenges facing today’s African-American men and women, this invaluable resource will give you all the knowledge, inspiration, and power you need to achieve excellence in your career, fulfillment in your relationships, and faith in yourself.

735. Sugar & Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713: (Richard S. Dunn) Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and whites that made these colonies the richest, but in human terms the least successful, English America.

736. Sula: (Toni Morrison) A novel about two young girls who share everything. They share perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime—until Sula gets out. But, when she returns ten years later her friend Nel is married with three children. Nel can’t understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them.

737. Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson (W. Royal Stokes)

738. Swing Shift “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s: (Sherrie Tucker) Filled with firsthand accounts of more than a hundred women who performed during this era and complemented by thorough--and eye-opening--archival research, this book not only offers a history of this significant aspect of American society and culture but also examines how and why whole bands of dedicated and talented women musicians were dropped from--or never inducted into—our national memory.

739. Sylvia’s Family Soul Food Cookbook: This wonderful new cookbook includes delicious and satisfying soul food recipes from Sylvia and her friends and family. The book also tells Sylvia’s amazing rags-to-riches life story for the first time, from her childhood in Hemingway, South Carolina, to the opening of her now world-famous restaurant, Sylvia’s Restaurant, in Harlem.

740. Take Me To The River: Now Al Green’s tale is told for the first time in his inspiring, unsparing, and ultimately transforming autobiography.

741. Talkin and Testifin: The Language of Black America: (Geneva Smitherman) Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style.

742. Talkin that Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African America: (Geneva Smitherman) Dr. Smitherman provokes and challenges readers to rethink the complicated relationship between language and power within society. In the great tradition of African-American scholars such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson, Dr. Smitherman grounds her analysis in a passionate commitment to the liberation of her people.

743. Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church: Gifts and Challenges: (Michael V. Angrosino) Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church gives classes, workshops, or small groups the opportunity to discuss issues of multiculturalism. This unique book encourages readers to be aware of their own cultural assumptions, highlights special skills for communicating between cultures, and presents eleven case studies with discussion questions.

744. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black: (bell hooks) Writing is a healing act of power for this woman who grew up in an “old school” Southern black world where children were meant to be seen and not heard. “Talking back” was punished with silence.

745. Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters From Black Soldiers in World War II: Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II were hopeful that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. In this volume there are a number of powerful collection letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and non-government officials.

746. That’s Blaxploitation!:

747. Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice: (Edited by Maryemna Graham, Sharon Pineault-Burke and Marianna White Davis) This book offers teachers groundbreaking methods for bringing the distinguished tradition of African American literature into their classroom. From Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, this volume provides significant insight into some of America’s most important writers. This collection is destined to become the standard guide for teachers using African American literature in their classes.

748. Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow: (Adam Fairclough) Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, when “the efforts of the slave regime to prevent black literacy meant that blacks…associated education with liberation,” Fairclough explores the development of educational ideals in the black community up through the years of the civil rights movement.

749. Tell it to Women: An Epic Drama for Women: (Osonye Tess Onwueme) This book offers a critical discourse on the western feminist movement from an African traditional perspective, focusing attention on the often silenced issues of intra-gender politics and class inequities.

750. Temperance & Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars: (David M. Faney) One hundred twenty years ago, the International Order of Good Templars was the world’s largest, most militant and most evangelical organization hostile to alcoholic drink. Standing in the forefront of the international temperance movement, it was recognized worldwide as a potent social and moral force.

751. Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America: (Diana Taylor) Latin American theatre is among the most innovative in the world today. The period 1965-1970 was one of intense theatrical production in the region. Dozens of major playwrights and collective theatres produced hundreds of highly original plays.

752. Their Eyes Were Watching God: (Zora Neale Hurston)

753. ‘There Ain’t No Black In The Union Jack’: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation: (Paul Gilroy) Exploring the relationships among race, class, and nation as they have evolved over the past twenty years, he highlights racist attitudes that transcend the left-right political divide. He challenges current sociological approaches to racism as well as the ethnocentric bias of British cultural studies.

754. Those Preaching Women: Sermons by Black Women Preachers: Vol. 1: (Ella Pearson Mitchell, Ed.) To both men and women, these sermons bring messages of hope and faith that God does hear our prayers, that God’s love is poured out to all who are oppressed, and that God will liberate us from our fears and prejudices.

755. Those Preaching Women: Vol. 2: (Ella Pearson Mitchell, ed.) Sensitive to the pressures of life in today’s turbulent world, each preacher uses her own uniquely creative approach for applying the meaning of great Bible truths to the contemporary concerns of the person in the pew.

756. Those Preaching Women: Vol. 3: (Ella Pearson Mitchell, ed.) The women who wrote sermons for this book are not just sharing their “best sermons”; they are tackling the hardest questions facing the Christian church…. [These women are] demonstrating their gifts as prophetic preachers who deal with life’s most perplexing issues.

757. The Rooster’s Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice: This book brings a voice of reason and a reminder of the decency that is missing from so much of our public debate. Williams addresses the wounds in America’s public soul, and uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who “we” are as a nation.

758. The Ruins or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature (1890):

759. The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South 1940-1968: A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, this book is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the per-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts.

760. Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South: (Melton A. McLaurin) Honestly and plainly, Melton McLaurin recalls in these pages a not-very-distant past—the 1950s, when segregation existed unchallenged and nearly unquestioned in the rural South. He writes of his youth in Wade, North Carolina, a town perhaps a thousand residents, where whites and blacks lived within each other’s shadow, yet were separated by the history they shared.

761. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South: Researching literary narratives, memoirs, plantation documents, and autobiographies, the author reinterprets the stereotyped master-slave relationship. He shows conclusively that within his own quarters the slave led a rich cultural and family life that was deliberately kept hidden from his white masters.

762. The Slave Ship: Fredensborg: This is a lavishly illustrated story of a typical slave ship and its last voyage on the triangular trade between Denmark-Norway, the Gold Coast in Africa, and the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. The wreck of Fredensborg was discovered off the coast of Norway in 1974, more than 200 years after it sank in 1768.

763. The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South: (Joseph A. Aistrup) The 1994 elections represented a watershed year for southern Republicans. For the first time since Reconstruction, they gained control of a majority of national seats and governorships. Yet, despite these impressive gains, southern Republicans control only three of twenty-two state legislative chambers and 37 percent of state legislative seats.

764. The Star Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film: (Bernard F. Dick) World War II will continue to be reconsidered, reexamined, and reinterpreted; so too will the American films that came out of that war. The American World War II film depicted a united America, a mythic America in which the average guy, the girl next door, the 4-F patriot, and the grieving mother were suddenly transformed into heroes and heroines, warriors and goddesses.

765. The State of Black America 1999: The Impact of Color-consciousness in the United States: (Edited by William Spriggs)This volume puts into perspective the cultural issues, policy challenges and socio-economic trends that continue to shape the nation’s dialog on race.

766. The Tempest: (Edited by Northrop Frye) Shakespeare

767. The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich: (Saul Friedman and Laurence Kutler) In 1941, the fortress city of Terezin outside Prague was converted by Reinhard Heydrich into an ostensibly model ghetto. Stories circulated that it would be a transit station for Jews being sent where they might survive. In actuality it was a way station to Auschwitz.

768. Truly Blessed: (Teddy Pendergrass and Patricia Romanowski) In 1982, at the height of success, thirty-one-year-old Teddy Pendergrass seemed invincible. Then, late one night on a winding Philadelphia road, Teddy’s life changed forever. His car crashed, and he was left quadriplegic with limited use of his arms and without, it seemed a future. Against all odds, though, Teddy miraculously re turned: to the concert stage at Live Aid in 1985, to the top of the charts with Joy in 1988, and to the milionas of fans around the world who will always love the romantic, charismatic man they call the Teddy Bear.” Inside cover

769. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy: (William Julius Wilson) This book should spur critical rethinking in many quarters about the causes and potential remedies for inner-city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass, they—as well as community leaders and concerned Americans of all races—would be well advised to examine Mr. Wilson’s incisive analysis.

770. Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony, 1862-1867 (Patricia C. Click): This book tells the story of the Roanoke Island freedmen’s colony from its contraband-camp beginnings to the conflict over land ownership that led to its demise in 1867. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Patricia Click traces the struggles and successes of this long-overlooked yet significant attempt at building what the Reverend James hoped would be the model for “a new social order” in the postwar South.

771. To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group: (Jawanza Kunjufu) If being smart is acting White, what does Blackness mean? How can parents, teachers, and community leaders deprogram African American student from the myth of intellectual inferiority?

772. To Hell with Dying: (Catherine Deeter) For a happy few of us there is the good fortune of having had a Mr. Sweet in our childhood. Someone who erases the boundaries between children and adults, whose faults gentle us into tolerance and charity, whose praise makes us strong and proud – and whose love helps us to understand what love really is.

773. To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans: (Robin Kelley) The book chronicles five centuries of African-American struggles for survival, identity, freedom, and political power. From forced entrance into North America on slave ships to the false promises of new challenges of eventual emancipation, a history of perseverance and indomitable spirit unfurls here in compelling detail and richness.

774. Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur: (Datcher and Alexander) More than twenty young Black writers are gathered in this collection to offer a compelling blend of insightful and critical observations on the life and death of Hip Hop’s premier “gangsta” rapper, Tupac Shaku. This volume, comprised of essays, commentary and poems, takes a balanced look at Shakur’s controversial life and lyrics.

775. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations 1917-1918: (David Woodward) During the crucial period of 1917-1918, the United States superseded Great Britain as the premier power in the world. The differing strategic perspectives of London and Washington were central to the tensions and misunderstandings that separated the two dominant powers in 1918 and determined how these two countries would interact following the Armistice.

776. Trophy Man: The Surprising Secrets of Black Women Who Marry Well: (Joy McElroy) Drawing on extensive interviews with black women married to top-notch doctors, lawyers, businessmen, athletes, educators, and politicians—women who’ve been there and know. This book provides proven methods any woman can use to make a successful match. Straightforward, and plainspoken.

777. The Struggle for Black Equality 1954-1980: (Harvard Sitkoff) A crisp, well-researched account of the civil rights movement. The book ably captures the sweep and drama of the struggle, measuring clearly the gains won and what still remains to be done. It is a significant contribution toward setting in informed perspective the changes in black status since the Brown decision.

778. Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865: (Kari J. Winter) In Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change Kari J. Winter compares the ways in which two marginalized genres of women’s writing—female Gothic novels and slave narratives—represent the oppression of women and their resistance to oppression. Analyzing the historical contexts in which Gothic novels and slave narratives were written, Winter shows that both types of writing expose the sexual politics at the heart of patriarchal culture and both represent the terrifying aspects of life for women.

779. Things Fall Apart: (Chinua Achebe) A simple story of a “strong man” whose life is dominated by fear and anger, is written with remarkable economy and sudtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe’s keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.

780. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities: (Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds)

781. Truman and the Democratic Party: (Sean J. Savage) This book deals exclusively with the president’s relationship with the Democratic party and his status as party leader. Sean J. Savage addresses Truman’s twin roles of party regular and liberal reformer, examining the tension that arose from the duality and the consequences of that tension for Truman’s political career.

782. Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: (Edited by Susan M. Reverby) Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research—the Tuskegee syphilis study.

783. Twelve Million Black Voices: This book was first published in 1941, it combines Wright’s prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein.

784. Twelve Years A Slave: (Solomon Northup) “Published in 1853, Northup’s book found a ready audience and almost immediately became a best-seller. Aside from its vivid depiction of the detention, transportation, and sale of slaves, Twelve Years a Slave is admired for its classic accounts of cotton and sugar production, its uncannily precise recall of people, times, and places, and the compelling details that recreate the daily routine of slaves in the Gulf South.” (Back cover)

785. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal: (Andrew Hacker) Using completely updated statistical data to paint the stark picture of racial inequality, this book depicts the realities of family life, of income and employment, as well as current controversies affecting education, politics, and crime, including the role of race in the Simpson trail

786. Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes: (David C. Hsiung) Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts, especially those of isolation and community.

787. Ultra Black Hair Growth II: (Cathy Howse) “I just finished reading Ultra Black Hair Growth II and find it to be the most informative, clear and beneficial book I’ve read about black hair. The research of the author is a bonus for all Black women who want to take care of their hair.” Theresa Ross/back cover

788. UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth – Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission: (Tunde Adeleke) Though many scholars will acknowledge the Anglo-Saxon character of black American nationalism, few have dealt with the imperialistic ramifications of this connection. Now, Tunde Adeleke reexamines nineteenth-century black American nationalism, finding not only that it embodied the racist and paternalistic values of Euro-American culture but also that nationalism played an active role in justifying Europe’s intrusion into Africa.

789. Unchained Memories: (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

790. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century: (Edited by Vincent Carretta) Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard clearly for the first time in two centuries.

791. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (Joel Chandler Harris) The high humor, idyllic setting, and idealized character of their character of their teller betray the earnest importance of these selections to their original American audience—African slaves.

792. Uncle Tom’s Children: We have an opportunity to assess Wright’s formidable and lasting contribution to American literature. But this time we have texts intended as the author originally wished them to be read. The works that millions know are, as it turns out, expurgated and abbreviated versions of what Wright submitted for publication.

793. The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy: The War Against The Poor: (Herbert J. Gans) For most of its history, America has been fighting a vicious war that cannot be won: a war against its own poor. In this incisive new book, Herbert J. Gans probes the socioeconomic, psychological, and political reasons why better-off Americans seek to indict millions of poor citizens as members of an “underserving underclass” Although he analyzes the legitimate fears and hostility that generate this stigma, he mounts a compelling argument that the “underclass” actually functions as a scapegoat for ills in American society that have nothing to do with the behavior of the poor.

794. Under the Knife: How a Wealth Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South: (Hugh Pearson) Here is a story of a highly successful black physician and surgeon in a small southern town who began his practice in a segregated South but who treated both blacks and whites. Although the physician is a close family relative, Hugh Pearson reveals it all—the good and the not-so-good—to paint an engaging portrait of this stirring personality.

795. The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare: Michael B. Katz) For the first time in over twenty-five years, the issue of poverty – and our failure to deal with it – is back at the tip of the policy agenda and on the front page of the news. In this magisterial overview, social historian Michael B. Katz examines the ideas and assumptions that have shaped public policy from the sixties’ War on Poverty to the current war on welfare.

796. The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America: Philip A. Klinker and Rogers M. Smith) Although Americans would like to believe otherwise, our nation’s commitment to racial equality has never been consistent, nor has it been irresistibly driven forward by America’s founding principles.

797. Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit’s African American Community, 1918-1967: (Elaine Latzman Moon) This book offers an authentic and personal look at the reality of life among African Americans in Detroit, bringing to light the perceptions and contributions of true heroes and heroines whose stories have been told here for the first time.

798. Up From Slavery: (Booker T. Washington)

799. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile 1860-1890 (Michael W. Fitzgerald) “In this sophisticated study of black politics in Mobile, Michael Fitzgerald adds a new dimension to our understanding of the competing social visions and political strategies that emerged in the black community in the aftermath of Emancipation.” Eric J. Foner/back cover

800. The Valley Of The Dry Bones: The Conditions That Face Black People in America: (Rudolphf R. Windsor) “Drawing extensively upon the Bible and many works by eminent scholars in various disciplines, the author has created a work that is at once inspiring and intriguing. He seeks to prove that the black people, more properly called “Black Israelites,” are truly God’s chosen people and, as such, should become more aware of their unique heritage.” back cover

801. Vernon Can Read!: (Vernon E. Jordan Jr.)

802. The Vibe Story of Hip Hop: (Alan Light)

803. Visions for Black Men: (Na’mi Akbar) This book raises issues which are not only important to black men but to all of us. How do we restore African manhood to those whom our society has not viewed as the chosen people? Discover the startling prediction of the mystical tradition of Ancient Africa—that the descendants of a once-great nation will rise again.

804. A Voice From The South: (Anna Julia Cooper)

805. The Voice of the Frontier: John Bradford’s Notes on Kentucky: (Edited by Thomas D. Clark) From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky’s first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford’s “Notes on Kentucky” –the primary historical source for Kentucky’s early years—are made available in a single volume, edited by the state’s most distinguished historian.

806. Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation: (Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.) This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. It crosses the boundaries between library criticism and historical study by examining the tensions between generic conventions and the impulses that created and reinforced them.

807. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica: (Norman C. Stolzoff) Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music.

808. Walker, Alice: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Throughout the volume Walker explores the theories and practices of feminists and feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of black women. And in a vivid and courageous memoir she tells of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.

809. Walkin’ Over Medicine: (Loudell F. Snow) The United States health care system shortchanges our largest minority-African Americans-and Loudell F. Snow, an anthropologist who spent many years working with black patients, shows how that failure occurs….Walkin’ Over Medicine should be required reading for any health practitioner who treats African American patients.

810. Walking With Presidents: Louis Martin and the Rise of Black Political Power (Alex Poinsett): “More than any other person, Liuis Martin has paved the way for the significant involvement of black Americans at all levels of the Democratic party…. He is an extraordinary human being.” --Ron Brown

811. Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement: (John Lewis) From Nashville to Selma to Montgomery and beyond, Walking with the Wing is one of the most important records of the civil rights movement ever written. An eloquent, epic firsthand account of a turbulent time, it is the story of an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change the course of history.

812. The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys: (Raymond A. Winbush) This book provides step-by-step guidance for parents, brothers, sisters, relatives—anyone committed to helping young black men improve their knowledge, attitude, and behavior in spite of what may seem insurmountable obstacles.

813. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Sering Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High: (Melba Pattillo Beals) Drawn from Melba Beals’ personal diaries, is a riveting true account of her junior year at Central High—one filled with telephone threats, brigades of attacks, economic blackmail, and finally, a price upon Melba’s head. With the help of her English-teacher mother, her eight fellow warriors, and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived.

814. A Way Out Of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young: (Andrew Young) “The best parts of A Way Out of No Way…recall vividly what was so powerful about the rights movement, the last truly moral movement for individual rights in our history.” Washington Post

815. We Ask Only A Fair Trial: A History of The Black Community of Evansville, Indiana: Evansville is intriguing not only because of the ways in which its history corroborates the patterns of ghetto life present in other cities, but also due to the unique factors which shaped it. Black population development, for one, is distinctive, for unlike most Northern cities it grew rapidly between 1865 and 1900, attaining a proportion of total population (13 percent), which was one of the highest in the Midwest.

816. W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line: (Adolph Reed jr.) In this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W.E.B. Du Bois’s political thought, while simultaneously re-mapping the history of twentieth-century progressive thought and sharply criticizing recent trends in Afro-American, literary, and cultural studies.

817. W.E.B. Du Bois Biography of a Race: (David LeVering Lewis) William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator.

818. We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism (Clarence E. Walker): This is the book to read if you want to know where Afrocentrism comes from, and why there is practically nothing African about it. As Walker demonstrates with great precision and clarity, its origins can be traced to Europe, and to European fantasies about race and intellectual legacy long since discarded by responsible historians.

819. We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women’s History: This book was put together to reclaim, and to create heightened awareness about, individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African-American survival and progress possible.

820. We Want Jobs: A History of Affirmative Action: This monograph is a study of equal employment opportunity, with special emphasis on the development of affirmative action. It examines the evolution of public policies designed to eradicate and overcome the effects of economic discrimination in the United States. The narrative focuses primarily on the period after 1960, although the first two chapters provide background information dating back to the nineteenth century.

821. Whatever Happened to Daddy’s Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women: (Jonetta Rose Barras) Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it has reached epidemic proportions in the African-American community, with especially devastating consequences for black women.

822. What It Is…What It Was!: This book explores this film explosion. Between 1970 and 1980 over 200 films with Black themes including family dramas, mysteries, horror films, comedies and action films, were released by both major and independent studios. With the increased use of photography, this period would be the last time that top artists would draw and paint the vibrant bold movie poster images that in themselves were classics.

823. What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community & Race Relations: For Irish American as well as for Chicago’s other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina’s in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America.

824. What’s A Commie Ever Done To Black People?: (Curtis James Morrow) This book tells the story of (Curtis “Kojo” Morrow) a black man enlisted in the United States Army.

825. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America: (Paula Giddings) An eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women’s movements throughout American history.

826. When Chicken Head Come Home To Roost: (Joan Morgan) In this fresh, funky, and ferociously honest book, award-winning journalist Joan Morgan bravely probes the complex issues facing African American women in today’s world.

827. When Sorry Isn’t Enough: (ed., Roy L. Brooks) “A rich collection of essays from leading scholars, pundits, activists, and political leaders the world over, many written expressly for this volume, When Sorry Isn’t Enough also includes voices of the victims of some of the world’s worst atrocities, thereby providing a panoramic perspective on an international controversy often marked more by heat than reason.” back cover

828. When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures: (Sheila Smith McKoy) “When black rage explodes, it’s a riot. When white rage erupts, it’s a protest, a reaction, a political action. Or it’s invisible. In a bold work that cuts across racial, ethnic, cultural, and national boundaries, Sheila Smith McKoy reveals how race colors the idea of violence in the United States and in South Africa—two countries inevitably and inextricably linked by the central role of skin color in personal and national identity.” back cover

829. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor: The author challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Wilson persuasively argues that the problems endemic to America’s inner cities—form fatherless households to drugs and violent crime—stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy.

830. White: White people are not literally or symbolically white, yet they are called white. What does this mean? In Western media, whites take up the position of ordinariness, not a particular race, just the human race. How is this achieved? White takes these questions as starting points for an examination of the representation is central to the organization of the contemporary world, white people remain a largely unexamined category in sharp contrast to the many studies of images of black and Asian peoples.

831. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925: (Mia Bay) How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities, or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If no, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America’s shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration.

832. White is a State of Mind: A Memoir: (Melba Pattillo Beals) In 1957, while most teenage girls were listening to Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue,” watching Elvis gyrate, and having slumber parties, fifteen-year-old Melba Pattillo was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away the burning acid sprayed into her eyes by segregationists determined to prevent her from integrating Little Rock’s Central High School—caught up in the center of a civil rights firestorm that stunned this nation and altered the course of history.

833. “Who set you Flowin’?” (Farrah Jasmine Griffin) Griffin looks at this migration across a wide range of genres—the literary texts of Richard Wright and Dorothy West, the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, and the music of Billie Holiday and Arrested Development, as well as photography and correspondence.

834. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race: (Beverly Tatum). Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black youth seated together in the cafeteria. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should try to fix, or a coping strategy we should support? How can we get passed our reluctance to talk about racial issues?

835. Why I Love Black Women: (Michael Eric Dyson)

836. Why, Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology: (Anthony B. Pinn) This splendid book explores theological texts, preaching, folklore, spirituals, blues, and rap to unleash a tradition of African American humanism.

837. Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?: How Reginal Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire: (Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker) “Why should White Guys Have All the Fun?”was the title of a partial autobiography written by Reginald F. Lewis shortly before his death in January 1993. His words are compelling and provide insight into the success he achieved and the personality and intellect that facilitated that success. Blair S. Walker used Lewis’s autobiography as a guide to write a complete biography, based on hundreds of interviews Walker conducted with Lewis’s family, friends, colleagues, business partners, associates, and employees.” Publisher’s Note

838. Winds Can Wake Up The Dead: (ed. Louis J. Parascandola) Eric Walrond (1898-1966), a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement, is a seminal writer of Black diasporic life, but much of his work is not readily available. This new anthology brings together a broad sampling of Walrond’s writings, including not only selections from his celebrated Tropic Death (1926) but also other stories, essays, and reviews.

839. Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness: (Edited by Barbara Bair and Susan E. Cayleff) Blair and Cayleff have produced an exciting book—one replete with the voices of women of color themselves, and fresh perspectives on American health care as both system and lived experience. The poignant and incisive essays make an essential contribution to the exploding interdisciplinary field of health studies and should be read by practitioners, teachers, and scholars alike.

840. With Heart and Hand: The Black Church Working to Save Black Children: (Susan D. Newman) This practical resource profiles ministries that have been established specifically to affect the lives of children in a positive way. Offering valuable information for pastors and church leaders alike, this resource is a must-read for those who want to make a difference in the lives of children in their community.

841. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickerson (1849-1893): (Kent Anderson Leslie) Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and economic systems of slavery and quasi-freedom in the nineteenth-century Georgia.

842. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers 1941-1965: (Vicki L Crawford, Jacqueline Ann Rouse, and Barbara Woods) This book helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles…It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight.

843. Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum: Transforming the College Classroom: With a Segment on Puerto Rican Studies: (Edited by Liza Fiol-Matta and Mariam K. Chamberlain) An extraordinarily useful collection of illuminating theoretical essays, reflections on the actual work of curricular transformation, and detailed, exemplary workshop and course syllabi. The philosophical as well as practical achievements within and across all fields are genuinely inspiring.

844. Women of the Harlem Renaissance: (Cheryl Wall) One goal of this book is to chart the journeys of the women of the Harlem Renaissance, those who succeeded in their artistic quests and some of those who did not. It examines both the journeys the journeys they traveled to create their literary texts and the journeys those texts depict.

845. Women Race & Class: (Angela Y. Davis)

846. Words of Fire: (Beverly Guy-Sheftall) Only since the seventies have black women used the term ‘feminism.’ And yet, it is that concept that Guy-Sheftall uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances W.E. Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as the late Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and bell hooks, who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century.

847. The World is Round: (Nikky Finney) “A poem, when it works, is a rolling realization of ideas and emotion that takes you somewhere you’ve never been. Nikky Finney does that for me. Every now and then, I find myself in a room with a stage and there she is, reading poiems, pulling me out of myself and bringing me home. The World Is Round opens all of my doors and windows and airs me out with a cold and truthful wind.” (Walter Mosley/back cover)

848. The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community: (Scott C. Davis) Fulton is a neighborhood on the banks of the James River in Richmond, Virginia. The houses and tenements of Fulton are old and made of wood or brick. The men and women who live here are black. Patience Gromes is 83 years old, quotes the Bible, and serves fried fish and spiced potatoes on Friday evenings. Her father was an independent farmer and businessman in the country during the worst years of segregation.

849. Worlds Apart: Race in the Modern Period: (O. R. Dathorne) This study is an attempt at exploring the extent to which textuality—the actual compilation of text in the West—is a way of owning and naming alien lands and places, peoples and property.

850. Wrapped In Rainbows: (Zora Neale Hurston)

851. Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional: Fighting the Cultural Wars in Urban America: (Robin D. G. Kelley). In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, “the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today” (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social policy to save our cities.

852. Yup the Organization: How to Succeed in Business with Savvy, Smarts, and Style: Forget what they told you in biz-school. Ask anyone who’s ever climbed the corporate ladder, today you have to be street smart and savvy to get ahead. Jim Wavada takes off the velvet gloves and shows exactly what to expect.