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Michelle Adams

The Containment

"A history of post-Brown school desegregation in Detroit, with a focus on Milliken v. Bradley"--

Jared E Alcántara

The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson

The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson remains one of the most important but least known figures of twentieth-century African American Christian history. In this book, Jared E. Alcántara sets out a definitive aca…

Alice Randall

My Black Country

From Vanderbilt Professor, award-winning songwriter, novelist, and author Alice Randall comes a lyrical account of the unrecognized group of Black musicians known as First Family of Black Country alongsid…

Say Burgin

Organizing Your Own

"The untold story of how white activists in Detroit heeded Black Power's call for them to organize against racism in white communities"--

Davida Siwisa James

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill explores four centuries of colonization, urban development, and architectural splendor in this historic landmark West Harlem neighborhood. Home to Alexander Hamilton's coun…

Bell Hooks

Art on My Mind

The canonical work of cultural criticism by the "profoundly influential critic" (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Thomas …

Cedric De Leon

Freedom Train

"Freedom Train is a timely contribution to our understanding of the role of Black labor activism in advancing the movement for racial and economic justice. Cedric de Leon complicates the popular narrative…

Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal

Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

American History X (Blu-ray)

Zum Inhalt des Films: Nach der Ermordung seines Vaters sucht Derek Vergeltung, er beteiligt sich an rassistischen Anschlägen. Eines Tages enden diese mit einem brutalen Mord. Derek kommt für drei Jahre …

Mark Christian

Frederick Douglass

"Chronicling Frederick Douglass's life in an accessible way, this biography engages with history and wrestles with biases, falsehoods, and unknown facts in order to tell Douglass's story as accurately as …

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visionar…

Jerry Izenberg

Larry Doby in Black and White

When people think of baseball trailblazers, their minds immediately go to Jackie Robinson. He was the man who broke the color barrier, appearing in 1947 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and would go on to a Hall…

Jori Lewis

Slaves for Peanuts

Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize "Slaves for Peanuts plumbs a fascinating and disturbing slice of history, shining a light o…

Patricia Williams Dockery

Abolition and the African American Story

Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: how Abraham Lincoln defeated the Confederacy to end slavery, but the truth involves a vast network of abolitionists who would keep fighting for freedom …

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David Greenberg

John Lewis

New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024 Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,” through…

Dionne Brand

Salvage

"Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not"--

David Greenberg

John Lewis

"A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, 'the conscience of the Congress,' drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of…

The Residents

Cube-E Box: The History Of American Music In 3 E - Z Pieces

1987 starteten The Residents ihr größtes Live Projekt: »Cube-E - The History Of American Music In 3 E-Z Pieces«. Der Titel war Programm - die Kultband wollte nicht weniger als die Geschichte der amerikani…