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Why have Blacks won political empowerment in some cities and in others remained subordinated or had their achievements rolled back?Why do some cities have many Black leaders with multi-racial appeal while other cities have none? Subordination or Empowerment answers...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-09-18
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The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem it was made worse by past and present discrimination. Or Does It Explode? examines Black Harlem from the 1920s through the Depression and New Deal to the outbreak of World War...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-03-27
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Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-02-06
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Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-01-02
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-09-26
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-04-11
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As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph,...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-12-08
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This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. Making Movies Black...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-05-20
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Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-08-15
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No one can tell us more about jazz than the musicians themselves. Unfortunately, most oral histories have limited scope--focusing on a particular era or style--and fail to capture the full, rich story of jazz. Now, in this vivid oral history, W. Royal Stokes presents...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-06-06
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These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-02-21
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An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-07-19
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An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-07-19
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This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after...
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Oxford University Press
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1989-08-17
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Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes...
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Oxford University Press
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1977-02-03
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In A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper, a scholar born into slavery, delivers one of the most powerful statements of intellectual and social emancipation in American history.
Written during the rise of Jim Crow, this collection of essays argues that education and...
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Yekri Editions
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2025-11-01
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Playing the White Man’s Games tells the extraordinary tales of Native American athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to dominate the NFL, CFL, PGA, Olympic Games, NHL and professional wrestling. From ABC's "Athlete of the Century" Jim Thorpe, whose track and field...
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J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
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2022-10-05
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Commencing by explaining how the word Ininew' refers to the phrase 'mixing of four,' Wilfred Buck embarks upon a series of dazzling stories: herein is the story of how I lived and how I died and how I lived again along with the dreams I have dreamed and the visions I...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2021-09-01
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Sharing the Land,Sharing a Future looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission’s influence on subsequent milestones in...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2021-06-11
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