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The Harvest of American Racism

The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967

Edited by Robert Shellow
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Political History

In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties

Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, History, African American History, Class Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans

The Captive Stage

Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

By Douglas A. Jones
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, History, American History, African American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

The Black Musician and the White City

Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967

By Amy Absher
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, American Studies, History, American History, Urban Studies, Sociology, African American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex

Race, Madness, Activism

By Tony Perucci
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

James Baldwin

America and Beyond

By Bill Schwarz & Cora Kaplan
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, African American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields

Mark One or More

Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Law, Law and Society, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Urban Politics, Public Policy
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

Grassroots at the Gateway

Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Political Science, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Brian Soss, and Richard Carl Fording
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Methodology, African American Studies, History, American History

A searching and succinct restatement of the many ways race and American racial attitudes affect how we talk about the poor--and how we handle the problem of poverty relief

Faith in the City

Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit

By Angela Denise Dillard
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies, American Studies, Religion, Michigan and the Great Lakes

A milestone study of religion's place in Detroit's protest communities, from the 1930s to the 1960s

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

Let Me Live

By Angelo Herndon
Introduction by Marlon Ross
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History, Labor History, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s

Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

New Edition

By August Meier & Elliott Rudwick
Foreword by Joseph William Trotter
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Class Studies, American Studies

A classic of labor history, with a new foreword by one of the leading figures in urban studies

Defending Diversity

Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan

By Patricia Gurin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Earl Lewis, Eric L. Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin
Subjects: Education, Law, African American Studies, History, American History

The first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong

The Black Female Body in American Culture

Edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination

A Colored Man Round the World

By David Dorr
Edited by Malini Johar Schueller
Subjects: African American Studies, History, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Diaspora Studies

London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

Revised Edition

Revised Edition

Edited by Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Gender Studies, History, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, American Studies

A new edition of the extraordinary autobiography of a black woman who escaped slavery in the West Indies

Ralph J. Bunche

Selected Speeches and Writings

Edited by Charles P. Henry
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, American History, American Politics, African American Studies

Restores the forgotten legacy of a leader for peace

Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915

Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington

1st Edition

By August Meier
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks
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