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African American Studies



link to catalog page KEYES, Rap Music and Street Consciousness Author: Cheryl L. Keyes
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

Rap from its earliest roots to the present day   learn more...

link to catalog page HERRING, Skin Deep

Skin Deep

How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era

Author: Edited by Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, and Hayward Derrick Horton
Pub Date: 2004

A collection of essays questioning the truth of American’s color-blind society from outside and inside communities of color.   learn more...

link to catalog page HEWITT, Southern Discomfort

Southern Discomfort

Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s

Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Pub Date: Cloth: 2001; Paper: 2004

A historical examination of multiracial women’s activism in the cigar factories of Tampa Florida   learn more...

link to catalog page SHOCKLEY,

"We, Too, Are Americans"

African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54

Author: Megan Taylor Shockley
Pub Date: November 2004

The story of how African American women used their wartime contributions on the home front to push for increased rights to equal employment,welfare benefits, worker equity and desegration of volunteer associations during WWII. The crucible for the civil rights movement.   learn more...

link to catalog page WAETJEN, Workers and Warriors

Workers and Warriors

Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa

Author: Thembisa Waetjen
Pub Date: June 2004

Using South Africa as a case study this book explores how the politics of masculinity and gender power are at the heart of tensions in nation building   learn more...

link to catalog page KLOTMAN, African Americans in Cinema

African Americans in Cinema

The First Half Century

Author: Project director: Phyllis R. Klotman

The tracing of the history of blacks and black film in the US over the first half of the 20th Century. Includes an interactive searchable database, over 100 photographs, posters, filmclips, production stills, voiceover introductions, and a 32 page guide with suggested classroom exercieses and user instructions.   learn more...

link to catalog page MOORE, Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power Author: Leonard N. Moore
Pub Date: August 2003

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link to catalog page NASH, Charles Johnson's Fiction Author: William R. Nash
Pub Date: January 2003

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link to catalog page FRANK, Holiday Author: Waldo Frank
Pub Date: 2003

Waldo Frank’s 1923 novel "Holiday" is the compelling account of a Southern lynching presented through a white author’s modernist, experimental style. Written by a white, middle class Jewish northerner educated at Yale posing as a black man while traveling with Jean Toomer.   learn more...

link to catalog page REDDING, Making Race, Making Power

Making Race, Making Power

North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement

Author: Kent Redding
Pub Date: July 2003

The how, why, and when of black disfranchisement in the American South   learn more...

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