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African American Studies



link to catalog page PEREIRA, Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism Author: Malin Pereira
Pub Date: July 2003

First full length critical study of Dove’s body of work.   learn more...

link to catalog page EPSTEIN, Sinful Tunes and Spirituals

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals

Black Folk Music to the Civil War

Author: Dena J. Epstein
Pub Date: 2003

Classic study of black slave music in America   learn more...

link to catalog page GUTMAN, Slavery and the Numbers Game

Slavery and the Numbers Game

A Critique of Time on the Cross

Author: Herbert G. Gutman
Pub Date: 2003

A brilliant contribution to continuing debates about slavery and slave consciousness in pre-Civil War America   learn more...

link to catalog page SACKS, Way Up North in Dixie

Way Up North in Dixie

A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem

Author: Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks
Pub Date: 2003

Who really wrote the classic song “Dixie”? A white musician, or an African American family of musicians and performers?   learn more...

link to catalog page BRENNAN, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote

When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote

African-Native American Literature

Author: Edited by Jonathan Brennan
Pub Date: June 2003

An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent   learn more...

link to catalog page DASH, When Children Want Children

When Children Want Children

The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing

Author: Leon Dash
Pub Date: 2003

When Washington Post reporter Leon Dash set out to investigate the ever-lowering age of teenage parents, what he discovered shocked him: these pregnancies were almost always intentional.   learn more...

link to catalog page CHA-JUA, America's First Black Town

America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

The courageous story of the first all-Black free town in the United States   learn more...

link to catalog page KECKLEY, Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Pub Date: 2002

A slave, friend and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a proprietor with more than twenty employees of her own tells her tale   learn more...

link to catalog page FIRMIN, The Equality of the Human Races

The Equality of the Human Races

Positivist Anthropology

Author: Anténor Firmin
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page ASCHENBRENNER, Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham

Dancing a Life

Author: Joyce Aschenbrenner
Pub Date: October 2002

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