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 | The Power of Black Music; Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United StatesBold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it...On Sale |
 | Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance'Mr. Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum...On Sale |
 | Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie HolidayDavis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American...On Sale |
 | The New NegroThe New NegroOn Sale |
 | Rising Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America'(This) gripping account of the mammoth flooding of 1927 that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana and sent political shock waves to Washington . . . is a brilliant match of scholarship and investigative journalism'.--Jason Berry, 'Chicago Tribune'.On Sale |
 | Black Corona - Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban CommunityIn Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are 'socially disorganized'....On Sale |
 | The Myth of the Negro PastIn his unprecedented study of black history and culture, Herskovits reveals a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and the arts of the Americas.On Sale |
| The Power of Black Music; Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United StatesBold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it...On Sale |
| Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance'Mr. Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum...On Sale |
| Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie HolidayDavis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American...On Sale |
| The New NegroThe New NegroOn Sale |
| Black Corona - Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban CommunityIn Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are 'socially disorganized'....On Sale |
| The Myth of the Negro PastIn his unprecedented study of black history and culture, Herskovits reveals a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and the arts of the Americas.On Sale |
 | The Strengths of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years LaterThe Strengths of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years LaterOn Sale |
 | He Shall Go Out Free : The Lives of Denmark VeseyEgerton (history, Le Moyne College) presents a biography of Denmark Vesey, most famous for his doomed 1822 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina. The work goes beyond the planning of the rebellion to look at the entire life of Vesey and, by extension,...On Sale |
| The Strengths of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years LaterThe Strengths of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years LaterOn Sale |
 | Canaan Land : A Religious History of African AmericansOffers insight into the history of African American religious traditions in the United States.On Sale |
 | Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary ChristianityProphesy Deliverance! is vintage West at his best. In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provided readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based large in part to his own political and cultural perspectives which were borne...On Sale |
 | African-American Odyssey, The: Combined EditionThis book is the first comprehensive survey of the African-American experience. It draws on recent research to present black history in a clear and direct manner, within a broad social, cultural, and political framework. Life in sixteenth-century Africa,...On Sale |
| Canaan Land : A Religious History of African AmericansOffers insight into the history of African American religious traditions in the United States.On Sale |
