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Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents

By Ronald T. Takaki (Professor of Ethnic Studies, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley)

African Labor History

Facing the Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa

By Tim Keegan

A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

By Laurent Dubois

Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Robin Law, Paul E. Lovejoy

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

By Barbara Thompson

Controlling Anger: Sociology of Gisu Violence

By Suzette Heald

The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854

By Norman Etherington

Politics of Agriculture in Tropical Africa

Politics of Agriculture in Tropical Africa

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

A Black Parent's Handbook to Educating Your Children: Outside of the Classroom

By Baruti K Kafele, Evan Dawes, Haneef Akbar

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

By Georgina Lawton

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968

By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

The Mis-Education of the Negro

By Carter G Woodson

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By James McBride

Reel To Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

By Bell Hooks (Berea College, USA)

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

One Hundred Years of Lynchings

By Ralph Ginzburg

The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972

By Ibram X. Kendi

Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations: Shadow at the Heart of American Politics

By J. Flax

Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century

By A. Craven

Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By M. Borgstrom

The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

By E. Hinton

Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing

By B. Talton, Q. Mills

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa

By Lamin O. Sanneh

Identity in the Shadow of Slavery

By Paul E. Lovejoy

Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction

By N. Rousseau

The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

By E. Hinton