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Barack Obama, Post-Racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation

By Terry Smith

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

Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents

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

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

By Wil Haygood

Forced Removal: Control, Division and Segregation of the People in South Africa

By Elaine Unterhalter

Black Soul, White Artifact: Fanon's Clinical Psychology and Social Theory

By Jock McCulloch

Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions

By Joseph Mensah

Kintu

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Aaron Bady

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba

By William C. Van Norman

The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech

By Shane White, Graham White

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas

By Mary Turner

The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power

By Alex De Waal

African Americans and Africa: A New History

By Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Vintage)

By Genovese, Eugene D.

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

By Lamin O. Sanneh