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The Political Economy of Underdevelopment: Dependence in Senegal

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New Introduction and Epilogue by the Author

By Clayborne Carson

Major Problems in African American History: Volume II: From Freedom to Freedom Now," 1865 - 1990s"

By Thomas C. Holt (The University of Chicago), Elsa Barkley Brown (The University of Maryland, College Park)

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By Gilbert King

Yeats and Artistic Power

By Phillip L. Marcus

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

By Jonathan Mildenhall

Slavery: History And Historians

By Peter J. Parish

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby

By Stephen Carter

The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners

By Debra J. Dickerson

Racial Domination

By Loic Wacquant

Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture

By Todd Boyd

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

By Damon Young

The Dordogne

By S. Brook, Charlie Waite

Conversations with Maya Angelou

By Jeffrey M. Elliot

Word Made Global: Stories of African Christianity in New York City

By Mark R. Gornik, Andrew F. Walls

Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence

By Karen F. Parker

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America

By Kristian Williams, Joy James (Brown University)

Fifty Shades of Feminism

By Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes

Better Day Coming: Blacks And Equality 189-2: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

By Fairclough, Adam

But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle

By Glenn T. Eskew

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Martin Luther King

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

The Book of Delights: The life-affirming New York Times bestseller

By Ross Gay

Knowing What We Know: African American Women's Experiences of Violence and Violation

By Gail Garfield

Crossing Boundaries: African American Inner City and European Migrant Youth: v. 14

By Maria I. Diedrich, Theron D. Cook, Flip Lindo

Luster: Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction

By Raven Leilani

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By Leon F. Litwack

Your History from the Beginning of Time to Present

By J. A. Rogers

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter