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Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

By National Museum of African American History and

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

By William C. Van Norman

African Americans and Africa: A New History

By Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

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

By Mary Turner

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

By Shane White, Graham White

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

By Lamin O. Sanneh

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

By B. Talton, Q. Mills

The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

By E. Hinton

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

By Ibram X. Kendi

The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

By E. Hinton

Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction

By N. Rousseau

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions

By Joseph Mensah

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

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

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

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

By Solomon Northup

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968

By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne

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

By Margot Lee Shetterly

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

By Norman Etherington

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

By Laurent Dubois

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

By Tim Keegan

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

By Hirsch, Jerrold

Life in Tanzania Today and Since the Sixties

By Ndembwike, John

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Taylor Branch

Black Panthers 1968

By Howard L. Bingham

Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-colonial Kenya

By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in the Black Community Edition: Reprint

By Carol B. Stack

Culture in Africa: An Appeal for Pluralism: No. 29. (Seminar Proceedings)

By Granqvist, Raoul J.

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at

By Delmont, Matthew F.