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Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000

By Christine Woyshner, Chara Haeussler Bohan

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

A Katherine Mansfield Chronology

By R. Norburn

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

By C. Rojek, S. Shaw, A. Veal

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Halle Berry

By Daniel O'Brien

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

By Stephen Oates

Priest in Prison: Four Years of Life in Japanese-occupied Singapore, 1941-45

By John Hayter

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Voltaire in Love

By Nancy Mitford

Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel

By Kate Grenville

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Paul Robeson

By Martin Bauml Duberman

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions

By U. Kockel, M. Nic Craith, Kenneth A. Loparo

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

By Wil Haygood

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood