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American Nightmare
The History of Jim Crow
Jerrold M. Packard
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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with...
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American Slavery
1619-1877
Peter Kolchin; 10th-Anniversary Edition; With a New Preface and Afterword
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American Slavery
achieves the nearly impossible—synthesizing the voluminous, contentious, and often conflicting scholarship about slavery in the United States from its inception in the seventeenth century to its demise two and a half centuries later . . . An unsurpassed survey of slavery for our times."—
Michael P. Johnson,
The Journal of Southern History
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Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
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Winner of the National Book Award
"Masterful . . . An important, scholarly work . . . The writing is graceful [and] it endows the story with the majesty and consequence of an epic . . . This is the kind of book that causes students to major in history."—
Paul Butler,
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The Big Sea
An Autobiography
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
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Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two...
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The Burning
Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Tim Madigan
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"A powerful book, a harrowing case study made all the more so by Madigan's skillful, clear-eyed telling of it."—
Adam Nossiter,
The New York Times Book Review
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang; Introduction by DJ Kool Herc
Picador
"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—
The New Yorker
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Children of Fire
A History of African Americans
Thomas C. Holt
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“A brilliant, sweeping portrait of Afro-American history that transports the reader from the first arrival of slaves in Virginia in 1619 to the election of President Barack Obama. Like Alex Haley’s
Roots
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Children of Fire
is a monumental work that should be required reading for every American.”—
William Ferris, Professor of History, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
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The Clamorgans
One Family’s History of Race in America
Julie Winch
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The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America...
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Coltrane
The Story of a Sound
Ben Ratliff
Picador
“Ratliff suggests, intelligently and persuasively, that Coltrane had, among other attributes, a 'mystic's sensitivity for the sublime, which runs like a secret river under American culture.' Ratliff patiently explicates Coltrane's legend, writing in short, aphoristic bursts, often as elliptically as his subject played tenor saxophone, but never less than lucidly.”—
Pankaj Mishra,
The New York Times Book Review
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Dark Bargain
Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution
Lawrence Goldstone
Walker & Company
Lawrence Goldstone throws new light on the framing of the U. S. Constitution in this intriguing chronicle of the Constitutional debates, bringing to life the...
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David Walker's Appeal
David Walker; New Introduction by Sean Wilentz
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David Walker's Appeal is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century....
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The Day Freedom Died
The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
Charles Lane
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"A former Supreme Court reporter for
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, [Lane] is perfectly comfortable with the play of politics and the intricacies of the law. So while he builds an absorbing narrative of events in Colfax—his chapter on the massacre itself is riveting—he's careful to frame them within the political wars then raging in New Orleans and Washington . . . he manages to turn the case,
United States v. Cruikshank
, into a legal thriller, complete with crusading lawyers, courtroom confrontations and soaring declarations of principle . . . Colfax's whites dedicated the monument to their dead on a drab day in the spring of 1921. By then white supremacy was so firmly entrenched it had become a point of pride, something to celebrate in stone. And the town's whites undoubtedly thought it just as well not to mention the bones buried in unmarked graves around the Colfax courthouse. The time for silence has long since passed. Colfax will probably never build an obelisk to honor the massacre's victims. But with his gripping book, Charles Lane has given them a memorial every bit as imposing."—
Kevin Boyle,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Devil's Own Work
The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
Schecter, Barnet
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On July 13, 1863, the largest riots in American history broke out on the streets of New York City, nearly destroying in four days the financial, industrial,...
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Reissued Edition
James Baldwin; Foreword by Derrick Bell with Janey Dewary Bell
Holt Paperbacks
This edition of a classic work by one of America’s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback...
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Family Properties
How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
Beryl Satter
Picador
"The historian and the storyteller in Ms. Satter are never at war with each other.
Family Properties
is so packed with the horrors visited upon black families in Chicago from the 1940s through the 1970s that you will want to walk outside every 15 pages or so and simply scream in outrage. Yet her tone throughout is dispassionate. She is at heart a historian, not a memoirist. And she is a vertiginously good one. Her book is transfixing from its first sentence . . . the pleasures here are deep and resonant ones.
Family Properties
feels like something close to an instant classic."—
Dwight Garner,
The New York Times
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The Great Negro Plot
A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York
Mat Johnson
Bloomsbury USA
In 1741, New York City was thrown into an uproar when a sixteen-year-old white woman, an indentured servant named Mary Burton, testified that she was privy to...
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Hair Story
Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps
St. Martin's Griffin
Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. ...
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The Hairstons
An American Family in Black and White
Henry Wiencek
St. Martin's Griffin
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several...
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Hotter Than That
The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
Krin Gabbard
Faber and Faber, Inc.
“This is the smartest book about a single musical instrument that I've ever read. Like Miles Davis, who attended Juilliard and apprenticed with Charlie Parker, Krin Gabbard turns his immense learning into lines that are quick, witty, and irresistibly alluring. How did the trumpet emerge as the first-chair instrument in jazz history? What is this beautiful horn's significance as an instrument of desire and romance? A triumph of the new jazz studies,
Hotter than That
is for all who play music (especially for all trumpeters), and for all who are yearning for an enriched understanding of what and how the music called jazz means.”—
Robert G. O'Meally, author of
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
and founder of The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University
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I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
Hill and Wang
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land
A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Karolyn Smardz Frost
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"Karolyn Smardz Frost's superb research has produced a wonderful account of the underground railroad, elevating Thornton and Lucy Blackburn to their rightful place in the dramatic story of pre-Civil War slave resistance, abolition, and African American life on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. This finely detailed account depicts a truly international antislavery movement."—
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, coauthors of
Slavery and the Making of America
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Hard Road to Freedom
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An Imperfect God
George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Henry Wiencek
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"[An] honest and compelling study of Washington and slavery . . . In Wiencek's superb telling, [slavery] certainly makes Washington more of a traditional planter than we have usually been willing to admit . . . Wiencek tells stories of miscegenation and incest in the Washington household that rival anything William Faulkner imagined."—
Gordon S. Wood,
The New York Times Book Review
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Islam's Black Slaves
The Other Black Diaspora
Ronald Segal
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A comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the...
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King
Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
Harvard Sitkoff
Hill and Wang
“A marvelous read and striking achievement! This engrossing and perceptive biography offers a balanced yet critical analysis of both Martin Luther King Jr. and his epochal times in their full complexity.”—
Waldo Martin, U.C. Berkeley, author of
No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America
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