African American History

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Black Power Praxis

Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement

By Matt Birkhold
Subjects: African American Studies, History, African American History, Cultural Studies, Activism

A close look at how social movements rise and fall

We Rode the Rhythms as One

On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight

Edited by Norman Minnick
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American History
Series: Under Discussion

Believing in the transformative power of the spoken word

Reimagining the Educated Citizen

Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896

By Petra Munro Hendry
Subjects: History, African American History, Caribbean Studies

A radical egalitarian vision of the transatlantic, creole roots of American public education

Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties

Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, History, African American History, Literary Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans

The Captive Stage

Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

By Douglas A. Jones
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, History, American History, African American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

The Black Musician and the White City

Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967

By Amy Absher
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, American Studies, History, American History, Urban Studies, Sociology, African American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

James Baldwin

America and Beyond

By Bill Schwarz & Cora Kaplan
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, African American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields

Politics in the Pews

The Political Mobilization of Black Churches

By Eric McDaniel
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Religion, American Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Examines the factors underlying the political mobilization of Black churches

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

Mark One or More

Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Spatial Politics, Public Policy and Governance
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

Racial Union

Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954

By Julie Lavonne Novkov
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, African American Studies, American Studies, History, American History, African American History, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology

A stunning exploration of America's attitudes on interracial marriage

Reform and Revolution in China

The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei

By Joseph Esherick
Subjects: History, African American History, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Explains how reforms in the late Qing dynasty indirectly amplified the social forces that brought about the Revolution of 1911

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