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African American Studies: Materials obtained with departmental, library-internal, replacement, reference, continuations funds, gift funds, and items given to the library. 

  • 100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia / Molefi Kete Asante Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002  Reference  E185.96 .A83 2002   
  • Act of state : the execution of Martin Luther King / William F. Pepper London [England] ; New York : Verso, 2003  General Collection  E185.97.K5 .P47 2003   
  • Africa in world politics : a Pan-African perspective / Guy Martin Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2002  General Collection  DT30.5 .M275 2000   
  • African American art and artists / Samella Lewis ; foreword by Floyd Coleman ; new introduction by Mary Jane Hewitt Berkeley [Calif.: : University of California Press, 2003  General Collection  N6538.N5 .L38 2003   
  • African American male, writing and difference : a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history / W. Lawrence Hogue Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003  General Collection  PS153.N5 .H59 2003   
  • African American studies reader / edited by Nathaniel Norment, Jr Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2001  General Collection  E184.7 .A313 2001   
  • African Americans in science, math, and invention / Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser New York, NY : Facts On File, c2003  Reference  Q141 .S6285 2003   
  • Africana studies : a survey of Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Mario Azevedo Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1998  General Collection  DT16.5 .A35 1998   
  • African-American archive : the history of the Black experience in documents / edited by Kai Wright New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., c2001  Reference  E184.6 .A33 2001  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library donated by Jean Plowden in honor of Lillian Arrants, 2002-2003
  • African-American concert dance : the Harlem Renaissance and beyond / John O. Perpener III Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, c2001  General Collection  GV1785.A1 .P47 2001   
  • African-American family in slavery and emancipation / Wilma A. Dunaway Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003  General Collection  E443 .D86 2003   
  • African-American jazz musicians in the Diaspora / Larry Ross Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c2003  General Collection  ML3509.E9 .R67 2003   
  • African-American job seeker's guide to successful employment : employment skills for the 21st century / Rebecca Enyia Phoenix, AZ : Amber Books, 2002  General Collection  HF5382.7 .E568 2002   
  • African-American religion / Albert J. Raboteau New York : Oxford University Press, c1999  Juvenile Nonfiction  277.3 R116a   
  • African-American social leaders and activists / Jack Rummel New York : Facts On File, c2003  Reference  E185.96 .R88 2003  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library donated by Gloria Kelley in memory of Paul O. Palmer, I, 2002-2003
  • Along Color line : explorations in the Black experience / August Meier and Elliott Rudwick (Blacks in the New World -- standing order) Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2002  General Collection  E185 .M39 2002   
  • Assault on diversity : an organized challenge to racial and gender justice / Lee Cokorinos ; with a foreword by Harold R. Tyler, Jr. ; and an introduction by Theodore M. Shaw Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003  General Collection  HF5549.5.A34 .C645 2003   
  • Authentically Black : essays for the Black silent majority / John McWhorter New York : Gotham Books, c2003  General Collection  E185.615 .M354 2003   
  • Beyond the river : the untold story of the heroes of the Underground Railroad / Ann Hagedorn New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002  General Collection  E450 .H165 2002   
  • Black artists of the new generation / Elton C. Fax ; foreword by Romare Bearden New York : Dodd, Mead, c1977  General Collection  N6538.N5 .F29 1977   
  • Black city cinema : African American urban experiences in film / Paula J. Massood Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003  General Collection  PN1995.9.N4 .M33 2003   
  • Black humanist experience : an alternative to religion / edited by Norm R. Allen, Jr Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003  General Collection  BL2747.6 .B54 2003   
  • Black labor, white wealth : the search for power and economic justice / Claud Anderson Bethesda, Md. : PowerNomics, c1994  General Collection  HD8081.A65 .A53 1994   
  • Black pharaohs : Egypt's Nubian rulers / Robert G. Morkot London [England] : Rubicon Press, 2000  General Collection  DT83 .M67 2000   
  • Black political organizations in the post-civil rights era / edited by Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002  General Collection  E185.615 .B5465 2002   
  • Black religious leadership from the slave community to the Million Man March : flames of fire / edited by Felton O. Best Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, c1998  General Collection  BR563.N4 .B574 1998   
  • Blood for dignity : the story of the first integrated combat unit in the U.S. Army / David Colley New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003  General Collection  D769.31 394th .C65 2003   
  • Cane River / Lalita Tademy New York : Warner Books, [2002], c2001  General Collection  PS3570.A248 .C36 2002   
  • Change is gonna come / Jacquelin Thomas Washington D.C. : BET ; 2003  General Collection  PS3576.H5637 .C53 2003   
  • Classic African American women's narratives / edited by William L. Andrews Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003  General Collection  PS647.A35 .C56 2003   
  • Colored pictures : race and visual representation / Michael D. Harris ; foreword by Moyo Okediji Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003  General Collection  N8232 .H37 2003   
  • Creative fire / by the editors of Time-Life Books Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1994  General Collection  NX512.3.A35 .A37 1994   
  • Crossing the racial divide : close friendships between Black and White Americans / Kathleen Odell Korgen Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002  General Collection  E185.625 .K647 2002   
  • Debt : what America owes to Blacks / Randall Robinson New York : Plume, 2001, c2000.  General Collection  E185.615 .R525 2001   
  • Diversifying the faculty : a guidebook for search committees / Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner Washington, DC : Association of American Colleges & Universities, c2002  General Collection  LB2332.72 .T87 2002   
  • Eleanor Holmes Norton : fire in my soul / Joan Steinau Lester as authorized by Eleanor Holmes Norton ; [foreword by Coretta Scott King] New York : Atria Books, c2003  General Collection  E840.8.N6750 .L47 2003   
  • Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2003  General Collection  E185.97.B214 .R36 2003   
  • Everything but the burden : what white people are taking from Black culture / edited by Greg Tate New York : Broadway Books, 2003  General Collection  E185.615 .E86 2003   
  • Faces at the bottom of the well : the permanence of racism / Derrick Bell New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1992  General Collection  E185.615 .B395 1992   
  • Fear no evil!!! / by Vernon Steve Weakley Houston, TX : ZWorld-Net Publishing Inc., c2002  General Collection  E185.61 .W43 2002   
  • Finding fish : a memoir / Antwone Quenton Fisher ; with Mim Eichler Rivas New York : HarperCollins, c2001  General Collection  F499.C69 .N33 2001   
  • Freedom : a photographic history of the African American struggle / text by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings ; pictures edited by Sophie Spencer-Wood London [England] ; New York : Phaidon, 2002  Oversize  E185.61 .M3 2002  Gift from the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Dorothy Medlin in Honor of Gloria Kelley 2002-2003
  • Freedom in the family : a mother-daughter memoir of the fight for civil rights / Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due New York : One World, c2003  General Collection  E185.97.D750 .D84 2003   
  • Game for all races / Henry Metcalfe New York : MetroBooks, c2000  General Collection  GV863.A1 .M48 2000   
  • Gangs : a guide to understanding street gangs / by Al Valdez San Clemente, Calif. : Law Tech Pub. Co., c1997-2000.  General Collection  HV6437 .V35 2000   
  • Gender talk : the struggle for women's equality in African American communities / Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall New York : One World/Ballantine Books, 2003  General Collection  E185.86 .C58154 2003   
  • Getting mother's body : a novel / Suzan-Lori Parks New York : Random House, c2003  General Collection  PS3566.A736 .G4 2003   
  • Global circulation of African fashion / Leslie W. Rabine Oxford [England]; New York : Berg, 2002  General Collection  TT504.6.A35 .R33 2002   
  • Global perspectives on social issues : marriage and divorce / Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein Lanham : Lexington Books, c2003  General Collection  HQ503 .S56 2003   
  • Great Negroes, past and present / by Russell L. Adams ; illustrated by Eugene Winslow ; edited by David P. Ross, Jr Chicago, Ill. : Afro-Am Pub. Co., 1984, c1969  Reference  E185.96 .A43 1984   
  • Green cathedrals : the ultimate celebration of all 271 major league and Negro league ballparks past and present / Philip J. Lowry Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1992  General Collection  GV879.5 .L68 1992   
  • Growing up King : an intimate memoir / Dexter Scott King with Ralph Wiley New York : Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books, c2003  General Collection  E185.97.K5 .K53 2003   
  • Harlem renaissance / Nathan Irvin Huggins New York, Oxford University Press, 1971  General Collection  NX512.3.N5 .H8 1971   
  • Harlem Renaissance : a Gale critical companion / foreword by Trudier Harris-Lopez ; Janet Witalec, project editor Detroit [Mich.] : Gale, c2003  Reference  PS153.N5 .H245 2003   
  • Harlem renaissance remembered : essays / edited, with a memoir, by Arna Bontemps New York : Dodd, Mead, c1972.  General Collection  PS153.N5 .B63 1972   
  • Hispanic American almanac : a reference work on Hispanics in the United States / edited by Sonia G. Benson Detroit [Mich.] : Thomson/Gale, c2003  Reference  E184.S75 .H557 2003   
  • Honoring Sergeant Carter : redeeming a Black World War II hero's legacy / Allene G. Carter and Robert L. Allen New York : Amistad, c2003  General Collection  D796.5.U6 .C36 2003   
  • How to be : contemporary etiquette for African Americans / Harriette Cole New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1999  General Collection  BJ1857.A37 .C65 1999   
  • How to supervise blacks, minorities, and women : what you should have learned in business school / by Earl H. McClenny Richmond, VA : First Associates Publishing, c1991  General Collection  HF5549 .M335 1991   
  • In her footsteps / Annette Madden New York : Gramercy Books, 2001  Reference  CT3230 .M33 2001  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library donated by Albert M. Lyles in memory of Dr. Dorothy Perry Thompson, 2002-2003
  • In the break : the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition / Fred Moten Minneapolis [Minn.]: University of Minnesota Press, c2003  General Collection  E185 .M895 2003   
  • Interracial intimacies : sex, marriage, identity, and adoption / Randall Kennedy New York : Pantheon, c2003  General Collection  KF511 .K46 2003   
  • Investing in the dream : personal wealth-building strategies for African Americans in search of financial freedom / Jesse B. Brown New York : Hyperion, c2000  General Collection  HG179 .B74646 2000   
  • Jesse Jackson : the search for common ground / by Charles Henry Oakland, CA : BlackScholar Press, c1991  General Collection  E879 .H46 1991   
  • Kiss of Judas : a novel / by Renée Allen [Bloomington, Ind.] : 1st Books Library, c2002  General Collection  PS3551.L3975 .K5 2002   
  • Lay bare the heart : an autobiography of Civil rights movement / James Farmer ; with a new preface ; foreword by Don Carleton Fort Worth [Tex.] : Texas Christian University Press, [1998]  General Collection  E185.97.F37 .A3 1998   
  • Leadership / by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1994  General Collection  E185 .A2585 1994   
  • Listen up! : spoken word poetry / edited by Zoë Anglesey New York : One World, 1999  General Collection  PS615 .L47 1999   
  • Literacy in African American communities / edited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001  General Collection  LC2731 .L59 2001   
  • Love don't come easy / Alex Hairston Washington D.C. : BET , 2003  General Collection  PS3558 .A35 2003   
  • Love no less : more than two centuries of African American love letters / [edited by] Pamela Newkirk New York : Doubleday, c2003  General Collection  PS673.L6 .L68 2003   
  • Making civil rights law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 / Mark V. Tushnet New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (1996 printing)  General Collection  KF4755 .T87 1994   
  • Malcolm X encyclopedia / edited by Robert L. Jenkins, co-edited by Mfanya Donald Tryman Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002  Reference  BP223.Z8 .L573 2002   
  • Many costs of racism / Joe R. Feagin and Karyn D. McKinney Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003  General Collection  E185.86 .F434 2003   
  • Marion Barry : the politics of race / Jonathan I.Z. Agronsky Latham, NY : British American Pub., c1991  General Collection  F201.3.B37 .A65 1991  Gift from Marcelo Fernández Zayas
  • Martin R. Delany : a documentary reader / edited by Robert S. Levine Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003  General Collection  E185.97.D33 .A3 2003   
  • Mighty like a river : the black church and social reform / Andrew Billingsley New York : Oxford University Press, c1999  General Collection  BR563.N4 .B534 1999  Gift from Dr. Hayes Mizell
  • N A A C P : History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / by Charles Flint Kellogg. Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins Press, c1967-  General Collection  E185.5.N276 .K4 1967   
  • New Arthurian encyclopedia / edited by Norris J. Lacy ; associate editors, Geoffrey Ashe ... [et al.] New York : New American Library, 1972  General Collection  PS508.N3 .C53 1972   
  • Novels of the Harlem renaissance : twelve black writers, 1923-1933 / Amritjit Singh University Park [Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1976  General Collection  PS374.N4 .S5 1976   
  • One dream or two? : justice in America and in the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Nathan W. Schlueter Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, c2002  General Collection  E185.97.K5 .S35 2002   
  • Our kind of people : inside America's Black upper class / Lawrence Otis Graham New York : HarperPerennial, 2000  General Collection  E185.86 .G64 2000  Gift from Dr. Luckett Davis
  • Pact : three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream / Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt ; with Lisa Frazier Page New York : Riverhead Books, 2002  General Collection  R695 .D38 2002   
  • Patriotism and poetry in eighteenth-century Britain / Dustin Griffin Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002  General Collection  PR555.H5 .G75 2002   
  • People's history of the United States : 1492-present / Howard Zinn New York : HarperCollins, c2003  General Collection  E178 .Z75 2003  Gift from Dr. Fred Heath
  • Perseverance / by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1993  General Collection  E185 .A259 1993   
  • Profiles in injustice : why racial profiling cannot work / David A. Harris New York : New Press, c2002  General Collection  HV8141 .H298 2002   
  • Proudly we can be Africans : Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 / James H. Meriwether Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002  General Collection  E185.61 .M56 2002   
  • Race and justice / [edited by] Rudolph Alexander, Jr Huntington, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2000  General Collection  E185 .R22 2000   
  • Race and reparations : a Black perspective for the twenty-first century / Clarence J. Munford Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c1996  General Collection  HT1581 .M86 1996   
  • Race music : black cultures from bebop to hip-hop / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, c2003  General Collection  ML3556 .R32 2003  Gift from Marcelo Fernández Zayas
  • Radical narratives of the Black Atlantic / Alan Rice London ; New York : Continuum, 2003  General Collection  E185 .R49 2003   
  • Raising America : experts, parents, and a century of advice about children / Ann Hulbert New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003  General Collection  HQ769 .H825 2003   
  • Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance : the politics of exclusion / Eloise E. Johnson New York : Garland Publishing, 1997  General Collection  NX512.3.A35 .J64 1997   
  • Reflections of African-American peace leaders : a documentary history, 1898-1967 / edited by Marvin J. Berlowitz, Erich R. Jackson, and Nathan A. Long Lewiston, NY : E. Mellen Press, c2003  General Collection  E185.89.P4 .R44 2003   
  • Rereading the Harlem renaissance : race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West / Sharon L. Jones (Standing order -- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies) Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002  General Collection  PS153.N5 .J68 2002  Gift from Marcelo Fernández Zayas
  • Right on : from blues to soul in black America / Michael Haralambos New York : Da Capo Press, 1979, c1974  General Collection  ML3556.H295 .R5 1979   
  • Rise and fall of Jim Crow / Richard Wormser New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003  General Collection  E185.61 .W935 2003   
  • Sisters in the struggle : African American women in Civil rights-black power movement / edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin New York : New York University Press, c2001  General Collection  E185.61 .S615 2001   
  • Souls of Black folk / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ; with a new introduction by Randall Kenan New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Signet Classic, 1995  General Collection  E185.6 .D797 1995   
  • Stories of freedom in Black New York / Shane White Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002  General Collection  F128.9.N4 .W48 2002   
  • Supreme Justice : speeches and writings / Thurgood Marshall ; edited by J. Clay Smith, Jr Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003  General Collection  KF213.M37 .S63 2003  Gift from the estate of Dr. William Blough Professor Emeritus Political Science
  • This far by faith : stories from the African-American religious experience / Juan Williams and Quinton Dixie New York : W. Morrow, c2003  General Collection  BR563.N4 .W513 2003  Gift from the estate of Dr. William Blough Professor Emeritus Political Science
  • Trials of Phillis Wheatley : America's first Black poet and her encounters with the founding fathers / Henry Louis Gates, Jr New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2003  General Collection  PS866.W5 .Z595 2003   
  • Triple exposure : Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s / Dexter Jeffries New York, NY : Kensington Pub., c2003  General Collection  E185.97.J44 .A3 2003   
  • Uncollected works of American author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 / Jean Toomer ; edited by John Chandler Griffin Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c2003  General Collection  PS3539.O478 .A6 2003   
  • Unknown tongues : black women's political activism in the antebellum era, 1830-1860 / Gayle T. Tate East Lansing [Mich.] : Michigan State University Press, c2003  General Collection  E185.9 .T38 2003  Gift from Marcelo Fernández Zayas
  • Violence in the lives of black women : battered, black, and blue / Carolyn M. West, editor New York : Haworth Press, c2002  General Collection  HV6250.4.W65 .V5677 2002   
  • Way out : America's ghettos and the legacy of racism / Owen Fiss ; edited by Joshua Cohen, Jefferson Decker, and Joel Rogers Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003  General Collection  HN59.2 .F574 2003   
  • We are coming : the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century Black women / Shirley Wilson Logan Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999  General Collection  E185.86 .L57 1999  Gift from Marcelo Fernández Zayas
  • When sorry isn't enough : Controversy over apologies and reparations for human injustice / edited by Roy L. Brooks New York : New York University Press, c1999  General Collection  HM671 .W48 1999   
  • Why I love black women / Michael Eric Dyson New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2003  General Collection  E185.86 .D97 2003   
  • Working classes, global realities / cedited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys ; with Greg Albo and David Coates London [England] : Merlin Press ; Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood ; New York : Monthly Review Press, 2000  General Collection  HD4901 .W67 2000  Gift from Marcelo Fernández Zayas
  • Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations / Sharla M. Fett Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002  General Collection  RA448.5.N4 .F48 2002   
  • Zeitgeist Films presents Lumumba [videorecording] / Jacques Bidou ; JBA Production ; Entre Chien et Loup ; Essential Filmproduktion GmbH ... [et al.] ; writers, Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer ; producer, Jacques Bidou ; director, Raoul Peck. [New York, N.Y.] : Zeitgeist Films, [2001?].  General Collection  DT658.2.L85 .L86 2001  Gift from Gloria Kelley
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