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fy2004-2005: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005

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

  • Affirmative action : an encyclopedia / edited by James A. Beckman Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004  Reference  HF5549.5.A34 .A426 2004   
  • African American dramatists : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.  Reference  PS338.N4 .A69 2004   
  • African American fraternities and sororities : the legacy and the vision / edited by Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, Clarenda M. Phillips Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005  General Collection  LJ31 .A47 2005   
  • African Americans and political participation : a reference handbook / Minion K.C. Morrison, editor ; foreword by Bennie Gordon Thompson. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2003.  Reference  E185 .A2538 2003  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Gloria Owens Crank in Memory of Dr. Ross Webb 2004-2005
  • African Americans in the visual arts / Steven Otfinoski New York : Facts on File, c2003  Reference  N6538.N5 .O86 2003  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Sandra L. Hardie 2004-2005
  • African studies for the 21st century / Jacob U. Gordon, editor New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2004  General Collection  DT19.8 .A359 2004   
  • Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005  Reference  DT14 .A37435 2005   
  • African-American political leaders / Charles W. Carey, Jr. New York : Facts On File, c2004.  Reference  E185.96 .C18 2004  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Daniel S. Davis in Honor of Evan H. Davis 2004-2005
  • African-American writers / Philip Bader New York : Facts On File, c2004  Reference  PS153.N5 .B214 2004  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Frances Case in Memory of Rosa T. Hambright 2004-2005
  • After Brown : the rise and retreat of school desegregation / Charles T. Clotfelter Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004  General Collection  LC214.2 .C56 2004   
  • Alice Walker : a life / Evelyn C. White. New York : Norton, c2004.  General Collection  PS3573.A425 .Z93 2004   
  • All deliberate speed : reflections on the first half century of Brown v. Board of Education / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2004  General Collection  KF4757 .O35 2004   
  • American smooth : poems / Rita Dove New York : W.W. Norton, c2004  General Collection  PS3554.O884 .A77 2004   
  • And it don't stop? : the best American hip-hop journalism of the last 25 years / edited by Raquel Cepeda ; foreword by Nelson George. New York : Faber and Faber, 2004.  General Collection  ML3531 .A53 2004   
  • Autobiographies by Americans of color, 1995-2000 : an annotated bibliography / Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi & Rebecca Stuhr Albany, N.Y. : Whitston Pub. Co., 2003  Reference  CT220.B1 .I93 2003  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Allen D. Edwards in Honor of Dr. Polly Ford 2004-2005
  • Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves / edited by Belinda Hurmence. Winston-Salem, N.C. : J.F. Blair, c1989 (2002 printing).  General Collection  E445.S7 .B44 1989  Replacement for lost & paid item
  • A black and white case : how affirmative action survived its greatest legal challenge / Greg Stohr Princeton [N.J.] : Bloomberg Press, 2004  General Collection  KF228.G78 .S76 2004   
  • Black congressmen during Reconstruction : a documentary sourcebook / edited by Stephen Middleton ; foreword by John David Smith. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2002.  Reference  E185.6 .B623 2002   
  • Black lenses, Black voices : African American film now / Mark A. Reid Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005  General Collection  PN1995.9.N4 .R43 2005   
  • The black O : racism and redemption in an American corporate empire / Steve Watkins. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1997.  General Collection  HD8081.A65 .W38 1997  Gift From: Publisher
  • Black women in America / Darlene Clark Hine, editor in chief New York : Oxford University Press, 2005  Reference Collection  E185.86 .B542 2005   
  • The Brevard Rosenwald School : Black education and community building in a southern Appalachian town, 1920-1966 / Betty Jamerson Reed. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.  General Collection  LC2852.B73 .R44 2004   
  • Bright boulevards, bold dreams : the story of Black Hollywood / Donald Bogle. New York : One World Ballantine Books, 2005.  General Collection  PN1995.9.N4 .B59 2005   
  • Brown v. Board of Education at fifty : a rhetorical perspective / edited by Clarke Rountree. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2004.  General Collection  KF4155 .B7583 2004   
  • Bullwhip days : the slaves remember : an oral history / edited and with an introduction by James Mellon. New York, NY : Grove Press, c1988.  General Collection  E444 .B95 1988  Replacement for lost & paid item
  • Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature / Valerie Sweeney Prince New York : Columbia University Press, c2005  General Collection  PS374.N4 .P75 2005   
  • Buying whiteness : race, culture, and identity from Columbus to Hip Hop / Gary Taylor. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.  General Collection  PR408.R34 .T39 2005   
  • Changing channels : the civil rights case that transformed television / Kay Mills. Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.  General Collection  KF228.U53 .M55 2004   
  • Civil rights chronicle : the African-American struggle for freedom / primary consultant, Clayborne Carson ; writers, Mark Bauerlein ... [et al.] ; foreword, Myrlie Evers-Williams, ; introduction, Clayborne Carson. Lincolnwood, Ill. : Legacy, c2003.  Reference  E185.61 .C5918 2003  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Jerry and Carole Padgett in Honor of Lydia Padgett 2004-2005
  • Colin Powell : a biography / Richard Steins Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003  General Collection  E840.8.P64 S74 2003   
  • The colors of courage : Gettysburg's forgotten history : immigrants, women, and African Americans in the Civil War's defining battle / Margaret S. Creighton. New York : Basic Books, c2005.  General Collection  E475.53 .C89 2005   
  • Cultures of human development and education : challenge to growing up African / A. Bame Nsamenang New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2004  General Collection  HQ792.A35 N73 2004   
  • Defending diversity : affirmative action at the University of Michigan / Patricia Gurin ... [et al.] ; introduction by Nancy Cantor ; afterword by Mary Sue Coleman Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan Press, c2004  General Collection  LB2351.2 .D43 2004   
  • Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech / Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.  General Collection  PS153.N5 .M56 2004   
  • Empowerment time in America : keynote address / by Marc H. Morial New York : National Urban League, c2003  General Collection  E185.5 .N3173 2003  Received with The State of Black America (2004)
  • An encyclopedia of African American Christian heritage / Marvin A. McMickle ; forewords by Cain Hope Felder and J. Alfred Smith, Sr. Valley Forge, PA : Judson Press, c2002.  Reference  BR563.N4 .M353 2002  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Gloria Kelley in Memory of Dr. Dot Thompson 2004-2005
  • The encyclopedia of African American military history / William Weir ; foreword by Molefi Kete Asante ; preface by Lloyd Newton Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004  Reference  UB418.A47 .W45 2004   
  • Encyclopedia of African history and culture / Willie F. Page, editor ; revised edition by R. Hunt Davis, Jr., editor New York : Facts On File, c2005  Reference  DT3 .P27 2005   
  • Encyclopedia of Black studies / editors, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2005.  Reference  E185 .E554 2005   
  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance / Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman, editors. New York : Routledge, 2004.  Reference  NX512.3.A35 .E53 2004   
  • Every time I feel the Spirit : religious experience and ritual in an African American church / Timothy J. Nelson New York : New York University Press, c2005  General Collection  BR563.N4 .N454 2005   
  • Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress / edited by Jean Allman. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.  General Collection  GT1580 .F37 2004   
  • Flight : the story of Virgil Richardson, a Tuskegee airman in Mexico / by Ben Vinson. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  General Collection  E745 .V56 2004   
  • Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War / edited by Donald Yacovone Chicago [Ill] : Lawrence Hill Books, c2004  General Collection  E540.N3 .F73 2004   
  • From Panthers to Promise Keepers : rethinking the men's movement / Judith Newton Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005  General Collection  HQ1090.3 .N493 2005   
  • From the grassroots to the Supreme Court : Brown v. Board of Education and American democracy / Peter F. Lau, editor Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004  General Collection  KF4155 .F76 2004   
  • The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century / Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek, editors ; Thomas Adams Upchurch, associate editor ; foreword by David J. Garrow Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003  Reference  E185.61 .E54 2003   
  • He shall go out free : the lives of Denmark Vesey / Douglas R. Egerton Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004  General Collection  F279.C49 .N423 2004   
  • How to run your school successfully / Adrian Percival and Susan Tranter London [England] ;New York : Continuum, c2004  General Collection  LB2901 .P47 2004   
  • A Hubert Harrison reader / edited with introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2001  General Collection  E185.6 .H28 2001   
  • Human rights in Africa : from the OAU to the African Union / Rachel Murray Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004  General Collection  KQC572 .M87 2004   
  • The illustrated Souls of Black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois ; edited and annotated by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. ; with a foreword by Manning Marable Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, 2005  General Collection  E185.6 .D797 2005   
  • Langston Hughes : a biography / Laurie F. Leach Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004  General Collection  PS3515.U274 Z676 2004   
  • Latino and African American athletes today : a biographical dictionary / edited by David L. Porter. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.  Reference  GV697.A1 .L345 2004  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library Donated by Gale Teaster 2004-2005
  • Malcolm : the life of a man who changed Black America / Bruce Perry Barrytown, N.Y. : Station Hill ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Talman Co., c1991  General Collection  BP223.Z8 .L5766 1991  Replacement for lost & paid item
  • My heroes, my people : African Americans and Native Americans in the West / portraits by Morgan Monceaux ; text by Morgan Monceaux and Ruth Katcher New York : Frances Foster Books, 1999  Juvenile Collection  920 M737m   
  • New day begun : African American churches and civic culture in post-civil rights America / edited by R. Drew Smith Durham [N.C.} : Duke University Press, 2003  General Collection  BR563.N4 .N46 2003   
  • The new mainstream : how the multicultural consumer is transforming American business / Guy Garcia New York : Rayo, c2004  General Collection  HC110.C6 .G34 2004   
  • Open my eyes, open my soul : celebrating our common humanity / created by Yolanda King and Elodia Tate New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004  General Collection  HM1271 .O63 2004   
  • Parenting children with ADHD : 10 lessons that medicine cannot teach / Vincent J. Monastra. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2005.  General Collection  RJ506.H9 .M65 2005   
  • People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music / Robert Darden. New York : Continuum, 2004.  General Collection  ML3187 .D37 2004   
  • Prophets of the hood : politics and poetics in hip hop / Imani Perry Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004  General Collection  ML3531 .P47 2004   
  • Radio and the struggle for civil rights in the South / by Brian Ward. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.  General Collection  PN1991.8.A35 .W37 2004   
  • Remember : the journey to school integration / Toni Morrison. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.  Juvenile Collection  370.19 M834r   
  • Reparations for slavery : a reader / edited by Ronald P. Salzberger and Mary C. Turck. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.  General Collection  E185.89.R45 .R475 2004   
  • Rethinking the rise and fall of apartheid : South Africa and world politics / Adrian Guelke Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005  General Collection  DT1757 .G84 2005   
  • The rise, fall, and legacy of apartheid / P. Eric Louw. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.  General Collection  DT1757 .L683 2004   
  • Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.  General Collection  PS663.N4 .S39 2005   
  • Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism / Harvey Fireside ; introduction by Marc H. Morial New York : Carroll & Graf, 2004  General Collection  KF223.P56 .F57 2004   
  • Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform / Derrick Bell Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004  General Collection  KF4155 .B38 2004   
  • A taste of power : a black woman's story / Elaine Brown New York : Anchor Books, 1994  Archives: Special Collections  E185.97.B866 .A3 1994   
  • To hell and back : race and betrayal in the southern novel / Jeff Abernathy Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2003  General Collection  PS261 .A38 2003   
  • The unfinished agenda of Brown v. Board of Education / the editors of Black issues in higher education with James Anderson and Dara N. Byrne Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley & Sons, c2004  General Collection  KF4155 .U54 2004   
  • A voice from the Civil Rights era / Frankye Regis Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004  Juvenile Collection  323 R337v   
  • Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall Chapel Hill [N.Y.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2005  General Collection  PS374.N4 .W354 2005   
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