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fy2006-2007: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007

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

  • Acolytes / Nikki Giovanni New York : William Morrow, c2007  General Collection  PS3557.I55 .A63 2007   
  • African American family life : ecological and cultural diversity / edited by Vonnie C. McLoyd, Nancy E. Hill, Kenneth A. Dodge New York : Guilford Press, 2005  General Collection  E185.86 .D585 2005   
  • African American lives [videorecording] / a film by Kunhardt Productions executive producers, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William R. Grant, Peter W. Kunhardt written by Henry Louis Gates. Jr. a production of Kunhardt Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET. Alexandria, Va. : PBS Home Video Hollywood, Calif. : distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, 2006.  General Collection  E185.96 .A37 2006   
  • African American perspectives on political science / edited by Wilbur C. Rich with a foreword by Charles V. Hamilton Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007  General Collection  JA76 .A355 2007   
  • African-American holidays, festivals, and celebrations : the history, customs, and symbols associated with both traditional and contemporary religious and secular events observed by Americans of African descent / by Kathlyn Gay foreword by Jean Currie Church introduction by Jessie Carney Smith Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2007  Reference   GT4803.A2 .G39 2007  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library donated by Dorothy Medlin in memory of James Calvin Kelley Sr. 2006
  • Assata : an autobiography / Assata Shakur [forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox S. Hinds] Chicago, Ill. : L. Hill Books, c2001  General Collection  E185.97.S53 .A3 2001   
  • The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream / Barack Obama New York : Crown Publishers, c2006  General Collection  E901.1.O23 .A3 2006   
  • Barbara Jordan : speaking the truth with eloquent thunder / edited by Max Sherman Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007  General Collection  E838.5 .J6735 2007   
  • Beautiful-ugly : African and diaspora aesthetics / edited by Sarah Nuttall Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press ; The Hague : Prince Claus Fund Library, 2006  General Collection  BH221.A353 .B43 2006   
  • Being Sugar Ray : the life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's greatest boxer and first celebrity athlete / Kenneth Shropshire New York, NY : BasicCivitas, c2007  General Collection  GV1132.R6 .S57 2007   
  • Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults New York, NY : Routledge, 2007  Reference   PN1009.A1 .M87 2007   
  • The black digital elite : African American leaders of the information revolution / John T. Barber Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006  General Collection  E185.615 .B297 2006   
  • Black girl/white girl : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates New York : Ecco, c2006  General Collection  PS3565.A8 .B46 2006   
  • Black Muslim religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 / Edward E. Curtis IV Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006  General Collection  BP221 .B864 2006   
  • Black Panther: the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas / preface by Danny Glover foreword by Bobby Seale edited and with an introduction by Sam Durant contributions by Sonia Sanchez ... [et al.] New York, NY : Rizzoli, 2007  Oversize   N6538.N5 .B53 2007   
  • The Black Panthers : photographs / by Stephen Shames foreword by Bobby Seale essay by Charles E. Jones New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c2006  General Collection  E185.615 .S43 2006   
  • Blue skies, black wings : African American pioneers of aviation / Samuel L. Broadnax ; foreword by Alan M. Osur Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007  General Collection  TL539 .B75 2007   
  • A class of their own : Black teachers in the segregated South / Adam Fairclough Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007  General Collection  LC2802.S9 .F35 2006   
  • The concise Oxford companion to African American literature / editors, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris New York : Oxford University Press, 2001  Reference   PS153.N5 .C59 2001   
  • Conversations with Sonia Sanchez / edited by Joyce A. Joyce Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2007  General Collection  PS3569.A468 .Z63 2007   
  • The curse of caste, or, The slave bride : a rediscovered African American novel / by Julia C. Collins edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun Oxford, [England] New York : Oxford University Press, 2006  General Collection  PS1359.C563 .C65 2006   
  • Democratic reform in Africa : its impact on governance & poverty alleviation / edited by Muna Ndulo Oxford [England] : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2006  General Collection  JQ1879.A15 .D39 2006   
  • Diversity in early care and education : honoring differences / Janet Gonzalez-Mena Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2008  General Collection  HQ778.63 .G66 2008   
  • The dream long deferred : the landmark struggle for desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina / Frye Gaillard Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2006  General Collection  LC214.523.C48 .G35 2006   
  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America / Sylviane A. Diouf Oxford, [England] New York : Oxford University Press, 2007  General Collection  E445.A3 .D56 2007   
  • The educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad : education for a new world / Abul Pitre Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2007  General Collection  LC2731 .P58 2007   
  • Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas / Colin A. Palmer, editor in chief Detroit [Mich.] : Macmillan Reference USA, c2006  Reference   E185 .E54 2006   
  • Escape on the Pearl : the heroic bid for freedom on the Underground Railroad / Mary Kay Ricks New York : William Morrow, c2007  General Collection  E445.D6 .R53 2007   
  • Eyes on the prize [videorecording] : America's civil rights movement / a production of Blackside, Inc. PBS WGBH Boston creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton series writer, Steven Fayer. Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 2006.  General Collection  E185.61 .E94 2006   
  • The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution / Gary B. Nash Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006  General Collection  E269.N3 .N36 2006   
  • From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice / Thomas F. Jackson Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007  General Collection  E185.97.K5 .J34 2007   
  • From oppression to grace : women of color and their dilemmas in the academy / edited by Theodorea Regina Berry and Nathalie D. Mizelle Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2006  General Collection  LC212.82 .F76 2006   
  • George Washington Carver : ingenious inventor / by Nathan Olson illustrated by Keith Tucker Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2006  Juvenile Collection   C256o   
  • The Gospel remix : reaching the hip hop generation / Ralph C. Watkins, with Jason A. Barr, Jr. ... [et al.] Valley Forge : Judson Press, c2007  General Collection  BV4468.2.A34 .W38 2007   
  • Hoodlum [videorecording] / United Artists Pictures presents a Frank Mancuso production a Bill Duke film MGM/UA Home Video co-producers, Paul Eckstein and Chris Brancato produced by Frank Mancuso written by Chris Brancato directed by Bill Duke. Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 1998.  General Collection  PN1995.9.G3 .H66 1998   
  • Lincoln emancipated : the president and the politics of race / Brian R. Dirck, editor Allen C. Guelzo, foreword DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2007  General Collection  E457.2 .L825 2007   
  • Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route / Saidiya Hartman New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007  General Collection  DT510.2 .H375 2007   
  • Mark one or more : civil rights in multiracial America / Kim M. Williams Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006  General Collection  E184.A1 .W456 2006   
  • Massive resistance : the white response to the civil rights movement / George Lewis London [England] : Hodder Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, 2006  General Collection  E185.61 .L54 2006   
  • Minorities in Higher Education 22nd Annual Status Report    General Collection      
  • New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / Kent B. Germany Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2007  General Collection  F379.N557 .G47 2007   
  • One-hundred days of silence : America and the Rwanda genocide / Jared Cohen Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007  General Collection  DT450.435 .C64 2007   
  • Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity / Caroline Goeser Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007  General Collection  NC961.7.A37 .G64 2007   
  • A piece of cake : a memoir / Cupcake Brown New York : Crown, c2006  General Collection  F869.S22 .B76 2006   
  • The politics of slavery : fiery national debates fueled by the slave economy / Linda Jacobs Altman foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2004  Juvenile Collection   326 A468p   
  • The pursuit of happyness / Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe and Mim Eichler Rivas New York : Amistad, c2006  General Collection  HG4928.5 .G365 2006   
  • Race, reform, and rebellion : the second reconstruction and beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 / Manning Marable Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007  General Collection  E185.61 .M32 2007   
  • Reference library of Black America / edited by Jeffrey Lehman Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group [U.S.] : Distributed exclusively by African American Publications, c2005  Reference   E185 .R44 2005   
  • Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution / Simon Schama New York : Ecco, 2006  General Collection  E269.N3 .S33 2006   
  • The Selma campaign, 1963-1965 : the decisive battle of the civil rights movement / Wally G. Vaughn, compiler and editor Mattie Campbell Davis, assistant compiler and editor Dover, MA : Majority Press, 2003  General Collection  F334.S4 .S45 2003   
  • The social sciences and theories of race / Vernon J. Williams, Jr Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, c2006  General Collection  HT1521 .W54 2006   
  • The talking book : African Americans and the Bible / Allen Dwight Callahan New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006  General Collection  BS521.2 .C35 2006   
  • There goes my everything : white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975 / Jason Sokol New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006  General Collection  F220.A1 .S65 2006   
  • Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics / Jeremy Schaap Boston [Calif.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2007  General Collection  GV697.O9 .S33 2007   
  • Uplifting a people : African American philanthropy and education / edited by Marybeth Gasman, Katherine V. Sedgwick New York : Peter Lang, c2005  General Collection  HV3181 .U64 2005  Gift of the Friends of Dacus Library donated b: Nancy and Ian Davidson in memory of Donnie Owens 2006.
  • Voices of protest : social movements in post-apartheid South Africa / edited by Richard Ballard, Adam Habib and Imraan Valodia Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006  General Collection  HN801.A8 .V65 2006   
  • W.E.B. Du Bois and the problems of the twenty-first century : an essay on Africana critical theory / Reiland Rabaka Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, c2007  General Collection  E185.97.D73 .R33 2007   
  • Waiting 'til the midnight hour : a narrative history of Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006  General Collection  E185.615 .J68 2006   
  • Will you die with me? : my life and the Black Panther Party / Flores A. Forbes foreword by Elaine Brown New York : Atria Books, 2006  General Collection  E185.97.F685 .A3 2006   
  • Writing African American women : an encyclopedia of literature by and about women of color / edited by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006  Reference   PS153.N5 .W756 2006   
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