
Swimming Between Worlds
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Taken from Goodreads: From critically acclaimed writer Elaine Neil Orr, a Southern coming-of-age...
Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West
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Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not...
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
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The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we...

American Crime Story Season 1: The People v. O.J. Simpson
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The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story is a limited series that takes you inside the O.J....

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
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In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and...
History politics social issues

Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
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During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering...
History politics social issues
Crime, Violence and Minority Youths
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This title was first published in 2000: Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to...

The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt
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The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first...
Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos
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-Winner of the 2015 Aidoo-Snyder Prize from the Women's Caucus of the African Studies...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass
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A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of...