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A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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by Warner Books
Hardcover (15 January, 2001)
(9 reviews) 4.22 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Prophetic Voice of the 21st Century: An outstanding history of the Civil Rights movement through the most famous speeches of MLK.
A Country of Strangers : Blacks and Whites in America
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by Knopf
Hardcover (30 September, 1997)
(8 reviews) 4.38 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: David K. Shipler, a long-time reporter for the New York Times in the U.S. andoverseas, calls A Country of Strangers "a journey along the color line," an attempt totrace "the landscape where blacks and whites find mutual encounters."

A Dream Deferred : The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
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by Perennial
Paperback (01 November, 1999)
(17 reviews) 3.88 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A MANIFESTO FOR ELIMINATING THE WELFARE STATE: Mr. Steele makes an eloquent case that "redemptive liberalism," designed not to actually correct problems but to assuage guilt for past sins,
A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
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by Broadway
Paperback (04 May, 1999)
(99 reviews) 4.36 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Riveting. Life-changing. A MUST-READ for educators.: Riveting! Moving! Powerful! I read this book in two days, wanting to know more,

A Larger Memory : A History of our Diversity, With Voices
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback (23 September, 1998)
(5 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Why I give this book a 4?: Ronald Takaki focuses on his book about Asian-American history through Asian and non-Asian perspectives.
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Presen
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by City Lights Books
Paperback (01 January, 1998)
(17 reviews) 4.47 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A great, if dry book: This book is packed full of information for so relatively small a number of pages and at times, though not always,

A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century
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by New Century Books
Paperback (September, 2003)
(2 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Good thesis, false content: This books central thesis is correct, namely that different cultures and different civilizations are made up of different races,
Access Denied: Race, Ethnicity, and the Scientific Enterprise
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover (01 July, 2000)

Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race
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by Routledge
Paperback (01 January, 2003)
Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 November, 2001)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Widely misunderstood: Gilroy's polemical essay has received little attention and what attention there has been has been lukewarm or scathing.

All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way
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by Basic Books
Hardcover (01 September, 1996)
(4 reviews) 2.5 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Colin Powell did not become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 because of a quota. He earned his spot at the top. And he is not the only black American to have made a successful career out of the U.S
America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
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by Warner Books
Hardcover (07 January, 2004)
(4 reviews) 4.25 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A good read with several points lacking: Despite the title, this book doesn't seem to go very far beyond the color line. Although the venerated author does tackle class,

America's Asia : Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (25 October, 2004)
American Crucible : Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (05 August, 2002)
(4 reviews) 3.25 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Can two nationalisms make the systhesis of American history?: In this book Gary Gerstle organizes his narrative of American history through two threads of nationalism: racial and civic.

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Black and African-American
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by Transaction Publishers
Paperback (01 February, 1996)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Gunnar Myrdal belongs in a category with Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur--non-American authors who have written essential works on the American character. In 1954, the Swedish-born Myrdal delivered this massive (and massively influential) book on the status of American blacks.
Are Cops Racist?
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by Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Hardcover (01 January, 2003)
(6 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: "The anti-profiling crusade thrives on an ignorance of policing and a willful blindness to the demographics of crime," writes Heather Mac Donald in this powerful and persuasive examination of racial profiling.

As Long As They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American
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by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Hardcover (01 January, 2000)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Bold and Truthful: When I was younger and openly challenged the misguided optimism that America would ever become a integrated society,
At the Hands of Persons Unknown : The Lynching of Black America
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by Random House
Hardcover (08 January, 2002)
(14 reviews) 4.93 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Lynching, the extrajudicial punishment inflicted by vigilantes and mobson often innocent victims, was far from an unusual occurrence, though somehistorians have depicted it as such. Instead, writes Philip Dray,

Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
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by University of North Carolina Press
Paperback (24 March, 2003)
(1 reviews) 2 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Disingenuous: At the conclusion of his monograph of why white working-class Baltimoreans abandoned the party of the New Deal, Kenneth Durr comments "We should neither vilify the lawmakers,
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World
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by InterVarsity Press
Paperback (01 September, 2004)

Beyond Black
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by SAGE Publications
Paperback (15 December, 2001)
Beyond Fear: Twelve Spiritual Keys to Racial Healing
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by H.J. Kramer
Paperback (01 January, 1999)

Beyond the Chinese Face: Insights from Psychology
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 December, 1991)
(7 reviews) 3.29 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Making sense of a new environment: I have now been working in Hong Kong for nearly four months. A colleague lent me 'Beyond the Chinese Face' in my first week here in Hong Kong.
Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism
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by ILR Press
Paperback (01 May, 2003)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An Outstanding Contribution to the Literature: This is an exceptional book with information and insight not found anywhere else.

Black Is a Country : Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover (31 May, 2004)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Work of Great Relevance and Urgency...: In its simplest rendition, Black Is a Country is a work of hope that holds the potential to guide us out of our current state of racial dilemmas.
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
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by University of North Carolina Press
Paperback (01 January, 2000)
(3 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A good study in Ideology: Obviously the first reviewer hasn't read the book. Robinson is arguing against a Marxist interpretation of the black radical struggle.

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
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by Routledge
Hardcover (01 February, 2004)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Black Folk, Gender Matters!: Professor Hill Collins asserts that Black Americans will not be able to advance at the rate they could unless they develop a progressive gender politics.
Blues People : Negro Music in White America
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by Perennial
Paperback (03 February, 1999)
(9 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Very honest&breaks all chains: this book not only puts the music into perspective but also the struggle that still goes on too this day.v

Brother to a Dragonfly
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by Continuum International Publishing Group
Paperback (01 August, 2000)
(5 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Bond Between Brothers: This book sets the standard for brotherly love: through the joyous days of youth, through sickness, through the reversal of who worships who,
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover (01 May, 1997)

Capitalist Nigger : The Road to Success
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by Timbuktu Publishers
Hardcover (17 September, 2000)
(3 reviews) 2.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A true Capitalist Indeed: Dr. Onyeani,Capitalism from what I have come to understand is a euphemism for opportunism, better yet exploitation.
Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Metis of the Pacific Northwest
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by Mountain Press Publishing Company
Paperback (01 October, 1995)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Great Book!: Mr. Jackson did excellent research for this book. I have numerous ancestors mentioned in the book and even had a picture of one that I had never seen before.

Colonial America in an Atlantic World
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by Longman
Paperback (19 August, 2003)
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
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by University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover (28 April, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Outstanding analysis of the power of images: The book is as intellectually stimulating as it is visually captivating. Anyone interested in giving serious thought to the history and power of images depicting persons of African descent should read this book.

Confederacy of Silence : A True Tale of the New Old South
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by Atria
Paperback (04 June, 2003)
(24 reviews) 3.92 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Review: I truly did not want this book to end. Watching Mr. Rubin discover the south (through the eyes of a New Yorker, no less) was positively captivating.
Constraint Of Race: Legacies Of White Skin Privilege In America
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by Pennsylvania State University Press
Paperback (30 August, 2004)

Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge
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by Temple University Press
Paperback (03 December, 1999)
(3 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent for the new, but acquainted CRT reader: This is an excellent array of essays and articles from the legal genre of Critical Race Theory.
Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror
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by Temple University Press
Paperback (01 May, 1997)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Delgado and Stefancic do it again!: An excellent collection of essays and law review articles that explore the concept of "whiteness" and what it means in American Law.

Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
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by Temple University Press
Paperback (01 July, 2002)
Death of Innocence : The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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by Random House
Hardcover (07 October, 2003)
(12 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: How can a Mother forgive the animals that killed her son?: I read this book because I wanted to know how can anyone forgive anybody for brutally killing their ONLY child.

Death on the Fourth of July : The Story of a Killing, A Trial, and Hate Crime in
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover (16 July, 2004)
Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 June, 2002)

Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Mapping Racisms)
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by Temple University Press
Paperback (01 February, 2004)
Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
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by Verso
Hardcover (01 December, 1998)

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 August, 2001)
(13 reviews) 4.08 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A great read -- with effective and interesting arguments: Emerson and Smith succeed where few sociologists have, in providing a readable and dynamic account of how well-meaning people unwittingly reinforce racial segregation and inequality.
ego trip's Big Book of Racism!
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by Regan Books
Paperback (15 October, 2002)
(10 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Better Than Harry Potter!: I went from Harry Potter to the "Big Book of Racism." As far as I'm concerned, the Slitherins are punks compared to the Ego Trip guys.

Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slaver
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by Humanity Books
Hardcover (September, 2003)
Enter the New Negroes : Images of Race in American Culture
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover (29 November, 2004)

Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation
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by Prometheus Books
Hardcover (01 April, 2003)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Asante Continues to Add Insight to Discussion of Race: Upon initial exposure of this new Asante tome, i thought it a fresh and long over-due departure from the "Greece borrowed/stole this or that from Afrika" discussion that has engulfed him for more than twenty years.
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 September, 2002)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: great resource on some of the worst acts of the 20th century: Fired of Hatred tells of the history of genocide, ethnic cleasining and forced deportation of ethnic groups in the 20th century.

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