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Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics

By Jr., Anthony J. Lemelle

African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family.…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87277-5 (Routledge)

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African Diaspora and the Metropolis

Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience

Edited by Fassil Demissie

At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of…

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October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56034-4 (Routledge)

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Swinging the Vernacular

Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

By Michael Borshuk

This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to…

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June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80400-4 (Routledge)

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African-American Activism before the Civil War

The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North

Edited by Patrick Rael

African-American Activism before the Civil War is the first collection of scholarship on the role of African Americans in the struggle for racial equality in…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95727-4 (Routledge)

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Black Women's Risk for HIV

Rough Living

By Quinn Gentry

An inside look at the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on poor African American women

Black Women’s Risk for HIV: Rough Living

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-3170-9 (Routledge)

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Between Freedom and Bondage

Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North

By Christopher Malone

Between Freedom and Bondage looks at the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95697-0 (Routledge)

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Race, Colonialism and the City

By John Rex

John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41751-8 (Routledge)

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Minority within a Minority

Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance

By Amal Ibrahim Madibbo

This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97911-5 (Routledge)

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A Civilised Savagery

Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926

By Kevin Grant

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94901-9 (Routledge)

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The Black Studies Reader

Edited by Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, Claudine Michel

Black studies emerged from the tumultuous social and civil rights movements of the 1960s and empowered African Americans to look at themselves in new ways…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94554-7 (Routledge)

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