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Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity

Celtic Soul Brothers

By Lauren Onkey

Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular…

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June 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80189-8 (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

Historians have long understood that racial oppression in American history was about more than slavery. On the eve of the Civil War, over five percent…

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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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Sport and the Color Line

Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

Edited by Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins

The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, in which he declared that "the color line" would be…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94611-7 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics
By Jr., Anthony J. Lemelle
To be published November 9th 2009

African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
Edited by Fassil Demissie
To be published November 15th 2009

Social Care with African Families
By Viola Nzira
To be published December 31st 2009

Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
By Charmaine Nelson
To be published January 1st 2010

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime
By Shaun L. Gabbidon
To be published April 1st 2010