Race and Ethnicity
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition
An explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349571
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349977

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What the Chickadee Knows
Modern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347508
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347515

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Black Indian
A moving memoir exploring one family’s legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345801
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345818
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
Traces the history of connections between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342695
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345962
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342701

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Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814343036
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343043
Blackness Is Burning
Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition
Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340516
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340523
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit
Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
Details Reverend Bradby’s work during the Great Migration and the interwar period, when his Second Baptist Church became an important hub for Detroit’s African American community.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814332917
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340370

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Weweni
Modern Anishinaabemowin poetry in conversation with English translation.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340387
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814340394

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Asian Americans in Michigan
Voices from the Midwest
Explores a neglected cultural and social history from a variety of perspectives.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332818
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814339749
Redevelopment and Race
Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit
A history of how racial disunity and industrial decline handicapped post-World War II urban planning initiatives in Detroit.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814339077
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814339084
Booker T & Them
A Blues
A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814337165
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814337172
The Long Winter Ends
The Long Winter Ends tells the story of a year in the life of a young emigrant miner who leaves Cornwall in the southwest of England to work in the copper mines of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335864
Arab Detroit 9/11
Life in the Terror Decade
Contributors explore the trauma, unexpected political gains, and moral ambiguities faced by Arab Detroiters in post-9/11 America.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335000
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336823
If We Must Die
From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls
Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334133
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336656
From Bourgeois to Boojie
Black Middle-Class Performances
Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334683
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336427
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
Collects nearly four decades' worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332566
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336410
Keepin' It Hushed
The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric
Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333488
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336458

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The Color of Law
Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights
Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814334966
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336380
Hollywood Goes Oriental
Caucasian Performance in American Film
An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334676
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814335383

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Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain't Never Been Told
A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy and of America & the True Relation Thereof
A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334089
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814335277