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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.

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Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349571
$19.99
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Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349977
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What the Chickadee Knows

Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin

Modern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.

Paperback
Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347508
$17.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347515
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Black Indian

A Memoir by Shonda Buchanan

A moving memoir exploring one family’s legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.

Paperback
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780814345801
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780814345818

Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World

Edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba

Traces the history of connections between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism.

Paperback
Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814342695
$39.99
Hardcover
Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814345962
$84.99
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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814342701
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Detroit 1967

Origins, Impacts, Legacies

Edited by Joel Stone
With a Foreword by Thomas J. Sugrue

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

Hardcover
Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814343036
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814343043

Blackness Is Burning

Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition

TreaAndrea M. Russworm

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
Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814340516
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814340523

Race, Religion, and the Pulpit

Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit

Julia Marie Robinson

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
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814332917
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340370
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Weweni

Margaret Noodin

Modern Anishinaabemowin poetry in conversation with English translation.

Paperback
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340387
$17.99
Ebook
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340394
$17.99
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Asian Americans in Michigan

Voices from the Midwest

edited by Victor Jew and Sook Wilkinsonforeword by Frank H. Wu and Bich Minh Nguyen

Explores a neglected cultural and social history from a variety of perspectives.

Paperback
Published: March 2015
ISBN: 9780814332818
$34.99
Ebook
Published: March 2015
ISBN: 9780814339749
$24.99

Redevelopment and Race

Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit

June Manning Thomas

A history of how racial disunity and industrial decline handicapped post-World War II urban planning initiatives in Detroit.

Paperback
Published: April 2013
ISBN: 9780814339077
$32.99
Ebook
Published: April 2013
ISBN: 9780814339084
$24.99

Booker T & Them

A Blues

Bill Harris

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
Published: February 2012
ISBN: 9780814337165
$19.99
Ebook
Published: February 2012
ISBN: 9780814337172
$19.99

The Long Winter Ends

Newton G. Thomasintroduction by William Mulligan

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
Published: January 2012
ISBN: 9780814335864

Arab Detroit 9/11

Life in the Terror Decade

edited by Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock

Contributors explore the trauma, unexpected political gains, and moral ambiguities faced by Arab Detroiters in post-9/11 America.

Paperback
Published: September 2011
ISBN: 9780814335000
$26.99
Ebook
Published: September 2011
ISBN: 9780814336823
$26.99

If We Must Die

From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls

Aimé J. Ellis

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
Published: June 2011
ISBN: 9780814334133
$26.99
Ebook
Published: June 2011
ISBN: 9780814336656
$26.99

From Bourgeois to Boojie

Black Middle-Class Performances

edited by Bridget Harris Tsemo and Vershawn Ashanti Youngillustrated by Jeanette Berry

Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.

Paperback
Published: April 2011
ISBN: 9780814334683
$27.99
Ebook
Published: April 2011
ISBN: 9780814336427
$27.99

Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook

A James Boggs Reader

James Boggs and Stephen M. Wardafterword by Grace Lee Boggs

Collects nearly four decades' worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.

Paperback
Published: March 2011
ISBN: 9780814332566
$34.99
Ebook
Published: March 2011
ISBN: 9780814336410
$24.99

Keepin' It Hushed

The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric

Vorris L. Nunley

Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.

Paperback
Published: February 2011
ISBN: 9780814333488
$26.99
Ebook
Published: February 2011
ISBN: 9780814336458
$26.99
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The Color of Law

Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights

Dave Riddle, David Elsila, and Steve Babson

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.

Hardcover
Published: October 2010
ISBN: 9780814334966
$34.99
Ebook
Published: October 2010
ISBN: 9780814336380
$34.99

Hollywood Goes Oriental

Caucasian Performance in American Film

Karla Rae Fullerforeword by Tom Gunning

An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.

Paperback
Published: August 2010
ISBN: 9780814334676
$32.99
Ebook
Published: August 2010
ISBN: 9780814335383
$32.99
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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

Bill Harris

A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.

Paperback
Published: May 2010
ISBN: 9780814334089
$19.99
Ebook
Published: May 2010
ISBN: 9780814335277
$19.99

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