Race and Ethnicity
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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

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Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334652
Members of the Tribe
Native America in the Jewish Imagination
A history of representations of American Indians in Jewish literature and popular media.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334348
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337004

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Race and Remembrance
A Memoir
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814333709
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337493

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Who's Jim Hines?
A look at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334027
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335437
Dear Chester, Dear John
Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams
A revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814333556
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338506
The Flip Wilson Show
Analyzes the social, political, and institutional context of The Flip Wilson Show, which ran on NBC between 1970 and 1974.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332528
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335758
Your Average Nigga
Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332481
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335765
"Look for Me All Around You"
Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance
This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329870
Manipulating the Sacred
Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé
The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814328521
The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young
New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s most memorable quotes.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332603
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335741
Dreaming Suburbia
Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture
A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332283
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339138
Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994
This groundbreaking study analyzes the relationship between the two powerful forces—church organizations and urban politics—within New York City and Detroit during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331729
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336687
White Nationalism, Black Interests
Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community
A study of the most racially conscious aspect of the Conservative movement and its impact on politics and current public policy.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814330203
To Change Reels
Film and Film Culture in South Africa
An engaging inquiry into the history of South African film and its future—one that focuses on the country’s cultural history while squarely facing questions of race.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814330012
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814330005
Liberation Memories
The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens
This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814330579
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339107
Bridging the River of Hatred
The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards
Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of George Clifton Edwards, Jr., Detroit's visionary police commissioner.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325735
What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three
Four Plays by Ron Milner
The four Milner plays collected here —Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition —are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329290
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814329771
The Concept of Self
A Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem
The Concept of Self examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of how African Americans think of themselves individually, and how they relate to being part of a group that has been subjected to challenges of their very humanity.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814328989
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338315