Race and Ethnicity
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Looking Beyond Race
The Life of Otis Milton Smith
In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, and eventual president of General Motors.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814329399
The Politics of Black Empowerment
The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America
The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and explanations of Black political behavior today.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814323182
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814323175
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336618
Race and Ideology
Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture
Race and Ideology proposes an understanding of racism as a divide-and-conquer mechanism.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324547
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814324530
"Winds Can Wake Up the Dead"
An Eric Walrond Reader
A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814327098
Negroes with Guns
A southern black community’s struggle to defend itself against racist groups.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814327142
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
In the Wilderness with the Red Indians
German Missionary to the Michigan Indians, 1847-1853
This is an historical account of a Lutheran missionary's life with American Indians in central lower Michigan in the 19th century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325810
Let's Flip the Script
An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning
An inspiring collection of personal essays about education, literacy, and freedom.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336793
The Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia de un Esclavo
A heart-rendering history of the systematic, unrelenting destruction of human dignity and individual will.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325384
Letters to America
Contemporary American Poetry on Race
Letters to America penetrates to the core of the volatile topic of race with poems addressing civil rights, humor, interracial love, segregation, immigration, stereotypes, and violence, among other subjects.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325421
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars
The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933
In Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars, Richard Bak documents the extraordinary history of Detroit's first and foremost black professional baseball team.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325827
Ojibwa Narratives
Of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique, 1893-1895
A fascinating collection of fifty-two narratives featuring the tales of three nineteenth-century Ojibwa storytellers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325155
Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
Pontiac and the Indian Uprising is both informative and reflective of the attitudes that existed fifty years ago about Native Americans.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324691
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324653
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338490
The Roots of African American Drama
An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814321423
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338476
Voices of the Self
A Study of Language Competence
An exploration of the key issues of language education for African Americans.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814322253
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339114
Detroit
City of Race and Class Violence, Revised Edition
This revised edition charts Detroit’s bitter history of race and class violence, and its particular effect on the city today.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814321041
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337646
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814322468
ISBN: 9780814349571
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349977
The Invisible Soldier
The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II
The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars black servicemen fought when confronted with the official army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814319611
Talkin and Testifyin
The Language of Black America
In this book, Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814318058