African American History

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Reimagining the Educated Citizen

Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896

By Petra Munro Hendry
Subjects: History, African American History, Caribbean Studies

A radical egalitarian vision of the transatlantic, creole roots of American public education

Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties

Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, History, African American History, Class Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans

The Captive Stage

Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

By Douglas A. Jones
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, History, American History, African American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

The Black Musician and the White City

Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967

By Amy Absher
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, American Studies, History, American History, Urban Studies, Sociology, African American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

James Baldwin

America and Beyond

By Bill Schwarz & Cora Kaplan
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, African American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields

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Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Law, Law and Society, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Urban Politics, Public Policy
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

Reform and Revolution in China

The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei

By Joseph Esherick
Subjects: History, African American History, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Explains how reforms in the late Qing dynasty indirectly amplified the social forces that brought about the Revolution of 1911

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