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    The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

    This autobiography traces Scarborough’s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University.

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    Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

    This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey…

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    Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

    This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey…

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    Harlem Renaissance Lives

    The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn…

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    Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

    In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin? Published here for the first…

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    Harlem: Found Ways

    Harlem: Found Ways burnishes Harlem’s luster but never attempts to smooth its rough edges. Multimedia works explore the invention of Harlem, and reinvent it. Vibrantly illustrated, the catalog features essays…

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    To Make a Poet Black

    J.Saunders Redding

    This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past…

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    Ike Ude Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty

    Ike Ude,Sarah Nuttall,Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    The history and development of the Nigerian motion picture industry is sometimes generally classified in four main eras: the Colonial era, Golden Age, Video film era and the emerging New…

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    You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays [Large Print]

    Zora Neale Hurston,Henry Louis Gates,Genevieve West

    Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary…

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    God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

    James Weldon Johnson

    As a young man in the late 1800s, James Weldon Johnson was profoundly influenced by the sermons he heard by the renowned black preachers of the day. Later in life…

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    The Portable Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass

    The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His influence was felt in the political sphere, major…

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    W.e.b. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Playe in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-188

    W.E.B. Du Bois,Eric Foner,Henry Louis Gates

    A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America

    Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du…

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    From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia

    Robert Heinrich,Deborah Harding,Henry Louis Gates Jr

    In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of an antiques dealer. Its pages told a story of a man born into slavery who…

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    You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    Zora Neale Hurston,Henry Louis Gates,Genevieve West

    ‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison ‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers…

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    Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    Harriet E. Wilson

    Originally published: Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859.

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    You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    Zora Neale Hurston

    ‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison ‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers…

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    The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the III-IX Century

    Alexandre Popovic

    Popovic’s book is a study on the revolt of the Zanj. Scholars of slavery, the African diaspora and the Middle East have lauded Popovic’s work.

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    To Make a Poet Black

    J.Saunders Redding

    This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past…

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    The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

    Charles W. Chesnutt

    Collections from two of our most influential African American writers-under the general editorship of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt - an incisive…

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    12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

    Solomon Northup

    The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen

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    Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics

    Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it’s not an easy concept to define. Social science literature…

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    Cane

    Jean Toomer

    A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing… . This book should be on all readers and writers desks and in their minds. Maya Angelou

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    Encyclopedia of Black Comics

    Sheena C. Howard

    The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry…

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    Iola Leroy

    Frances Ellen Watkin Harper

    A novel that tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in…

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    You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    Zora Neale Hurston

    The first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of The Harlem Renaissance.

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    Twelve Years a Slave

    Solomon Northup

    This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.‘s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.

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    Cane: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism

    Rudolph P. Byrd,Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Jean Toomer

    A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton…

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    The Frederick Douglass Collection

    Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David W. Blight

    For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, the definitive edition of the writings of the great African American freedom fighter, including all 3 of his classic memoirs…

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    The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

    Anna Julia Cooper

    A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women’s intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives…

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    The Mis-education of the Negro

    Carter G. Woodson

    The most influential work by the father of Black history, reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators –

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    The Gift of Black Folk (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): The Negroes in the Making of America

    W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Gift of Black Folk explores the contributions African Americans have made to American society, detailing the importance of racial diversity to the United States. Writing for a general audience…

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    The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Originally published: New York: International Publishers, 1968. With a new introduction.

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    The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Werner Sollors

    Originally published: New York: International Publishers, 1968. With a new introduction.

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    Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Dusk of Dawn is an explosive autobiography of the foremost African American scholar of his time. Du Bois writes movingly of his own life, using personal experience to elucidate the…

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    Barack Obama: A Pocket Biography of Our 44th President

    Steven J Niven (Introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)

    A pocket biography of Barack Obama. It chronicles his political rise, and examines his relationship with race and his role in history. It also includes a transcript of Obama’s famous…

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    Darkwater (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): Voices from Within the Veil

    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Considered a sequel to Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folks, Darkwater revisits many of the same themes with a more militant edge, even revising previously published essays and poems…

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    The Ordeal of Mansart (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): The Black Flame Trilogy: Book One, The Ordeal of Mansart (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Brent Hayes Edwards

    The first book in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Flame trilogy, The Ordeal of Mansart, chronicles Mansart’s early life during the time of Reconstruction through his involvement in black…

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    The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School(The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Brent Hayes Edwards

    The second book in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Flame trilogy, Mansart Builds a School, opens with Mansart’s election to superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta and follows him…

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    Darkwater (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): Voices from Within the Veil

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

    Considered a sequel to Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folks, Darkwater revisits many of the same themes with a more militant edge, even revising previously published essays and poems…

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    The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Three, Worlds of Color (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Brent Hayes Edwards

    The final book in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Flame trilogy, Worlds of Color, opens when Mansart is sixty and a successful college president. Packed with political intrigue, romance…

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    May Day at Yale,1970: Recollections: The Trial of Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers

    Henry Sam Chauncey

    This book comes from first hand experiences, both in word and in pictures. It offers a partial record of a community and an institution coming together to accommodate an event…

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    Three Classic African American Novels

    William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life…

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    Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Anthony P. Griffin,Donald E. Lively,Nadine Strossen

    Argues that hate speech restrictions are not only dangerous, but counterproductive. Acknowledging the legitimacy of concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with a concern for…

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    Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Anthony P. Griffin,Donald E. Lively,Nadine Strossen

    Argues that hate speech restrictions are not only dangerous, but counterproductive. Acknowledging the legitimacy of concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with a concern for…

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    In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Paul Laurence Dunbar

    More than seventy-five works in six genres. Featured are the previously unpublished play Herrick and two one-act plays, largely ignored for a century, that demonstrate Dunbar’s subversion of the minstrel…

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