Nov 24, 2008

Issue XXIII

Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics (Women and Minorities in Politics) (Hardcover) by Martin Dupuis (Author), Keith Boeckelman (Author) ARTIN DUPUIS is Assistant Dean of the Burnett Honors College and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida KEITH BOECKELMAN is Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Western Illinois University

Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) (Hardcover) by Troy Jackson (Author), Clayborne Carson (Introduction)

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The polls had hardly closed, it seemed, before the punditry of print and blogosphere were positively a-twitter at the possibility that Barack Obama’s near-landslide victory is both substance and symbol of the happy reality that “The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics.” I can see why Obama’s big win might seem like a metaphoric triumph over the South that, at the time of his birth, would have afforded him little prospect of having the opportunity to vote for a presidential candidate, much less of becoming one. .....(Read More)

The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race) (Hardcover) by Ronald R. Sundstrom (Author) Ronald R. Sundstrom is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco.

In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Hardcover) by Joseph Crespino (Author) Joseph Crespino is Assistant Professor of History at Emory University.

White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement (Hardcover) by Allan J. Lichtman (Author) Ronald R. Sundstrom is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco

Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs , by Deborah Willis

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Hardcover) by Lauri Ramey (Author) Lauri Ramey is Director of the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Professor of African American Literature and Culture and Creative Writing, at California State University, Los Angeles.

Ouidah: Social History Of Western African Slaving Port (Western African Studies) (Hardcover) by Robin Law (Author)

Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) (Paperback) by Kristin Mann (Author) Kristin Mann is Professor of History at Emory University.

African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Celia E. Naylor (Author) Celia E. Naylor is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College.

Deborah Willis is chair and professor of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging.

William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Blackwell Introductions to Literature)

Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora (Paperback) by Toyin Falola (Author), Niyi Afolabi (Author), Aderonke Adesola Adesanya (Author)

In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (Hardcover) by Blair Underwood (Author), Tananarive Due (Author), Steven Barnes (Author)

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture) (Hardcover) by Deborah Gray White (Editor) .

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