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Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century

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Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History (Library of American History)

 


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The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929

Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Studies in the Legal History of the South) Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools A Case Study of the American Indian Boarding School Movement: An Oral History of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School
The War on Islamic Fundamentalism: How America Lost but who Won?: The War on Islam: How America Lost and Mujahideen Won The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism

On Race and Racism in America: Confessions in Philosophy

Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics)

Whiteness: An Introduction

 

Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness

 Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Hearing the Mermaid's Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro The History of White People...Nell Irvin Painter (Author) Nago Grandma and White Papa: Candomble and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao)Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind, Second Edition (Paperback) by Curtis A Keim (Author)
Culture and Customs of Morocco (Culture and Customs of Africa) AFRICAN FAMILIES AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum: The Practice of Freedom (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)
Culture and Customs of Haiti (Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean) There's no place like......

Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (American History and Culture Series)
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performancestudies, Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology Women and Higher Education in Africa: Reconceptualizing Gender-based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice (Transforming Teaching)
Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914 (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Ring of Hate: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling: The Fight of the Century Why The Hell Can't I Find A Good Man?: From A Man's Point Of View The Ancestors
Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture) Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (American History and Culture Series)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion The New African Diaspora

A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Christmas in New Orleans Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920 		Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods (Qualitative Studies in Psychology) Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean (Caribbean Studies Series)
Germans, ... American, Africans in Europe, Black people. African Diaspora: Afro Americans in the Americas, Africana womanism, African people, Black Canadians, African immigration to the United States, Afro- Slavery in Brazil
Black Europe and the African Diaspora (New Black Studies Series) Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora (African Expressive Cultures)
Black Women/White Men: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Slaves in the Danish West IndiesLaboring Women: The Continuity of Traditional Values in the African Society: The Igfbò of Nigeria The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples Of The Slave Coast Of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc. (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Early American Studies) .Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) Women and Slavery, V. 2: The Modern Atlantic
The Wretched of the Earth .I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) .The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond
He Talk Like a White Boy: Reflections of a Conservative Black Man on Faith, Family, olitics, and Authenticity .Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class (New Black Studies Series) .Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (Studies in Social Medicine)
Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson (Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies)

White Masculinity in the Recent South (Making the Modern South)

 White Masculinity in the Recent South (Making the Modern South)
The Vodoun Effect: Funk and Sato from Benin's Obscure Label
Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy)
White Masculinity in the Recent South (Making the Modern South)

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)

.The Everyday Language of White Racism (Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture) One America in the 21st Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race
Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture

Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Blacks in the Diaspora)
The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
Immigrants from Africa (Successful Americans) Hebrewisms of West Africa: From Nile to Niger With the Jews
Staying Maasai?: Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands (Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation) Uneven Paths of Development: Innovation and Learning in Asia and Africa African American Girls: Reframing Perceptions and Changing Experiences (Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development) Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana (SOAS Musicology Series) Serious Barbecue: Smoke, Char, Baste, and Brush Your Way to Great Outdoor Cooking Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform (Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development)

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology

 

Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America What the Slaves Ate: Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways from the Slave Narratives

Lincoln on Race and Slavery (Hardcover) by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor, Introduction), Donald Yacovone (Editor)

Slave Nation: How Slavery United The Colonies And Sparked The American Revolution by Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth f. Blumrosen (Hardcover) Slavery and the American South (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History S) (Paperback) by Winthrop D. Jordan (Editor)

Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security (Hardcover) by Heather Deegan (Author)

Just Defense of the Natural Freedom of Slaves: All Slaves Should Be Free (1682) by Epifanio De Moirans, a Critical Edition and Translation of Servi Liberi Seu Naturalis Mancipiorum Libertatis Iusta (Hardcover) by Edward R. Sunshine (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) Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community (Studies in African American History and Culture) (Library Binding) by Cuthrell Curry (Author)
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Hardcover) by Ted Gioia (Author) Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama (Religion & American Culture) [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) by Wilson Fallin (Author)
Interpreting National History: Race, Identity, and Pedagogy in Classrooms and Communities (Teaching/Learning Social Justice) (Paperback) by Terrie Epstein (Author) Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) by Bayo Holsey (Author)

Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (Hardcover) by William David Hart (Author)
Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Blacks in the Diaspora) [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) by Michael A. Chaney (Author) Diaspora: An Introduction (Hardcover) by Jana Evans Braziel (Author) Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa (Studies in American Popular Histiry and Culture) (Hardcover) by Jermaine Archer (Author)
Documentary Reader, 1619-1877 (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History) (Hardcover) by Steven Mintz (Author) Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora (Paperback) by Toyin Falola (Author), Niyi Afolabi (Author), Aderonke Adesola Adesanya (Author) Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy (Routledge Studies in North American Politics) (Hardcover) by Jordan-Zachery (Author)
.Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa (Hardcover) by Patrick Lynn Rivers (Author) The SAGE Handbook of African American Education (Hardcover) by Linda C. Tillman (Editor) A Long Time Coming (Hardcover) by Evan Thomas (Author), Staff of Newsweek (Editor)

 

Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (Paperback) by Steven F. Lawson (Author) The State, Development and the Role of Local Economic Systems in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study of Mozambique and Botswana by Laudemiro Francisco American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Religion, Race and Ethnicity Series) by Jamillah Karim
Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations on the Embattled Continent by Joseph Mensah (Hardcover - Dec 9, 2008)

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (Paperback) by David R. Roediger (Author)

 Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel (Hardcover) by Nasser Aruri (Author)
History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, A (5th Edition) (MySearchLab Series 15% off) (Paperback) by Ian J. Bickerton (Author), Carla L. Klausner (Author) A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (Hardcover) by Gudrun Kramer (Translator), Graham Harman Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter (Hardcover - Nov 14, 2006)
Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations on the Embattled Continent by Joseph Mensah (Hardcover - Dec 9, 2008) American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Religion, Race and Ethnicity Series) by Jamillah Karim State Culture and Ethnicity in West Africa: Politics and Conflict in West Africa (Paperback) by Lawrence Abraham (Author)
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (Paperback) by David R. Roediger (Author) The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Paperback) by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Author) There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 (Vintage) by Jason Sokol

 

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Paperback) by James C. Cobb (Author) Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity by James C. Cobb (Paperback - Jan 12, 2007) Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics (Women and Minorities in Politics) (Hardcover) by Martin Dupuis (Author), Keith Boeckelman (Author)
The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race) (Hardcover) by Ronald R. Sundstrom (Author) 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) In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Hardcover) by Joseph Crespino (Author)
Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Hardcover) by Lauri Ramey (Author) Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs , by Deborah Willis White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement (Hardcover) by Allan J. Lichtman (Author)
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) 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) Ouidah: Social History Of Western African Slaving Port (Western African Studies) (Hardcover) by Robin Law (Author)
Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora (Paperback) by Toyin Falola (Author), Niyi Afolabi (Author), Aderonke Adesola Adesanya (Author) William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Blackwell Introductions to Literature) Deborah Willis is chair and professor of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging.
Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (African Expressive Cultures) (Hardcover) by Henry John Drewal (Author) Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture) (Hardcover) by Deborah Gray White (Editor) . In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (Hardcover) by Blair Underwood (Author), Tananarive Due (Author), Steven Barnes (Author)
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback) by Herbert S. Klein (Author), Ben Vinson (Author) Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories (Hardcover) by Genevieve W. Chandler (Author), Charles W. Joyner (Foreword), Kincaid Mills (Editor), Genevieve C. Peterkin (Editor), Aaron McCollough (Editor) Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture) (Hardcover) by Grey Gundaker (Author)
Ain't I a Feminist?: African American Men Speak Out on Fatherhood, Friendship, Forgiveness, and Freedom (Hardcover) by Aaronette M. White (Author) Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 (Hardcover) by Kristin Mann (Author) Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution (Hardcover) by T. J. English (Author)
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind, Second Edition (Paperback) by Curtis A Keim (Author) Money In the House: Campaign Funds and Congressional Party Politics (Transforming American Politics) (Paperback) by Marian Currinder (Author) The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (Hardcover) by Sheryll Cashin (Author)

 

Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (Hardcover) Participation and Power: Civic Discourse in Environmental Policy Decisions (Suny Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication) (Hardcover) by Michele W. Simmons (Author) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover) by Douglas A. Blackmon (Author)
The Homeschooling Book of Lists (Jossey-Bass Teacher) (Paperback) by Michael Leppert (Author), Mary Leppert (Author) Parent/Teacher Handbook: Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics- An Engaging ESL Textbook for Advanced Students (Paperback) by Eric H. Roth (Author), Toni Aberson (Author) What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists (Music of the African Diaspora) (Paperback)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) (Hardcover) by Lewis R. Gordon (Author) The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945) (Hardcover) by Simon Gikandi (Author), Evan Mwangi (Author) Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction (Paperback) by Keith Byerman (Author)
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (Library Binding) by Michael S. Harper (Editor), Anthony Walton (Editor) The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945 (The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945) (Hardcover) by Adrian Roscoe (Author)
Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video) (Hardcover) by Maria Pramaggiore (Author) Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 (Hardcover) by Susannah Walker (Author) Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Hardcover) by Lauri Ramey (Author)

 

 
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