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The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them,,,,,Obama was born in Kenya . . . Obama sympathizes with Muslim terrorists . . . Obama is a communist who wants to institute death panels and touch off class warfare…

 

 

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) ...Robin Bernstein (Author)

 

Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority....Andrew J. Jolivette (Editor) ..The first book to explore the role of Obama’s mixed-race identity in his path to the presidency,




The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans....Cedric Johnson (Editor), Chris Russill (Contributor), Chad Lavin (Contributor), Eric Ishiwata (Contributor), Geoffrey Whitehall (Contributor), Passavant Paul (Contributor), Adrienne Dixson (Contributor), John Arena (Contributor) Katrina was not just a hurricane. The death, destruction, and misery wreaked on New Orleans cannot be blamed on nature’s fury alone.

 


Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture (Religion Race and Ethnicity)

 

(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)



The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama

 

African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics and Policy in the New South

 

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century


Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

 

 

 

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980

 

Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care...... (Growing up in the segregated South)

 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

 

Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World


Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture (Working Class in American History)

Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (American History and Culture Series)

 

Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Early America: History, Context, Culture)

 

Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean (New World Diasporas)

 

Paradise Lost: Haiti's Tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World Hotspot

 

Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture 3-volume set

Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Blacks in the Diaspora) (Hardcover) by Michael A. Chaney (Author) Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (Mela)) (Paperback) by Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Jean Lee Cole (Editor), Charles Mitchell (Editor) Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) (Hardcover) by Glenda Carpio (Author)
Free within Ourselves: The Development of African American Children's Literature (Hardcover) by Rudine Sims Bishop (Author) Readers Theatre for African American History (Readers Theatre) (Paperback) by Jeff Sanders (Author), Nancy I. Sanders (Author) Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama (Hardcover) by Lisa M. Anderson (Author)
The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation (Paperback) by Karen E. Rosenblum (Author), Toni-Michelle C. Travis (Author) Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity: an Anthology (African American Literature and Culture: Expanding and Exploding the Boundaries) (Paperback) by Sally Ann H. Ferguson (Editor) Interracial Communication: Theory Into Practice (Paperback) by Mark Orbe (Author), Tina M. Harris (Author)

 

Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America (Paperback) by Shirley Wilson Logan (Author)

Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (Wadsworth Sociology Reader) (Paperback) by Elizabeth Higginbotham (Author), Margaret L. Andersen (Author) Race and Ethnicity in the United States (5th Edition) (Paperback) by Richard T. Schaefer (Author)

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Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change (Hardcover) by Joseph F. Healey (Author) American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (Hardcover) by George Shulman (Author) Discourse and Context: A Sociocognitive Approach (Hardcover) by Teun A. Van Dijk (Author)
New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase (Hardcover) by Richard J., Jr. Callahan (Editor) New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase (Hardcover) by Richard J., Jr. Callahan (Editor) Still at the Margins: Biblical Scholarship Fifteen Years After Voices from the Margin (Hardcover) by R. S. Sugirtharajah (Editor)
Diversity in Ageing: Developing Practice With Older Lesbians and Gay Men (Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice) (Paperback) by Ann Fannin (Author), Lee-ann Fenge (Author), Tina Hicks (Author), Nichola Lavin (Author), Keith Brown (Editor)Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (International Library of Sociology) (Hardcover) by Anne-Ma Fortier (Author) Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African-american Perspective (Haworth Series in Health and Social Policy) (Hardcover) by Joycelyn Elders (Contributor), Tony B. Lowe (Contributor), Andrew Billingsley (Contributor), etc.
Social Cognition: An Integrated Introduction (Hardcover) by Martha Augoustinos (Author), Iain Walker (Author), Ngaire Donaghue (Author) Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow (Library Binding) by Adele Oltman (Author) Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow (Library Binding) by Adele Oltman (Author)
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (with a foreword by Quincy Jones) (Paperback) by Andrew Young (Author), Quincy Jones (Foreword)

The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (Hardcover) by Allen Dwight Callahan (Author)

The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (Hardcover) by Allen Dwight Callahan (Author)

Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion) (Paperback) by Elizabeth Elbourne (Author) Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion) (Paperback) by Elizabeth Elbourne (Author)

Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact:: The Middle East and North Africa (Approaches to Anthropological Anthropology) (Hardcover) by Nils Anfinset (Author)

The Cambridge History of Egypt (The Cambridge history of Egypt) (Paperback) by Carl F. Petry (Editor) Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 (New African Histories) (Hardcover) by Cheikh Anta Babou (Author) Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity: an Anthology (African American Literature and Culture: Expanding and Exploding the Boundaries) (Paperback) by Sally Ann H. Ferguson (Editor)
White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil (Black American and Diasporic Studies) (Paperback) by Darien J. Davis (Author) Lincoln's Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928-1952 (Hardcover) by SIMON TOPPING (Author) What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination (Hardcover) by Ricky L. Jones (Author), J. Blaine Hudson (Foreword)
The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) (Paperback) by Walter, C. Rucker (Author) The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) (Paperback) by Walter, C. Rucker (Author) African Americans of Jackson (Images of America: Mississippi) (Paperback) by Turry Flucker (Author), Phoenix Savage (Author)
Somalia: Diaspora and State Reconstitution in the Horn of Africa (Paperback) by A., Osman Farah (Editor), Mammo, Muchie (Editor), Joakim, Gundel (Editor) Somalia: Diaspora and State Reconstitution in the Horn of Africa (Paperback) by A., Osman Farah (Editor), Mammo, Muchie (Editor), Joakim, Gundel (Editor) First Footsteps In East Africa: Or, An Exploration Of Harar (Paperback) by Richard F Burton (Author)
Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925 (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Hardcover) by P. Welch (Editor) Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) (Hardcover) by Stefa HELGESSON (Author) White Men's Dreams, Black Men's Blood: African Labor and British Expansionism in Southern Africa, 1877-1895 (Hardcover) by Christopher M. Paulin (Author)
The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (New Black Studies Series) (Paperback) by Pero Dagbovie (Author) ; Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Hardcover) by James Sidbury (Author) Lorenzo Dow Turner: Father of Gullah Studies (Hardcover) by Margaret Wade-lewis (Author),
Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana (Hardcover) by Bayo Holsey (Author) Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (Critical Cultural Heritage) (Hardcover) by Ferdinand de Jong (Editor), Michael Rowlands (Editor) The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) (Hardcover) by Melanie J. Newton (Author)
Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster (Paperback) by J. Millard Burr (Author), Robert O. Collins (Author) New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics (Hardcover) by Jane Junn (Editor), Kerry L. Haynie (Editor) Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (American History and Culture Series) (Hardcover) by Mary Niall Mitchell (Author)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) (Hardcover) by Lewis R. Gordon (Author) Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Hardcover) by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Author) Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century (Hardcover) by Joyce E. King (Editor)
The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond theThe Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide (Hardcover) by Eileen OBrien (Author) Diasporic Africa: A Reader (Hardcover) by Michael Gomez (Author) the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) (Paperback) by Kristin Mann (Author)
(Hardcover) by Eileen OBrien (Author)

Diasporic Africa: A Reader (Hardcover) by Michael Gomez (Author)

the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) (Paperback) by Kristin Mann (Author)
Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone With the Wind (Southern Literary Studies) (Hardcover) by Tim A. Ryan (Author)

Rooted in the Chants of Slaves, Blacks in the Humanities, 1985-1997 (Hardcover) by Donald Franklin Joyce (Compiler)

The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirtuality (Religious Life in America) (Hardcover) by Michael Battle (Author)
The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity (Paperback) by Thabiti M. Anyabwile (Author), Mark A. Noll (Foreword) Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience (Intersections: African American Religious Thought) (Paperback) by Victor Anderson (Author)

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Hardcover) by Linda M. Heywood (Author), John K. Thornton (AuthorL

Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968 (Religion & American Culture) (Hardcover) by Edward J. Robinson (Author) A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl) (Hardcover) by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Author) Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Hardcover) by Sylviane A. Diouf (Author)
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings (Hardcover) by Angela L. Cotten (Editor), Christa Davis Acampora (Editor) Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Hardcover) by Karen Sotiropoulos (Author Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Music of the African Diaspora) (Paperback) by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. (Author)
Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, And New Beginnings in a New South (Paperback) by Mark Kemp (Author) The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (Hardcover) by Shane White (Author), Graham White (Author) No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey from Slavery to Emancipation Through Song (Includes CD) (Hardcover) by Velma Maia Thomas (Author)
Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 (Hardcover) by KATE DOSSETT (Author) Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear (Paperback) by Bruce A Jacobs (Author) The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set (Hardcover) by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation (Race and Culture in the American West Series) (Hardcover) by Gary Zellar (Author) The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, and the International Community (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective) (Paperback) by Alex Dupuy (Author) The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) (Hardcover) by Louis Chude-Sokei (Author), Louis Chude-Sokei (Author).
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Paperback) Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) (Paperback) by Tiya Miles (Author) Beyond Structural Adjustment: The Institutional Context of African Development (Hardcover) by Nicolas Van de Walle (Author), Nicole Ball (Author), Vijaya Ramachandran (Author)
Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume I (Penguin Academics) (Paperback) by Clayborne Carson (Author), Gary B. Nash (Author), Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner (Author) African Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) (Paperback) by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Editor) Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Hardcover) by Jane E. Soothill (Author)
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment (Hardcover) by Peter Hallward (Author) Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (Hardcover) by Julie Roy Jeffrey (Author) Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Hardcover) by Cedric Johnson (Author)

 

Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery, the Thirteenth Amendment, And the Pursuit of Freedom (Paperback) by Pamela D. Bridgewater (Author) Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (Hardcover) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Author) D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Hardcover) by Melvyn Stokes (Author)
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Martha S. Jones African American Feminisms 18281923 (History of Feminism) (Hardcover) by Zackodnik (Author) International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School (Hardcover) by Dennis Thiessen (Editor), Alison Cook-Sather (Editor)
Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Laurie B. Green (Author) American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Hardcover) by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (Autho Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Hardcover) by James Sidbury (Author)

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