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These books may not be on the best sell list, but Mrs. E's Collectables have found them to have subject matter or reviews of interest. Books will be on this page for a short time, they will then be moved to a more appropriate web page permanently.


BOOKS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED IN THE NEWSLETTERS ARE LISTED BELOW.

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (Hardcover) by Stephanie Y. Evans (Author) The Negro American Family/ The Negro American Artisan/ Efforts for Social Betterment Among Negro Americans: Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3 (Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) (Hardcover) by K. Thompson (Author) Lynching in Mississippi: A History, 1865-1965 (Hardcover) by Julius E. Thompson (Author)J
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading the Souls of Black Folk (Psychoanalysis and Social Theory) (Paperback) by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South (Hardcover) by Houston A. Baker (Author)

 

Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth (Critical Youth Studies) (Hardcover) by Pedro Noguera (Editor), Julio Cammarota (Editor), Shawn Ginwright (Editor)

Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1645-1865 (Hardcover) by Nini Rodgers (Author)

The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State (Hardcover) by Mary Poole (Author) The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State (Hardcover) by Mary Poole (Author)
Dying While Black (Paperback) by Vernellia, R Randall (Author) Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation (New Directions in Southern Studies) (Hardcover) by Jessica Adams (Author)

 

Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) (Hardcover) by J. R. Kerr-ritchie (Author)

 

Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 16401960 (African Studies) (Paperback) by Patrick Manning (Author)

Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies (Paperback) by___Michael T. Martin (Editor), Marilyn Yaquinto (Editor) In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Hardcover) by Joseph Crespino (Author)
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & THEORIES OF RACE (Paperback) by Vernon J. Williams Jr. (Author) Beyond the 'African Tragedy': Discourses on Development And the Global Economy (Hardcover) by Malinda S. Smith (Editor) "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (Blacks in the Diaspora) (Hardcover) by Rosanne Marion Adderley (Author)

 

Themes in West Africa's History (Western African Studies) (Hardcover) by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong (Editor)

The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States (New Approaches to the Americas) (Hardcover) by Laird Bergad (Author) Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900 (Social History of Africa Series) (Paperback) by Walter Hawthorne (Author)
Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (Hardcover) by Adam Gussow (Author) Why Are So Many Black Men In Prison? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men (Paperback) by Demico Boothe (Author) Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Hardcover) by Stephanie E. Smallwood (Author)
The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists And the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies) (Hardcover) by Francille Rusan Wilson (Author) Mississippi Sissy (Hardcover) by Kevin Sessums (Author)

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Heather Andrea Williams (Author)

Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (Hardcover) by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Author), Jane I. Smith (Author), Kathleen M. Moore (Author)

 

Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Southern Literary Studies) (Hardcover) by Gary M. Ciuba (Author)

When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the "Golden Age" of Hip-Hop from 1987 to 1996 (Paperback) by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (Author), Brother J of the X-Clan (Foreword)


Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media Hardcover) by John D H Downing (Author), Charles Husband (Author) Coming Out Together: An Ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women's and Transgendered People's Movement of San Francisco (Studies in Asian Americans) (Hardcover) by Trinity Ordona (Author) Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, And the Politics of Identity (Paperback) by Kia Lilly Caldwell (Author)
The Art of Inclusion: Success Stories of African Americans in the Nonprofit Sector (Paperback) by Norris Dorsey (Author) A Long Way from Home (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas) (Paperback) by Claude McKay (Author), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor) 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)
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture) American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment (Hardcover) by Sasha Abramsky (Author) Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (Paperback) by Margaret L. Andersen (Author), Patricia Hill Collins (Author)
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer" (Series Q) (Paperback) by Kathryn Bond Stockton (Author), Kathryn Bond Stockton (Author) American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, Health Care in the United States (Hardcover) by W. Michael Byrd (Author) How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You: Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies (Paperback) by Bonnie M. Davis (Author)
"Black" British Aesthetics Today (Hardcover) by R. Victoria Arana (Editor) Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer And First Celebrity Athlete (Hardcover) by Kenneth Shropshire (Author) Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance (Hardcover) by William S. Cohen (Author)
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Paperback)
by Ivan Van Sertima
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor), Mae G. Henderson (Editor) The Black Studies Reader (Hardcover) by Rhoda Barnes (Editor), Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (Editor), Elsa Barkley Brown (Editor), Katie Geneva Cannon (Author), Johnnetta B. Cole (Author), Angela Y. Davis (Author), Ann duCille (Author), Jacqueline Bobo (Editor), Cynthia Hudley (Editor), Claudine Michel (Editor)
Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (Studies in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Michael Borshuk Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860 (Studies in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Jeffrey C. Stone (Author) Finding oprah's roots: Finding Your Own (Hardcover) by Henry Louis Jr Gates
Battered Black Women And Welfare Reform: Between a Rock And a Hard Place (Suny Series in African American Studies) (Hardcover) by Dana-ain Davis The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, And Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta (Suny Series in African American Studies) (Hardcover) by Sharon D. Wright Austin Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (New Millennium Edition) (Hardcover) by Lerone Bennett


The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (Hardcover)
by Jonathan Kozol
Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men
by Peter Edelman, Harry J. Holzer, and Paul Offner (Paperback - Jan 5, 2006)
Learning While Black : Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children (Paperback)
by Janice E. Hale, V.P. Franklin (Foreword), Walter Allen Bailey (Illustrator)
Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to The White House
by Sasha Abramsky
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth (Critical Youth Studies) (Paperback)
by Shawn Ginwright (Editor), Pedro Noguera (Editor), Julio Cammarota (Editor)
The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South (Hardcover)
by Alex Bontemps
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Hardcover)
by Anand Prahlad (Other Contributor)
Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859
by Joseph C. Dorsey (Hardcover - January 2003)
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness And Transnational Identity In The Nineteenth-Century Americas (Rethinking the Americas) (Hardcover)
by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
The Politics of Ethnic and Racial Inequality: A Systematic Comparative Macro-Analysis from the Colonial Period to the Present (Paperback)
by J. Owens Smith
The Politics of Racial Inequality: A Systematic Comparative Macro-Analysis from the Colonial Period to 1970 (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) (Hardcover)
by J. Owens Smith
The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans (Paperback)
by Beth Shulman
Young, Black, and Male in America : An Endangered Species (Paperback)
by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs
Race, Sex, and Suspicion : The Myth of the Black Male (Hardcover)
by D. Marvin Jones
The Minds of Marginalized Black Men : Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) (Hardcover)
by Alford A., Jr. Young
In the Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (Hardcover)
by Craig Steven Wilder
The Myth of Exodus and Genesis and the Exclusion of Their African Origins (Paperback)
by Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Storming Caesar's Palace : How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Hardcover)
Annelise Orleck

Freedom Riders : 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History) (Hardcover)
by Raymond Arsenault
The Harlem Renaissance (Lucent Library of Black History) (Library Binding)
by Andy Koopman
Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial future
by Manning Marable
Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation : Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (Hardcover)
by Reuel R. Rogers
Race, Sex, and Suspicion : The Myth of the Black Male (Hardcover)
by D. Marvin Jones
The New Urban Sociology (Hardcover)
by Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison
Black on Black : Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience (Paperback)
by Celeste Fisher
White Money/Black Power : The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race and Higher Education (Hardcover)
by Noliwe M. Rooks
Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Black Middle Class : Atlanta, 1870-1900 (Hardcover)
by Joseph Jewell
Hip Hop Matters : Politics, Popular Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (Hardcover)
by S. Craig Watkins
The Southern Diaspora : How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (Hardcover)
by James N. Gregory
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness And Transnational Identity In The Nineteenth-Century Americas (Rethinking the Americas) (Hardcover)
by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Africans In Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, And Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora) (Paperback)
by Herman L. Bennett
Black Males Left Behind (Paperback)
by Ronald B. Mincy (Editor)
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (Hardcover)
by Lerone Bennett
The Covenant with Black America (Paperback)
Tavis Smiley (Editor)
Domestic Violence At The Margins: Readings On Race, Class, Gender, And Culture (Hardcover)
by Beth E. Richie (Foreword), Natalie J. Sokoloff (Editor), Christina Pratt (Editor)
Slavery and the Making of America (Paperback)
by James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton
African-American Women's Health and Social Issues(Hardcover)
by Catherine Fisher Collins (Editor)
Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, And Survival (Hardcover)
by Meredith M. Gadsby
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Hardcover)
by Daphne A. Brooks, Daphne A. Brooks
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Series) (Paperback)
by Jawanza Kunjufu
Culture and Customs of Botswana (Culture and Customs of Africa) (Hardcover)
by James Denbow, Phenyo C. Thebe
Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier (Paperback)
by Juliet E. K. Walker
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Hardcover)
by Anand Prahlad (Other Contributor)
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary (Sports and Entertainment) (Paperback)
by Michael E. Lomax
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Hardcover)
by Cornel West




AUTHORS WHO HAVE APPEARED IN PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS,

a

.Raymond Arsenault

Sharon D. Wright Austin

Christa Davis Acampora

Margaret L. Andersen

Sasha Abramsky

b.

Herman L. Bennett

Lerone Bennett

Alex Bontemps

Daphne A. Brooks

Thomas Brooks

Richard Brent

Daniel Black

John Charles Boger

Michael Borshuk

Anne C. Bailey

Tamara L. Brown

Juanita Bynum

W. Michael Byrd

d.

Joseph C. Dorsey

Norris Dorsey

James Denbow

Anani Dzidzienyo

Daryl Cumber Dance

Angela Y. Davis

Bonnie M. Davis

Dana-ain Davis

Bonnie M. Davis

Ann duCille

e

.Peter Edelman,

f

Celeste Fisher

V.P. Franklin

g.

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Shawn Ginwright

Meredith M. Gadsby

James N. Gregory

Mark Gottdiener

Lawrence Otis Graham

David Garland

Dorie J. Gilbert

Herman Gray

Ernest J. Gaines

Caroline Gebhard

h.

Mae G. Henderson

Ray Hutchison

James Oliver Horton

Harry J. Holzer,

Janice E. Hale,

Lois E. Horton

Zoltan L. Hajnal

j.

Joseph Jewell

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

D. Marvin Jones

Gene Jarrett

E. Patrick Johnson

Paula C. Johnson

Andrew Jarrett
k.

Andy Koopman

Jawanza Kunjufu

Jonathan Kozol

Walter M. Kimbrough

Maulana Karenga

Heerak Christian Kim, H. C. Kim

Martin Luther, Jr. King

l

.Joyce A. Logan

Michael E. Lomax

m.

Manning Marable

Ronald B. Mincy

Godfrey Mwakikagile

Marcyliena Morgan

Barbara McCaskill

Claude McKay

n.

feoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Nathaniel Norment, Jr.

o.

Annelise Orleck

Gary Orfield

Suzanne Oboler

p.

Anand Prahlad

Christina Pratt

Gregory S. Parks

Valerie Sweeney Prince

Tyler Perry

r.

Beth E. Richie

Reuel R. Rogers