On Display at Clarkston: February 2019

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Merida, Kevin, and Washington Post Company. Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril.
Public Affairs, 2007.
Call # E185.86 .B3777 2007
en years after the Million Man March, the largest gathering of black men in the nation's history, Washington Post staffers began meeting to discuss what had become of black men in the ensuing decade. How could their progress and failures be measured?
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Moore, Charles, and Michael S. Durham. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore.
Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1991.
Call # E185.61 .D94 1990
Significant pictures of Civil rights movement in the South from 1958 to 1965 photographed by Charles Moore.
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Pecknold, Diane Hidden in the Mix : The African American Presence in Country Music.
Source
Call # ProQuest Ebook Central ML3479 .H53 2013
ountry music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz influenced western Kentuckians, including Bill Monroe and Ike Everly. Yet attention to how these and other African Americans enriched the music played by whites has obscured the achievements of black country-music performers and the enjoyment of black listeners. The contributors to Hidden in the Mix examine how country music became "white," how that fictive racialization has been maintained, and how African American artists and fans have used country music to elaborate their own identities.
ProQuest Ebook Central

Tauber, Mike, and Pamela Singh. Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-race America.
Berkeley, CA: Channel Photographics, 2010.
Call # E184.A1 T38 2010
On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. This book features individuals from this rapidly growing demographic, and through words and images, it explores the concept of race in America through the personal experiences of people of mixed race heritage.
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Willis, Deborah. Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890's to the Present.
W.W. Norton, 2009.
Call # TR680 .W53 2009
Showcases portrait photography of African Americans taken from the 1890s through the 2000s, along with text discussing the evolution of the idea of beauty for men and women.
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History and Political Life and Movements

Brazile, Donna et. al. For Colored Girls who have Considered Politics.
St Martin's press, 2018.
Call # Browsing Collection
The lives of black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Politics is a sweeping view of American history from the vantage points of four women who have lived and worked behind the scenes in politics for over thirty years--Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore--a group of women who call themselves The Colored Girls. Like many people who have spent their careers in public service, they view their lives in four-year waves where presidential campaigns and elections have been common threads.
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Bynoe, Yvonne. Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture.
Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Call # E185.86 .B94 2004
Bynoe is passionate about the need for a new generation of Black leadership and civic and political organizations to instead actively engage in a policy-centered relationship with the White power structure, not only in field of government but also in economics and media. This understanding, Bynoe argues, should be premised on the principle that political power comes from influence and influence comes from the ability to delivery (or deny) money, votes or both to a political candidate, legislator or political party; in the words of MC Lyte, all the rest is "chitter chatter".
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Estes, Steve. I am a man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.
University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Call # E185.61 .E76 2005
he civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. Estes demonstrates that, at crucial turning points in the movement, both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into implicit assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality.
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Ezra, Michael. Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives.
ABC-CLIO, 2009.
Call # E185.61 .C6167 2009
Presents a collection of essays about the history of the civil rights movement, focusing on the efforts of clergy, student activists, black nationalists, and such organizations as the NCAAP and Core to bring about racial equality.
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Fanning, Sara. Caribbean Crossing: African Americacns and the Hatian Emigration Movement.
NYU Press, 2015.
Call # E185.18 .F36 2014
Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti's leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds with other nations. Haiti's first leaders looked especially hard at the United States, which had a sizeable free Black population that included vocal champions of Black emigration and colonization. In the 1820s, President Jean-Pierre Boyer helped facilitate a migration of thousands of Black Americans to Haiti with promises of ample land, rich commercial prospects, and most importantly, a Black state. His ideas struck a chord with both Blacks and whites in America.
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Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans.
A.A. Knopf, 2000.
Call # E185 .F825 2000b
From Slavery to Freedom describes the rise of slavery, the interaction of European and African cultures in the New World, and the emergence of a distinct culture and way of life among slaves and free Blacks. The authors examine the role of Blacks in the nation's wars, the rise of an articulate, restless free Black community by the end of the eighteenth century, and the growing resistance to slavery among an expanding segment of the Black population.
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Goff, Kelli. Party Crashing: HOw the HIp-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence.
Basic Books, 2008.
Call # E185 .G55 2008
For the last forty years the label "black voter" has been virtually synonymous with "Democrat" but a new generation of voters is changing that. In her provocative new book Party Crashing, political commentator Keli Goff introduces America's newest swing voter. Like soccer moms and Nascar dads before them, young, black voters born after the Civil Rights Movement are becoming increasingly up for grabs, politically speaking.
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Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC.
Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Call # E185.61 .C58 1998
Activists and historians reflect together on the civil rights movement and its meanings, and on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's place in American history.
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Gregory, Dick. Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies.
HarperCollins Publisheres, 2017.
Call # Browsing Collection
With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.
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Harris, Laurie Lanzen. . The Great Migration North: 1910-1970.
Omnigraphics, 2012.
Call # E185.6 .H27 2011
Provides a comprehensive overview of the movement of millions of African Americans out of the South during the twentieth century, including the political, social, and economic factors that drove their migration.
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Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America.
Broadway Books, 2009.
Call # E185.86 .H68 1999
A survey of the trials and accomplishments of African-American women, from the days of slavery in the American colonies through the civil rights movement of the twentieth century.
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Ifill, Gwen. The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Doubleday, 2009.
Call # E185.615 .I34 2009
Veteran journalist Ifill sheds new light on the impact of Barack Obama's presidential victory and introduces the emerging African American politicians forging a new path to political power. Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s.
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Jeffries, J.L. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America.
University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Call # E185.615 .O57 2010
he Black Panther Party suffers from a distorted image largely framed by television and print media, including the Panthers' own newspaper. These sources frequently reduced the entire organization to the Bay Area where the Panthers were founded, emphasizing the Panthers' militant rhetoric and actions rather than their community survival programs. This image, however, does not mesh with reality. The Panthers worked tirelessly at improving the life chances of the downtrodden regardless of race, gender, creed, or sexual orientation.
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Lusane, Clarence. The Black History of the White House.
City Lights Books, 2011.
Call # F204.W5 L86 2011
In this work, the author presents a comprehensive history of the White House from an African American perspective, illuminating the central role it has played in advancing, thwarting, or simply ignoring efforts to achieve equal rights for all. Here are the stories of those who were forced to work on the construction of the mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the determined leaders who pressured U.S. presidents to outlaw slavery. They include White House slaves, and servants who went on to write books, Secret Service agents harassed by racist peers, Washington insiders who rose to the highest levels of power, the black artists and intellectuals invited to the White House, community leaders who waged presidential campaigns, and many others.
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Reid, Debra A., and Evvan P. Bennett. Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule : African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction.
University Press of Florida, 2012.
Call # ProQuest Ebook Central E185.6 .B49 2012
his collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience.
ProQuest Ebook Central

Salzman, Jack, and Cornell West. Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a Histry of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States.
Oxford University Press, 1997.
Call # E185.61 .S915 1997
To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and. Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance.
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Scott, William R., and William G. Shade. Upon These Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present.
Routledge, 2000.
Call # E185 .U63 2000
his one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics.
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Shames, Stephen. The Black Panthers.
Aperture Foundation, 2006.
Call # E185.615 .S44 2006
Shames was prolific and his archive of Panther images is the largest in the world, presenting an uncommonly nuanced portrait of this dynamic social movement. Released on the occasion of the Party's fortieth anniversary, this illuminating publication gathers an astonishing collection of never-before-published images, offering an electrifying visual history. Panther newspapers, posters and other ephemera help convey the ethos of the Panthers and of a transformative period of social upheaval for the whole nation.
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Thompson, Kathleen, and Hilary Austin The Face of our Past: Image of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present.
Indiana University Press, 1999.
Call # E185.86 .F33 1999
What do black women look like? What do they look like at work or with their families? What faces do they choose to present to the world, and what faces has the world forced them to acquire? We can look in vain to most pictorial histories of America and even of African America for images of Black women. With noteworthy exceptions, even scholarly studies in Black women's history tend to include few, if any, photographic images. Of the images that previously have been presented in print, the majority have been of famous Black women.The Face of Our Past brings the ordinary Black woman to center stage, showing how she lives, loves her family, works to survive, fights for her people, and expresses her individuality. In addition to 302 cartefully chosen images, Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin provide quotations from letters, diaries, journals, and other sources
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Thum, Marcella. Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Black America: A Directory of Historic and Cultural Sites Relating to Black America.
Hippocrene Books, 1991.
Call # E185.53.A1 .T58 1991
A guidebook to museums, monuments, and historic sites commemorating the achievements of black Americans and discussions of the aspects of black history and culture the sites represent.
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Washington, Booker T. The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from, Slavery.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Call # E185 .W316 2005
Booker T. Washington mastered the nuances of the political arena in the late 19th century, which enabled him to manipulate the media, raise money, strategize, network, pressure, reward friends and distribute funds while punishing those who opposed his plans for uplifting blacks. His long-term goal was to end the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of African Americans, who still lived in the South. Washington also was a key proponent of African-American businesses and one of the founders of the National Negro Business League
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Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
Random House, 2011.
Call # E185.6 .W685 2011
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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