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The street stops here a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem / by McCloskey, Patrick

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Along the streets of Bronzeville : black Chicago's literary landscape / by Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder

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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance librarian / by Whitmire, Ethelene, 1968-

Subjects: “…New York Public Library. 135th Street Branch Biography.…”
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Juneteenth Texas /

Table of Contents: “…"Bongo Joe" : a traditional street performer /…”
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Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city / by Gordon, Colin (Colin E.)

Table of Contents: “…Our house : the twentieth century at 4635 North Market Street -- Local politics, local power : governing greater St. …”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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The Depression comes to the South Side protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933 / by Reed, Christopher Robert

Table of Contents: “…The impact of the Depression on home life, institutions, and organizations -- The ineffectiveness of conventional politics -- Protest activism in the streets : an alternative to conventional politics -- Organized protest responses, from militant to revolutionary : the NAACP and the Communist Party -- Organized efforts in behalf of civil rights -- Cultural stirrings and conclusion.…”
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Living for the city migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / by Murch, Donna Jean

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- City of migrants, 1940-1960 -- Canaan bound -- Fortress California -- The campus and the street, 1961-1966 -- We care enough to tell it -- A campus where Black power won -- Black power and urban movement, 1966-1982 -- Men with guns -- Survival pending revolution -- A chicken in every bag.…”
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Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights by Goldschmidt, Henry

Table of Contents: “…The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Israelite histories and identities.…”
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Terror in the heart of freedom citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South / by Rosén, Hannah

Table of Contents: “…I: A city of refuge: emancipation in Memphis, 1862-1866 -- City streets and other public spaces -- A riot and massacre -- II: A state of mobilization: politics in Arkansas, 1865-1868 -- The capitol and other public spheres == A constitutional convention -- III: A region of terror: violence in the South, 1865-1876 -- Houses, yards, and other domestic domains -- Testifying to violence.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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Just neighbors? : research on African American and Latino relations in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…: framing commonality in a multiracial coalition / Sylvia Zamora -- Ethnic succession and ethnic conflict : street gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Examining the relationship between African American and Latino street gangs : conflict, cooperation and avoidance in two multi-racial urban neighborhoods / Cid Martinez and Victor Rios.…”
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"Shakin' up" race and gender intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / by Sánchez, Marta Ester

Table of Contents: “…"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo.…”
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Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / by Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beyond racial polarization: political complexity in the city and labor movement of the 1950s -- Optimism and crisis in the new liberal metropolis -- Driving desperation on the auto shop floor -- Citizens, politicians, and the escalating war for Detroit's civic future -- Workers, officials, and the escalating war for Detroit's labor future -- From battles on city streets to clashes in the courtroom -- From fights for union office to wildcats in the workplace -- Urban realignment and labor retrenchment: an end to Detroit's war at home -- Conclusion: civic transformation and labor movement decline in postwar urban America -- Epilogue.…”
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A right to read segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 / by Graham, Patterson Toby, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…African-American Communities and the Black Public -- Library Movement, 1941-1954 -- The Dulcina DeBerry Branch Library, Huntsville -- The Union Street Branch Library, Montgomery -- Birmingham Negro Advisory Committee -- 4. …”
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Documenting the Black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films /

Table of Contents: “…Butters Jr -- Dancing as voice: krumping and clowning in rize as black vernacular rhetoric / Joshua Daniel Phillips -- Gender, the streets and violence: Ameena Matthews and violence interruptions in the interrupters / Ashley Farmer.…”
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Black and brown in Los Angeles : beyond conflict and coalition /

Table of Contents: “….: A JOURNALIST'S VIEW -- More than Just the Latinos-Next-Door: Piercing Black Silence on Immigration and Plugging Immigration's Drain on Black Employment / Erin Aubrey Kaplan -- The Violent Real Estate of Street Life: A Report from the Black and Latino Killing Fields / Sam Quinoes -- PART FIVE. …”
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