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    Raised up down yonder : growing up black in rural Alabama / by Howell, Angela McMillan

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Rooted in kin -- Descendants of a first choice school -- Educated at the last chance school -- Reproducing misfortune through mess -- Resistance and spirituality -- Not just down yonder.…”
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    Mecca and Main Street Muslim life in America after 9/11 / by Abdo, Geneive, 1960-

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Imams for a new generation -- The child-bride of the Dix Mosque -- The roots of Islam in America -- Taking it to the streets -- Muslim voices -- Women in the changing mosque -- Heeding the call -- The future of the faith.…”
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    Brazil's living museum race, reform, and tradition in Bahia / by Romo, Anadelia A.

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Between Africa and Athens : Bahia's search for identity -- Finding a cure for Bahia -- Contests of culture -- Preserving the past -- Debating African roots -- Embattled modernization and the retrenchment of tradition.…”
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    Native to the nation disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia / by Cerwonka, Allaine

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : roots, dislocations, and origin stories -- A picturesque nation for a "barren" continent -- Going native -- Policing the body politic : mapping bodies and space in Fitzroy -- The poor white trash of Asia : criminality and Australia in the international landscape -- Conclusion : on the margins of nation.…”
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    Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods / by Boyett, Patricia Michelle

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Prologue: roots of revolt -- Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays -- Massive resistance and the making of the movement -- Freedom days and white knights -- Operation freedom summer -- Wars of attrition -- War on the white knights and the white city -- Trials of the Ku Klux Klan -- Stalemate -- Epilogue: road to redemption.…”
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    Black liberation and socialism by Shawki, Ahmed

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Slavery in the United States -- Abolitionism -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and populism -- Accommodation, racism, and resistance -- The rise of Marcus Garvey -- The Socialist, Communist, and Trotskyist parties -- The roots of the civil rights movement -- The politics of Malcolm X -- Black power -- The Black Panthers and DRUM -- Making race a central wedge issue.…”
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    American pogrom the East St. Louis Race Riot and Black politics / by Lumpkins, Charles L.

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Historical roots of an African American community, 1800-1898 -- The African American political experience, 1898-1915 -- The May uprising : an end to expanding Black power -- The July massacre : "we'll have a White man's town" -- Return to the political arena, 1917-1929 -- Breaking the deadlock, 1930-1945.…”
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    Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / by Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".…”
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    Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent -- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy -- Our people, our problem? …”
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    Historicizing Roma in Central Europe : between critical whiteness and epistemic injustice / by Shmidt, Victoria R., Jaworsky, Bernadette N.

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…Whiteness: a locus for doing race -- Obscure racism: from national indifference to whitening Roma -- The post-socialist shift in pathologizing: from disabled Roma to disabled socialism -- The limits and options of historical narratives concerning Roma in Central Europe -- The inception of whiteness: the Grellmannian intersections of European Roma -- Global racial order comes to Central Europe: the puzzle of "white gypsies" at the dawn of the twentieth century -- The institutionalization of a racialized approach to Roma in the 1920s-1940s: rooting the stigma of an insecure population -- In (re)search of inclusion: Roma under the pressure of de-historicizing between the 1950s and 1990s…”
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