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Beyond Hashtags : Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks / by Florini, Sarah

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Becoming African Americans Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / by Corbould, Clare

Table of Contents: “…Africa the motherland -- Discovering a usable African past -- Institutionalizing Africa, past and present -- The artistic capital of Africa -- "That land of freedom" : Haiti, primitivism, and Black American identity -- Ethiopia ahoy! -- Conclusion : what's in a name?.…”
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Becoming African Americans Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / by Corbould, Clare

Table of Contents: “…Africa the motherland -- Discovering a usable African past -- Institutionalizing Africa, past and present -- The artistic capital of Africa -- "That land of freedom" : Haiti, primitivism, and Black American identity -- Ethiopia ahoy! -- Conclusion : what's in a name?.…”
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American evangelical enterprise in Africa the case of the United Presbyterian mission in Cameroun, 1879-1957 / by Mokosso, Henry Efesoa

Table of Contents: “…The homebase of missions -- The evangelization process: preaching, teaching and healing -- The missionary confrontation with the African physical and cultural environments -- Black Americans and Presbyterian evangelization -- Women missionaries -- Presbyterian relations with the colonial elites -- Emergence of the independent Presbyterian Church of Cameroun -- The consummation of independence -- The future of the church.…”
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American evangelical enterprise in Africa the case of the United Presbyterian mission in Cameroun, 1879-1957 / by Mokosso, Henry Efesoa

Table of Contents: “…The homebase of missions -- The evangelization process: preaching, teaching and healing -- The missionary confrontation with the African physical and cultural environments -- Black Americans and Presbyterian evangelization -- Women missionaries -- Presbyterian relations with the colonial elites -- Emergence of the independent Presbyterian Church of Cameroun -- The consummation of independence -- The future of the church.…”
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The price of racial reconciliation by Walters, Ronald W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A grand narrative of South African racial oppression -- The persistence of memory -- Truth, reconciliation, and reparations -- A grand narrative of black American oppression -- The grand narrative and the legacy of modern subordination -- Barriers to truth and reconciliation in America -- The reparations movement : a liberatory narrative -- The globalization of African reparations -- Postscript.…”
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The price of racial reconciliation by Walters, Ronald W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A grand narrative of South African racial oppression -- The persistence of memory -- Truth, reconciliation, and reparations -- A grand narrative of black American oppression -- The grand narrative and the legacy of modern subordination -- Barriers to truth and reconciliation in America -- The reparations movement : a liberatory narrative -- The globalization of African reparations -- Postscript.…”
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Trust in Black America race, discrimination, and politics / by Nunnally, Shayla C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : race, risk, and discrimination -- Explaining Blacks' (dis)trust : a theory of discriminative racial-psychological processing -- Being Black in America : racial socialization -- Trust no one : navigating race and racism -- Trusting bodies, racing trust -- The societal context -- The political context -- Conclusion : in whom do Black Americans trust? -- Appendix A: NPSS descriptive statistics of survey sample -- Appendix B: Survey sample and U.S. census quota matching.…”
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Trust in Black America race, discrimination, and politics / by Nunnally, Shayla C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : race, risk, and discrimination -- Explaining Blacks' (dis)trust : a theory of discriminative racial-psychological processing -- Being Black in America : racial socialization -- Trust no one : navigating race and racism -- Trusting bodies, racing trust -- The societal context -- The political context -- Conclusion : in whom do Black Americans trust? -- Appendix A: NPSS descriptive statistics of survey sample -- Appendix B: Survey sample and U.S. census quota matching.…”
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Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition / by Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…"Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" : conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" : old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" : African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" : conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" : conjure and Black American cultural traditions.…”
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Conjure in African American society by Anderson, Jeffrey E., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The invisible conjurer : the disappearance of hoodoo from conceptions of Black society -- Vodu and minkisi : the African Foundation of Black American magic -- Witches and medicine men : European and Native American building blocks of hoodoo -- The conjurers' world : the social context of hoodoo in nineteenth-century Black life -- The conjurers themselves : performing and marketing hoodoo -- Conjure shops and manufacturing : changes in hoodoo into the twentieth century -- The magic continues : hoodoo at the turn of the twenty-first century -- Conclusion: The importance of conjure in African American society.…”
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Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition / by Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…"Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" : conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" : old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" : African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" : conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" : conjure and Black American cultural traditions.…”
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Conjure in African American society by Anderson, Jeffrey E., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The invisible conjurer : the disappearance of hoodoo from conceptions of Black society -- Vodu and minkisi : the African Foundation of Black American magic -- Witches and medicine men : European and Native American building blocks of hoodoo -- The conjurers' world : the social context of hoodoo in nineteenth-century Black life -- The conjurers themselves : performing and marketing hoodoo -- Conjure shops and manufacturing : changes in hoodoo into the twentieth century -- The magic continues : hoodoo at the turn of the twenty-first century -- Conclusion: The importance of conjure in African American society.…”
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African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES -- Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities : an Inter-American Case Study / Ifeoma Nwankwo -- Black American Studies at the University of Delaware : Education Across the Lines / Carol Henderson.…”

African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES -- Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities : an Inter-American Case Study / Ifeoma Nwankwo -- Black American Studies at the University of Delaware : Education Across the Lines / Carol Henderson.…”

Historical foundations of Black reflective sociology by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Autobiographical studies -- The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations -- Charlie -- Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies -- Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities -- Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920 -- Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920 -- The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars -- Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948 -- Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases -- The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology -- Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars -- Bitter Canaan : Charles S. …”
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Historical foundations of Black reflective sociology by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Autobiographical studies -- The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations -- Charlie -- Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies -- Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities -- Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920 -- Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920 -- The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars -- Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948 -- Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases -- The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology -- Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars -- Bitter Canaan : Charles S. …”
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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978.…”
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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978.…”
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Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants : Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / by Woodson, Jon

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