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 history
History
Africana Studies
James L. Conyers, Jr.
Volume 1
Afrocentric Traditions
Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa, African
people have operated from the fringes of Eurocentric experience in
the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African history
and culture, or literature and linguistics, or politics and economics, has
been orchestrated from the standpoint of Europe’s interests. Whether
it is a matter of economics, history, politics, geographical concepts, or
art, Africans have been seen as peripheral. This volume reviews the
past in order to evaluate the present and move ahead with appropriate
policies for the future.
ISBN: 978-1-4128-0478-3 (paper) 2005
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Volume 3 New in
Volume 2 Racial Structure and Paperback
Law, Culture, and Africana Studies Radicial Politics in the African Diaspora
The authors focus on issues of affirmative action, legal culture, A must read book for anyone interested in the areas of racial
theories of black culture, and methodologies of scholarly work in theory and racial relations, multicultural and polarized religions,
Africana studies. and the making of African personality and culture. In keeping with
earlier volumes in the series, it emphasizes the cross-fertilization
ISBN: 978-1-4128-0660-2 (paper) 2007

HISTORY
of Africa and the world.
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Old Memories, New Moods
Americans from Africa
Volume 2
Peter I. Rose
Old Memories, New Moods contains essays
on the roots of African American protest,
comments on the background and character
of the Negro Revolt and the Civil Rights
Movement, interpretations of the impact and
significance of Black Power, and, finally,
varied views on changing self-images and
the meaning of Black Pride. Original essays
written especially for this book include those
by Mina Davis Caulfield, August Meier and
Elliott Rudwick, Gerald W. Mullin, and the
editor. Many other essays by black and white
social scientists, psychiatrists, historians,
and political figures are offered in careful
juxtaposition. Among these contributors are
anthropologists Melville J. Herskovits and
Ulf Hannerz; social historians Raymond and
Alice Bauer, Winthrop D. Jordan, Eugene
D. Genovese, Kenneth Stampp, and Stanley
Elkins.
ISBN: 978-0-202-36161-1 (paper) 2007
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Gone from the America and the World
Promised Land The Double Bind
Jonestown in American
Majid Tehranian and
Cultural History
Kevin P. Clements, editors
Second Edition
As the world’s first
John R. Hall democracy with
With a new introduction by the author a written consti-
tution and Bill of
In this superb cultural history, Hall presents
Rights, the United
a reasoned analysis of the meaning of Jon-
States has stood for
estown: why it happened and how it is tied to
global aspirations
our history as a nation, our ideals, our prac-
toward democrat-
tices, and the tensions of modern culture. Hall
ic liberty, equal-
deflates the myths of Jonestown by exploring
ity, and solidarity
the social character of Jim Jones’s Peoples
since its formation
Temple—how much of what transpired
in 1776. However,
was unique to the group and its leader and
as it developed
how much can be explained by reference to
into an empire by the
wider social processes? The book begins by
late nineteenth century, the United
examining the cultural origins of Jonestown:
States also has threatened the liberties of
Who was Jim Jones? Where did he get his
other peoples, including Native Americans,
ideas and followers? How was his Peoples
Hawaiians, Latin Americans, Asians, and
Temple established? The organizational base
Africans. The American role in world affairs
of the Temple is analyzed through relevant
has long been polarized around two conflict-
comparisons with modern institutionalized
ing images and strategies.
practices in economics, bureaucracy, social
control, public relations, and power. ISBN: 978-1-4128-0460-8 (paper) 2005
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African Civilizations Series
Ivan Van Sertima, Series Editor
Early America Revisited
A vigorous defense and amplification of
Van Sertima’s classic work, They Came
Before Columbus, this book makes a care-
fully balanced case for an African presence
in America before Columbus’ voyages. The
work in no way denies the importance of
the Columbus voyages for opening up the
New World to Europe, hence changing the
HISTORY
history
History
Great Black Leaders
Ancient and Modern
Any selection of leaders, whatever the crite-
ria, is inherently subjective. This collection
does establish clear criteria for inclusion,
attempting to include outstanding individuals
from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,
who are clearly of global and not solely na-
tional significance. Leaders from a number
of historical epochs are selected, and the
editor also includes material on outstanding
women leaders.
ISBN: 978-0-88738-739-5 (paper) 1988
433 pp. $28.95/£26.50/$C34.95
Also Available
Blacks in
Science
Ancient and
Modern
Providing an over-
view of the lost
sciences of Africa
and of contributions that blacks have made
to modern American science, Blacks in
Science present a range of new information
from Africanists. The book also includes
bibliographical guides that are crucial to
further research and teaching.
ISBN: 978-0-87855-941-1 (paper) 1983
333 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95

economic and political map of the world

for all time. Van Sertima’s critical cutting
edge is that there is an anthropological and
ethnographic dimension to the process of
discovery, one in which black Africans of
non-European origins played a central role.
Van Sertima marshals literary and pictorial
evidence and shows its authenticity to be
beyond question. More than of historical
interest, these discoveries serve as a basis
for reexamining culture contacts between
civilizations.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0463-1 (paper) 1998
235 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
Egypt: Child of Africa African Presence in Early Asia
ISBN: 978-1-56000-792-0 (paper) 1995 Revised and Enlarged Edition
484 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
African Presence in With Runoko Rashidi, editor
Early America ISBN: 978-0-88738-717-3 (paper) 1987
This profusely illustrated volume presents The Golden Age of the Moor 224 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
what is presently known about the links ISBN: 978-1-56000-581-0 (paper) 1991
between Africa and America before the age 474 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
of Columbus. It makes a convincing case for African Presence in
pre-Columbian contacts between Africa and
America before the era of the slave trade. Early Europe
The contributors draw upon the evidence of Egypt Revisited ISBN: 978-0-88738-664-0 (paper) 1986
cultures in private collections and findings ISBN: 978-0-88738-799-9 (paper) 1989 345 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
from excavations, and evidence of ancient 454 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
African mathematics, astronomy, map mak-
ing, scripts, navigations, trade routes, pyra-
midal structures, linguistic connections, and
Great African Thinkers
technological and ritual complexes. Black Women in Antiquity With Larry Williams, editor
ISBN: 978-0-88738-715-9 (paper) 1987 ISBN: 978-0-87855-982-4 (paper) 1988 ISBN: 978-0-88738-680-0 (paper) 1986
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 history
History
The Economics of Slavery
Booker T. Washington Charles S. Johnson
And Other Studies in
Up from Slavery New in Econometric History Shadow of the Plantation
Paperback
An Autobiography Alfred H. Conrad and With a new introduction
Large Print Edition John R. Meyer by Joseph S. Himes
In this captivat- How are economists “A masterpiece
ing autobiogra- and historians to ex- of fact finding....
phy, Washington plain what happened the effect is
recounts his per- in history? What more like that
sonal voyage statistical inferences of an art than of
from the shack- can be drawn from a science.”
les of slavery to historical data? The
the pinnacle of authors believe that —John Crowe
prominence. Up explanation in histo- Ransom,
from Slavery is ry can be identified American
as much about with the problems of Review
Washington’s prediction in a prob- Focusing on
Tuskegee Insti- abilistic universe. descendants of
tute as it is about himself. When criticized In essence, the book is an argument for a slaves in one
for limiting the educational horizons of demonstration of the point of view that the rural Southern community in the early
blacks by emphasizing agricultural and restricted approach of “measurement without part of the twentieth century, Johnson
vocational subjects at his school, Washing- theory” is not necessary in economic history. reviews the troubled history of race rela-
ton declared that these are the true bases The authors explore the meanings and impli- tions in the United States. When reread
of black economic development. cations of evidence, explanation and proof in half a century after it was first written,
ISBN: 978-1-56000-544-5 (cloth) 1997 history by applying econometric methods to the book is revealed as a remarkably

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The Man Farthest Down
A Record of Observation and
Study in Europe
With Robert E. Park
With a new introduction
by St. Clair Drake
“The book is as readable for its lively
presentation of conditions in Europe as
it is valuable for its conclusions.”
—The Nation
The Man Farthest Down represents
an early contribution to the study of
comparative social systems. Its treatment
of life in the East European shtetls is
as moving as the analysis of ghetto life
in America. In his new introduction to
this edition, Drake illustrates the
intellectual camaraderie shared
between Park and Washington
in their studies of race. Drake
also details their individual
observations, philosophies,
and activities in both their
academic and political
lives.
ISBN:
978-0-87855-933-6
(paper) 1984 456 pp.
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the analysis of major problems in nineteenth
century economic history, including the prof-
itability of slavery in the antebellum South.
The book presents an original and provoca-
tive approach to historical problems that have
long plagued economists and historians and
provides the reader with a new approach to
these and similar questions.
ISBN: 978-0-202-30934-7 (paper) 2007
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Slavery and Its Aftermath
Peter I. Rose, editor
A reissued classic, Slavery and Its Aftermath
offers the reader the opportunity to see—and
indeed, to participate in—debates over
the extent of African influence on the life
of black Americans. This volume deals
with four controversies: the retention
of “Africanism,” the impact of slavery
on personality and social structure, life
in the South and in the North, and the
current status of black Americans. The
work contains essays on the roots of black
protest, comments on the background and
character of the Black Revolt and the Civil
Rights Movement, interpretations
of the impact and significance of
Black Power, and varied views
on changing self-images of being
African-American.
ISBN: 978-0-202-30941-5
(paper) 2007 486 pp.
$44.95/£40.50/$C53.95
HISTORY
perceptive comment on race relations
and the triumph of individuals over
circumstances. Johnson describes and
analyzes 612 black families in the rural
community of Macon County, Alabama
in the late 1920s and early 1930s: their
families, economic situation, education,
religious activities, recreational life, and
health practices.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-878-1 (paper) 1996
215 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
Bitter Canaan
The Story of the Negro Republic
With an introduction
by John Stanfield
Bitter Canaan is a historical sociologi-
cal account of Liberian society. Johnson
traces the historical development of
American race relations that lead to the
emigration of thousands of blacks to Li-
beria. The struggles in leaving America
and settling the African wilderness are
detailed. His critical study of American
corporate intervention in Liberian soci-
ety in the twentieth century has the flair
of contemporary political analysis.
ISBN: 978-0-88738-053-2 (cloth) 1985
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 history
History
Slavery in the United States Narrative of the Life of an
Charles W. Chesnutt American Slave
Louis Filler New in
Paperback
The House New in With a new introduction Large Print Edition
Paperback
Behind the Cedars by the author Frederick Douglass
Chesnutt’s nov- Slavery in the United This volume, the
els are about ten- States clarifies the most famous of all
sions, alliances, institution of slav- slave narratives,
and emotional ery in its historical written by the most
and physical context. This finely towering black figure
violence on etched volume en- of the 19th century,
both sides of the compasses the hu- is both literature and
color line. The man implications of historical analysis.
House Behind slavery and its prac- Douglas provides a
the Cedars is tices. It emphasizes true glimpse of the
a tale of an at- the distinguished brutal experience of
tractive brother and disreputable el- slavery in antebel-
and sister who ements on both sides lum America. With
decide to estab- of the slavery relationship, and in every part this classic autobiography, Douglas has left
lish themselves in the best class of of the United States. The work includes high an indispensable legacy for modern day read-
whites South Carolina has to offer. quality, often neglected, readings that permit ers in helping them understand what it’s like
Rena makes a brilliant match, exactly the reader to form his or her own views. It to be “broken in body, soul, and spirit” yet
as her calculating brother has intended. reveals the best writings on all aspects of the rise above unimaginable adversity to become
But the engagement is soon threatened slavery issue, as well as analytic summa- an outstanding orator who hoped his “little
by her own ambivalence and a series of tions by contemporary historians and social book would hasten the day of deliverance to
miscalculations, shifting loyalties, and researchers. the millions of my brethren in bonds.”
full-stop treacheries. ISBN: 978-0-7658-0431-0 (paper) 1998
HISTORY

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ISBN: 978-1-56000-494-3 (cloth) 2000
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The Marrow of New in
Paperback
Tradition
“The Marrow of Tradition” is a phrase
furthest from a benign statement on
culture. Rather it is a sharp-edged sen-
sibility that the tradition involved, the
sense of the racial supremacy of whites
over blacks in the post-Civil War South,
remained strong even at the turn of the
twentieth century. In this compressed
epic, Chesnutt, with a subtle sense of
irony describes the frame-up of a black
man for the rape and violation of a white
woman. And while the hoax is uncovered
by none other than the grandfather of the
actual perpetrator of the crime, the mores
and traditions of the South are such that
while the innocent is eventually let go,
the guilty white youngster goes unpun-
ished. This is a brilliantly written effort
in a class with The Ox Bow Incident and
To Kill a Mockingbird.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-493-6 (cloth) 1999
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Jews and the American
Slave Trade
Saul S. Friedman
Andrew Durnford
“... a much needed A Black Sugar Planter in the
response to an Antebellum South
explosive issue that
has been plagued David O. Whitten
with false charges The Durnford volume offers singular ac-
and pseudo- counts of American life and labor in the
scholarship. In calm, first half of the nineteenth century. Because
logical and precise Durnford was black, free, and a medical
academic fashion, practitioner, his life stands as a rare example
Dr. Friedman amply of a man and a culture adjusting to peculiar
proves that Jews did social orders.
not dominate the ISBN: 978-1-56000-200-0 (cloth) 1995
slave trade to and
192 pp. $32.95/£29.95/$C39.95
in America and, in fact, played a minuscule
role even when part of the larger European,
West Indian, North American, and South
American slave societies. From ancient
slavery to colonial mass transport, through STAY CONNECTED
each involved European nation to each
American colony, Dr. Friedman’s careful
GET REWARDED
analysis is thoroughly documented and
interestingly crafted.
—Dr. David A. Rausch, professor of
history, Ashland University
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0660-4 (paper) 1999
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First of the Year: 2009
NEW
Volume 2
Benj DeMott, editor
This is the second volume in the First of
the Year Series. Contributors like Armond
White, Philip Levine, Donna Gaines, Law-
rence Goodwyn, Irving Louis Horowitz,
Charles O’Brien, Fredric Smoler, Paul
Berman, and Amiri Baraka are back (and
blazing). And there are important new voices
in the First mix, such as Vincent Harding,
Roxane Johnson, and Bob Levin. If there is
a leitmotif to this edition, it is the election
and inauguration of Barack Obama as the
first African-American president. First aims
to be up to the minute of this moment. As
Benj DeMott notes “a glance at this volume
confirms the margin is still the center for
us.” And that margin stretches from Harlem
to the world.
ISBN: 978-1-4128-1166-8 (paper) 2009
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First of the Year: 2008
Benj DeMott, editor
First of the Year: 2008 is the first in an annual
series of socio-cultural reviews that intends
to open a new chapter in the Harlem Renais-
sance. It is an attempt to make political argu-
ment s breathe through cultural voices. It is
grounded in the needs of “dissed” people:
disenfranchised, disadvantaged, disinher-
ited, discomfited, and dismissed. The initial
volume deals with the issue of humanism
and terror, the nature of social movements,
electoral and urban politics, and the musical
trends of our time. Issues of “standards” are
addressed from the angle of African Ameri-
can cultural traditions, and the mind-body
problem as a matter of race, not just of meta-
physics. The contributors include Sheldon
Wolin, Jean Bethke Elsthain, Kurt Vonnegut,
Paul Berman, Charles Keil, Philip Levine,
among others. First of the Year bridges the
gap between radical perspectives and insists
on the centrality of African American culture
to the national conversation.
ISBN: 978-1-4128-0801-9 (paper) 2008
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CONNECTED
CULTURE
Culture
Loopholes and Retreats NEW
African American Writers and the
Nineteenth Century
John Cullen Gruesser and
Hanna Wallinger, editors
The essays explore the loopholes and retreats
employed and exploited by African American
polemicists, poets, novelists, slave narrators,
playwrights, short story writers, essayists,
editors, educators, historians, clubwomen,
and autobiographers during the nineteenth
century. The contributions use comparative,
transnational, literary historical, cultural
studies, and Foucauldian perspectives to
examine how apparent weakness was turned
into strength, and the machinery of oppres-
sion into the keys to liberation
ISBN: 978-3-8258-1892-0 (paper) 2009
208 pp. $44.95/£40.50/$C53.95
Art, Education, and African-
American Culture class, who live out an assault on their human
Albert Barnes and the Science of
Philanthropy
Mary Ann Meyers
“Mary Ann Meyers
uses a journalist’s
eye, and a novelist’s
timing in skillfully
weaving the socio-
logical, artistic, po-
litical, societal and
philosophical ingre-
dients that comprise
the saga of the Barnes
Foundation. The
stranger than fiction
account of the Foun-
dation is laced together with a lucid biography
of its provocative founder and the ramifications
of his eccentricities over the half century fol-
lowing his death. Dr. Meyers is exemplary in
her scholarship and even-handedness in telling
a story that relentlessly offers the temptation
to take sides.”
—Frederick S. Osborne, President,
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Art, Education, and African-American
Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic
and innovative figure and a study of the
often-conflicted efforts of an emergent
liberalism to seek out and showcase African
American contributions to the American
aesthetic tradition.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0214-9 (cloth) 2003
474 pp. $49.95/£44.95/$C59.95
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Haiti
The God of Tough Places,
NEW
the Lord of Burnt Men
Richard Frechette
As a priest and a physician, Fr. Frechette has
known the body, heart, and soul of many peo-
ple in the most anguishing of circumstances,
when they faced the biggest challenges to their
life and the meaning of it. The reflections in
this volume are less about Haiti than they are
about real-life incidents that happened there,
during a particular time in history. These
reflections shed light on what happens in any
place, at any time, to people of any race or
dignity.This is a stunning work that crosses
CULTURE
all conventional barriers between the personal
and the political, between degradation by oth-
ers and elevation by selves.
ISBN: 978-1-4128-1420-1 (cloth) 2010
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Transaction will donate a portion of the
proceeds from the sale of the book to the
Salvation Army, Catholic Charities,
and the American Red Cross.
Haiti
The Best Nightmare on Earth
Herbert Gold
With a new afterword
by the author
In Haiti: The Best Nightmare on Earth, Herbert
Gold explores the secret life of this vibrant,
volatile, violent land. The author reflects on
the country’s history and politics, culture and
folklore, but sees much more. He sees Haiti
through the eyes of a lover: impassioned, jeal-
ous, probing, ever alert, and alive. Where else
is there such generosity amid such corruption,
such humor in the midst of such desperation?
This is Herbert Gold’s Haiti, a country of ex-
traordinary paradox and remarkable extremes-
of gingerbread dream houses and wretched
slums, of brutal repression
and explosive creative
energy.
ISBN:
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 CULTURE
Culture
Deep Down in the Jungle Restoring the Connection to Caribbean Transformations
Black American Folklore from the the Natural World
Sidney W. Mintz
Streets of Philadelphia Essays on the African American Contact and clash,
Roger D. Abrahams Environmental Imagination amalgamation and
accommodation, re-
This work represents Sylvia Mayer sistance and change
an attempt to present Since its emergence in the second half of have marked the
a body of folklore the nineteenth century, American environ- history of the Ca-
collected among one mentalism has predominantly been a white,
CULTURE

ribbean islands. It
small group of Black middle-class pursuit, being preoccupied with is a unique region
Americans in a neigh- notions of wilderness and wildlife preserva- where people under
borhood in South tion. Only fairly recently, with the advent the stress of slavery
Philadelphia. The of the environmental justice movement in had to improvise,
author’s approach to- the 1980s, has American environmental- invent and literally
ward collection and ism broadened its definition of “environ- create forms of hu-
presentation has been ment” to include the concerns relevant to man association through which their pasts
intensive. He has tried a community’s way of living. Of particular and the symbolic interpretation of their pres-
to collect “in depth,” disproportionate importance are the concerns ent could be structured. From Puerto Rican
and to recreate in his of poor urban communities of color, which plantation slavery to the rise of a Caribbean
presentation the social background in which the have been exposed to environmental hazards. peasantry to the implications of Caribbean
lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life This volume—one of the first collections nationhood, Caribbean Transformations
and the values of the group. Abrahams’ work is of ecocritical essays devoted exclusively presents essential readings for anthropolo-
a departure from any past methods of analyzing to African American texts—shows that gists, sociologists, historians and others
folklore, so a description of the methodology is African Americans have contributed to the interested in the Caribbean, in black studies,
given first. Throughout the project, the object efforts of the environmental justice move- in colonial problems, in the relationships
was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore ment, not only as political activists, but also between colonial areas and the imperial pow-
of one small group of African Americans from as writers. ers, and in culture change generally.
urban Philadelphia.
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Family and Child Well-Being
after Welfare Reform
Douglas Besharov, editor
This volume ex-
plores how low-in-
come children and
their families are
faring in the wake
FAMILY
FAMILY
Family
Adoption, Race, and Identity Impacts of Incarceration on
From Infancy to Young Adulthood the African American Family
Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein Othello Harris and
With a new preface R. Robin Miller, editors
The criminal justice
by the authors
Adoption, Race, and system has driven
a wedge between
Identity is a long-
black men and their

of welfare reform. range study of the

impact of interracial children. African
Each chapter ex- American families
amines a series of adoption on those
adopted and their are harmed by this
questions: Can ex- in countless ways,
isting surveys and families. In four
phases it traces the from the psycho-
other data be used logical, physical,
to measure trends subjects from ear-
ly childhood into and material costs
in the area? What experienced by the
key indicators should be tracked? What are young adulthood.
Bringing together men themselves, to
the initial trends after welfare reform? What the losses felt by their mates, children, and
other information or approaches would be all phases into one
volume gives the reader a richer and deeper extended family members. This insightful
helpful? volume fills a void in the literature on the role
understanding of what the experience of
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Black Families
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Harold E. Cheatham and
James B. Stewart, editors
Since the 1960s, when the Moynihan Report
and the culture of poverty theses held sway,
a consistent yet inconclusive and contradic-
tory theme has been that black families are
pathological. This volume focuses on the
economic circumstances and decision mak-
ing of these families, employing interdisci-
plinary and cross-cultural perspectives.
ISBN: 978-0-88738-812-5 (paper) 1990
418 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
Serving African American
Children
Sondra Jackson and Sheryl
Brissett-Chapman, editors
This volume presents an African American
perspective on child welfare issues affecting
African American children and challenges
the child welfare community to ensure that
all African American children will receive
protection, nurturing, and an improved
quality of life; to create and sustain mutual
communication and support through pro-
gram development; and to increase African
American leadership through education and
training opportunities in preparation for
executive level positions.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0434-1 (paper) 1998
274 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
Crossing Boundaries
African American Inner City and
Migrant Youth
Theron D. Cook, Maria Diedrich,
and Flip Lindo, editors
The essays included in this volume are an
outgrowth of a symposium on transcultural
and national orientation called “Crossing
Boundaries.” The conference was inspired
by the “Wigger” metaphor and was attended
by African American researchers who have
worked among inner city black youth, as well
as European and Israeli migration scholars.
Collectively they contribute to understanding
how to address the myriad of challenges that
youth from different cultures confront in the
countries in which they live.
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FAMILY
Family
Slipping through the Cracks
The Status of Black Women
Margaret C. Simms and
Julianne M. Malveaux, editors
“In a curious
inversion of the
truth, black women
are sometimes
portrayed as doubly
lucky—the major
beneficiaries of a
double-barrelled
and super-vigorous
affirmative action
program. In reality,
of course, they
continue to maintain
their place at the bottom of the market. In this
volume, Margaret C. Simms and Julianne M.
Malveaux have assembled papers on black
women’s employment, health, education,
training, and single parenting, and on the
policies that address their situations... [T]he
volume goes some distance to remedy the
neglect of black women in the social science
literature.”
—Barbara Bergmann,
The Journal of Human Resources
ISBN: 978-0-88738-662-6 (paper) 1986
302 pp. $21.95/£19.95/$C26.95 ISBN: 978-0-202-30907-1 (paper) 2006
African American Males
A Critical Link in the African
American Family
Dionne J. Jones, editor
The disproportionate share of African
American male inmates in the U.S., the high
homicidal rate, the astronomical rise and
spread of the AIDS virus, and the continuing
growth of drug abuse, all suggest that the
African American male may be becoming
an endangered species. Contributors examine
the structural and environmental conditions
that give rise to these negative conditions,
and argue that the current situation makes
for structural imbalance in American society
as a whole, as well as that within African
American communities as such.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-744-9 (paper) 1994
95 pp. $21.95/£19.95/$C26.95
Behind Ghetto Walls
Black Families in a Federal Slum
Lee Rainwater
This classic book
is about the fam-
ily lives of some
10,000 children and
adults who lived in
an all-black pub-
lic housing project
in St. Louis in the
1960s. The ques-
tions treated here
have to do with the
kinds of interper-
sonal relationships
that develop in nuclear families, the social-
ization processes that operate in families as
children grow up in a slum environment,
the informal relationships of children and
adolescents and adults with each other,
and, finally, the world views (the existential
framework) arising from the life experiences
of the residents, and the ways they make use
of this framework to order their experiences
and make sense out of them. The book
FAMILY
pays particular attention to how each new
generation of parents expresses the cultural
and social structural forces that formed it and
continue to constrain its behavior.
591 pp. $39.95/£35.95/$C47.95
Pathways to Manhood
Young Black Males Struggle
for Identity
Expanded Second Edition
Janet Mancini Billson
With a foreword by Richard Majors
and an epilogue
by Bernard E. Bruce
Billson studies five young boys who grew
up during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
She analyzes how each coped with being
a poor black male growing up in Roxbury,
Massachusetts. Using data from Harvard’s
“Pathways to Identity” project, she shows
how healthy ego striving develops in a
society that throws many strikes against its
members.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-871-2 (paper) 1996
367 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95

 EDUCATION
Education
Wilbur H. Watson
Black Folk Medicine
The Therapeutic Significance of
Faith and Trust
With a foreword by
Doris Y. Wilkinson
This volume provides new insight into the
various conditions and structures that help to
account for the development and persistence
of folk medicine in societies.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0460-0 (paper) 1998
136 pp. $21.95/£19.95/$C26.95
Stress and Old Age
By focusing on signs of post-relocation
mortality, psychosocial distress, and coping
behavior in two groups of inner city elderly
black people, this book helps fill the infor-
mation void created by the lack of research
EDUCATION
on relocation effects among the minority
elderly.
ISBN: 978-0-87855-296-2 (cloth) 1980
144 pp. $34.95/£31.50/$C41.95
Catholic High Schools and Historically Black Colleges
Minority Students and Universities Fostering Access and Excellence in
Andrew M. Greeley Charles L. Betsey, editor
With a new preface by the author Spurred on by financial and accreditation
Using a complex issues, litigation to assure compliance with
analytic technique court decisions, equal higher education op-
portunity for all citizens, and the role of race
that includes sophis-
in admissions decisions, interest in the role,
ticated mathemati-
accomplishments, and future of Historically
cal models, Greeley
Black Colleges and Universities has been
demonstrates that
renewed. The competition that HBCUs cur-
the preponderance
rently face in attracting and educating Afri-
of evidence on mea-
can-American and other students presents
suring the effect of
both challenges and opportunities. Despite
Catholic secondary
the fact that numerous studies have found
schools on minority
that HBCUs are more effective at retaining
students tilts in favor
and graduating African-American students
of the school. There
than predominately white colleges, HBCUs
appears to be an authentic Catholic school ef-
have serious detractors. There is reason to
fect, attributable to religious order ownership
believe, and it is the opinion of several con-
of some schools, more regular discipline in
tributors to this book, that in the changing
the schools, and especially to a higher quality
higher education environment HBCUs will
of teaching. Greeley confirms the continued
not survive. This volume provides cutting-
success of Catholic schools based on recent
studies, despite dissenting voices that wish to edge data as well as solid social analysis of
attack both private and religious educational this major concern in black life.
institutions. This is an important contribution ISBN: 978-1-4128-0782-1 (paper) 2008
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young people in the United States.
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Against the Odds
Blacks in the Profession of Medicine
in the United States
“Watson’s important work presents an
informative overview of the role of race and
class in framing the entry and achievements
of African American physicians…. [This]
informative book makes a significant
contribution to the achievements of African
Americans.”
—Doris Wilkinson, Director, National
Project on the African American Heritage
Watson describes successful efforts by
determined individuals and small groups of
black Americans, since the early nineteenth
century, to establish a strong black presence
in the medical profession. It is a unique
study of the history, ethnography, and social
psychology of blacks in medicine, which
brings readers closer to the physicians’ lived
experiences than mere social or quantitative
description.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-376-2 (cloth) 1998
198 pp. $34.95/£31.50/$C41.95
Habits of Mind
Higher Education
William B. Allen and
Carol M. Allen
“The goal of higher
education as de-
scribed by Allen
and Allen is based
on a curriculum of
study for a proficient
humanity character-
ized by excellence in
judgment.... The au-
thors have presented
a refreshing treatise
on the values of edu-
cation, respect for
working toward a more civilized society,
acknowledgement of human dignity and
the need for more moral and fair treatment
within our society.
—Alton L. Taylor,
University of Virginia
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A Century of Service
Land-Grant Colleges and Universi-
ties, 1890-1990
Ralph D. Christy and
Lionel Williamson, editors
Both a history and appreciation of Land-
Grant schools, this work provides a presenta-
tion of views on how their original mission
can best be adapted to the challenges of the
future. In assessing the current state of the
schools and looking to the future, the authors
seek ways of building upon their strengths
and traditions and explore alternative insti-
tutional designs to enhance the status and
opportunities for African American agricul-
tural scientists and professionals under new
circumstances.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-002-0 (cloth) 1991
124 pp. $34.95/£31.50/$C41.95
Blackness and
Sexualities
Antje Schuhmann and
Michelle Wright, editors
How queer is Black studies, how racialized
is queer studies? In the West, racial fantasies
are often sexualized, just as sexual fantasies
often rely on notions of a racial Other. Bring-
ing together the latest work by some of the
foremost scholars in a variety of disciplines,
Blackness and Sexualities offers analyzes
and critiques that span three continents and
looks at topics such as: the secret market-
ing of black female pornography to white
American men; the eroticization of colonial
legacies in contemporary German media; the
exoticization of African women in previously
unpublished photos and diaries by America’s
first best-selling black novelist; the ways in
which film captures how drag queens can
claim agency and cooperate with all kinds of
sexual communities across racial lines, or fail
to do so with terrible consequences.
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EDUCATION
Education
African Americans in Sport The Urban School
Gary A. Sailes A Factory for Failure
Although research Ray C. Rist
on African Ameri-
With a new
EDUCATION
can athletes gen-
erally focuses on introduction
negative stereotypes by the author
of physical prowess, “The Urban School
and socially con- is a timely and much
troversial themes, needed wake-up call
few studies investi- to an educational
gate the diverse and policy and contempo-
complex cultural rary social problem
dichotomies within that urgently needs to
the infrastructure of be addressed across
sport in the African American community. the country and in every urban school district.”
Sailes maintains that it is crucial to develop —The Bookwatch
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involvement in competitive sports.
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Race
Prescription for Failure
Race Relations in the
Age of Social Science
Byron M. Roth
Roth examines the sources of racial conflict
and why advances in civil rights for blacks
have not been accompanied by greater
harmony between blacks and whites. His
central thesis is that America’s policies on
race have failed because they have been
based on social science theories unsupported
by sound evidence, and that policies aimed Right Turn
at diminishing white racism can have only
a negligible effect on the massive problems William Bradford Reynolds, the
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of the black underclass. Prescription for Reagan Administration, and Black
Failure touches on a wide range of issues, Civil Rights
including the role of the media in perpetuat-
ing common misunderstandings about race, Raymond Wolters
the reluctance of social scientists to report “A wide ranging, solidly researched, and
on controversial findings that might be con- judiciously written account of one of the most
strued as insensitive or racist, and the trend politically controversial and ideologically
on university campuses toward self-segrega- divisive issues in recent American history...
tion among minority students. Wolters provides a balanced and dispassion-
ISBN: 978-1-56000-161-4 (cloth) 1994 ate account of modern civil rights policy that
392 pp. $54.95/£49.50/$C65.95 illuminates often bitterly contested issues.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-739-5 (paper) 1994 His distinctive contribution is to uncover a
392 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95 vast amount of factual information not previ-
ously known.”
—Herman Belz, University of Maryland
ISBN: 978-1-56000-257-4 (cloth) 1996
499 pp. $49.95/£44.95/$C59.95

 RACE
Race
An American Dilemma Black Men in Interracial
W.E.B. DuBois Relationships
The Negro Problem and Modern
The Souls of New in Democracy What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Paperback
Black Folk Gunnar Myrdal Kellina M. Craig-Henderson
Large Print Edition With a new introduction “There really isn’t
This extraordi- by Sissela Bok this exodus of
nary work first In rich, historic de- Black men running
published in tail the two volumes to White women.
1903 remains of An American Di- Because we don’t
one of the most lemma show every see a lot of Black
influential writ- major aspect of the men and Black
ings of our time. black encounter women together as
DuBois declared, with white America couples, it stands out
“the problem of as it existed more in our minds when
the Twentieth than fifty years ago. we do see Black
Century is the These classics cover men in interracial
problem of the racial beliefs and relationships.”
color line” and ancestry; popula- —Kellina M. Craig-Henderson,
indeed predicted the racial controversy tion and migration; Ebony Magazine, 2007
that continues to haunt American soci- the economic condition of black people in
Grounded in serious research, interviews,
ety. This prophetic masterpiece began historic context; political trends and prac-
and analysis of census data, Black Men in
DuBois’s lifelong crusade in his search tices; the legal system and the administra-
Interracial Relationships examines why such
for a solution, pleading for mutual respect tion of justice; patterns of social inequality
relationships appear to be so popular among
and understanding as well as the use of and discrimination; social stratification and
black male elites. The author unravels the
nonviolent methods to achieve racial the black class structure; black leadership
mystery behind the apparent absence of black
equality. and protest movements; community life
women in black men’s lives. This book will
ISBN: 978-1-56000-524-7 (cloth) 1998 and institutions in the black world; and the
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interest specialists in race, gender, family, and

330 pp. $34.95/£31.50/$C41.95
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Dusk of Dawn
An Essay Toward an
Autobiography of a Race Concept
With a new introduction
by Irene Diggs
“DuBois describes in a mood of mounting
intensity, sternly held in check, his own
changing attitudes towards the restricting
bars set up against the world of color. The
story of DuBois’ life, devoted to a program
of action against these restrictions,
presents an unforgettable picture of the
changing life of our time.”
—Library Journal
In her perceptive introduction to this
Transaction edition, Irene Diggs sets
this classic autobiography against its
broad historical context
and critically analyzes its
theoretical and method-
ological significance.
ISBN:
978-0-87855-917-6
(paper) 1984 355 pp.
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“American dilemma” as such.
“One of the best political commentaries on
American life that has ever been written.”
—The American Political Science Review
Volume 1:
ISBN: 978-1-56000-856-9 (paper) 1995
822 pp. $39.95/£35.95/$C47.95
Volume 2:
ISBN: 978-1-56000-857-6 (paper) 1996
936 pp. $49.95/£44.95/$C59.95
2 Volume Set:
ISBN: 978-1-56000-858-3 (paper) 1996
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The Things They Say
Behind Your Back
Stereotypes and the Myths Behind
Them
William B. Helmreich
In this groundbreaking book on the dim
world of opinion formation, Helmreich
opens a closet bursting with skeletons and
explores the myths and historical roots of
stereotypes pertaining to ethnic groups. He
discusses which stereotypes are false, which
are true, how they originated, and why some
of the most libeled groups promote warped
perceptions about themselves.
ISBN: 978-0-87855-953-4 (paper) 2004
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sexual issues appropriate for courses in these
areas. It is also highly readable and thought-
provoking for the general public, who will find
its observations and findings fascinating.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0309-2 (cloth) 2006
195 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
COMING FALL 2010
Black Women in Interracial Relationships
Managing Diversity
in the Military
Research Perspectives from
the Defense Equal Opportunity
Management Institute
Mickey R. Dansby,
James B. Stewart, and
Schuyler C. Webb, editors
Managing Diversity in the Military provides
an introduction to diversity management and
equal opportunity research in the United States
military. In twenty-four chapters it addresses
current equal opportunity and diversity issues
and explores how the military is attempting to
resolve them. The research presented reflects
the interests of scholars from various back-
grounds who use different models, approaches,
and methodologies, many of which are adapted
from the study of civilian institutions.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0046-6 (cloth) 2001
557 pp. $59.95/£53.95/$C72.95
 RACE
Race
Eli Ginzberg
The Unemployed Troublesome Presence The Nation’s Children
With an introduction Democracy and the Black Americans Three Volumes in One
by Ben B. Seligman The issues raised in
With Alfred S. Eichner this tripartite study
The Unemployed, Ginzberg and Eich- of The Family and
a classic study of ner, in an innovative Social Change,
the effect of unem- interpretation of ba- Development and
ployment and of the sic political conflict Education, and
ways of relieving it in the American ex- Problems and Pros-
upon actual, typi- perience, reveal how pects remain central.
cal families of the democracy evolved It confirms that the
1930s and 1940s. It without making a problems of chil-
is a vivid, startling place for African dren and youth have
picture of the de- Americans. The vol- not been satisfacto-
moralizing influence ume emphasizes the rily resolved.
and consequences national, rather than
of America’s relief ISBN:
regional, character
policies during the Depression years. The 978-0-88738-676-3
of racial prejudice. This book provides a
study comprises an incisive interpretation (paper) 1987 750 pp.
tough-minded appraisal of the American
of the problem and a series of absorbing past coupled with a fair-minded sense of the $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
human-interest stories of representative American present.
families on relief.
ISBN: 978-1-56000-695-4 (paper) 1993
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America’s Second Civil War Race, Class, and Power Immigration, Incorporation

Dispatches from the Political Center
Stanley A. Renshon
For the second time
in the history of the
United States anoth-
er civil war looms.
The new danger lies
in conflicts among
people of different
racial, cultural, and
ethnic heritages, and
between those who
view themselves as
culturally, politi-
cally, and economi-
cally disadvantaged versus those whom they
see as privileged. Unlike the first Civil War,
the antagonists cannot take refuge in their
family or their religious, social, cultural or
political organizations. These are precisely
the places were the war is being fought.
At issue is whether it is possible or desir-
able to preserve the strengths of a common
heritage. Some quarters insist that our past
has resulted in a culture only worth tearing
down to build over, rather than one worth
keeping and building upon. We are in conflict
over the viability of American culture and
identity itself.
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Ideology and Revolutionary Change
in Plural Societies
Leo Kuper
With a new introduction
by Troy Duster
Examining in detail the apparently inexo-
rable polarization of society in such countries
as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the
author questions whether current theories
correctly explain the past or offer adequate
guides for the future. In their place he puts
forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian
view of the possibility of non-violent revo-
lutionary change, based on the development
of such social and cultural continuities as
already exist within each plural society. The
aim of this groundbreaking and challenging
book is to create theoretical perspectives in
which to view the racial conflict of plural
societies. The author also describes his
struggles with the then-prevailing South
African society, critiques that, and reveals
censorship of his attempts to make these
public. In the light of subsequent changes in
South Africa many decades after its original
printing in the mid-1970s, this book serves
not only as an important work of political
sociology but as a personal testament to the
fight against racism in South Africa.
ISBN: 978-0-202-30800-5 (paper) 2005
355 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
RACE
and Transnationalism
Elliott R. Barkan, editor
Immigration, In-
corporation and
Transnationalism
integrates interdis-
ciplinary perspec-
tives and exciting
new scholarship on
important themes
and issues related
to immigration and
ethnic history. It
explores the atti-
tudes and behaviors
of people concerning the paths and means of
incorporation, if not assimilation, that have
persisted and will continue on as long as
ethnic communities endure and ever newer
peoples arrive in foreign lands. The essays
in this work encompass broad perspectives,
case studies, and recent developments.
They include such topics as immigration
to New York City, past and present; labor
migration systems and personal trajectories
of household domestics; the creation and
maintenance of Cuban American “exile ide-
ology;” the extremely contemporary topic of
the Arab American experience, and more.
ISBN: 978-0-7658-0386-3 (paper) 2007
360 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
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360 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
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Rumors, Race and Riots of a black subcul-
Terry Ann Knopf
Are race-related rumors rooted in the person-
ality traits of the individual? Are they a kind
of “improvised news” for a community? Do
they come and go at random or form definite,
recognizable patterns? What role do the news
media play in spreading rumors? These and
other questions are treated in this classic
study of how and why rumors emerge in con-
nection with racial disorders. Hundreds of
pertinent rumors are documented from local
newspapers and investigative accounts. An
exhaustive, systematic inquiry is made into
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the series of disorders that occurred between
1967 and 1970. The role played by rumors
during these disturbing times is examined
and compared to earlier periods of unrest.
Implications for public policy are explored
along with a hard look at rumor-control
centers. The influence of the police and other
public officials as well as the news media are
treated extensively since they play a big part
in fostering a grapevine in the white suburbs
similar to the one found in the inner cities.
ISBN: 978-1-4128-0557-5 (paper) 2006
426 pp. $29.95/£26.95/$C35.95
Equality Transformed
A Quarter Century of
Affirmative Action
Herman Belz
“Critiques the creation and evolution of civil
rights policy during the last thirty years...
Belz successfully integrates the tale into a
piece of sophisticated scholarship and an
intelligible whole...mandatory reading.”
—Mary R. Mattingly,
Social Science Quarterly
ISBN: 978-0-88738-393-9 (cloth) 1991
326 pp. $49.95/$44.95/£59.95
ISBN: 978-0-88738-882-8 (paper) 1991
326 pp. $24.95/£22.50/$C29.95
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RACE
Race
The Diversity Machine
The Drive to Change the “White
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During the past decade, Lynch studied the
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overcoming past discrimination against
blacks. Based on more than six years of field
research and hundreds of interviews, Lynch
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Psychology and Race Clear was the code name for the research that
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Psychology and Race is a collection of essays
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first section concentrates on the majority or
dominant group, and describes the develop-
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and prejudice and techniques for reducing
prejudice; the second section focuses on the
reactions of subordinate or minority groups;
and the third deals with specific aspects of
interpersonal interaction-attitudes, behav-
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concerned are of different races. The book
also looks at those areas of life where race is
relevant and where psychology can help in
an understanding of the situation. The scope
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Race, Violent Crime, and
American Culture
James W. Clarke
Quoting the actual
words of victims and
witnesses—Clarke
documents the ero-
sion of black confi-
dence in American
criminal justice. He
traces the evolution,
ture of violence, in
which disputes are
settled personally,
and without recourse
to the legal system. That subculture accounts
for historically high rates of black-on-black
violence, which now threaten to destroy the
black inner city from within.
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Project Clear
Social Research and the Desegrega-
tion of the United States Army
Lee Bogart, editor
led to the official desegregation of the U.S.
Army at the time of the Korean War. This
volume represents the two major troop opin-
ion surveys that were the heart of the project,
the first examining the performance of black
troops in the Korean campaign, and the
second, the problems encountered by black
soldiers stationed in the continental United
States. Although Project Clear dealt with a
unique series of events and with a situation
that existed for only a few transitional years,
its findings were obvious: racial integration
“worked.” Recent years have witnessed
renewed expression of racial tension and
conflict. This study includes observations
applicable to problems still unsolved and
to situations yet to be encountered. Apart
from such an intimation of future applica-
bility, there is a drama to be found in the
transformation of an institution as large and
conservative as the army. For the social
scientist, there is a particular interest in this
example of how large-scale social research
conducted with tremendous speed and under
great pressure, can be applied effectively to
influence national policy.
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The Inner City
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Thomas D. Boston and
Catherine L. Ross, editors
The Inner City includes not only the view-
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Political Economy
Thomas D. Boston, editor
This volume brings together foremost ex-
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ment, training, and education of African
Americans, and emphasizes macroeconomic
concerns of business development with
special emphasis on long-term trends of
black-owned businesses as well as welfare
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Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and
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outstanding contribution to both health care
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The Housing Status
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Georgia A. Persons, editor
In the past, African American aspirations for
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areas with sizeable black population bases.
By and large, black candidates have rarely
been successful in statewide or national elec-
tions. This has been attributed to several fac-
tors: limited resources available to African
American candidates, or identification with
a black liberationist ideological thrust. For
these reasons, the possibility of black can-
didates winning elections to national office
was presumably just a dream. This volume
is anchored by a symposium that focuses
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politics. Both the electoral contests of 2006
and the Barack Obama presidential campaign
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agree that the contours of social change now
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dates who are perceived as ideologically and
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 ECONOMY
Economy
White Ethics and NEW African-American Social and The Impact of Immigration on
Black Power Political Thought, 1850–1920 African Americans
The Emergence of the West Side Howard Brotz, editor Steven Shulman, editor
Organization With a new introduction Immigration has sig-
by the editor and foreword nificant consequenc-
William W. Ellis es for all Americans,
White Ethics and by B. William Austin but especially for
Black Power exam- Bringing together African Americans.
ines the careers and the most charac- The sheer magnitude
philosophies of the teristic and serious of immigration—it
leadership of a com- writings by black is the primary factor
munity organiza- scholars, authors, driving population
tion, illuminating journalists, and growth—is so large
the complex rela- educators from the that it directly or
tionship between years that preceded indirectly affects the
white America and the modern civil economic, political,
the new black pow- rights movement, social, and environmental circumstances of
er movements, be- this is a compre- most Americans. But the geographic concen-
tween America and hensive guide to the tration of immigrants in urban areas, and the
its interpretation of itself on the one hand, range and diversity economic concentration of immigrants in the
and the experience of black and oppressed of black thought. The writings reveal a ten- low-wage sector of the labor market, have
peoples in America on the other. Redefining sion and a thread between two essential poles special consequences for African Americans
social science as a means—through educa- of thought: those who see civil assimilation since they are especially likely to live in
tion and research—of improving the quality as the goal of black aspiration, and nation- urban areas and to be low-wage workers.
of American life, William W. Ellis derides alist or separatist voices that despaired of This volume presents research and analysis
non-participatory social science as a hoax ever having a dignified future in a biracial
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Joyce E. Allen-Smith, editors
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entrepreneur is seen not just as an agent for
tributions from the unique in its fo-
capital accumulation, but also as the prime
Ninth Annual Sym- cus on the current
mover for social reconstruction.”
posium on the State economic status of
—Thomas D. Boston, black Americans in
of the Black Econo-
The Southern Economic Journal rural areas. This top-
my, cosponsored by
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seeking ways of using the private sector nomic Development limited visibility in
to ameliorate conditions of poverty and Corporation and the recent years due,
hopelessness.” National Economic in part, to the high
Association. The degree of urbaniza-
—Carl Lieberman, tion among blacks.
Perspectives on Political Science theme for the 1979
symposium was “Community Revitalization: In her introduction,
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in minority business enterprise. Should gathering, convention, and meeting revolved black Americans, discussing various policy
generate some sharp exchanges in the around the urban crisis and the president’s instruments available to improve their eco-
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Abrahams, Roger D. 6
Adoption, Race, and
Identity 6
African-American Social
and Political Thought 14, 16
African American Males 7
African Americans and
Post-Industrial Labor Markets 13
African Americans in Sport 9
African Presence in
Early America 2
African Presence in
Early Asia 2
African Presence in Early
Europe 2
Afrocentric Traditions 1
Against the Odds 8
Allen, Carol M. 8
Allen, William B. 8
Allen-Smith, Joyce E. 14
Altstein, Howard 6
America’s Second Civil
INDEX
War 11
America and the World 1
An American Dilemma 10
Andrew Durnford 4
Art, Education, and
African-American Culture 5
Barkan, Elliott R. 11
Battle, Juan 16
Behind Ghetto Walls 7
Belz, Herman 12
Bénito, Jesus 15
Bennett, Michael 16
Besharov, Douglas 6
Betsey, Charles L. 8
Beyond the Boundaries 13, 17
Billson, Janet Mancini 7
Bitter Canaan 3
Black Electoral Politics 17
Black Entrepreneurship
in America 14
Black Families 7
Black Folk Medicine 8
Black Liberation in the
Americas 15
Black Men in Interracial
Relationships 10
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Index
Blackness and Sexualities 9
Blacks in Rural America 14
Blacks in Science 2
Black Women in Antiquity 2
Bogart, Lee 12
Boi, Paola 15
Boston, Thomas D. 13
Braxton, Joanne M. 15
Brissett-Chapman, Sheryl 7
Broeck, Sabine 15
Brotz, Howard 14, 16
Caribbean Transformations 6
Catholic High Schools
and Minority Students 8
Century of Service, A 9
Challenge to Racial
Stratification 17
Changing Racial Regime,
The 17
Cheatham, Harold E. 7
Chesnutt, Charles W. 4
Christy, Ralph D. 9
Civil Rights Movement
Revisited, The 15
Clarke, James W. 12
Clements, Kevin P. 1
Complexions of Race 15
Conrad, Alfred H. 3
Contemporary Patterns of
Politics, Praxis, and Culture 17
Conyers, Jr., James L. 1
Cook, Theron D. 7
Craig-Henderson, Kellina M. 10
Critical Voicings of
Black Liberation 15
Crossing Boundaries 7
Cross Routes 15
Dansby, Mickey R. 10
Deep Down in the
Jungle 6
DeMott, Benj 5
Diedrich, Maria 7, 15
Diversity Machine,
The 12
Douglass, Frederick 4
DuBois, W.E.B. 10
Dusk of Dawn 10
Early America Revisited 2
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Economics of Race and Crime,
The 13
Economics of Slavery,
The 3
Egypt: Child of Africa 2
Egypt Revisited 2
Eichner, Alfred S. 11
Ellis, William W. 14
EmBODYing Liberation 15
Equality Transformed 12
Ethnic Politics and
Civil Liberties 17
Expanding Boundaries
of Black Politics, The 17
Family and Child Well-Being
after Welfare Reform 6
Filler, Louis 4
First of the Year: 2008 5
First of the Year: 2009 5
Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea 15
Frechette, Richard 5
Free at Last? 16
Frey, Therese Steffen 15
Friedman, Saul S. 4
Gallego, Mar 15
Ginzberg, Eli 11
Goeller, Alison D. 15
Gold, Herbert 5
Golden Age of the Moor,
The 2
Gone from the Promised
Land 1
Great African Thinkers 2
Great Black Leaders 2
Greeley, Andrew M. 8
Green, Shelly 14
Gruesser, John Cullen 5
Gysin, Fritz 15
Habits of Mind 8
Haiti 5
Haiti: Best Nightmare
on Earth 5
Hall, John R. 1
Hamilton, Cynthia S. 15
Harris, Othello 6
Health Policies and
Black Americans 13
Helmreich, William B. 10

Historically Black Colleges
and Universities 8
Hogan, Lloyd 14
House Behind the Cedars,
The 4
Housing Status of
Black Americans, The 13
Immigration, Incorporatioin
and Transnationalism 11
Impact of Immigration on
African-Americans, The 14
Impacts of Incarceration on
the African American Family 6
Inner City, The 13
Intercultural Mediations 15
Jackson, Sondra 7
Jews and the American
Slave Trade 4
Johnson, Charles S. 3
Jones, Dionne J. 7
Knopf, Terry Ann 12
Kuper, Leo 11
Law, Culture, and
Africana Studies 1
Leading Issues in
Black Political Economy 13
Leigh, Wilhelmina A. 13
Lemelle, Anthony J. 16
Liberating Narratives 15
Lindo, Flip 7
Lineaments of Wrath, The 12
Loopholes and Retreats 5
Lorenzo, Thomas 15
Lynch, Frederick R. 12
Malveaux, Julianne M. 7
Managing Diversity
in the Military 10
Man Farthest Down,
The 3
Manzanas, Ana M. 15
Mapping African America 15
Marrow of Tradition,
The 4
Mayer, Sylvia 6, 15
Meyer, John R. 3
Meyers, Mary Ann 5
Miller, Patrick B. 15
Miller, R. Robin 6
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Index
Mintz, Sidney W. 6
Monuments of the
Black Atlantic 15
Mulvey, Christopher 15
Myers, Jr. Samuel L. 13
Myrdal, Gunnar 10
Narrative of the Life of an
American Slave 4
Nation’s Children, The 11
New Perspectives in
American Politics 17
Old Memories, New
Moods 1
Paradise Reconsidered 15
Passing Novels in the
Harlem Renaissance 15
Pathways to Manhood 7
Pedersen, Carl 15
Persons, Georgia A. 13, 17
Phillips, Kimberley L. 15
Pinson, Hermine D. 15
Politics and African-American
Ghettos 16
Politics of the “Black”
Nation, The 17
Prescription for Failure 9
Project Clear 12
Pryde, Paul 14
Psychology and Race 12
Race, Class, and
Political Symbols 16
Race, Class, and Power 11
Race and Democracy
in the Americas 17
Race and Ethnicity in
Comparative Perspective 17
Race and Representation 17
Racial Structure and Radicial
Politics in the African Diaspora 1
Rainwater, Lee 7
Renshon, Stanley A. 11
Restoring the Connection
to the Natural World 6, 15
Right Turn 9
Rist, Ray C. 9
Rose, Peter I. 1, 3
Ross, Catherine L. 13
Roth, Byron M. 9
Rumors, Race and Riots 12
Sailes, Gary A. 9
Schäfer-Wünsche, Elisabeth 15
Schuhmann, Antje 9
Serving African American
Children 7
Shadow of the Plantation 3
Shulman, Steven 14
Sievers, Stefanie 15
Simms, Margaret C. 7, 13
Simon, Rita J. 6
Slavery and
Its Aftermath 3
Slavery in the United States 4
Slipping through the
Cracks 7
Souls of Black Folk, The 10
State of the Black Economy,
The 14
Stewart, James B. 7, 10, 13, 14
Story of Jazz, The 15
Stress and Old Age 8
INDEX
Tally, Justine 15
Tehranian, Majid 1
Things They Say Behind
Your Back, The 10
Troublesome Presence 11
Unemployed, The 11
Up from Slavery 3
Urban School, The 9
Van Sertima, Ivan 2
Wallinger, Hanna 5, 15
Warren, Ronald L. 16
Washington, Booker T. 3
Waters, Anita M. 16
Watson, Peter 12
Watson, Wilbur H. 8
Webb, Schuyler C. 10
White Ethics and
Black Power 14
Whitten, David O. 4
Williamson, Lionel 9
Willis, David P. 13
Wolters, Raymond 9
Wright, Michelle 9
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