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Students learning about literature and language will gain a greater understanding of African American oral traditions, while social studies students will learn more about African American culture.

African American culture has long been recognized for its richness and breadth.

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Intends to remind us of the roots of soul food and the importance of food in African American identity. This title illuminates the state of African American food culture, in the context of understanding the West African origins of most African Americans. It provides a historical overview that discusses the beginnings of this hybrid food culture.

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A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century.

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African American Girls and the Construction of Identity explores identity formation among African American adolescent girls through the lens of socioeconomic class.

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Examines the golfing experiences of African Americans during the Jim Crow era.

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The proof of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation of the impact of African Americans on life in the United States.

One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history is to look at it as a continuum.

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This title offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives and through a lively range of rhetoric styles, and illuminates the history of highly successful and influential individuals, athletes and teams who have transcended mere celebrity to come to represent a given Zeitgeist to a sizable part of the world.

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African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of the unincorporated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919.

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African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of the unincorporated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919.

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The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.

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This book explores revisions of black male vulnerability in contemporary literature, examining how an everyday life determined by racialized social control can be transformed. It shows how transformative change takes place in black male characters efforts to work through the criminality-as-vulnerability script in order to make a social impact.

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This book explores revisions of black male vulnerability in contemporary literature, examining how an everyday life determined by racialized social control can be transformed. It shows how transformative change takes place in black male characters efforts to work through the criminality-as-vulnerability script in order to make a social impact.

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When Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947, elbowing aside the league's policies of segregation that had been inviolate for 60 years, he became a symbol of opportunity and acceptance for African American players everywhere.

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This biocritical dictionary covers 46 poets from more than two centuries of African American literary history. The poets are situated within their historical and literary context, and for each a biographical sketch is given, with information on the poet's personal history and education.

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This extensive collection of African American quotations is the first of its kind to be organized by subject area for ease of reference.

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Approximately 200,000 African Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War. Through first-hand accounts, this title examines the journey of the African American from slave to soldier to free man, providing an insight into the impact that these brave men had on the war and how it influenced their lives thereafter.

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This detailed account aims to fill an important gap in our knowledge about the establishment of African American militias in 1877 and their services in wartime and peacetime until the integration of the National Guard in 1950. It is primarily intended to be of interest to military historians.

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This encouraging guide coaches African American and first-generation college students on strategies for maximizing their experiences and success on university campuses.

Marked gaps in academic achievements continue to exist between white and black students on college campuses in America.

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This book provides a strengths-based, multi-systemic solutions approach for higher education administration, school counseling, and urban education scholars and practitioners to promote the post-secondary options of African American youth. It is unique in its focus on the origins of inequity while naming evidence-based pathways for future success.

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College and Career Readiness of African American Students: The Journey Unraveled provides a strengths-based, multi-systemic solutions approach for higher education administration, school counseling, and urban education scholars and practitioners to promote the post-secondary o...