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African American history and culture.

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

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Pressing Forward: My Life as a Baton Rouge Community Pioneer

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Pressing Forward: My Life as a Baton Rouge Community Pioneer

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Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today

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Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today

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You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech

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You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech

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In with the In Crowd : Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America

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In with the In Crowd : Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America

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Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough

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Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough

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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

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Cervantine Blackness

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Cervantine Blackness

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Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

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Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

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The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White: Recalling the Blues

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The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White: Recalling the Blues

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Bigger: A Literary Life

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Bigger: A Literary Life

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Mainline Mama: A Memoir

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Mainline Mama: A Memoir

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Chicago House Music: Culture and Community

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Chicago House Music: Culture and Community

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I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

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I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

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Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America

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Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America

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Refusing to be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing

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Refusing to be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing

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Soul-Folk

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Soul-Folk

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If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana

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If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana

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