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These books may not be on the best seller's list, but Mrs. E's Collectables have found them to have subject matter or reviews of interest. Books will be on this page for a short time, they will then be moved to a more appropriate web page permanently.

 

BOOKS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED IN THE NEWSLETTERS ARE LISTED BELOW.

Rooted in the Chants of Slaves, Blacks in the Humanities, 1985-1997 (Hardcover) by Donald Franklin Joyce (Compiler)

The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirtuality (Religious Life in America) (Hardcover) by Michael Battle (Author)

The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity (Paperback) by Thabiti M. Anyabwile (Author), Mark A. Noll (Foreword)

Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience (Intersections: African American Religious Thought) (Paperback) by Victor Anderson (Author)

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Hardcover) by Linda M. Heywood (Author), John K. Thornton (AuthorL

Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968 (Religion & American Culture) (Hardcover) by Edward J. Robinson (Author)

A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl) (Hardcover) by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Author)

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Hardcover) by Sylviane A. Diouf (Author)

Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings (Hardcover) by Angela L. Cotten (Editor), Christa Davis Acampora (Editor)

Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Hardcover) by Karen Sotiropoulos (Author

Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Music of the African Diaspora) (Paperback) by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. (Author)

 

Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, And New Beginnings in a New South (Paperback) by Mark Kemp (Author) The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (Hardcover) by Shane White (Author), Graham White (Author) No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey from Slavery to Emancipation Through Song (Includes CD) (Hardcover) by Velma Maia Thomas (Author)
Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 (Hardcover) by KATE DOSSETT (Author) Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear (Paperback) by Bruce A Jacobs (Author) The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set (Hardcover) by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation (Race and Culture in the American West Series) (Hardcover) by Gary Zellar (Author) The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, and the International Community (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective) (Paperback) by Alex Dupuy (Author) The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) (Hardcover) by Louis Chude-Sokei (Author), Louis Chude-Sokei (Author).
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Paperback) Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) (Paperback) by Tiya Miles (Author) Beyond Structural Adjustment: The Institutional Context of African Development (Hardcover) by Nicolas Van de Walle (Author), Nicole Ball (Author), Vijaya Ramachandran (Author)
Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume I (Penguin Academics) (Paperback) by Clayborne Carson (Author), Gary B. Nash (Author), Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner (Author) African Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) (Paperback) by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Editor) Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Hardcover) by Jane E. Soothill (Author)
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment (Hardcover) by Peter Hallward (Author) Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (Hardcover) by Julie Roy Jeffrey (Author) Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Hardcover) by Cedric Johnson (Author)

 

Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery, the Thirteenth Amendment, And the Pursuit of Freedom (Paperback) by Pamela D. Bridgewater (Author) Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (Hardcover) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Author) D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Hardcover) by Melvyn Stokes (Author)
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Martha S. Jones African American Feminisms 18281923 (History of Feminism) (Hardcover) by Zackodnik (Author) International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School (Hardcover) by Dennis Thiessen (Editor), Alison Cook-Sather (Editor)
Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Laurie B. Green (Author) American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Hardcover) by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (Autho Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Hardcover) by James Sidbury (Author)
Love and Marriage in Early African America (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) (Paperback) by Frances Foster (Editor) The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (New Black Studies Series) (Paperback) by Pero Dagbovie (Author) The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Hardcover) by April C.E. Langley (Author)
Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (Paperback) by Paul Christopher Johnson (Author) The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia (Hardcover) by Clayborne Carson (Author), Tenisha Armstrong (Author), Susan Carson (Author), Erin Cook (Author), Susan Englander (Author) Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Women in American History) (Hardcover) by Daina Berry(Author)
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Hardcover) by Scott Kurashige (Author)

Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People 1855-1867 (Studies in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Patrick Minges (Author)

After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (Paperback) by John M. Giggie (Author)
KWANZAA: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture (Paperback) by Maulana Karenga (Author) Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief (Hardcover) by David Murray (Author) A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (Hardcover) by David W. Blight (Author)
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Hardcover) by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Author) Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Hardcover) by Ingrid Monson (Author) Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader (Critical Black Studies) (Hardcover) by Manning Marable (Editor), Keesha Middlemass (Editor), Ian Steinberg (Editor)

 

Africans: The History of a Continent (African Studies) (Hardcover) by John Iliffe (Author) Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies) (Kindle Edition) by Lewis R. Gordon A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South (Hardcover) by Adam Fairclough (Author)
Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights (Hardcover) by DAVID BROWN (Author), CLIVE WEBB (Author), STUART MIDGLEY (Editor) Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Hardcover) by Sylviane A. Diouf (Author) Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America (Hardcover) by Elliot Jaspin (Author)
Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (African American Life Series) (African American Life Series) (Paperback) by Vershawn Ashanti Young (Author) *Islam among Urban Blacks: Muslims in Newark, New Jersey A Social History (Paperback) by Nash Michael (Author)

 

*Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora) (Hardcover) by Akinwumi Ogundiran (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor).

How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery: Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans With Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics) (Hardcover) by David K. O'Rourke (Author) *The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People (Hardcover) by Kenneth Wiggins Porter (Author), Alcione M. Amos (Editor), Thomas P. Senter (Editor) *American Indian and African American People, Communities, and Interactions: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History) (Hardcover) by Lisa Bier (Author)

*Becoming Free in the Cotton South (Hardcover) by Susan Eva O'Donovan (Author) *Becoming Free in the Cotton South (Hardcover) by Susan Eva O'Donovan (Author)

 

*Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History (Hardcover) by John Arthur (Author)

*Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World (Paperback) by Anthea D. Butler (Author) *The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (Paperback) by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor) *Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) (Hardcover) by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera (Editor)

*Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson (Hardcover) by Mark Elliott (Author) *Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies (Paperback)

*Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (Hardcover) by Tumelo Mosaka (Author), Annie Paul (Author), Nicollette Ramirez (Author)
Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe (American Made Music Series) (Hardcover) by Neil A. Wynn (Editor) Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (Criminology and Justice Studies) (Paperback) by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall (Author)

Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors (Hardcover) by Bill Cosby (Author), Alvin F. Poussaint (Author)
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War (Hardcover) by Victoria E. Bynum (Author)

Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left (Hardcover) by Alex Lubin (Editor) The End of Dying (Paperback) by Mignon H. Anderson (Author)
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States (New Approaches to the Americas) (Hardcover) by Laird Bergad (Author)

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 15851660 (Hardcover) by Linda M. Heywood (Author), John K. Thornton (Author) Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (California World History Library) (Hardcover) by Emma Christopher (Editor), Cassandra Pybus (Editor), Marcus Rediker (Editor)
Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (Paperback) by Richard Price (Author)

 

Before Haiti: Race And Citizenship in French Saint-domingue (The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World) (Hardcover) by John D. Garrigus (Author).

The River Flows on: Black Resistance, Culture, And Identity Formation in Early America (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World Series) (Hardcover) by Walter C. Rucker (Author)
Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways Series) (Hardcover) by Michael W. Fitzgerald (Author) An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez And New York (Southern Biography Series) (Hardcover) by Martha Jane Brazy (Author)

 

Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Hardcover) by Ingrid Monson (Author)

Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (Criminology and Justice Studies) (Paperback) by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall (Author) The Regime Change of Kwame Nkrumah: Epic Heroism in Africa and the Diaspora (Hardcover) by Ahmad Rahman (Author) Alice Walker: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) (Hardcover) by Gerri Bates (Author)
I Will Wear No Chain!": A Social History of African American Males (Hardcover) by Christopher B. Booker (Author) The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade (History and Society in the Islamic World) (Hardcover) by John Wright (Author)

 

New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music (Hardcover) by Jack Sullivan (Author)

 


Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (Hardcover) by Stephanie Y. Evans (Author) The Negro American Family/ The Negro American Artisan/ Efforts for Social Betterment Among Negro Americans: Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3 (Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) (Hardcover) by K. Thompson (Author) Lynching in Mississippi: A History, 1865-1965 (Hardcover) by Julius E. Thompson (Author)J
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading the Souls of Black Folk (Psychoanalysis and Social Theory) (Paperback) by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South (Hardcover) by Houston A. Baker (Author)

 

Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth (Critical Youth Studies) (Hardcover) by Pedro Noguera (Editor), Julio Cammarota (Editor), Shawn Ginwright (Editor)

Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1645-1865 (Hardcover) by Nini Rodgers (Author)

The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State (Hardcover) by Mary Poole (Author) The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State (Hardcover) by Mary Poole (Author)
Dying While Black (Paperback) by Vernellia, R Randall (Author) Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation (New Directions in Southern Studies) (Hardcover) by Jessica Adams (Author)

 

Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) (Hardcover) by J. R. Kerr-ritchie (Author)

 

Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 16401960 (African Studies) (Paperback) by Patrick Manning (Author)

Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies (Paperback) by___Michael T. Martin (Editor), Marilyn Yaquinto (Editor) In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Hardcover) by Joseph Crespino (Author)
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & THEORIES OF RACE (Paperback) by Vernon J. Williams Jr. (Author) Beyond the 'African Tragedy': Discourses on Development And the Global Economy (Hardcover) by Malinda S. Smith (Editor) "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (Blacks in the Diaspora) (Hardcover) by Rosanne Marion Adderley (Author)

 

Themes in West Africa's History (Western African Studies) (Hardcover) by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong (Editor)

The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States (New Approaches to the Americas) (Hardcover) by Laird Bergad (Author) Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900 (Social History of Africa Series) (Paperback) by Walter Hawthorne (Author)
Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (Hardcover) by Adam Gussow (Author) Why Are So Many Black Men In Prison? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men (Paperback) by Demico Boothe (Author) Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Hardcover) by Stephanie E. Smallwood (Author)


The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists And the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies) (Hardcover) by Francille Rusan Wilson (Author) Mississippi Sissy (Hardcover) by Kevin Sessums (Author)

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Heather Andrea Williams (Author)

Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (Hardcover) by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Author), Jane I. Smith (Author), Kathleen M. Moore (Author)

 

Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Southern Literary Studies) (Hardcover) by Gary M. Ciuba (Author)

When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the "Golden Age" of Hip-Hop from 1987 to 1996 (Paperback) by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (Author), Brother J of the X-Clan (Foreword)
More Special Selections

AUTHORS WHO HAVE APPEARED IN PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS,

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.Raymond Arsenault

Sharon D. Wright Austin

Christa Davis Acampora

Margaret L. Andersen

Sasha Abramsky

b.

Herman L. Bennett

Lerone Bennett

Alex Bontemps

Daphne A. Brooks

Thomas Brooks

Richard Brent

Daniel Black

John Charles Boger

Michael Borshuk

Anne C. Bailey

Tamara L. Brown

Juanita Bynum

W. Michael Byrd

d.

Joseph C. Dorsey

Norris Dorsey

James Denbow

Anani Dzidzienyo

Daryl Cumber Dance

Angela Y. Davis

Bonnie M. Davis

Dana-ain Davis

Bonnie M. Davis

Ann duCille

e

.Peter Edelman,

f

Celeste Fisher

V.P. Franklin

g.

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Shawn Ginwright

Meredith M. Gadsby

James N. Gregory

Mark Gottdiener

Lawrence Otis Graham

David Garland

Dorie J. Gilbert

Herman Gray

Ernest J. Gaines

Caroline Gebhard

h.

Mae G. Henderson

Ray Hutchison

James Oliver Horton

Harry J. Holzer,

Janice E. Hale,

Lois E. Horton

Zoltan L. Hajnal

j.

Joseph Jewell

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

D. Marvin Jones

Gene Jarrett

E. Patrick Johnson

Paula C. Johnson

Andrew Jarrett		 k.

Andy Koopman

Jawanza Kunjufu

Jonathan Kozol

Walter M. Kimbrough

Maulana Karenga

Heerak Christian Kim, H. C. Kim

Martin Luther, Jr. King

l

.Joyce A. Logan

Michael E. Lomax

m.

Manning Marable

Ronald B. Mincy

Godfrey Mwakikagile

Marcyliena Morgan

Barbara McCaskill

Claude McKay

n.

feoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Nathaniel Norment, Jr.

o.

Annelise Orleck

Gary Orfield