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| 1. |  | Title: African-American Christianity: essays in history Author: Johnson, Paul E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies | Christianity Publisher's Description: Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present.Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith Author: Frederick, Marla Faye 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African American Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Black magic: religion and the African American conjuring tradition Author: Chireau, Yvonne Patricia 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African Studies | American Studies | United States History | African American Studies Publisher's Description: Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both schola . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Author: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American Studies Publisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Busing and backlash: white against white in a California school district Lillian B. Rubin  Author: Rubin, Lillian B Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | African American Studies Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: California soul: music of African Americans in the West Author: DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | American Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: This new series, co-sponsored with The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College, seeks to increase our understanding of black music genres and their importance to the cultures of the Atlantic world, including their influence on African musical styles. Books in the series will examine the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial past Author: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Immigration Publisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism Author: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | African American Studies | Gender Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: God, Harlem U.S.A.: the Father Divine story Author: Watts, Jill Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Christianity | American Studies | African American Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."?Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious lea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: I heard it through the grapevine: rumor in African-American culture Author: Turner, Patricia 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Sociology | African American Studies | Anthropology | American Studies | Folklore and Mythology | Popular Culture Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Jazz cultures Author: Ake, David Andrew 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Jazz | Ethnomusicology | American Studies | African American Studies | Jazz Publisher's Description: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: L.A. city limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present Author: Sides, Josh 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass - embodying both the best and worst of what urban America off . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: A life's mosaic: the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala Author: Ntantala, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | African Studies | Autobiography | African American Studies Publisher's Description: "Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Marcus Garvey, life and lessons: a centennial companion to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies Publisher's Description: "I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves." - Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Miles and me Author: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood Author: Kaplan, Elaine Bell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Social Science | Gender Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | African American Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Similar Items |