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Product Description: Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth century, black Americans forged a collective--if fraught--culture of freedom...read more

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9780674368057 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 13, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow.

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Product Description: Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a Deep South college town to explore the question of how nighttime revelers negotiate urban public spaces as they go about meeting, socializing, and entertaining themselves...read more

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9780813569390 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 2, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space.

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9780813569383 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 2, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space.

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Product Description: How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital? By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which these and other questions about core social processes can be addressed...read more

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9781433122729 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 24, 2014, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation?

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9781433122712 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 24, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation?

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Product Description: This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience...read more
By Will Turner (editor)

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9781472418357 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2014, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.

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9781472434319 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.

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Product Description: Is Gangsta Rap just black noise? Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America? This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen...read more

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9780313395772 | 1 edition (Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 2013), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Is Gangsta Rap just black noise?

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Product Description: This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora...read more

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9780313343735 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 3, 2012, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora.

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By Jessie Carney Smith (foreword by)

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9781578593231, titled "African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence" | Visible Ink Pr, November 4, 2011, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Patrice Evans is The Assimilated Negro, a hyperobservant, savagely pop-savvy instigator bent on pranking the crap out of our modern racial discourse. Since the debut of his popular “Ghetto Pass” column for Gawker.com, Evans has been the rare voice capable of speaking to junkies for both White Castle and Colson Whitehead with equal insight and aplomb...read more

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9780307463807 | Original edition (Three Rivers Pr, October 4, 2011), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Patrice Evans is The Assimilated Negro, a hyperobservant, savagely pop-savvy instigator bent on pranking the crap out of our modern racial discourse.

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Product Description: The influence of dance upon consumers has long been understood by advertisers. This work investigates the use of black social dance in television advertising. Covering the 1950s through the 2010s in the United States, dance is shown to provide value to brands and to affect consumption experiences...read more

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9780786459445 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 16, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The influence of dance upon consumers has long been understood by advertisers.

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Product Description: Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail...read more

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9780816669875 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 2011, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s.

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9780816669882 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 2011, cover price $22.50

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9781426307058 | Reprint edition (Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, October 12, 2010), cover price $6.95

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Product Description: It is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'. Yet despite this high profile, in-depth explorations of the culture and history of style and dress in the African diaspora are a relatively recent area of enquiry...read more

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9781859734650 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 28, 2016, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: It is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'.

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9781859734704 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 28, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: It is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'.

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Product Description: Winner of the 2006 James Mooney Award Dating from their earliest habitation in North America, people of African descent have used visual and material means to express their ethical values and their beliefs about the intersecting worlds of matter and spirit...read more

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9781572333567 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2006 James Mooney Award Dating from their earliest habitation in North America, people of African descent have used visual and material means to express their ethical values and their beliefs about the intersecting worlds of matter and spirit.
9780072430851, titled "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Race and Ethnicity" | 4th edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2001), cover price $25.60 | also contains Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Race and Ethnicity | About this edition: This debate style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in race and ethnicity.

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Challenging the legacy of slavery, colonization, and ongoing racism that portrays African-American people as unable to love, the acclaimed author of All About Love explores how the ethic of love has become the foundation of hope and survival in the African-American community. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780060184940 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Challenges the legacy of slavery, colonization, and ongoing beliefs that portray African Americans as unable to love, and explores love as the foundation of hope and survival in the African American community.

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9780060959494 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 1, 2001), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Challenging the legacy of slavery, colonization, and ongoing racism that portrays African-American people as unable to love, the acclaimed author of All About Love explores how the ethic of love has become the foundation of hope and survival in the African-American community.

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Product Description: This debate style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in race and ethnicity. The readings discuss issues such as social identities and cultural conflict; immigration, segregation and leadership; affirmative action and legal issues; and new policies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Richard C. Monk (editor)

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9780072430851 | 4th edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2001), cover price $25.60 | also contains No Space Hidden: The Spirit Of African American Yard Work | About this edition: This debate style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in race and ethnicity.
9780697391421 | 3rd edition (Brown & Benchmark Pub, July 1, 1999), cover price $23.10 | About this edition: This debate style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in race and ethnicity.
9780697312945 | 2nd edition (Brown & Benchmark Pub, May 1, 1996), cover price $23.10 | About this edition: Slight shelf wear, crease to the cover.
9781561341276 | Dushkin Pub Group, October 1, 1993, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: Book by Monk, Richard C.

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