Product Description: Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving...read more

Photographs and text originally published in 1941 describe the conditions of Blacks in American cities and rural areas during the Great Depression

Product Description: The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1854 and 1874 in the historic heart of the city. Making Modern Paris is the only comprehensive study to address systematically not only the role Baltard played in the markets’ design and construction but also how the markets relate to the rest of Baltard’s work and professional practice...read more

A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s (view table of contents)

Studies the origin and development of the Black middle-class accentuating its behavior, attitudes and values during the last two decades

Product Description: FIRST EDITION. 1989 Indiana University Press hardcover, Carole Marks (The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance). The history of the he mass black South-to-North movement from 1910 to 1930.

Two essays scathingly comment on the new racial and ethnic games being played by America's Beautiful People

Discusses the tasks of sociology, Black communities, Black culture and creativity, and changing patterns in race relations

The author of Native Son paired with three photographers in the 1930s to chronicle black life in America and this book was the result--a vivid portrait of African-American life, from sharecroppers in Mississippi to storefront churches in Harlem. Reprint. (view table of contents)