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1. 

Affirmative Action in Medicine (2003)
Improving Health Care for Everyone
James L. Curtis, M.D.

Cloth     978-0-472-11298-2     $55.00S     Available

 
 

2. 

After Independence (2006)
Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States
Lowell W. Barrington, Ed.

Cloth     978-0-472-09898-9     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06898-2     $35.00S     Available

 
 

3. 

After the End of History (2005)
The Curious Fate of American Materialism
1st Edition
Robert E. Lane

Cloth     978-0-472-09915-3     $89.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06915-6     $29.95S     Available

 
 

4. 

All My Relatives (1993)
Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures
Bonnie TuSmith

Paper     978-0-472-08285-8     $27.95S     Available

 
 

5. 

The André Hodeir Jazz Reader (2006)
André Hodeir

Cloth     978-0-472-09883-5     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06883-8     $23.95T     Available

 
 

6. 

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism (2008)
Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement
Mike Sell

Paper     978-0-472-03307-2     $28.95S     Available

 
 

7. 

Bad Boys (2000)
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Ann Arnett Ferguson

Paper     978-0-472-08849-2     $22.95S     Available

 
 

8. 

Black Cultural Traffic (2005)
Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Kennell Jackson

Cloth     978-0-472-09840-8     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06840-1     $32.50S     Available

 
 

9. 

Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW (2007)
New Edition
August Meier and Elliott Rudwick

Paper     978-0-472-03219-8     $21.95S     Available

 
 

10. 

Blue Notes (2000)
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Yusef Komunyakaa

Cloth     978-0-472-09651-0     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06651-3     $15.95T     Available

 
 

11. 

Blues in Black and White
The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues Festivals
As photographed by Stanley Livingston with a History of the Ann Arbor Blues Festival by Michael Erlewine

Paper     978-0-472-11695-9     $29.95T     Forthcoming

 
 

12. 

Boogaloo (2005)
The Quintessence of American Popular Music
Arthur Kempton

Paper     978-0-472-03087-3     $19.95T     Available

 
 

13. 

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies
Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
James F. Wilson

Cloth     978-0-472-11725-3     $49.50S     Forthcoming

 
 

14. 

Business Arabic, Intermediate Level (2000)
Language, Culture and Communication
Raji M. Rammuny

Paper     978-0-472-08510-1     $45.00S     Available

 
 

15. 

Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies (2004)
Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System
J. Terrence McCabe

Cloth     978-0-472-09878-1     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06878-4     $35.00S     Available

 
 

16. 

A Change Is Gonna Come (2006)
Music, Race & the Soul of America
Revised Edition
Craig Werner

Paper     978-0-472-03147-4     $24.95S     Available

 
 

17. 

Co-wives and Calabashes (1993)
Second Edition
Sally Price

Paper     978-0-472-08218-6     $18.95S     Available

 
 

18. 

Collected Prose (1984)
Robert Hayden

Paper     978-0-472-06351-2     $25.95S     Available

 
 

19. 

The Color of Privilege (1997)
Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism
Aida Hurtado

Paper     978-0-472-06531-8     $17.95S     Available

 
 

20. 

A Colored Man Round the World (1999)
David F. Dorr

Cloth     978-0-472-09694-7     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06694-0     $18.95S     Available

 
 

21. 

Commerce in Color (2007)
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis

Cloth     978-0-472-09987-0     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06987-3     $26.95S     Available

 
 

22. 

The Conjure Woman (1969)
Charles W. Chesnutt

Paper     978-0-472-06156-3     $14.95S     Available

 
 

23. 

The Conjure-Man Dies (1992)
A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
Rudolph Fisher

Paper     978-0-472-06492-2     $16.95S     Available

 
 

24. 

Coping With Poverty (2000)
The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community
Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-08697-9     $40.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02358-5          Available

 
 

25. 

The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (2009)
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

Cloth     978-0-472-07059-6     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05059-8     $22.95S     Available

 
 

26. 

Dancing Histories (2000)
Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo
John C. McCall

Cloth     978-0-472-11070-4     $70.00S     Available

 
 

27. 

Defending Diversity (2004)
Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Patricia Gurin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, and Earl Lewis, with Eric L. Dey, Gerald Gurin, and Sylvia Hurtado

Cloth     978-0-472-11307-1     $24.95S     Available

 
 

28. 

Delightfulee (2008)
The Life and Music of Lee Morgan
Jeffery S. McMillan

Cloth     978-0-472-11502-0     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03281-5     $22.95T     Available

 
 

29. 

Distinction and Denial (2007)
Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40
Mary Ann Calo

Cloth     978-0-472-11468-9     $79.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03230-3     $35.00S     Available

 
 

30. 

Distrusting Democrats (2008)
Outcomes of Participatory Constitution Making
Devra C. Moehler

Cloth     978-0-472-09993-1     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06993-4     $26.95S     Available

 
 

31. 

Doing Time on the Outside (2004)
Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America
Donald Braman

Paper     978-0-472-03269-3     $26.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02177-2          Available

 
 

32. 

Don't Deny My Name (2008)
Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Lorenzo Thomas

Cloth     978-0-472-09892-7     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06892-0     $22.95T     Available

 
 

33. 

Ed Bullins (2006)
Twelve Plays and Selected Writings
Ed Bullins

Cloth     978-0-472-11407-8     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03182-5     $27.95S     Available

 
 

34. 

Ellington Uptown (2009)
Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
John Howland

Cloth     978-0-472-11605-8     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03316-4     $28.95T     Available

 
 

35. 

Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young

Cloth     978-0-472-07111-1     $80.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05111-3     $29.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

36. 

The Emigrants (1994)
George Lamming

Paper     978-0-472-06470-0     $17.95S     Available

 
 

37. 

Faith in the City (2007)
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Angela D. Dillard

Cloth     978-0-472-11462-7     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03207-5     $25.95T     Available

 
 

38. 

Four Jazz Lives (2004)
A. B. Spellman

Paper     978-0-472-08967-3     $18.00T     Available

 
 

39. 

Freedom by a Hair's Breadth (1993)
Tsimihety in Madagascar
Peter J. Wilson

Cloth     978-0-472-10389-8     $70.00S     Available

 
 

40. 

Gathering Ground (2006)
A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-09924-5     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06924-8     $19.95T     Available

 
 

41. 

Grassroots at the Gateway (2009)
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Clarence Lang

Cloth     978-0-472-07065-7     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05065-9     $28.95S     Available

 
 

42. 

Growing Apart (2007)
Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
Peter M. Lewis

Cloth     978-0-472-09980-1     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06980-4     $28.95S     Available

 
 

43. 

Harlem Calling (2005)
The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson
George Wylie Henderson

Cloth     978-0-472-11520-4     $60.00S     Available

 
 

44. 

Hazel Scott (2008)
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Karen Chilton

Cloth     978-0-472-11567-9     $29.95T     Available

 
 

45. 

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1998)
Revised Edition
Moira Ferguson, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-08410-4     $14.95S     Available

 
 

46. 

In the Castle of My Skin (1991)
George Lamming

Paper     978-0-472-06468-7     $17.95S     Available

 
 

47. 

Innovation and Individuality in African Development (1998)
Changing Production Strategies in Rural Mali
Dolores Koenig, Tieman Diarra, and Moussa Sow

Cloth     978-0-472-10894-7     $80.00S     Available

 
 

48. 

Intimate Fathers (1991)
The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care
Barry S. Hewlett

Paper     978-0-472-08203-2     $25.95S     Available

 
 

49. 

Islam and the Prayer Economy (2005)
History and Authority in a Malian Town
Benjamin F. Soares

Cloth     978-0-472-09925-2     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06925-5     $35.00S     Available

 
 

50. 

Jackie Ormes (2008)
The First African American Woman Cartoonist
Nancy Goldstein

Cloth     978-0-472-11624-9     $35.00T     Available

 
 

51. 

John Coltrane (1998)
His Life and Music
Lewis Porter

Paper     978-0-472-08643-6     $18.95T     Available

 
 

52. 

Kuria Cattle Raiders (2000)
Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier
Michael L. Fleisher

Cloth     978-0-472-11152-7     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-08698-6     $27.95S     Available

 
 

53. 

The Last Miles (2005)
The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991
George Cole

Paper     978-0-472-03260-0     $22.95T     Available

 
 

54. 

Lester Young (2005)
Revised Edition
Lewis Porter

Paper     978-0-472-08922-2     $18.95T     Available

 
 

55. 

Let Me Live (2007)
Angelo Herndon

Paper     978-0-472-03199-3     $26.95S     Available

 
 

56. 

Let the Good Times Roll (1994)
The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music
John Chilton

Paper     978-0-472-08478-4     $29.95T     Available

 
 

57. 

Mammy (2008)
A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

Cloth     978-0-472-11614-0     $40.00T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03401-7     $25.95T     Available

 
 

58. 

Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk (2002)
Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania
Denise Roth Allen

Cloth     978-0-472-11284-5     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03027-9     $27.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02258-8          Available

 
 

59. 

Mark One or More (2006)
Civil Rights in Multiracial America
Kim M. Williams

Paper     978-0-472-03280-8     $24.95S     Available

 
 

60. 

The Marrow of Tradition (1969)
Charles W. Chesnutt

Paper     978-0-472-06147-1     $14.95S     Available

 
 

61. 

A Martian Muse
Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Reginald Shepherd

Cloth     978-0-472-07097-8     $60.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05097-0     $21.95T     Forthcoming

 
 

62. 

Modern Loves (2006)
The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage
Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-09959-7     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06959-0     $26.95S     Available

 
 

63. 

Moisture of the Earth (2009)
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
Fran Leeper Buss, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-09587-2     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06587-5     $22.95S     Available

 
 

64. 

A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt (2004)
An African Memoir
Toyin Falola

Paper     978-0-472-03132-0     $21.95S     Available

 
 

65. 

Natives of My Person (1991)
George Lamming

Paper     978-0-472-06467-0     $18.95S     Available

 
 

66. 

Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1964)
Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington
August Meier

Paper     978-0-472-06118-1     $29.95S     Available

 
 

67. 

The Next Twenty-five Years
Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa
David L. Featherman, Martin Hall, and Marvin Krislov, editors

Cloth     978-0-472-11705-5     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-03377-5     $24.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

68. 

On Gwendolyn Brooks (1996)
Reliant Contemplation
Stephen Caldwell Wright, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-08839-3     $20.95T     Available

 
 

69. 

One Nation Under A Groove (2004)
Motown and American Culture
Gerald Early

Paper     978-0-472-08956-7     $17.95S     Available

 
 

70. 

Other Germans (2003)
Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich
Tina M. Campt

Paper     978-0-472-03138-2     $27.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02160-4          Available

 
 

71. 

Parodies of Ownership (2009)
Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
Richard L. Schur

Cloth     978-0-472-07060-2     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05060-4     $26.95S     Available

 
 

72. 

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (2004)
Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-11368-2     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03163-4     $26.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02184-0          Available

 
 

73. 

Philadelphia Freedom (2008)
Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
David Kairys

Cloth     978-0-472-11638-6     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03310-2     $24.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02136-9          Available

 
 

74. 

The Pleasures of Exile (1991)
George Lamming

Cloth     978-0-472-09466-0     $67.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06466-3     $17.95S     Available

 
 

75. 

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs (1999)
Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Cloth     978-0-472-10989-0     $80.00S     Available

 
 

76. 

Poetics of Relation (1997)
Édouard Glissant

Paper     978-0-472-06629-2     $20.95S     Available

 
 

77. 

Politics in the Pews (2008)
The Political Mobilization of Black Churches
Eric L. McDaniel

Cloth     978-0-472-07046-6     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05046-8     $25.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02195-6          Available

 
 

78. 

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town (2003)
Elisha P. Renne

Paper     978-0-472-08983-3     $29.95S     Available

 
 

79. 

Power and Possibility (2007)
Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
Elizabeth Alexander

Cloth     978-0-472-09937-5     $59.50T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06937-8     $19.95T     Available

 
 

80. 

The Price of Racial Reconciliation (2008)
Ronald W. Walters

Paper     978-0-472-03380-5     $24.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02170-3          Available

 
 

81. 

The Problem of the Color[blind]
Racial Transgression and Black Performance
Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Cloth     978-0-472-07126-5     $75.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05126-7     $28.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

82. 

Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform (2003)
Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-06831-9     $35.00S     Available

 
 

83. 

Race, Liberalism, and Economics (2004)
David Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-03224-2     $25.95S     Available

 
 

84. 

Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln (2007)
Tasha S. Philpot

Cloth     978-0-472-09967-2     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06967-5     $24.95S     Available

 
 

85. 

Racial Union (2008)
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Julie Novkov

Cloth     978-0-472-09885-9     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06885-2     $28.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02287-8          Available

 
 

86. 

Ralph J. Bunche (1996)
Selected Speeches and Writings
Charles P. Henry, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-10589-2     $65.00S     Available

 
 

87. 

Rhythm Is Our Business (2006)
Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express
Eddy Determeyer

Cloth     978-0-472-11553-2     $29.95T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03359-1     $22.95T     Available

 
 

88. 

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World
Rituals and Remembrances
Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Cloth     978-0-472-07096-1     $70.00S     Forthcoming

 
 

89. 

Robert Hayden (2001)
Essays on the Poetry
Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-11233-3     $75.00S     Available

 
 

90. 

Selected Poems (1993)
Lorna Goodison

Paper     978-0-472-06493-9     $16.95S     Available

 
 

91. 

Sex, Race, and Merit (2000)
Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment
Faye J. Crosby and Cheryl VanDeVeer, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-09734-0     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06734-3     $29.95S     Available

 
 

92. 

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong (2002)
The Black Female Body in American Culture
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-06707-7     $32.50T     Available

 
 

93. 

Someone to Watch Over Me (2006)
The Life and Music of Ben Webster
Frank Büchmann-Møller

Paper     978-0-472-03360-7     $24.95T     Available

 
 

94. 

The Song of the Hawk (1990)
The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins
John Chilton

Paper     978-0-472-08201-8     $40.00S     Available

 
 

95. 

Soul Music
The Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Joel Rudinow

Cloth     978-0-472-07108-1     $75.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05108-3     $28.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

96. 

Suzan-Lori Parks (2008)
Deborah R. Geis

Cloth     978-0-472-09946-7     $54.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06946-0     $18.95T     Available

 
 

97. 

Taking It to the Streets (1997)
The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-10793-3     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-08768-6     $23.95S     Available

 
 

98. 

The Songs of Blind Folk (2009)
African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
Terry Rowden

Cloth     978-0-472-07064-0     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05064-2     $22.95S     Available

 
 

99. 

Twenty Years on Wheels (1989)
Andy Kirk

Cloth     978-0-472-10134-4     $42.95S     Available

 
 

100. 

The Walls of Jericho (1994)
Rudolph Fisher

Paper     978-0-472-06565-3     $24.95S     Available

 
 

101. 

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States (2006)
Current Issues
Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ngina Chiteji, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-09958-0     $90.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06958-3     $35.00S     Available

 
 

102. 

Whispered Consolations (2000)
Law and Narrative in African American Life
Jon-Christian Suggs

Cloth     978-0-472-10651-6     $85.00S     Available

 
 

103. 

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories (1968)
Charles W. Chesnutt

Paper     978-0-472-06134-1     $14.95S     Available

 
 

104. 

Workin' on the Chain Gang (2006)
Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Walter Mosley

Paper     978-0-472-03198-6     $14.95S     Available

 
 
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