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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Ann D. Gordon, with Bettye Collier-Thomas, John H. Bracey, Arlene Voski Avakian & Joyce Avrech Berkman, eds. paper, $22.95.

The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. Bernard W. Bell. paper, $27.95.

Against the Odds: Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century. Benjamin P. Bowser, Louis Kushnick, Paul Grant, eds. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961. W.E.B. Du Bois. Herbert Aptheker, ed. paper, $24.95.

Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-Age France. Brett A. Berliner. cloth, $40.00.

American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century. Rachel Rubin & Jeffrey Melnick, eds. cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95.

American Studies in Black and White: Selected Essays, 1949-1989. Sidney Kaplan. Allan D. Austin, ed. John Hope Franklin, foreword. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Lydia Maria Child. Carolyn L. Karcher, ed. cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.

Black and White in American Culture: An Anthology from "The Massachusetts Review." Jules Chametzky & Sidney Kaplan, eds. cloth, $45.00.

The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales. Bernard Binlin Dadié. Karen C. Hatch, trans. Es'kia Mphahlele, intro. paper, $21.95.

Black English and the Mass Media. Walter M. Brasch. cloth, $45.00.

Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage. William D. Piersen. paper, $24.95.

Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. Benjamin Quarles. August Meier, intro. paper, $22.95.

The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. (rev. ed.) Sidney Kaplan & Emma Nogrady Kaplan. paper, $24.95.

Black Students in the Ivory Tower: African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990. Wayne C. Glasker. cloth, $34.95.

Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin. Jules Chametzky, ed. paper, $14.95.

Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. William D. Piersen. paper, $24.95.

The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction. Stephen Soitos. paper, $21.95.

Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary. Stephen Clingman. paper, $21.95.

Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail. Michael Sokolow. cloth, $37.95.

Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity. Tyrone Tillery. paper, $19.95.

C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies. Selwyn R. Cudjoe & William E. Cain, eds. cloth, $55.00; paper, $27.95.

The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films. Christopher P. Lehman. cloth, $29.95.

The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches. Bernard W. Bell. library cloth, $80.00; paper, $27.95.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I: Selections, 1877-1934. W.E.B. Du Bois. Herbert Aptheker, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume II: Selections, 1934-1944. W.E.B. Du Bois. Herbert Aptheker, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume III: Selections, 1944-1963. W.E.B. Du Bois. Herbert Aptheker, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

Cotton and Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854-1868. Richard H. Abbott. cloth, $40.00.

Darktown Strutters: A Novel. Wesley Brown. W. T. Lhamon Jr., afterword. paper, $24.95.

Deep Are the Roots: Memoirs of a Black Expatriate. Gordon Heath. Doris Abramson, intro. Ekwueme Mike Thelwell, afterword. paper, $22.95.

Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898. Alexander Crummell. Wilson Jeremiah Moses, ed. cloth, $40.00.

Diversity: Gender, Color, and Culture. Philomena Essed. Rita Gircour, trans. cloth, $40.00; paper, $21.95.

Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle. Michael Thelwell. James Baldwin, intro. paper, $20.95.

Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915. Mitch Kachun. cloth, $39.95; paper, $22.95.

The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Kathryn Grover. cloth, $39.95.

Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Jean McMahon Humez, ed. paper, $24.95.

The Heart of the Ngoni: Heroes of the African Kingdom of Segu. Harold Courlander, with Ousmane Sako. paper, $21.95.

Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown & Donald Yacovone, eds. General Colin L. Powell, foreword. cloth, $34.95.

I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy. Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) & Jonathan Scott Lee, eds. cloth, $55.00; paper, $27.95.

In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature. Susan J. Tracy. cloth, $42.50.

The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America. Thomas W. Cooley. cloth, $40.00.

Jean Toomer and the Prison-House of Thought: A Phenomenology of the Spirit. Robert B. Jones. cloth, $35.00.

Josh White: Society Blues. Elijah Wald. cloth, $35.00.

Love across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz & Kathy Peiss, eds. cloth, $35.00; paper, $20.95.

Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey. Sandra R. Lieb. paper, $24.95.

On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. Corporal James Henry Gooding. Virginia M. Adams, ed. James M. McPherson, foreword. paper, $17.95.

On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes. Henri Grégoire. Thomas Cassirer & Jean-François Brière, trans. cloth, $40.00; paper, $15.95.

One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870. Karen Woods Weierman. cloth, $34.95.

Our Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War Era. Stephen B. Oates. paper, $20.95.

Ousmane Sembène: Dialogues with Critics and Writers. Samba Gadjigo, Ralph Faulkingham, Thomas Cassirer & Reinhard Sander, eds. paper, $14.95.

Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920. James M. O'Toole. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement. Sheila Tully Boyle & Andrew Bunie. cloth, $50.00.

Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America.Chris Dixon. cloth, $45.00.

Prayers for Dark People. W.E.B. Du Bois. Herbert Aptheker, ed. paper, $11.95.

Propaganda & Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. Abby Arthur Johnson & Ronald Maberry Johnson. paper, $24.95.

Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual.Kenneth Robert Janken. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Reflections in Prison: Voices from the South African Liberation Struggle. Mac Maharaj, ed. Desmond Tutu, foreword. paper, $24.95.

A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York. T. J. Davis. paper, $24.95.

Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out. May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye & Dagmar Schultz, eds. Anne V. Adams, trans. Audre Lorde, foreword. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture. Gena Dagel Caponi, ed. cloth, $60.00; paper, $29.95.

Strangers and Neighbors: Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States. Maurianne Adams & John Bracey, eds. Julian Bond, intro. cloth, $70.00; paper, $36.95.

Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Debra Gold Hansen. cloth, $40.00.

Such Sweet Thunder: Views on Black American Music. Mark Baszak, ed. Edward Cohen, photography. paper, $25.00.

Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars. Joel Dinerstein. cloth, $80.00; paper, $27.95.

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Verner D. Mitchell. Cheryl A. Wall, foreword. paper, $18.95.

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Verner D. Mitchell. Cheryl A. Wall, foreword. Abigail McGrath, afterword. cloth, $30.00.

To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice: The Life and Writings of Hosea Easton.Hosea Easton. George R. Price & James Brewer Stewart, eds. cloth, $30.00; paper, $16.95.

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. (2d ed.) Stephen B. Oates. paper, $27.95.

The Truman Nelson Reader. William J. Schafer, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Victims and Heroes: Racial Violence in the African American Novel. Jerry H. Bryant. paper, $24.95.

A Vision of Order: A Study of Black South African Literature in English, 1914-1980. Ursula A. Barnett. cloth, $40.00.

Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930–1950. Dorothy West. Verner D. Mitchell & Cynthia Davis, eds. cloth, $29.95.

A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965: Essays and Reflections. August Meier. John H. Bracey, afterword. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery. Herbert Shapiro. paper, $29.95.

Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. Bettina Aptheker. paper, $21.95.

Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader. Steven C. Tracy, ed. cloth, $70.00; paper, $32.95.

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