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Gateway 1999

African American History Month, February 1999
Books from the USIA Information Resource Center

Adams, Janus. Glory Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African-American History. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995      REF E185 .A234 1995

Banks, William M. Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life . New York, NY: Norton, 1996.       E185.86 .B267 1996

Bell, Derrick A. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: the Permanence of Racism. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1992.       E185.615 .B395 1992

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone; the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998       E446. B49 1998

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. By Darlene Clark Hine. 2 Volumes. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub. , 1993       BIOG REF E185.86 .B542 1993

Blacks and the American Political System. Ed. By Huey L. Perry and Wayne Parent. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1995       E185.615 .B5538 1995

Bowen, William G and Derek Bok. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998       LB2351.2 B696 1998

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters; America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988       E185.61 .B7914 1988

_____________Pillar of Fire; America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998       E185.61 .B7915 1998

Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race- Obsessed World. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1997       E185.615 .C68 1997

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Ed. by Charles Lowery and John F. Marszalek. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1992.       REF E185.61 .E54 1992

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History . Ed. By Jack Saltzman, David Lionel Smith and Cornel West. 5 Vol. New York, NY: MacMillan, 1996       REF E185 .E54 1996

Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Ed. By David Bradley and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. 3 Vol. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 1998.       REF E185.61 .E544 1998

Franklin, John Hope and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: a History of African Americans. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1994.       E185 .F825 1994

Gates, Henry Louis. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. New York, NY: Random House, 1997.       E185.86 .G374 1997

Gates, Henry Louis and Cornel West. The Future of the Race. New York, NY: Knopf, 1996       E185.86 G377 1996

Gatewood, Willard B. Aristocrats of Color: the Black Elite. 1880-1920. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.       E185.86 .G38 1990

Gill, LaVerne McCain. African American Women in Congress: Forming and Transforming History . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997       BIOG REF E840.6 .G55 1997

Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York, NY: Scribner's, 1992       E185.615 .H23 1992

Halberstam, David. The Children. New York, NY: Random House, 1998.       E185.61 .H195 1998

Hine, Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1998.       E185.86 .H68 1998

Hochschild, Jennifer L. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.       E185.615 .H55 1995

Johnson, Charles and Patricia Smith. Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery. (Companion to the PBS Series) New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.       E441 .J65 1998

Luker, Ralph. Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.       REF E185.61 .L84 1997

Notable Black American Women. Ed. By Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit, Gale Research, 1996.      BIOG REF E185.96 .N68 1996

Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Ed. By William L. Andrews, Francis Smith Foster and Trudier Harris. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.       REF PS153 .N5 O96 1997

Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.       E185.93 .M7 P39 1995

Pierson, William Dillon. Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.       E169.1 .P553 1993

Robinson, Randall. Defending the Spirit: a Black Life in America. New York, NY: Dutton, 1998.       E185.97 .R665 A3 1998

Ross, Leon T. and Kenneth A. Mimms. African American Almanac: Day-by-Day Black History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.       REF E185 .R815 1997

Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character: a New Vision of Race in America. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1991.       E185.615 .S74 1991

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998.       JK1896 .T47 1998

Terkel, Studs. Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. New York, NY: New Press, 1992.       E184. A1 T46 1992

Thernstrom, Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997.       E185.61 .T45 1997

Voices in Black and White: Writings on Race in America from Harper's Magazine. Ed. By Katherine Whittemore and Gerald Marzorati. New York, NY: Franklin Square Press, 1993.       E185.61 .V74 1993

Walker, Juliet E. K. The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. New York, NY: McMillan Library Reference, 1998.       HD2344.5 .U6 W35 1998

West, Cornel. Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America. New York, NY: Routledge, 1993.       E185.615 .W427 1993

__________ Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.       E185.615 .W43 1993

Wicker, Tom. Tragic Failure: Racial Integration in America. New York, NY: Morrow, 1996       E185.615 .W476 1996



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