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East African Hip Hop : Youth Culture And Globalization

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Mwenda Ntarangwi
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Book, University of Illinois Press, 2009
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Youth · Africa, East · Social conditions · Group identity · Hip-hop · Adolescent psychology · Blacks · Race identity · Popular culture and globalization · Music and globalization · Social life and customs · Ntarangwi, Mwenda
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ799.A353 N78 2009 IN PROCESS

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ799.A353 N78 2009	IN PROCESS

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Becoming Rasta : Origins Of Rastafari Identity In Jamaica

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Charles Price
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Book, New York University Press, 2009
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Rastafari movement · Jamaica · Identification (Religion) · Blacks · Race identity · Religion · Price, Charles, 1963-
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Archaeology Of Atlantic Africa And The African Diaspora

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edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola
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Book, Indiana University Press, 2007
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This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic and highlights the importance of historical archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world’s Africans. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Blacks · Africa, West · Antiquities · America · Africans · Slave trade · History · African diaspora · Archaeology and history · Ogundiran, Akinwumi · Falola, Toyin
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(LOWER LEVEL) DT473 .A73 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DT473 .A73 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Negro Speaks Of Rivers

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Langston Hughes ; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis
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Book, 1st ed, Disney Jump at the Sun Books, 2009
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Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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African Americans · Juvenile poetry · Blacks · Pictorial works · Juvenile literature · Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 · Lewis, Earl B
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OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 811.52 H893n AVAILABLE

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OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER)	811.52 H893n	AVAILABLE

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Savage Constructions : The Myth Of African Savagery

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Wendy C. Hamblet
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Book, Lexington Books, 2008
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Savage Constructions challenges the popular Western assumption that violence is an essential quality of darker-skinned populations, arguing that Western imperialist projects are largely responsible for the current violences that rebound in victim societies of the post-colonial world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Violence · Philosophy · Social aspects · Civilization, Western · Africans · Race identity · Blacks · Racism · Philosophy, African · Culture conflict · Africa · Colonial influence · Civilization · Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949-
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(LOWER LEVEL) DT21 .H25 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DT21 .H25 2008	AVAILABLE

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Crossing The Continent, 1527-1540 : The Story Of The First African-American Explorer Of The American South

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Robert Goodwin
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Book, 1st ed, Harper, 2008
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Estevan, · d. 1539 · Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, · 16th cent · Explorers · America · Biography · Spain · Blacks · Slaves · Slavery · History · 16th century · Cibola, Seven Cities of · Southwestern States · Discovery and exploration · Spanish · Southern States · Goodwin, Robert, 1969-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E125.E8 G66 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E125.E8 G66 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Missing Spanish Creoles : Recovering The Birth Of Plantation Contact Languages

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John H. McWhorter
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Book, University of California Press, 2000
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John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. The evidence that most New World creoles were imports traceable to West Africa strongly suggests that the well-established limited access model for plantation creole needs revision. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Creole dialects · Caribbean Area · History · Pidgin languages · Blacks · Africa, West · Languages · McWhorter, John H
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(UPPER LEVEL) PM7834.C37 M38 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PM7834.C37 M38 2000	AVAILABLE

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The Black Metropolis In The Twenty-first Century : Race, Power, And Politics Of Place

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[edited by] Robert D. Bullard
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Book, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007
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This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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City dwellers · United States · African Americans · Social conditions · Blacks · Segregation · Sociology, Urban · Urban geography · Human geography · Bullard, Robert D. 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HT221 .B53 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HT221 .B53 2007	AVAILABLE

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Tribe, Race, History : Native Americans In Southern New England, 1780-1880

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Daniel R. Mandell
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Book, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
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Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Indians of North America · New England · History · Ethnic identity · Whites · Relations with Indians · Blacks · Ethnic relations · Race relations · Mandell, Daniel R., 1956-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E78.N5 M36 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E78.N5 M36 2008	AVAILABLE

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Black France : Colonialism, Immigration, And Transnationalism

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Dominic Thomas
Publication Details
Book, Indiana University Press, 2007
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Challenging the identity politics that have set immigrants against the mainstream, Black France explores how black expressive culture has been reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Blacks · France · Race identity · Social conditions · Africans · Multiculturalism · Ethnic relations · Thomas, Dominic Richard David
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(LOWER LEVEL) DC34.5.B55 T46 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DC34.5.B55 T46 2007	AVAILABLE

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Foreigners

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Caryl Phillips
Publication Details
Book, 1st American ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Description
Randolph Turpin, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, becoming Britain?s first black world-champion boxer, a top-class fighter for twelve years whose life ended in debt and despair . David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice, and whose death at the hands of police in 1969 served as a wake-up call for the entire nation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Barber, Frank, · d. 1801 · Fiction · Turpin, Randolph · Oluwale, David, · 1930 or 1-1969 · Blacks · England · Race relations · Race identity · Phillips, Caryl
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR9275.S263 P474 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR9275.S263 P474 2007	AVAILABLE

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Elijah Of Buxton

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Christopher Paul Curtis
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Scholastic Press, 2007
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Description
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Liberty · Juvenile fiction · Slavery · Blacks · Canada · Freedom · Fiction · North Buxton (Ont.) · Curtis, Christopher Paul
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 C978e AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	804 C978e	AVAILABLE

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Rough Crossings : Britain, The Slaves, And The American Revolution

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Simon Schama
Publication Details
Book, 1st U.S. ed, Ecco, 2006
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Slavery · United States · History · 18th century · Blacks · England · Revolution, 1775-1783 · African Americans · Social aspects · Schama, Simon
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(LOWER LEVEL) E269.N3 S33 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E269.N3 S33 2006	AVAILABLE

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