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Racial Paranoia
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John Jackson
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THE NEW REALITY OF RACE IN AMERICA
Acclaimed scholar John L. Jackson, Jr., identifies a new paradigm of race relations that has emerged in the wake of the legal victories of the civil rights era: racial paranoia.
We live in an age of racial equality punctuated by galling examples of ongoing discrimination. Not surprisingly, African-Americans distrust the rhetoric of political correctness, and see instead the threat of racism lurking below every white surface. Conspiracy theories abound and racial reconciliation seems near to impossible.
In Racial Paranoia, Jackson explains how this paranoia is cultivated, transferred, and exaggerated; how it shapes our nation and undermines the goal of racial equality; and what can be done to fight it ...
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Party Crashing
How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
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Keli Goff
One of the biggest young talents in Democratic politics takes on a subject she knows from the inside: why the new generation of black voters is leaving the Democratic Party
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April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
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Michael Eric Dyson
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for racial and economic
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Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
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Camille Forbes
From the traveling troupes of the Wild West all the way to the bright lights of Broadway, Bert Williams broke through the color barriers and changed the face of the American stage
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An Unbroken Agony
Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President of a President
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Randall Robinson
Bestselling author and bold social commentator, Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately tragic history of Haiti
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Debating Race
with Michael Eric Dyson
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Michael Eric Dyson
Bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson collects his previously unpublished intellectual encounters-cordial and combative-with some of today’s most influential thinkers and politicians
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Being Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete
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Kenneth Shropshire
A biography of Sugar Ray Robinson and an intellectual expedition into the culture of celebrity in sports
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