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Preface | |
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The Color Line: Racism | |
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"Of Our Spiritual Strivings" | |
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"What Is Race?" | |
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"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch" | |
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"Who's Passing for Who?" | |
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"Black Power" | |
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from The Black Notebooks | |
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"Black Identity: Shades of Beauty and Pride" | |
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"Race-Holding" | |
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"Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black" | |
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"Dropping the 'One Drop' Rule" | |
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Talk That Talk | |
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"From African to African American" | |
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"The Negro Dialect" | |
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"Objecting to the Negro Dialect" | |
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"Pa Henry's Prayer" | |
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"Incident" | |
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"Primitive Blues and Primitive Jazz" | |
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"A Legacy of Healing: Words, African Americans, and Power" | |
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"Linguistic Society of America Resolution on the Oakland 'Ebonics' Issue" | |
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"Ebonics: When Is Dialect Acceptable English?" | |
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"A Case for Orality in the Classroom" | |
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"Do We Need a National Language Policy?" | |
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"The N-Word" | |
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"Confronting and Changing Images and Representations of Black Womanhood in Rap Music" | |
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Media Resources | |
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Warriors on the Trading Block | |
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"The Narrative of William W. Brown: From Slave to Abolitionist" | |
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"Black Manhattan" | |
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"The Struggle of Curt Flood" | |
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"Blue-Collar Law and Basketball" | |
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"Robbing the Cradle" | |
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"'Cinderellas' of Sport: Black Women in Track and Field" | |
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"The NFL's Black Eye" | |
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"More Brains or More ..." | |
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"Crisis of Black Athletes on the Eve of the 21st Century" | |
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"Hoop Roots" | |
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Media Resources | |
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Justice/Just-Us? | |
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"David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles: Preamble" | |
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"We Can Be as Separate as the Fingers: Segregation from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age" | |
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"A Red Record: The Case Stated" | |
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"Neither Separate Schools Nor Mixed Schools: The Chronicle of the Sacrificed Black Schoolchildren" | |
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"elegy" | |
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"Shopping in a Group While Black: A Coach's Story" | |
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"From the Inside Looking Out: Twenty-Nine Years in the New York Police Department" | |
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"My Brother's Keeper" | |
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"The Witch-Hunt" | |
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"The Clarence Thomas Fiasco" | |
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Media Resources | |
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The Mirror Has Many Faces | |
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"Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation" | |
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"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" | |
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"Je suis un homme" | |
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"I Am a Black Woman" | |
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"The Many Shades of Black: Angela McArthur and Celia Delaney" | |
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"Culture: Negro, Black, and Nigger" | |
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"Bill Cosby and the Politics of Race" | |
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"Black Lesbians: Passing, Stereotypes, and Transformation" | |
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Media Resources | |
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One Family, One Blood | |
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"The Slave Family" | |
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"Plantation Courtship" | |
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"Laura Smalley" | |
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"The Idea of Ancestry" | |
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"Color Him Father: An Interview" | |
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"A Woman Just Wouldn't" | |
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"The Myth of the Welfare Queen" | |
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"In Praise of Black Family Reunions" | |
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"A Family Legacy" | |
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"Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America: About the Morehouse Conference" | |
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Media Resources | |
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We Come This Far by Faith | |
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"Sending Up Some Timber: Elderly Slaves and Religious Leadership in the Antebellum Slave Community" | |
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"Steal Away: Traditional Spiritual" | |
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"The Subject of My Call to Preach Renewed" | |
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"Black Churches and Segregation" | |
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"Together and in Harness: Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church" | |
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"Mecca" | |
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"Roselily" | |
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"Why a Black Gay Church?" | |
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"Completing the Circle: Notes on African Art, Society, and Religion in Oyotunji, South Carolina" | |
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"For U.S. Blacks, an Ancient Faith, a Renewed Hope" | |
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"Coming to Faith" | |
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Media Resources | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |