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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 | |