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    Mississippi

    James W. Silver

    Thus the Mississippian, who prides himself on his individuality, lives in a climate where nonconformity is forbidden, where the white man is not free, where he does not dare to express a deviating opinion without looking over his shoulder.

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    A History of the Jews

    Abram L. Sachar

    ‘A History of the Jews’ interweaves religious and philosophical factors with the social, political and economic background of Jewish life from pre-biblical times to 1964.

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    Whose Votes Count?

    Abigail M. Thernstrom

    Thernstrom shows how a measure carefully crafted to open the polling booths to southern blacks has evolved into a powerful tool for affirmative action in the electoral sphere—a means to promote black and Hispanic office holding by creating “safe” seats for minority candidates.

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    The Struggle for Equality

    James M. McPherson

    This work remains an incisive demonstration of the successful role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, when they evolved from despised fanatics into influential spokespersons for the radical wing of the Republican party.

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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    Above all, Morrison is known for her rich, lyrical prose, which fuses the rhythms and imagery of African American speech and music with other literary influences to create a discourse of its own.

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    A Sport of Nature

    Nadine Gordimer

    In her novels and short stories Gordimer has captured the “flesh and blood of individual behavior” in minute and sentient detail, chronicling daily life in South Africa under apartheid, and portraying the human face of resistance.

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    Assimilation in American Life

    Milton M. Gordon

    ‘Assimilation in American Life’ is one of the most widely cited books in the field of racial and ethnic group relations and is considered the standard work on the assimilation process.

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    Living Maya

    Jeffrey Jay Foxx

    Myths, legends, and songs are explained and depicted, and there is a special emphasis on the Maya’s weaving, the one art form to have persisted virtually unchanged throughout the last 2000 years.

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    The New World of Negro Americans

    Harold R. Isaacs

    Based upon a wide and deep knowledge of Negro American history and interviews in depth with a cross-section of Negro Americans from James Baldwin, Ralph Bunche, W.E.B. DuBois, and Jackie Robinson to unknown men and women, the volume probes the impact of world affairs, particularly the African Revolution, on Negro Americans.

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    Beyond the Melting Pot

    Nathan Glazer

    ‘One of the most popular, and most influential, works of sociology of its time’ [….] “Beyond the Melting Pot” generated a debate as to whether—and to what degree—ethnic cultures should assimilate into American society.

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    Spirit of Survival

    Gail Sheehy

    Gail Sheehy has rocked the culture and changed the way millions of women and men around the world look at the stages of their lives.

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    Mankind Evolving

    Theodosius Dobzhansky

    With a profound knowledge of the biological theory of evolution and modern genetics, Mr. Dobzhansky explores the possibilities of understanding mankind as a product of evolution and as an evolving whole.

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    The Life of Langston Hughes

    Arnold Rampersad

    This balanced, honest biography offers deep insights into a major artist’s personality and work as well as a sweeping view of American culture in his lifetime.

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    The Reluctant African

    Louis E. Lomax

    In defending his country, he was also surprised at how often the fact that he was an American seemed much more important than the color of his skin.

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    Nazis in Skokie

    Donald Alexander Downs

    Downs combines detailed social history with informed legal interpretation in a provocative examination of an abiding tension between individual freedom and community integrity, and between procedural and substantive justice.

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    To Sir, With Love

    E.R. Braithwaite

    He came to know the virus of prejudice very well, as he was turned down from job after job. Braithwaite described feeling “caught like an insect in the tweezers grip of prejudice.” Teaching became the cure to set him free.

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    I Speak for Myself

    John Haynes Holmes

    Haynes Holmes helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and also the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920.

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    The Lost Cities of Africa

    Basil Davidson

    Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.

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    The Abandonment of the Jews

    David S. Wyman

    In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths.

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    Stride Toward Freedom

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    King came to represent black courage and achievement, high moral leadership, and the ability of Americans to address and overcome racial divisions.