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Letter From A Region In My Mind |
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On race, religion, and the future of America |
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61 | (8) |
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On skin color in literature |
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69 | (16) |
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Why are West Indian immigrants perceived to be different from other African-Americans? |
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85 | (14) |
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A Presidents racial balancing act |
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Now Is The Time To Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About |
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99 | (6) |
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Americas moral duty after the election of Donald Trump |
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105 | (16) |
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Fighting racism by redefining it |
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PART II PERSONAL HISTORIES |
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121 | (24) |
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A writer's search for the genuine article |
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145 | (8) |
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On surviving the heady days and nights of youth |
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153 | (26) |
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How a teen-ager becomes a crime statistic |
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179 | (14) |
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Home, before and after the flood |
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193 | (32) |
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The faultlines in New York's schools |
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PART III THE POLITICAL JCENE |
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225 | (22) |
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A. Philip Randolph and The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
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247 | (18) |
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Pauli Murray's separate but equal struggles |
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265 | (6) |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., debates a racist |
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271 | (18) |
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The epic trek across Alabama |
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289 | (34) |
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Coming to terms with the many faces of Louis Farrakhan |
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323 | (4) |
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A response to the election of Donald J. Trump |
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327 | (22) |
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The Rev. William Barber leads a movement against poverty |
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Phillis Wheatley On Trial |
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349 | (36) |
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A poet in constant question |
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363 | (22) |
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Zora Neale Hurston, American contrarian |
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385 | (8) |
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Columbia's Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes |
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393 | (26) |
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How Albert Murray inspired a generation |
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419 | (28) |
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The singular storytelling of Toni Morrison |
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447 | (24) |
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Saidiya Hartman reimagines Black America |
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PART V ONVARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS |
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471 | (10) |
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Marian Andersons complex legacy |
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481 | (18) |
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Sonny Rollins on the bandstand |
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499 | (8) |
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P. Jay Sidney's fight to integrate early TV |
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Brother From Another Mother |
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507 | (26) |
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Key and Peek, chameleon comedians |
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533 | (24) |
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Arthur Jafa brings Black life to the screen |
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557 | (24) |
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581 | (18) |
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Jay-Z and the rise of corporate rap |
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The Mask Of Metal-Face Doom |
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599 | (14) |
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A nonconformist rapper's second act |
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The Autofictions Of Kendrick Lamar |
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613 | (6) |
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On Kendrick Lamar's album "damn" |
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PART VI ANNALS OF THE LAW |
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619 | (8) |
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A 1947 lynching trial in South Carolina |
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Black Bodies In Motion And In Pain |
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627 | (6) |
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On Jacob Lawrence's paintings and Dylann Roof |
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633 | (14) |
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A museum of African-American history comes to the capital |
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647 | (20) |
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A sixteen-year-old boy's ordeal in Rikers |
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667 | (26) |
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A child's journey through Georgia's special-education system |
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693 | (20) |
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Race, memory, and a killing in the suburbs |
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PART VII THE UPRISING AND AFTER |
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The Matter Of Black Lives |
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713 | (18) |
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How a movement found its moment |
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On the streets of Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd |
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761 | (16) |
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A long history of government inaction |
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How Do We Change America? |
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777 | (16) |
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The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police |
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793 | (10) |
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On motherhood in the face of police brutality |
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803 | (18) |
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A son's reckoning with his mother's hope |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| List of Contributors |
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