Black metropolis; a study of Negro life in a northern city by Drake, St. Clair

Table of Contents: “…Democracy and Political Expendiency -- Appendix: Black Metropolis 1961 -- Authors' Preface -- Part 3: 14. …”


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Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance by Hill, Laban Carrick

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On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker by Bundles, A'Lelia Perry

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The heart of a woman : the life and music of Florence B. Price by Brown, Rae Linda, 1953-2017

Table of Contents: “…The "Dean" of Negro composers of the Midwest. VeeJay and the Black metropolis --…”


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The long road home : on Blackness and belonging by Thompson, Debra (Debra E.)

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings: We came back too soon -- The Great White North -- The only one - The Freedom Trail -- Appalachian elegies -- The Black metropolis -- The Western frontier -- Borderlands -- Je reviendrai parmi vous -- Epilogue: Neverwhere and everywhere.…”


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The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama by Remnick, David

Table of Contents: “…The Joshua generation -- A complex fate -- Surface and undertow -- Nobody knows my name -- Black metropolis -- Ambition -- A narrative of ascent -- Somebody nobody sent -- Black enough -- The wilderness campaign -- Reconstruction -- A righteous wind -- A slight madness -- The sleeping giant -- In the racial funhouse -- The book of Jeremiah -- "How long? …”


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Slim's table : race, respectability, and masculinity by Duneier, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Black Men: Transcending Roles and Images ---- Part Two: The Moral Community. 3. Valois as a "Black Metropolis" --- 4. The Standard of Respectability ---- Part Three: Membership in Society. 5. …”


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Oscar Micheaux, the great and only : the life of America's first Black filmmaker by McGilligan, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…1884-1900: Metropolis, Illinois -- 1900-1904: black Metropolis -- 1904-1906: the rosebud -- 1906-1908: the one true woman -- 1908-1909: a new persona -- 1909-1912: hammer blows -- 1912-1914: dark days -- 1914-1918: the film bug -- 1919-1921: a tongue of fire -- 1921-1922: Harlem and Roanoke -- 1923-1924: the pale of the law -- 1925-1927: straws in the wind -- 1928-1931: a miracle rebound -- 1931-1935: Jews with money -- 1936-1940: reaping and sowing -- 1941-1947: the wind from nowhere -- 1947-1951: ahead of time.…”


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The Black church in the African-American experience by Lincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric), 1924-2000, Mamiya, Lawrence H.

Table of Contents: “…The religious dimension : toward a sociology of Black churches -- The Black Baptists : the first Black churches in America -- The Black Methodists : the institutionalization of Black religious independence -- The Black Pentecostals : The spiritual legacy with a Black beginning -- In the receding shadow of the plantation : a profile of rural clergy and churches in the Black Belt -- In the streets of the Black metropolis : a profile of Black urban clergy and churches -- The new Black revolution : the Black Consciousness Movement and the Black church -- "Now is the time!" …”


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