In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City 081479369X, 9780814793695

In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City 9780814784624

Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuries From the subaltern assemblies of t

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City 9780300164091

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her q

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In the shadow of slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 9780226317731, 9780226317755, 9780226317748

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Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community 1317732162, 9781317732167

Over the last 35 years, practice of Santeria and the Yoruba religion in the United States has grown as the result of Afr

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The Con Men: Hustling in New York City 9780231540490

This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and th

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The Black Church in the African American Experience 9780822381648

Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black

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Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512800043

Draws on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New York singers to reveal an intriguing world where relig

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A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York 9780814785188

In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigratio

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Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience 9780822383888

Provides new insight into the development of black nationalism by examining the intersection of African-American and Wes

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Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City 9781479851591

A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality The 2

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