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African American studies 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion Africa and the Blues African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas African American Writers: Portraits and Visions African-American Proverbs in Context Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe The Art of William Edmondson Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties Autobiography of a Female Slave Barthé: A Life in Sculpture Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. Beetlecreek Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan Borders of Equality: The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970 Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll A Business Career C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence C. L. R. James on the 'Negro Question' C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters The Case against Afrocentrism Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television Charles Burnett: Interviews Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn Civil Rights Childhood Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association The Civil Rights Movement in America The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South Connecting Times: The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction Contemporary Southern Identity: Community through Controversy Conversations with Albert Murray Conversations with Amiri Baraka Conversations with August Wilson Conversations with Chester Himes Conversations with Chinua Achebe Conversations with Clarence Major Conversations with Ernest Gaines Conversations with Gloria Naylor Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Conversations with Ishmael Reed Conversations with James Baldwin Conversations with John Edgar Wideman Conversations with Leon Forrest Conversations with Margaret Walker Conversations with Maya Angelou Conversations with Nikki Giovanni Conversations with Octavia Butler Conversations with Paule Marshall Conversations with Percival Everett Conversations with Ralph Ellison Conversations with Rita Dove Conversations with Samuel R. Delany Conversations with Sonia Sanchez Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Conversations with Toni Morrison Conversations with Walter Mosley Conversations with: Yusef Komunyakaa Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 Cultural Orphans in America Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington Dark Princess Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature Doubled Plots: Romance and History Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country Earl Hooker, Blues Master Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865 Evelyn's Husband Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon For Us, the Living Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990 The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange Global Pop, Local Language Haitian Vodou Flags A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Highway 51: Mississippi Hill Country The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000 The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman Leonard's Photography Jazz in American Culture Jazz Planet Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn John Singleton: Interviews Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema Ladies First: Women in Music Videos Ladies of Soul Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans Louisiana Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi Manners and Southern History Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Story of a Black Deserter The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later Minty Alley Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues Mississippi Politics The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History Not Just Child's Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan Now Is the Time Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 Passage on the Underground Railroad Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange Perspectives on Percival Everett Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen The Pilgrim Jubilees Piney Woods School: An Oral History Placing the South The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 Prejudice Across America The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching The Pursuit of a Dream Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Third Edition Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia Real Football: Conversations on America's Game Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917 Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control Religion in Mississippi Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame The Reverend Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901 Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections Richard Wright: Books and Writers The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement The Several Lives of Chester Himes Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture Shadowing Ralph Ellison Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers Shim Shocking The Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery Shreveport Sounds in Black and White Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920 Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 Slavery and the American South Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution Somebody Always Singing You The Soul of Southern Cooking Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland The South and the Caribbean South Florida Folklife The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer To Tell It Like It Is Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture Spike Lee: Interviews The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians Spirit of the Delta: The Art of Carolyn Norris A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change Sports: The All-American Addiction That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement Three Lives for Mississippi To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance Toni Morrison: Conversations Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution Transformed: A White Mississippi Pastor's Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum The Treasure of Ulysses Davis: Sculpture from a Savannah Barbershop Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination Why I Left America and Other Essays Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany Witness to Injustice Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 The World of Richard Wright The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. 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