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

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In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City 9780814784624
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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African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 0252033361, 9780252033360
African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 0252033361, 9780252033360

During the early national and antebellum eras, black leaders in New York City confronted the tenuous nature of Northern

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City 9780300164091
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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Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community 1317732162, 9781317732167
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 Black Church in the African American Experience 9780822381648
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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The Con Men: Hustling in New York City 0231170823, 9780231170826
The Con Men: Hustling in New York City 0231170823, 9780231170826

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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Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512800043
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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The Con Men: Hustling in New York City 9780231540490
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 Royal African Company
The Royal African Company

This book recounts the history of the Royal African Company and relates it to a number of wider themes: the evolution of

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