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Black Issues in Higher Education, August 5, 1999 by Kendra Hamilton

For those seeking more information about early African Americans we recommend the following:

African-American Folk Tales: Black Traditions in the New World By Roger Abrahams Pantheon, 1999

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Edited by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Basic Civitas Books, 1999

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia By Edmund S. Morgan Norton, 1995

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920 By Willard B. Gatewood University of Indiana Press, 1990

Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery By John Michael Vlach University of North Carolina Press, 1993

Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to Be Free and Equal: A Plan of Thematic Interpretation Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1998

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South By Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark Norton, 1986

Black Talk By Geneva Smitherman Houghton Mifflin, 2000

The Collected Essays By Ralph Ellison Modern Library, 1995

A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America By David K. Shipler Vintage Books, 1998

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Edited by William R. Ferris Jr. Doubleday, 1991

Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of American Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South By Michael Angelo Gomez University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals By Trudier Harris Indiana University Press, 1984

Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy By Robert Ferris Thompson Random House, 1984

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White Henry Wiencek St. Martin's Press, 1999

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present By Jacqueline Jones Vintage, 1986

Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood By Michael D'Orso Boulevard Books, 1996

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 By Grace Elizabeth Hale Pantheon Books, 1998

Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping By Kenneth Goings Indiana University Press, 1994

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America By Ira Berlin Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1998

The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and Culture By Albert Murray Da Capo Press, 1990

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 By Eric Foner Harper and Row, 1988

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made By Eugene D. Genovese Bantam Books, 1988

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation By John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweningen Oxford University Press, 1999

Seeds of Change: Five Hundred Years Since Columbus By Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima By M.M. Manring University Press of Virginia, 1998

Slavery at Monticello By Lucia Stanton Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation: Monticello Monograph Series, 1996

Slaves in the Family By Edward Ball Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage By Dorothy Spruill Redford Doubleday, 1988

Stomping the Blues By Albert Murray Da Capo Press, 1989

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s By Ann Douglas Noonday Press, 1995

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy By Annette Gordon-Reid University Press of Virginia, 1997

To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature By Eric Sundquist Harvard University Press, 1994

Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves Edited by Charles L. Perdue Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips University Press of Virginia, 1992

When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions in the Sea Islands By Patricia Jones-Jackson University of Georgia Press, 1987

White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South By Martha Hodes Yale University Press, 1997

The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia By Mechal Sobel Princeton University Press, 1987