| August Wilson | August Wilson | This collection features Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Fences, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. |
| Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company | Paul Carter Harrison | This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro Ensemble Company's significant contribution to American theater by collecting the ten plays most representative of the Company's eclectic nature. |
| Conversations with Maida Springer | Yevette Richards | In this brilliantly edited collection of personal interviews, Maida Springer, one of the twentieth-century’s most fascinating international labor leaders and powerful African-American women, tells her story in her own words.
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| Language, Rhythm, & Sound | Joseph Adjaye | Focuses on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls’ Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente cloth from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk. |
| MOVE Crisis in Philadelphia | Hizkias Assefa | Examines the 1985 confrontation between police and members of the black counterculture group MOVE, which ended in the destruction of sixty-one homes and the death of eleven residents—five of them children. Sheds light on relevant issues such as negotiating with "irrational" adversaries and problems of perception and misperception when different cultures clash. |
| WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh | Laurence Glasco | The first publication of a reclaimed WPA project studying Pittsburgh’s black population. The book features articles on civil rights, social class, lifestyle, culture, folklore, and institutions, from colonial times through the 1930s.
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