LISTING OF OUTSTANDING BOOKS 1984-98

* Denotes Honorable Mention

Books are listed alphabetically by author:

A B C D E-F G-H I-K L-M N-P R-S T-Z



Backhouse, Constance & Flaherty, David. (Eds.). (1992). Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canada and the University States. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen's University Press. WOMEN/ORGANIZING

Baird, Robert & Baird, Katherine. (Eds.). (1995). Homosexuality: Debating the Issues. Amherst: Prometheus. GAY/LESBIAN

Baird, Robert & Rosenbaum, Stuart (Eds.). (1992). Bigotry, Prejudice, and Hatred: Definitions, Causes, and Solutions. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. RACISM/PREJUDICE

*Baker, Aaron & Todd Boyd, (1997) Out of Bounds: Sports, Media, and the Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. RACE RELATIONS: SPORTS

Baker, Liva. (1996). The Second Battle of New Orleans: The Hundred-year Struggle to Integrate the Schools. New York: HarperCollins. INTEGRATION/EDUCATION

Balderrama, Francisco & Rodiguez, Raymond. (1995). Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. MEXICAN HISTORY

Baldus, David; Woodworth, George; & Pulaski, Charles. (1990). Equal Justice and the Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis. Boston: Northeastern University Press. JUSTICE/DEATH PENALTY

*Ball, Edward. (1997) Slaves in the Family. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. SLAVERY, U.S.

Barkan, Steven E. (1985). Protestors On Trial. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. POLITICAL DISSENT

Barkun, Michael. (1994). Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. THE RIGHT/RELIGION

Barndt, Joseph. (1991). Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress. RACISM

Barson, Michael. (1992). "Better Dead Than Red!": A Nostalgic Look at the Golden Years of Russiaphobia, Red-Baiting, and other Commie Madness. New York: Hyperion. ANTI-COMMUNISM/USA

Bart, Pauline, & Moran, Eileen (Eds). (1993). Violence Against Women: The Bloody Footprints. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. WOMEN/VIOLENCE

*Bashevkin, Sylvia. (1998). Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times, University of Chicago Press.  FEMINISM: CROSS CULTURAL

*Bauman, Mark K., and Berkley Kalin. (1997) The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. CIVIL RIGHTS

Bawer, Bruce. (1993). A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society. New York: Poseidon. GAY/LESBIAN

Baylor, Ronald. (1996). Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. RACISM

Bayne-Smith, Marcia (Ed.). (1996). Race, Gender, and Health. Thousand Oaks: Sage. RACISM/SEXISM: HEALTH

Beardsley, Edward. (1987). History of Neglect. Knoxville, TN: Tennessee University Press. DISCRIMINATION

Beasley, Conger, Jr. (1995). We Are a People in this World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. NATIVE AMERICAN

Beckwith, Francis J. & Bauman, Michael E. (Eds.). (1993). Are You Politically Correct? Debating America's Cultural Standards. Buffalo: Prometheus. MULTICULTURAL DISCOURSE

Beifuss, Joan. (1989). At the River I Stand. Brooklyn: Carlson. DISCRIMINATION

Belknap, Michal. (1987). Federal Law & Southern Order. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. LAW.

*Bell, Caryn Cosse. (1997) Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. AFRICAN AMERICANS: CREOLE/INTERRACIALISM

*Bell, Derrick. (1992). Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books. RACISM

_____. (1987). And We Are Not Saved. New York: Basic. DISCRIMINATION

_____. (1998). Afrolantica Legacies, Third World Press. RACE RELATIONS: US

Bellah, R. & Greenspahn, F. (1987). Uncivil Religion. New York: Crossroad. RELIGION

Bellant, Russ. (1991). Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic Fascist Networks, U.S. Cold War Politics. Boston: South End Press. THE RIGHT/FACISM

Belton, Don (Ed). (1995). Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream. Boston: Beacon Press. AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN 

Bem, Sandra. (1993). The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. SEXISM

Bennett, David. (1988). The Party of Fear. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. BIGOTRY

Beres, Louis. (1987). America Outside the World. Lexington, MA: Lexington. HISTORY

Bergman, David. (1991). Gaity Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. GAY/LESBIAN/LITERATURE

Bergmann, Barbara. (1996). In Defense of Affirmative Action. New York: New Republic/Basic/HarperCollins. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Berlet, Chip (Ed). (1995). Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash. Boston: South End Press. THE RIGHT

*Berlin, Ira & Leslie Rowland, Eds. (1997) Families and Freedom: A History of African American Kinship in the Civil War Era. NY: New Press. AFRICAN AMERICAN

*Berlin, Ira. (1998). Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Harvard University Press. AFRICAN AMERICANS: MILITARY

Bernstein, Alison. (1991). American Indians and World War I: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. NATIVE AMERICAN

Bernstein, Robert. (1995). Straight Parents/Gay Children: Keeping Families Together. New York: Thunder’s Mouth. GAY/LESBIAN

Berry, Venise & Manning-Miller, Carmen (Eds.). (1996). Mediated Messages and African-American Culture: Contemporary issues. Thousand Oaks: Sage. AFRICAN-AMERICAN

Berryman, Phillip. (1985). Inside Central America. New York: Pantheon. CENTRAL AMERICA/US FOREIGN POLICY

Bersani, Leo. (1995). Homos. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. GAY/LESBIAN

*Bessler, John D. (1997) Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America. Boston: Northeastern University Press. DEATH PENALTY

Bérubé, Allan. (1990). Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: Free Press. GAY/LESBIAN/WWII

Billig, Michael. (1995). Banal Nationalism. London, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. NATIONALISM

*Bing, Leon. (1997) A Wrongful Death: Public Health and Private Greed. NY: Villard. HEALTH CARE: MENTALLY ILL

Bird, Elizabeth S. (1996). Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture. Boulder: Westview. NATIVE AMERICAN

Bird, Mary Brave, & Erdoes, Richard. (1993). Ohitika Woman. New York: Grove. NATIVE AMERICAN: WOMEN

*Blackburn, Robin. (1997) The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1482-1800. London: Verso. RACE RELATIONS: PLANTATION

Blee, Kathleen M. (1991). Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920's. Berkeley: University of California Press. RACISM/GENDER/KKK

Blight, David. (1989). Frederick Douglass' Civil War. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. HISTORY

Bloom, Jack. (1987). Class, Race, & the Civil Rights Movement. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. CIVIL RIGHTS

Boime, Albert. (1998). The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era. Cambridge University Press. PATRIOTISM:US

*Bok, Derek & Bowen, William G. (1998). The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions, Princeton University Press.  AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: HIGHER EDUCATION

Boldt, Menno. (1993). Surviving as Indians: The Challenge of Self-Government. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. NATIVE AMERICANS

*Bolster, W. Jeffrey. (1997) Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. AFRICAN AMERICAN: LABOR

*Bonazzi, Robert. (1997) Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me. Maryknoll: Orbis. RACE RELATIONS: BIOGRAPHY

*Bond, Horace Mann & Julia W. Bond. (1997) The Star Creek Papers: Washington Parish & the Lynching of Jerome Wilson. Athens: University of Georgia Press. AFRICAN AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS

Bonner, Raymond. (1984). Weakness & Deceit. New York: Times Books. HISTORY

*Bowen, William G. & Bok, Derek. (1998). The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions, Princeton University Press.  AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: HIGHER EDUCATION

Bowser, Benjamin & Hunt, Raymond (Eds.). (1996). Impacts of Racism on White Americans (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. RACISM

Boxill, Bernard. (1984). Blacks & Social Justice. Rowman/Allen. AFRICAN AMERICAN/LAW 

Bradley, Patricia. (1998). Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution. University Press of Mississippi. MEDIA STUDIES

Branch, Taylor. (1988). Parting the Waters. New York: Simon and Schuster. CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY

*_____. (1998) Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965, Simon & Schuster. CIVIL RIGHTS: US

Brandt, Nat. (1996). Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. AFRICAN-AMERICAN/MILITARY

*Bray, Rosemary L. (1998). Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir, Random House. Welfare: SOCIAL CONDITIONS: BIOGRAPHY

Breggin, Peter R., M.D. & Breggin, Ginger Rose. (1998). The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner City Youth, Common Courage Press. MEDICAL ABUSE: CHILDREN OF COLOR
 

Brenner, Claudia, and Ashley, Hannah. (1995). Eight Bullets: One Woman’s Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence. Ithaca: Firebrand. GAY/LESBIAN: VIOLENCE

Brettschneider, Marla (Ed.). (1996). The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. MULTICULTURAL/JEWISH

Bridges, Tyler. (1994). The Rise of David Duke. Jackson: Univerity Press of Mississippi. PREJUDICE

Brodhead, Frank. (1984). Demonstration Elections. Boston, MA: South End. POLITICS

*Brodkin, Karen. (1998). How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America, Rutgers University Press. JEWS: RACE RELATIONS US

Brody, Reed. (1985). Contra Terror in Nicaragua. Boston, MA: South End. CENTRAL AMERICA/US FOREIGN POLICY

Brooks, Roy. (1996). Integration or Separation? A Strategy for Racial Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. RACISM

_____. (1990). Rethinking the American Race Problem. Berkeley: University of California Press. RACISM/LAW

_____. (1995). The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster. 

Brown, Cynthia. (1985). With Friends Like These. New York: Pantheon. HUMAN RIGHTS/U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

*Brown, Michael P. (1997) Replacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism & Radical Democracy. NY: Guilford Press. CITIZEN ACTIVISM

Brownworth, Victoria. (1996). Too Queer: Essays from a Radical Life. Ithaca: Firebrand Books. GAY/LESBIAN

Buenor Hadjor, Kofi. (1995). Another America: The Politics of Race and Blame. Boston: South End Press. RACISM

Bullard, Robert D. (Ed.). (1993). Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Boston: South End Press. RACISM

*Bullard, Robert D. & Glenn S. Johnson, Eds. (1997) Just Transportation: Dismantling Race & Class Barriers to Mobility. Gabriola Island: New Society Press. Urban Studies: RACIAL DISPARITIES

Bullard, R.D. (Ed.). (1989). In Search of the New South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. HISTORY

Bullard, Sara. (1996). Teaching tolerance: Raising open-minded, empathetic children. New York: Doubleday. EQUALITY/EDUCATION

Burbach, Roger. (1984). Politics of Intervention. New York: Monthly Review Press. PUBLIC POLICY

Burman, Stephen. (1995). The Black Progress Question: Explaining the African American Predicament. Thousand Oak: Sage. AFRICAN AMERICAN

*Burns, Stewart. (1997) Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. CIVIL RIGHTS

Burstein, Paul. (1985). Discrimination, Jobs, & Politics. Chicago: Chicago University Press. DISCRIMINATION

*Burton-Rose, Daniel, with Pens, Dan & Wright, Paul. (1998). The Celling of America; An Inside Look At The U.S. Prison Industry, Common Courage PressPrisons. CRIMINAL JUSTICE: US
 

*Button, James W.; Barbara A. Rienzo; & Kenneth D. Wald. (1997) Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles Over Gay Rights in American Communities. DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc.. GAY RIGHTS

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