The Black urban community: from dusk till dawn

I: Origins, protest, & Black Community

Civilization and its discontents: black life in the eighteenth century cities of British North America / Rhett Jones

Memories of Hayti: African American community in Durham, North Carolina, 1890-1970 / Oscar R. Williams

Discovering an African American planning history / Joan Fitzgerald & William D. Howard

Historic designation and the preservation of public housing / Mittie Chandler

II: Urban political economy & black communities

Entering the new city as men and women, not mules / Jessica Gordon Nembhard

"Faces at the bottom of the well": African American poverty and the post-industrial city at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Frank Harold Wilson

African/Asian/uptown/downtown: An exploration of African trading networks in New York City / Paul Stoller

Globalization, cities, and racial inequality: don't believe the hype / James B. Stewart

III: Religion, spirituality, & faith

"The pupil of the eye": African Americans and the making of the American Baha'i Community, 1898-2003 / Richard W. Thomas

Varieties of black urban spiritual experience / Yvonne P. Chireau

The leadership of Reverend Robert L. Bradby and the black community in east industrial Detroit / Julia Robinson Harmon

IV: Politics & policies of health care, disease, & drugs

Drugs, race and state power: The urban terrain / Rae Banks

AIDS and the black community / Cathy J. Cohen

The war on drugs and welfare policy: The impact of their intersection on black women in urban America / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

V: Urban education: A historical lens

African Americans' strive for educational self-determination in Cincinnati, Ohio before 1873 / Nikki Taylor

In whose interest: Chicago schools in the 1960s / Dionne Danns

VI: Political protest & electoral politics / Robert Wagner, Milton Galamison & the challenge to New York City liberalism / Clarence Taylor

From the north to the deep south: The civil rights journey of the freedom riders / David Niven

The Justice Department and the Voting rights Act: Policy consequences in southern cities / Keesha M. Middlemass

The continuing significance of race: African American & Hispanic Mayors, 1967-2002 / Neil Kraus & Todd Swanstrom

Changing demographics and the nature of politics in New York: African Americans, Caribbeans, and Latinos in the 2001-2002 election / Charles Green & Basil Wilson

Black Mayors in large cities: An historical perspective / Marcus D. Pohlmann

VII: Popular culture, political expression & the spoken word

The Black panther party, poetry performance and revolution / Regina Jennings

Panthers and dragons: The Afro-Asian dynamic in the black Arts movement / Crystal S. Anderson

The diasporic imagination of Wynton Marsalis / David W. Stowe

Hip-hop soul mates? construction of gender and dialogues on relationship in rap music / Gwendolyn Pough

Hip-hop as political expression: potentialities for the power of voice in urban America / Melina Abdullah.