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Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Hannah Noel (PDF at OAPEN)
As Victim to Victims: An American Negro Laments With Jews (New York: Fortuny's, c1941), by James Samuel Stemons (page images at HathiTrust)
Voice in the Wilderness (San Francisco: Africano Publications, c1959), by Eugene Henry Huffman (page images at HathiTrust)
Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, Delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883, on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1883), by Frederick Douglass (page images at loc.gov)
Black Rage Confronts the Law (New York: New York University Press, c1997), by Paul Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
Why Negroes Should Oppose the War (published under "J. R. Johnson" pseudonym; New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by C. L. R. James
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Negro Slavery, Then and Now (Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League, 1939), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. (page images at HathiTrust)
All White America: A Candid Discussion of Race Mixture and Race Prejudice in the United States (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1937), by Thomas Theodore McKinney (page images at HathiTrust)
Eagle Clippings (Brooklyn, NY: D.B. Fulton, ca. 1907), by Jack Thorne
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The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965; online version omits tables and graphs), by United States Department of Labor, contrib. by Daniel P. Moynihan (HTML at dol.gov)
A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Brawley (Gutenberg text)
The Struggle for Negro Equality (second enlarged edition; New York: Printed for the Socialist Workers Party by Pioneer Press, 1943), by John Saunders and Albert Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
The Legal Status of the Negro (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940), by Charles S. Mangum (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro's morale; group identification and protest. (University of Minnesota Press, 1949), by Arnold Marshall Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
Slavery and its results. (The J. W. Burke company, 1923), by Alfred H. Benners (page images at HathiTrust)
12 million black voices; a folk history of the Negro in the United States. (Viking Press, 1941), by Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam (page images at HathiTrust)
The etiquette of race relations in the South; a study in social control (University of Chicago Press, 1937), by Bertram Wilbur Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
The mark of oppression; a psychosocial study of the American Negro (Norton, 1951), by Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey (page images at HathiTrust)
The colored situation; a book of vocational and civic guidance for the Negro youth (Meador publishing company, 1936), by Faye Philip Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro wage earner (The Association for the study of Negro life and history,inc., 1930), by Lorenzo J. Greene, Carter Godwin Woodson, and inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
Social and economic conditions of Negroes in the United States. (for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1967), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
The free negro family; a study of family origins before the civil war (Fisk university press, 1932), by E. Franklin Frazier (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rural Negro (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc., 1930), by Carter Godwin Woodson and inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro housing; report of the Committee on Negro Housing, Nannie H. Burroughs, chairman. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by D.C.) President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1931 : Washington, James Ford, John M. Gries, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, and Nannie Helen Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of the Negroes of Mississippi from 1865 to 1890 (1927), by Jesse Thomas Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The young child in the home; a survey of three thousand American families, report of the Committee on the infant and preschool child (D. Appleton-Century company, 1936), by White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Committee on the Infant and Preschool Child and John E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Negro child welfare in North Carolina, a Rosenwald study (Pub. for the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare by the University of North Carolina Press, 1933), by Wiley Britton Sanders, North Carolina. University. School of Public Welfare, and North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro college graduate (The University of North Carolina press, 1938), by Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
A hand book on the Detroit Negro (The Minority study associates, 1943), by Ulysses W. Boykin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Catholic church and the American Negro (St. Joseph's society press, 1930), by John Thomas Gillard (page images at HathiTrust)
Black mass revolt. (News & Letters Committees, 1967), by News & Letters Committees (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in America : how we treat him and how we should. (Council for Democracy ;, 1945), by Council for Democracy (page images at HathiTrust)
The Urban underclass : disturbing problems demanding attention (The Office, 1990), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Racial aspects of reconversion; a memorandum prepared for the President of the United States by the National Urban League. (New York, 1945), by National Urban League (page images at HathiTrust)
Color, class and personality. Prepared for the American Youth Commission. (American Council on Education, 1942), by Robert L. Sutherland and American Youth Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Legacy of the transatlantic slave trade (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro problems in cities; a study. (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928), by Thomas Jackson Woofter, Henry J. McGuinn, William A. Daniel, Madge Headley, and Institute of Social and Religious Research (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro professional man and the community, with special emphasis on the physician and the lawyer (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc., 1934), by Carter Godwin Woodson and inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro housing; report of the Committee on Negro Housing, Nannie H. Burroughs, chairman (The President's conference on home building and home ownership, 1932), by D.C.) President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1931 : Washington, James Ford, John M. Gries, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, and Nannie Helen Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
The white side of a black subject : enlarged and brought down to date : a vindication of the Afro-American race : from the landing of slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the present time (American Publishing House, 1897), by Norman Barton Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
The old Negro and the new Negro, by T. Le Roy Jefferson, M. D. (Meador Pub. Co., 1937), by Thomas Le Roy Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
A deviant social situation, a court (Catholic University of America, 1938), by Gladys Sellew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Negro and his home in Minnesota : a report to Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minnesota (s.n. , 1947), by Minnesota. Governor's Interracial Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The plight of African-American men in urban America : hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session ... March 19 and May 21, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by Housing United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
Life's demands : or, According to law (National Public Welfare League, 1916), by Sutton E. Griggs (page images at HathiTrust)
Vital American problems an attempt to solve the "trust," "labor," and "Negro" problems (Putnam, 1908), by Harry Earl Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The negroes in the United States, their economic and social situation. (Washington, 1966), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Negroes are an economic problem, not a race problem: the remedy is modification or nullification of the 14th and 15th amendments (City press], 1933), by John J. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Solving the problem : a series of lectures (Mrs. M.C.B. Mason, 1917), by M. C. B. Mason and Mary E. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
American social and religious conditions (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912), by Charles Stelzle (page images at HathiTrust)
The colored people of Chicago an investigation made for the Juvenile Protective Association (Rogers & Hall], 1913), by Louise de Koven Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
The colored people of Chicago : an investigation made for the Juvenile Protective Association, by A.P. Drucker, Sophia Boaz, A.L. Harris [and] Miriam Schaffner / by Louise De Koven Bowen. (Rogers & Hall], 1913), by Louise de Koven Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
A study of living conditions among colored people in towns in the outer part of Philadelphia and in other suburbs both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ([Philadelphia, 1915), by Armstrong Association of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
The progress of the Negro race (Raleigh : Sentinel Pub. Co., 1906., 1906), by S. N. Vass, William H. Scott, and D.C.) Negro Young Peoples' Christian and Educational Congress (1906 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Detail of a plan for the moral improvement of Negroes on plantations. ([Place of publication not identified], 1833), by Thomas S. Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
Alexander Gifford; or, Vi'let's boy, a story of Negro life. (Press of Newcomb & Gauss, 1905), by Henry A. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
Economic and social status of the Negro in the United States (The League, 1961), by National Urban League (page images at HathiTrust)
Perspectives on the development of Afro-American children and families (AfroAmerican Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981), by Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Afro-American Studies and Research Program (page images at HathiTrust)
Toward an environmental perspective on slavery : first thoughts (AfroAmerican Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980), by Rhett S. Jones and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Afro-American Studies and Research Program (page images at HathiTrust)
Southern women and racial adjustment (J. P. Bell company, inc., printers], 1917), by Lily Hardy Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
Ad Sanctissimam Sedem : De miserabili conditione Catholicorum nigrorum in America. (e typis Jac. Godenne, 1903), by Jos Anciaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Negro suffrage and social equality (s.n., 1866), by National Union Executive Committee (U.S.) and African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Migration of a race ([National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes?], 1917), by National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Progress of the American Negro (Tuskegee Institute Press, 1904), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
How to get there (Negro Forward Movement, 1918), by William H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Progressive era ([n. p.], 1913), by Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Three papers on social and economic aspects of the black community of Chicago (Center for Advanced Computation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1970), by Charles Melvin Christian and Sari J. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro self-uplifting (Tuskegee institute steam print, 1902), by Francis E. Leupp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Social and physical condition of Negroes in cities : report of an investigation under the direction of Atlanta University and proceedings of the second Conference for the Study of Problems Concerning Negro City Life, held at Atlanta University, May 25-26, 1897. (Atlanta University Press, 1897), by Atlanta University, Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (2nd : 1897 : Atlanta University), and Conference for the Study of Problems Concerning Negro City Life (2nd : 1897 : Atlanta University) (page images at HathiTrust)
The evolution of the Afrio-American (Appleton, 1892), by Samuel J. Barrows and Brooklyn Ethical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in the cities of the North. (The Charity Organization Society, 1905), by Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
The tragedy of the negro in America. A condensed history of the enslavement, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the negro race in the United States of America (Boston, Mass., 1898), by P. Thomas Stanford (page images at HathiTrust)
Morals and manners among Negro Americans; report of a social study made by Atlanta University under the patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; with the proceedings of the 18th annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Monday, May 26th, 1913 (The Atlanta University Press, 1914), by W. E. B. Du Bois, Augustus Granville Dill, Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (18th : 1912 : Atlanta University), and Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (18th : 1913 : Atlanta) (page images at HathiTrust)
An appeal to the king : the address delivered on Negro day in the Atlanta Exposition, October 21, 1895 ([Atlanta] : [publisher not identified], [1895?]], 1895), by J. W. E. Bowen, Randall K. Burkett, and Ga.) Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta (page images at HathiTrust)
National survey of the higher education of Negroes. (U. S. Govt. print. off, 1942), by United States Office of Education, Ambrose Caliver, Martin David Jenkins, Lloyd E. Blauch, and Ina Corinne Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The progress and development of the colored people of our nation : an address delivered before the American Missionary Association, Wednesday evening, October 21, 1908, at Galesburg, Illinois ([Washington, D.C.?] : [publisher not identified], [1908?], 1908), by Francis J. Grimké and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Some examples in self-help and success among colored people and of co-operation and cordial relations between the races in America. (Cheyney, Pa. : Committee for the Advancement of the Negro Race, [1910?], 1910), by Charles Simpson Butcher and Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race (page images at HathiTrust)
The health question of the man next door ([New York] : A.R. Elliott Pub. Co., [1919], 1919), by Algernon Brashear Jackson and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro problem : a sociological treatment (1911), by Richard R. Wright, Charles Simpson Butcher, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
The condition and education of the Negro : an address (Philadelphia : A.M.E. Book Concern, [1909?], 1909), by W. J. Gaines, Charles Simpson Butcher, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
Progress of a race (Atlanta, Ga. : J.L. Nichols & Co., 1898., 1898), by H. F. Kletzing, Booker T. Washington, and W. H. Crogman (page images at HathiTrust)
Beikoku to jinshuteki sabetsu no kenkyū (Bunsendō Shoten, 1919), by Masasuke Kobayashi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Civilization the primal need of the race : the inaugural address, March 5, 1897 : and the attitude of the American mind toward the Negro intellect, first annual address (Washington, D.C. : Published by the Academy, 1898., 1898), by Alexander Crummell, Alexander Crummell Pamphlet Collection (Emory University. General Libraries), and American Negro Academy (page images at HathiTrust)
Eugenics of the Negro race ([New York?] : [Science Press?], [1917?]], 1917), by Kelly Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
Race cooperation : an account of the successful effort in two-thirds of the counties of thirteen Southern states to promote justice and good-will between Black and White ([New York?] : [McClure?], [1922?]], 1922), by George Madden Martin and William H. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Come it must! : an address ([Cincinnati, Ohio?] : [publisher not identified], [1922?]], 1922), by William Sherrill and Thomas W. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
What shall the harvest be? : a national sermon : or, A series of plain talks to the colored people of America, on their problems : delivered January 17th, 24th, 31st, and Feb. 14th, 1892 ([Washington, D.C.?] : [publisher not identified], [1902?]], 1902), by J. W. E. Bowen and D.C.) Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Radicalism and the Negro ([Washington, D.C.] : Murray Brothers, Printers, [1920], 1920), by Kelly Miller and D.C.) Murray Brothers Printing Company (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty years of Negro progress. (Hampton, Va. : Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1913., 1913), by Monroe Nathan Work and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Press (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro American citizen in the new American life ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1889?]], 1889), by A. D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
The place of the Negro in American history (Philadelphia : A.M.E. Pub. House, 1905., 1905), by R. William Fickland, William H. Crawford, Charles Simpson Butcher, Abraham Lincoln Murray, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro, North and South : the status of the coloured population in the northern and southern states of America compared (London : Whittaker & Co. ; Liverpool : Henry Young ; Manchester : Abel Heywood, 1863., 1863), by Robert Trimble (page images at HathiTrust)
Incidents of hope for the Negro race in America : a Thanksgiving sermon, November 26th, 1895 (Washington, D.C. : R.L. Pendleton, job printer ..., [1895], 1895), by Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Alexander Crummell Pamphlet Collection (Emory University. General Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
The re-birth of Negro ideals (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Publishing Board, 1920., 1920), by Alexander S. Jackson and William H. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Life lines of success : a practical manual of self-help for the future development of ambitious colored Americans : being a collection of inspiring essays on the great opportunities of a noble people : lessons from the ancient and glorious history of the race and the wonderfull civilization of our ancestors as an example for future generations : words of wisdom from the wiseman's philosophy as a guide to a happy and successful life, to which is added Life lines of knowledge, presenting a series of valuable instructions for the self-improvement of those who are ambitious to keep step with the progress of the race : illustrating the prosperity and achievements of colored Americans as told by the camera ([Chicago?] : [publisher not identified], [1913], 1913), by Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro question and the I.O.G.T. : report of conference held in London, October 19, 20, and 21, 1876. (London : J. Kempster : E. Curtice, 1876., 1876), by England) International Order of Good Templars. Conference (1876 : London and William Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro : his rights and wrongs, the forces for him and against him ([Washington, D.C.?] : [publisher not identified], [1898?]], 1898), by Francis J. Grimké, Carter Godwin Woodson, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, and D.C.) First Colored Presbyterian Church (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
The negro problem. (Madison, Wis., 1908), by Richard Henry Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in American life (Oxford Book Co., 1954), by Harry J. Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
White America ([s.n.], 1937), by Earnest Sevier Cox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Negro family, the case for national action. (For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S.Govt.Print.Off.], 1982), by United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Father-son occupations among Negroes in Atlanta, Georgia. A supplementary study of occupational characteristics of white collar and skilled Negro workers in five cities of Georgia. ([Atlanta, 1937), by United States. Work Projects Administration. Georgia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The forgotten tenth : an analysis of unemployment among Negroes in the United States and its social costs : 1932-1933 (National Urban League, 1933), by National Urban League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Population problems in the South : a brief supplement to the study of civics and American problems. (Atlanta, Ga. : Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1939., 1939), by Conference on Education and Race Relations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Negro housing survey of Charleston. (Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics, 1934), by West Virginia. BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Evil router from all the walks of life, from the cradle to the grave : a panacea for racial friction and a crowning benediction to humanity : God's own way, the nation's path of glory and a star of Bethlehem : walk in its light (Edwards & Broughton, 1900), by L. T. Christmas (page images at HathiTrust)
Tentative report of the committee ... : submitted for discussion at the conference. (President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, 1931), by D.C.) President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1931 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A study of the social welfare status of the negroes in Houston, Tex. (Webster-Richardson, 1929), by Jesse O. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jacksonville looks at its Negro community : a survey of conditions affecting the Negro population in Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida (Jacksonville, Florida : Published under the auspices of the Council of Social Agencies, 1946), by Southern Regional Council and Fla.) Council of Social Agencies (Jacksonville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Study of the social and economic conditions of the Negro population of Kansas City, Missouri (Dept. of Research and Community Projects, 1946), by Mo.) Council of Social Agencies (Kansas City and National Urban League. Department of Research and Community Projects (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The American Negro : a study (Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1910), by Samuel Jackson Fisher and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen (page images at HathiTrust)
The Colored People of Chicago: An Investigation Made for the Juvenile Protective Association, by Louise de Koven Bowen (Gutenberg ebook)
The Disadvantages and Opportunities of the Colored Youth, by Reverdy C. Ransom (Gutenberg ebook)
The Conservation of Races: The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2, by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg ebook)
An address to the Negroes in the state of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon, servant of John Lloyd, Jun, Esq; of the manor of Queen's Village, Long-Island. ; [Four lines from Acts] (New-York: : Printed by Carroll and Patterson no. 32, Maiden-Lane., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]), by Jupiter Hammon (HTML at Evans TCP)
Rules for the Society of Negroes. 1693. ([Boston : Printed by Bartholomew Green?, 1714?]), by Society of Negroes and Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)

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