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• One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by William G. Hawkeswood, ed. by Alex W. Costley (HTML at UC Press)

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• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (Survey Graphic Harlem Number, March 1925), ed. by Alain Locke (page images and partial HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• "New World A-Coming": Inside Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Roi Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harlem Calling: The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson, an Alabama Writer of the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by George Wylie Henderson, ed. by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), by Rudolph Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Challenge (New York et al.: Vantage Press, 1958), by Edmund O. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darkness and the Devil Behind Me (2007), by Persia Walker (PDF with commentary at persiawalker.com)
• Quicksand (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by Nella Larsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (New York: The Macaulay Co., 1929), by Wallace Thurman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hit: A Novel (New York: Vanguard Press, c1957), by Julian Mayfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live and Let Die (c1954), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• A Guide to Statistics of Social Welfare in New York City (New York: Welfare Council of New York City, 1930), by Florence Du Bois (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Family Monographs: The History of Twenty-Four Families Living in the Middle West Side of New York City (New York: J. Kempster Printing Co., 1905), by Elsa Goldina Herzfeld, contrib. by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Spider and the Fly: or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, By One Who Knows (compilation of some previous publications, with some early pages missing; New York: C. Miller and Co., 1875), contrib. by Henry William Herbert
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Hsiang-Shui Chen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Windows on Henry Street (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1934), by Lillian D. Wald, illust. by James Daugherty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self and Community in the City (c1982), by Jerome Krase (HTML at brooklynsoc.org)
• The Color of a Great City (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by C. B. Falls (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York, by Junius Henri Browne (page images at MOA)
• Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869), by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
• The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them (New York: Wynkoop and Hallenbeck, 1872), by Charles Loring Brace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Liberal Party Municipal Program for 1945, by Liberal Party of New York State (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)

• The Problem of the Poor: A Record of Quiet Work in Unquiet Places (New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1882), by Helen Campbell (page images at Harvard)

• The Spark (The 'Sixties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2001), by Gerald W. McFarland (PDF files at umass.edu)

• Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2001), by Gerald W. McFarland (PDF files at umass.edu)

• Self and Community in the City (c1982), by Jerome Krase (HTML at brooklynsoc.org)

• Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Hsiang-Shui Chen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Yes Africa Can: Success Stories from a Dynamic Continent (c2011), ed. by Punam Chuhan-Pole and Manka Angwafo (PDF with commentary at World Bank)

• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood (Washington: Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017), by Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia González (PDF at law.georgetown.edu)

• Poor Black Women: Including, Birth Control Pills and Black Children, A Statement By the Black Unity Party (Peekskill, NY); A Response, by Black Sisters; Poor Black Women, by Patricia Robinson (1968), contrib. by Patricia Robinson (page images at Duke)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• 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
  • page images at Pitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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 (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
  • illustrated HTML at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999 (Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science, c2000), by Patrick Ball (HTML at hrdag.org)

• Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Judith Sierra-Rivera (PDF at Ohio State)

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