Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995. By Maurice O. Wallace. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2854-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2869-0.) Get access

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A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. By David K. Shipler. (New York: Knopf, 1997. xii, 607 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-39458975-0.) and America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 704 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-80933-8.) Get access

Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church. By William Seraile. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xiv, 242 pp. $32.50, ISBN 1-57233-027-9.) Get access

Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865–1925. By Paul Harvey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 330 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2324-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4634-1.) Get access

The Return of Nat Turner: History, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Sixties America. By Albert E. Stone. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xviii, 444 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1363-7.) Get access

Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865–1900. By William E. Montgomery. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xvi, 358 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-1745-5.) Get access

“When I Can Read My Title Clear”: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xvi + 215 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87249-737-2.) Get access

Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740–1870. Ed. by John B. Boles. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. vi + 257 pp. $25.00.) Get access

The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor after Slavery. By Daniel A. Novak. (Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 1978. xviii + 126 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $9.50.) Get access