RACE RELATIONS/AFRICAN AMERICAN INTEREST

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah (Perseus Books)

African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham ( Oxford University Press)

Africans in America by Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, and Orlando Bagwell (Harcourt Brace)

The Good Black by Paul Barrett (Dutton)

It's the Little Things by Lena Williams (Harcourt Brace)

The Shape of the River by Derek Bok and William Bowen (Princeton University Press)

Someone Else's Child by Tamar Jacoby (Simon & Schuster)

Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973 (The Library of America)