Cross-searches hundreds of encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Encyclopedia of Leadership, The African-American Years, The Jim Crow Encyclopedia, and many more. Great for biographies of relatively well-known people.
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Tracing the genealogy of statistical discourses on race, Khalil Gibran Muhammad explores the violence of racial quantification on black women and men’s lives beginning in the postbellum period.