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Originally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commissi

"This outstanding volume links the analysis of community and social organization with macro-level processes and history. Examines how gender, ethnicity, and loc