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Pageaux, Daniel-Henri, Images et mythes d'Haiti (Claudio G. Antoni): [24] 177-184

Painter, Nell Irvin, Southern History Across the Color Line (Willard B. Gatewood): [36] 680-682

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Partington, Paul G., W. E. B. Du Bois: A Bibliography of His Published Writings (Joe Weixlmann): [12] 116-117

Patterson, Anita Haya, From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (Len Gougeon): [33] 166-167

Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life (Nathan Grant): [40] 593-595

Patton, Venetria K., Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction (Missy Dehn Kubitschek): [36] 144-146

Pavlić, Ed, Paraph of the Bone & Other Kinds of Blue (Michael Antonucci): [36] 509-510

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Perkins, Margo V., Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties (Alice A. Deck): [36] 505-507

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Prahlad, Anand, African-American Proverbs in Context (Daryl Cumber Dance): [31] 526-528

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Prendergast, Catherine, Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education (Christina Haas): [38] 537-539

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Raphael-Hernandez, Heike, Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (John Wharton Lowe): [40] 591-593

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Reid-Pharr, Robert F., Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (Janell Hobson): [35] 315-317

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Rice, Alan, Radial Narratives of the Black Atlantic (Edward Margolies): [39] 262-263

Rice, David L., Erogenous Zone (Chester J. Fontenot): [11] 67-69
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Roberts, John W., From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom (Jeannie Thomas): [28] 151-152

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--, ed., Critical Essays on Phillis Wheatley (D. Gene England): [18] 36-38

Rody, Caroline, The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History (Heather Hathaway): [37] 155-157

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Rollins, Charlamae, We Build Together (Bruce C. Appleby): [2] 33-34

Rollock, Barbara, Black Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books (Stan Evans): [28] 683-684

Romano, Renee C., Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Andrew Warnes): [38] 162-163

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Rusch, Frederick L., ed., A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings (Rudolph P. Byrd): [30] 127-128

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form (Walter Göbel): [36] 140-141