Ron Butler
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"Chester Pierce plays football for Harvard--the only African American member of the starting lineup. A big game at the University of Virginia is coming up. But back in 1947 there's an unwritten rule in college football: Northern schools don't bring black players to games in the South. And Southern schools bench a white player of equal talent in return. In the South, Jim Crow laws keep black and white people separate. The Harvard coach decides that...
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The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and...
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"Redford St. James is having too much fun to settle down with just one woman. Until a Westmoreland family wedding reunites him with Carmen Golan. He can't get Carmen--gorgeous, sweet and a hopeless romantic--out of his mind. Even though she's outright said he's husband material! Him! And she believes any heartbreaker can be tamed--by the right person. Well, it's his duty to set her straight"--