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Abu-Jamal, Mumia with Noelle Hanrahan.  All Things Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.

Bailey, Anne J. "Was there a Massacre at Poison Spring?" Military History of the Southwest 20 (1990): 157-168.

Boyd, Herb.  "The Man and the Plan: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in Our Culture."  Black Issues Book Review 4 (March-April, 2002): 38-40.

Bogart, Laura M. and Sheryl Thorburn. "Are HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs a Barrier to HIV Prevention Among African Americans?" Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 38 (February 1, 2005): 213-218. .

Brandon, Wendy W. "Interrupting Racial Profiling: Moving Pre-service Teachers from White Identity to Equity Pedagogy." In Slater, Judith J., Stephen M. Fain and Cesar Augusto Rossatto.The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice.  New York: P. Lang, 2002.

Brown, Tony. Black Lies, White Lies: the Truth According to Tony Brown. New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1995.

Brown, Tony. Empower the People: a 7-Step Plan to Overthrow the Conspiracy that is Stealing Your Money and Freedom. New York: W. Morrow & Co., 1998.

Bullard, Robert D., ed. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from theGrassroots.  Boston, MA: South End Press, 1993.

Bullard, Robert D. "Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters." Phylon 49 (nos. 3-4): 151-171.

Bundy, Reginold.  "Is Black Farmers' Plight Black Entrepreneurs' Destiny? Is Black Farmers' Dilemma with U.S. Government a Yardstick of How the U.S. Plans to Deal with Black Entrepreneurs Who Seek Contracts in the New Millennium?"  New Pittsburgh Courier, October 3, 1998, p. A1.

Caron, Simone M. "Birth Control and the Black Community in the 1960s: Genocide or Power Politics?" Journal of Social History 31 (1998): 545-569.

Case, Carroll.  The Slaughter: an American Atrocity. [Asheville, N.C.?]: FBC Inc., 1998.

Colburn, David R. "Rosewood and America in the Early Twentieth Century." Florida Historical Quarterly 76 (1997): 175-192.

Cole, Luke W.  From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Crocker, J., R. Luhtanen, S. Broadnax and B.E. Blaine. "Belief in US Government Conspiracies against Blacks among Black and White College Students: Powerlessness or System Blame?"   Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25 (August 1999): 941-953.

Curtis, C.M. "The Adoption of African American Children by Whites: A Renewed Conflict." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 77 (March 1996): 156-165.

Early, Gerald, ed. "Marcus Garvey's 'Conspiracy of the East St. Louis Riots.'" Gateway Heritage 19 (1998): 40-45.

"Episodes from the Attica Massacre." Black Scholar 4 (1972): 35-39.

Evanzz, Karl. The Judas Factor: the Plot to Kill Malcolm X. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press; distributed by Publishers Group West, 1992.

Fuchs, Richard L. An Unerring Fire: The Massacre at Fort Pillow. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U. Pr., 1994.

Funderburg, Lise. "Who Should Adopt Our Children?" Essence 28 (January, 1998): 64+

Gasch, Helen; Poulson, D Michael; Fullilove, Robert E; Fullilove, Mindy Thompson. "Shaping AIDS Education and Prevention Programs for African Americans  amidst Community Decline."  Journal of Negro Education 60 (Winter 1991): 85-96.

Gordon A.F. "Globalism and the Prison Industrial Complex: an Interview with Angela Davis." Race & Class 40 (1999): 145-157.

Hayes, Floyd W., III. "Politics and Education in America's Multicultural Society: An African-American Studies' Response to Allan Bloom." Journal of Ethnic Studies 17 (1989): 71-88.

Hayes, Peter. "The Ideological Attack on Transracial Adoption in the United States and Britain." In BaNikongo, Nikongo, ed.  Leading Issues in African-American Studies. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1997.

Herek, G.M. and J.P. Capitanio. "Conspiracies, Contagion, and Compassion: Trust and Public Reactions to Aids." Aids Education and Prevention 6 (August 1994): 365-375.

Hermann, Valerie Phillips. "Transracial Adoption: 'Child-Saving' or 'Child-Snatching'." National Black Law Journal 13 (Spring 1993):147-164.

Hine, William C. "Civil Rights and Campus Wrongs: South Carolina State College Students Protest, 1955-1968." South Carolina Historical Magazine 97 (1996): 310-331.

Hines, Revathi I.  "African Americans' Struggle for Environmental Justice and the Case of the Shintech Plant: Lessons Learned from a War Waged."  Journal of Black Studies 31 (July 2001): 777-790.

Hochshild, Jennifer L.  "Affirmative Action and the Rumor of Black Inferiority." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (Summer 1995): 64+

Holmes, William F. "The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance." Phylon 34 (1973): 267-274.

Hornblum, Allen M.  Acres of Skin : Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison : a True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science.  New York: Routledge, 1998. 297 pp.

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. "Chasing Conspiracy Shadows." In Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. The Crisis in Black and Black. Los Angeles, CA: Middle Passage Press, 1997.

Jackson, Jesse L., Sr. and  Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. Legal Lynching: the Death Penalty and America's Future. New York: New Press; Dist. by W.W. Norton, 2001. 174 pp.

James, Ward Churchill, James Vanderwall and Jim Vanderwall.  Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Boston, MA:  Southend Press, 2001.  509 pp.

Jones, Hezekiah S.  "Federal Agricultural Policies: Do Black Farm Operators Benefit?"  In Sterwart, James B. and Joyce E. Allen-Smith, eds.  Blacks In Rural America. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Jones, Maxine D. "The Rosewood Massacre and the Women Who Survived it." Florida Historical Quarterly 76 (1997): 193-208.

Kunjufu, Jawanza. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys. Rev. ed. Chicago: African American Images, 1985.

Lemann, Nicholas. The Big Test: the Secret History of the American Meritocracy.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1999.

Lewis A. "Blacks, Crack and the CIA." Third Force 4 (November 1996): 9.

Lusane, Clarence. "Cracking the CIA-Contra Drug Connection." CovertAction Quarterly no. 59 (Winter 1996): 53-59.

Madhubuti, Haki R. "AIDS: the Purposeful Destruction of the Black World?" In Madhubuti, Haki R. Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous: The Afrikan American Family in Transition. Chicago: Third World Press, 1990.

Marable, Manning. "The Question of Genocide." Journal of Intergroup Relations 10 (1982): 19-29.

May, Robert E. "The Slave Power Conspiracy Revisited: United States Presidents and Filibustering, 1848-1861." In Blight, David W. and Brooks D. Simpson, eds. Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era.  Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997.

Meiers, Michael. Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? Lewiston, ME: Mellen Press, 1988..

Melanson, Philip H. The Martin Luther King Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991.  New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991.  Note: Reprint of  The MURKIN Conspiracy. New York: Praeger, 1989.

Moore, Kenneth Bancroft. "Fort Pillow, Forrest, and the United States Colored Troops in 1864." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 54 (1995): 112-123.

Muharrar, Mikal. "Accepted Media Perception: Shifting Stories on CIA and Crack." Extra! Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting 12 (March 1999): 16-18.

Parsons, Sharon, William Simmons, Frankie Shinhoster and John Kilburn. "A Test of the Grapevine: An Empirical Examination of Conspiracy Theories Among African Americans." Sociological Spectrum 19 (April-June 1999): 201-222.

Prather, H. Leon. We Have Taken a City: Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University, Press, 1983.

Rauch, Julia B. "Federal Family Planning Programs: Choice or Coercion?" Social Work 15 (1970): 68-75.

Reynolds, Barbara A. "Assassins of Democracy: An American Nightmare." Crisis 105 (July 1998): 10-12. Note:  Discusses government and mafia conspiracy in assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robin, D.G. Willis, Andre C., ed. "Countering the Conspiracy to Ignore Black Girls." In Willis, Andre C., ed. Faith of our fathers: African-American men reflect on fatherhood. New York: Dutton, 1996.

Ruffins, Paul. "The Tuskegee Experiment's Long Shadow: Scholars Examine the Impact of Conspiracy Theories on African Americans." Black Issues in Higher Education 15  (October 29, 1998): 26-28.

"The Rumor of the Impending Disenfranchisement of Black Voters."  Journal of Blacks in Higher Education  (April 1999): 78+

Sasson, Theodore. "African American Conspiracy Theories and the Social Construction of Crime." Sociological Inquiry 65 (1995): 265-285.

Smith, Baxter. "FBI Plot Against the Black Movement."  In Breitman, George, Herman Porter and Baxter Smith, eds. The Assassination of Malcolm X.  2nd ed. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1988.

Soule, Sarah A. and Nella VanDyke. "Black Church Arson in the United States, 1989-1996." Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (1999): 724-742.

Staples, Robert. "Black Male Genocide: A Final Solution to the Race Problem in America.'' Black Scholar 18 (1987): 2-11.

Stock, Dave. "CIA Genocide against Black America." Turning The Tide 10 (Winter/Spring 1998): 15.

Thomas, S.B. and S.C.Quinn. "The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1932 to 1972: Implications for HIV Education and Aids Risk Education Programs in the Black Community." American Journal of Public Health 81 (November 1991): 1498-1504.

Tryman, Mfanya Donald and Lawrence H. Williams.  "Conspiracy Theories of the Assassination of Malcolm X."  In Jenkins, Robert L. and Mfanya Donald Tryman, eds.  The Malcolm X Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 42-46.

Turner, Patricia A.  "Church's Fried Chicken and the Klan: a Rhetorical Analysis of Rumor in the Black Community."  Western Folklore 46 (1987): 294-306.

Turner, Patricia.  I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. BerkeleyCA: University of California Press, 1993.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry.  USDA's Civil Rights Programs and Responsibilities: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, October 14, 1999.  Washington: U.S. G.P.O.; For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1999.

United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Report on the Central Intelligence Agency's Alleged Involvement in Crack Cocaine Trafficking in the Los Angeles Area. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.; For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 2000.

United States: Punishment and Prejudice: the Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2000.

Wacquant L. "The New 'Peculiar Institution': On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto." Theoretical Criminology 4 (August 2000): 377-389.

Washington, Harriet A.  Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.  New York: Doubleday, 2006. .

Waters, Anita M. "Conspiracy Theories as Ethnosociologies: Explanation and Intention in African American Political Culture." Journal of Black Studies 28 (September 1997): 112-125.

Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: the CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998.

Weisbord, Robert G. Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1975.

Whitaker, Charles . "Is There a Conspiracy to Keep Blacks off Juries?"  Ebony 47 (September 1992): 54+

Wilhelm, Sidney M. "The Economic Demise of Blacks in America: A Prelude to Genocide?" Journal of Black Studies 17 (1986): 201-254.

Wilhelm, Sidney M. "Red Man, Black Man and White America: The Constitutional Approach to Genocide." Catalyst 4 (1969): 1-62.

Woodson, Byron W.  A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001.

 

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