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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Thomas Pynchon
Tristes Tropiques
John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Richard III
William Shakespeare
The Dwarf
Alexandra Dick, Pär Lagerkvist
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, Cecil Day-Lewis
Labyrinths
Richard Wolin
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger

A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965: Essays and Reflections

A white scholar and the Black community 1945 1965 - August Meier Augie Meier was a very interesting guy -- a white guy who taught at Fisk and Morgan State and other HBCU's for many years (finally he gave up and went to Kent State). As a leftist and a political agitator (in addition to being a scholar), Meier was once picked by his students at Fisk (I believe) to debate the integrationist side against Malcolm X, who had come to visit -. Most of the book contains selections of his political writings -- Old Left 1950's stuff. But the introduction is autophiographical and is of interest. The book is available here:
http://books.google.com/books/about/A_White_Scholar_and_the_Black_Community.html?id=vn_MlpkPjtsC

His scholarly work, mainly Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1963), looks solid -- though I've only scanned the book:

Here's his bio:
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/holdings/finding/RG30/SG74/biography.html