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1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American Historyby Jeffrey C. StewartISBN 0517228408 (0-517-22840-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experienceby Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Anthony AppiahISBN 0465000711 (0-465-00071-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience'Book summary:Legendary scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois labored to complete an "Encyclopedia Africana" before his death in 1963. Just over 35 years later, two Harvard educators, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Ghanaian-born Kwame Anthony Appiah, have brought Du Bois' intellectual dream to life in Africana, the most complete and comprehensive record of the Pan-African diaspora compiled into one volume. With over two million words and 3,500 entries from more than 220 contributors, Appiah and Gates sought, as they put it, to "give a sense of the wide diversity of peoples, cultures, and traditions that we know about Africa in historical times, a feel for the environment in which that history was lived, and a broad outline of the contributions of people of African descent, especially in the Americas, but, more generally, around the world." To fulfill this aim, they consider biographical, political, artistic, economic, historical, and geographical data; a brief sampling of topics includes "Food in African-American Culture," "Creolized Musical Instruments of the Caribbean," and "Anthropology in Africa." The section on Africa fills about two thirds of the book, loaded with invaluable information--from the ethnic and colonial factors that contributed to violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Eritrea, and Sierra Leone to the educational, linguistic, and social advances in Tanzania, Gabon, and South Africa. The legacies of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe are also presented in great detail. The encyclopedia also contains documented evidence of African-derived peoples in Asia, including the exploits of Malik Ambar, who arrived in India from Ethiopia as a result of the East Indian slave trade.
Turning to the Western Hemisphere, Africana skillfully and succinctly synopsizes the lives and achievements of a multitude of African Americans, from 18th-century inventor-astronomer Benjamin Banneker to late-20th-century heroes like Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, and astronaut Mae Jemison. You'll learn about the little-considered black presence in Canada; Africana also uncovers hidden pockets of black culture in surprising places like Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina (where the Negro population, we discover, was reduced by a process of miscegenation known as blanqueamiento, or whitening). The upper-crust veneer of the Argentine tango is peeled away, revealing the dance's roots in the rhythmic innovations of 19th-century Afro-Argentines. With all of the aforementioned headings and topics, however, it's the special essays that best detail the treasure chest of scholarship of Africana. Robin Kelley examines the volatile clash between "Malcolm X and the Black Bourgeoisie"; Thomas Skidmore deconstructs "Race and Class in Brazil" and the myth of "racial democracy"; Mahmood Mamdani, in "Ethnicity in Rwanda," brilliantly decodes the complex and maddening colonial manipulations that erupted in genocide and made the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups "more political than cultural identities ... one is power and the other is subject."
A splendidly packaged reference work that will adorn libraries and homes for years to come, Africana defines the black experience in the same sweeping way that the Encyclopedia Britannica defined Euro-American civilization. More importantly for young readers, the magnificent collection shows that Africans and the continent's descendants are a truly global people who have made tremendous contributions to human civilization. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Beloved Community : How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Todayby Charles MarshISBN 0465044158 (0-465-04415-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumfordby Casey N. BlakeISBN 0465044166 (0-465-04416-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Boogaloo: The Quintessence Of American Popular Musicby Arthur KemptonISBN 0472030876 (0-472-03087-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Chronicle Of A Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0606330402 (0-606-33040-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Classic Slave Narrativesby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0451528247 (0-451-52824-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Conjure Womanby Charles W. ChesnuttISBN 0472061569 (0-472-06156-9)
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Corduroy Big Bookby Don FreemanISBN 0590725289 (0-590-72528-9)
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The Cornel West Readerby Cornel WestISBN 0465091105 (0-465-09110-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cornel West Reader'Book summary:Cornel West is one of the nations premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is speaking of Emerson, Gramsci, or Marvin Gaye, his work radiates a passion that reflects the rich traditions he draws on and weaves togetherÑBaptist preaching, American transcendentalism, jazz, radical politics. This anthology reveals the dazzling range of Wests work, from his explorations of Prophetic Pragmatism to his philosophizing on hip-hop.The Cornel West Reader traces the development of Wests extraordinary career as academic, public intellectual, and activist. In his essays, articles, books, and interviews, West emerges as Americas social conscience, urging attention to complicated issues of racial and economic justice, sexuality and gender, history and politics. This collection represents the best work of an always compelling, often controversial, and absolutely essential philosopher of the modern American experience.[via] -
Daughtersby Paule MarshallISBN 0452269121 (0-452-26912-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Day Late and a Dollar Shortby Terry McMillanISBN 0451204948 (0-451-20494-8)
Softcover, Signet
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She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola's kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he's drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn't have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola's daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she's pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who's been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.
At first, you'll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who's who, but pretty soon you'll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys." --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Debtby Randall RobinsonISBN 0452282101 (0-452-28210-1)
Softcover, Plume
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacksby Randall RobinsonISBN 0525945245 (0-525-94524-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks'Book summary:Randall Robinson, the founder and president of TransAfrica (a lobbying organization dedicated to influencing U.S. policy toward Africa and the Caribbean), recounted his heroic struggle to fight and overcome racism in the magnificent Defending the Spirit. In his triumphant follow-up, The Debt, he goes further than any previous black public figure in calling for reparations to African-Americans for the present-day racism that stems from 246 years of slavery. Citing compensation that Jews and Japanese Americans have received, he writes, "No race, ethnic or religious group has suffered as much over so long a span as blacks have and do still, at the hands of those who benefited ... from slavery and the century of legalized American racial hostility that followed it." In making his case, Robinson utilizes facts and figures that highlight the disparity between African-Americans and whites. While fully recognizing the monumental odds of this movement's success, Robinson feels that the push for reparations will also greatly benefit African-Americans in nonmaterial ways: "Even the making of a well-reasoned case for restitution will do wonders for the spirit of African-Americans," he argues. "It will cause them to at long last understand the genesis of their history--before, during, and after slavery--into one story of themselves." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Dhalgrenby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553253913 (0-553-25391-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhalgren'Book summary:What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a brilliant novel about sex, gender, race, class, art, and identity.
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But--fair warning--the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.
Spoiler warning: If you want to figure out the secret of the novel as you read Dhalgren, then stop reading this review right now! If you want to know the secret before you start, this is what the novel is about: the experience of existence inside a novel. Time passes differently for different characters. A river changes location. Stairs change their number. The Kid looks in a mirror and sees not himself, but someone who looks an awful lot like Samuel R. Delany. Central images include mirrors, lenses, and prisms, devices that focus, reflect--and distort. The Kid fills a notebook with a journal that may be Dhalgren, and is uncertain if he has written much, or any, of it. The characters don't know they're in a novel, but they know something is wrong. Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author).
The final chapter can be even tougher going than the opening pages, with its viewpoint change and its stretches of braided narrative--and the novel ends with the beginning of an unfinished sentence. But the last chapter becomes clear as you persevere; and when you get to that unfinished closing line, turn to the first line of the novel to finish the sentence and close the narrative circle. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Tradeby Robert W. HarmsISBN 0465028721 (0-465-02872-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Dusk of Dawnby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0527253057 (0-527-25305-7)
Hardcover, Kraus Intl Pubns
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The Ecstatic: A Novelby Victor D. LaValleISBN 0609610147 (0-609-61014-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecstatic: A Novel'Book summary:Victor LaValle has already established himself as one of the most eloquent voices of the approaching century (Kirkus Reviews), a writer of darkly humorous tales full of haunting beauty, astonishing leaps of imagination, and language that crackles and hums (Chicago Tribune). The Ecstatic is LaValles debut novel, a startling tale of love, horror, sex, insanity, faith, morbid obesity, and the modern American family.
Something is wrong with Anthonyour 318-pound heroand its getting worse. A monster has caught his uncle and his mother; now it wants Anthony. Mental illness has been transmitted through his familys blood. The three women in his lifehis mother, younger sister, and grandmotherfind him naked and disoriented in his off-campus college apartment and take him home to Queens, each determined to fix him in her own peculiar way. But his presence soon turns their house into a semisuburban asylum.
Sweet but wickedly sarcastic, smart and heartbreakingly vulnerable, Anthony narrates his familys surreal adventures through a world of grinning exploitation and fake cures, from storefront evangelists and neighborhood loan sharks to bogus beauty pageants and bootleg medical clinics. He corresponds with a dreadlocked Japanese militant, is haunted by a vicious pack of dogs, and tries to make his own horror movie, all in search of an answer to a question he doesnt dare ask. Written in the tradition of misfit picaresques from Journey to the End of the Night and Invisible Man to A Confederacy of Dunces and The World According to Garp, The Ecstatic is the revelatory story of a family trying to save themselves from a ravenous world and their own unraveling minds. [via]More editions of The Ecstatic: A Novel:
Fallen Angelsby Walter Dean MyersISBN 0590409433 (0-590-40943-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Fencesby August WilsonISBN 0452264014 (0-452-26401-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fences'Book summary:Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major leagues during his prime, Troy's bitterness takes it's toll on his relationships with both his wife and son who now wants his own chance to play. "One of the great characters in American drama." - The New York Post "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre. I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed." - The New York Post "A blockbuster and a major American play." - New York Daily News [via]
Gal: A True Lifeby Ruthie Bolton, Josephine HumphreysISBN 0451204700 (0-451-20470-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Glyphby Percival EverettISBN 0571221122 (0-571-22112-2)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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God's Countryby Percival EverettISBN 0571198325 (0-571-19832-5)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Graveyard Dustby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553575287 (0-553-57528-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Graveyard Dust'Book summary:Benjamin January's life is such a mixture of exotic elements and influences that Barbara Hambly's historical mysteries about him often seem to be in danger of exploding. There's his very black skin in a society that equates lightness to class; his shaky status as a free man in 1830s slave-owning New Orleans; the music that he loves but now has to play at parties to make a living because he can't practice as a doctor in America. Graveyard Dust, the third in Hambly's fine series, adds the murky religion of voodoo to the mixture. Ben's older sister, Olympe, practices that ancient art and winds up being charged with murder by a frightened and suspicious police force. Then there's the yellow fever epidemic that has broken out, threatening not only public health but the financial future of several powerful citizens.
What keeps the book on track across all this colorful terrain is Hambly's uncanny ability to constantly show us the connections to our own place and time. January is always recognizable as our representative of strength and morality, even if he seems at times to be carrying unbearable burdens. Few mysteries have as much humanity and history in their list of ingredients. --Dick Adler [via]
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Cultureby Bakari KitwanaISBN 0465029795 (0-465-02979-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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I Have a Dreamby Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott KingISBN 059020517X (0-590-20517-X)
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I'Ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggleby Charles PayneISBN 0520251768 (0-520-25176-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle'Book summary:This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. The leaders were ordinary women and men--sharecroppers, domestics, high school students, beauticians, independent farmers--committed to organizing the civil rights struggle house by house, block by block, relationship by relationship. Payne brilliantly brings to life the tradition of grassroots African American activism, long practiced yet poorly understood.[via]
Payne overturns familiar ideas about community activism in the 1960s. The young organizers who were the engines of change in the state were not following any charismatic national leader. Far from being a complete break with the past, their work was based directly on the work of an older generation of activists, people like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Aaron Henry. These leaders set the standards of courage against which young organizers judged themselves; they served as models of activism that balanced humanism with militance. While historians have commonly portrayed the movement leadership as male, ministerial, and well-educated, Payne finds that organizers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the most dangerous parts of the South looked for leadership to working-class rural Blacks, and especially to women. Payne also finds that Black churches, typically portrayed as frontrunners in the civil rights struggle, were in fact late supporters of the movement.More editions of I'Ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle:
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If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther Kingby Ellen Levine, Anna RichISBN 059042582X (0-590-42582-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Imagoby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0575042397 (0-575-04239-7)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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Jubileeby Margaret WalkerISBN 0553273833 (0-553-27383-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Killing the Black Bodyby Dorothy RobertsISBN 0609000071 (0-609-00007-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Presentby Jacqueline JonesISBN 0465037569 (0-465-03756-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Let the Trumpet Soundby Stephen OatesISBN 0451623509 (0-451-62350-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the Africanby Olaudah EquainoISBN 048640661X (0-486-40661-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Lucyby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0452266777 (0-452-26677-7)
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play in Two Actsby August WilsonISBN 0452261139 (0-452-26113-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Maya Angelou: Poems Just Give a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/and Still I Rise/Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?by Maya AngelouISBN 0553255762 (0-553-25576-2)
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The Michael Eric Dyson Readerby Michael Eric DysonISBN 0465017711 (0-465-01771-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Mis-Education of the Negroby Carter Godwin WoodsonISBN 0486445585 (0-486-44558-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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More Than Anything Elseby Marie Bradby, Chris K. SoentpietISBN 0531094642 (0-531-09464-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Novaby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553236210 (0-553-23621-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Oxherding Taleby Charles JohnsonISBN 0452275032 (0-452-27503-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, Hawkins navigates white and black worlds and comments wryly on human nature along the way. Told with pure genius, Oxherding Tale is a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, and the human spirit; and it reveals the author as a great talent with even greater humanity. [via]
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The Paperboyby Dav PilkeyISBN 0531071391 (0-531-07139-1)
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Poemsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553379852 (0-553-37985-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems'Book summary:Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time.From the Paperback edition. [via]
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine Hansberry, Spike LeeISBN 0451183886 (0-451-18388-6)
Softcover, Signet
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Rattleboneby Maxine ClairISBN 060630004X (0-606-30004-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rattlebone'Book summary:Set in the fictional town of Rattlebone, Kansas, in the 1950s, these eleven interrelated stories reveal the emotional, financial, and social conflicts that govern the lives of the African Americans who live there. Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award. Author reading tour. [via]
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The Real Cool Killersby Chester B. HimesISBN 058602798X (0-586-02798-X)
Hardcover, Panther
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Slam!by Walter Dean MyersISBN 0590486683 (0-590-48668-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Sojourner Truthby Pat McKissackISBN 0590446916 (0-590-44691-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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A Song Flung Up to Heavenby Maya AngelouISBN 0553382039 (0-553-38203-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Songs of Faithby Angela JohnsonISBN 0531300234 (0-531-30023-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilting in the Ante-Bellum Southby Gladys-Marie FryISBN 052548535X (0-525-48535-X)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum Southby Gladys-Marie FryISBN 0525248420 (0-525-24842-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Tales of Conjure and the Color Lineby Joan R. Sherman, Charles ChesnuttISBN 0486404269 (0-486-40426-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Tales of Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553228420 (0-553-22842-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Things Fall Apartby Fred HeiserISBN 0595232795 (0-595-23279-5)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:The unthinkable happens when nuclear brinksmanship spirals off into to Armageddon. Billions die as governments disintegrate, great cities are annihilated and deeply laid plans to seize unlimited power swing into action.Tom McArthur: Once a carefree individualist, he was coaxed into a position of influence and leadership by unexpected opportunity and kept there by his sense of honor. He finds himself far from home and family, separated by hundreds of miles of impossible terrain, gangs of armed bandits and a hostile government.Lynn, his wife: Beautiful and intelligent, strong willed and voluptuous, she resents Tom's abandonment of her and their children for a distant political career. Now, with nothing but her courage, wits and willpower to work with, she must fight to keep herself and her children alive.Lance: Young, handsome and lonely, trained as the ultimate warrior, he drove himself into poverty and alcohol with the memory of an unspeakable evil he was party to. Will he find love and redemption or destroy those around him? Who will live? Who will die? What will emerge when things fall apart? [via]
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To Be a Slaveby Julius LesterISBN 0590424602 (0-590-42460-2)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0606297758 (0-606-29775-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Visiting Dayby Jacqueline Woodson, James RansomeISBN 0590400053 (0-590-40005-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Societyby Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, Michael K. BrownISBN 0520244753 (0-520-24475-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society'Book summary:White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist--in wages, family income, access to housing or health care--can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures. If the experience of most black Americans says otherwise, an explanation has been sorely lacking--or obscured by the passions the issue provokes. At long last offering a cool, clear, and informed perspective on the subject, this book brings together a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars to scrutinize the logic and evidence behind the widely held belief in a color-blind society--and to provide an alternative explanation for continued racial inequality in the United States.[via]
While not denying the economic advances of black Americans since the 1960s, Whitewashing Race draws on new and compelling research to demonstrate the persistence of racism and the effects of organized racial advantage across many institutions in American society--including the labor market, the welfare state, the criminal justice system, and schools and universities. Looking beyond the stalled debate over current antidiscrimination policies, the authors also put forth a fresh vision for achieving genuine racial equality of opportunity in a post-affirmative action world.More editions of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society:
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Nowby Maya AngelouISBN 0553380176 (0-553-38017-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now'Book summary:Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power do spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgettable work offers a gem of truth on every page.
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Yo ! Yesby Chris RaschkaISBN 0531071081 (0-531-07108-1)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yo ! Yes'Book summary:Chris Raschka's Caldecott Honor classic is a simple yet dramatic story about friendship. Available for the first time in a Scholastic Bookshelf paperback version.[via]
"An effective, unusual 34-word story of the beginnings of a friendship, accompanied by wild and wonderful illustrations. Against pastel backgrounds, in vibrant, colorful images, an African-American boy and a white boy meet on the street. [Their] one- and two-word exchanges on each spread lead to a tentative offer of friendship, sealed as both boys jump high in the air and yell "Yow!" With a beautifully balanced, economical style, the book illumines the peaks and pitfalls of getting acquainted, and puts in a good word for brotherhood as well." --School Library Journal, starred reviewMore editions of Yo ! Yes:
Yo! Yes?by Christopher RaschkaISBN 0531054691 (0-531-05469-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yo! Yes?'Book summary:In a simple story that uses just nineteen words, two boys, who meet as strangers on a city street, strike up a conversation and form a special friendship. [via]
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