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Adventures of Huck Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1580495834 (1-58049-583-4)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Huck Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 157759553X (1-57759-553-X)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Andrew Jay Hoffman, Aldo RubanoISBN 1578400015 (1-57840-001-5)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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African American Wisdomby Reginald McKnightISBN 1577311299 (1-57731-129-9)
Hardcover, New World Library
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Alice Walker : Critical Perspectives Past and Presentby Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Anthony AppiahISBN 1567430260 (1-56743-026-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Amistadby David PesciISBN 156924703X (1-56924-703-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amistad: A Novel'Book summary:A riveting historical novel based on one of the nation's first civil right struggles
-- Often left out of history books, the events that inspired this novel spanned three years and involved three court casesThe year is 1839, the place Western Africa and New Haven, Connecticut. Fifty-three Africans who are taken as slaves struggle against terrible odds to regain their freedom and return home to Africa. They are led by Singbe Pieh, a humble rice farmer who refuses to be a slave and never gives up his quest to return home to his wife and children.
This historical novel begins as Singbe is capture by rival tribesmen. He is quickly sold to white slave traders, tortured, and humiliated on board a slave ship and again in the Havana slave market Soon he finds himself transferred to the Amistad, where he stages a bloody rebellion. Eventually he and his fellow rebels end up off the coast of Long Island where the U.S. Navy intervenes, towing the Amistad to Connecticut, where slavery is still legal.
Led by President Van Buren, the pro-slavery U.S. government tries to return the Amistad to the slave owners and Cuban shores. But members of the fledgling abolitionist movement, led by equal rights zealot Lewis Tappan and defense lawyer Roger Baldwin, force a series of court trials aimed at freeing them. What follows is a scheme to kidnap the Amistads using U.S. Marines, a government cover-up, and the case making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court where former President John Quincy Adams argues on behalf of the Amistads. David Pesci converts this harrowing story into a page-turning novel.
"A wonderful book, powerfully written and filled with emotion.... This is a story that transcends race orethnic origin. It is a story of hope in the face of impossible odds and of the will to be free". -- Roberta Flack [via]
At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolinaby William Lewis Burke, James Lowell UnderwoodISBN 1570033579 (1-57003-357-9)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneerby Linda Lowery, Janice Lee PorterISBN 1575054167 (1-57505-416-7)
Softcover, Carolrhoda Books
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Autobiography As Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixtiesby Margo V. PerkinsISBN 1578062640 (1-57806-264-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Avalanche: Poemsby Quincy Troupe, Jose BediaISBN 1566890446 (1-56689-044-6)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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Best Black Gay Eroticaby Darieck ScottISBN 1573442046 (1-57344-204-6)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalismby Cornel WestISBN 1567510043 (1-56751-004-3)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Centuryby E. Ethelbert MillerISBN 1574780174 (1-57478-017-4)
Softcover, Black Classic Pr
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Black Heroesby Smith Jessie Carney, Jessie Carney SmithISBN 1578591368 (1-57859-136-8)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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Black Heroes of the 20th Centuryby Jessie Carney SmithISBN 1578590213 (1-57859-021-3)
Hardcover, Visible Ink Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Heroes of the 20th Century'Book summary:A landmark compendium of African American achievement over the past 100 years, this text explores the lives and work of 150 men and women who have profoundly influenced our culture. Through their inspirational stories, Smith presents a compelling means for African American individuals to further explore their rich heritage and for all Americans to reflect upon a century of accomplishment. 150 photos. [via]
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Black like Usby Evelyn C. White, Dwight A. McBride, Donald Weise, Devon W. CarbadoISBN 1573441082 (1-57344-108-2)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Black Mutinyby William A. OwensISBN 1574780042 (1-57478-004-2)
Hardcover, Black Classic Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Mutiny'Book summary:"Black Mutiny" is the historical retelling of one of our nation's most dramatic national crises. It is one among many historical sources used in the development of the new motion picture "Amistad." Written as a novel in 1953 by William A. Owens, this is one historian's view of the Amistad mutiny. Based on U.S. government documents, court records, official and personal correspondence, diaries, and newspaper accounts, it tells the true story of 53 illegally enslaved Africans who revolted against their captors. After the Amistad was intercepted and seized by the United States Navy, the imprisoned Africans were forced to stand trial for mutiny and murder in a case that reached the Supreme Court. With its impassioned plea for freedom for all people, "Black Mutiny" brilliantly recreates a critical moment in America's racial history more than twenty years before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a rousing and unforgettable story of oppression, justice, and the precious cost of human dignity. [via]
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Black Rageby William H. Grier, Price M. CobbsISBN 1579103499 (1-57910-349-9)
Softcover, Wipf & Stock Pub
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Black Religion After the Million Man March: Voices on the Futureby Garth Kasimu Baker-FletcherISBN 1570751595 (1-57075-159-5)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americansby Gayraud S. WilmoreISBN 157075182X (1-57075-182-X)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860by Larry KogerISBN 1570030375 (1-57003-037-5)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Black Theology and Black Powerby James H. ConeISBN 1570751579 (1-57075-157-9)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Bloodchild and Other Storiesby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 156858055X (1-56858-055-X)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah Peopleby Roger PinckneyISBN 156718524X (1-56718-524-X)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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The Book of African American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Upliftersby Tonya BoldenISBN 1580629288 (1-58062-928-8)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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Brides in the Desert: The Spirituality of the Beguinesby Saskia Murk-JansenISBN 157075201X (1-57075-201-X)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Captain Blackmanby John Alfred Williams, Alexs PateISBN 1566890969 (1-56689-096-9)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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Cotton Comes to Harlemby Chester B. HimesISBN 156849422X (1-56849-422-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Dancing on Main Street: Poems by Lorenzo Thomasby Lorenzo ThomasISBN 1566891566 (1-56689-156-6)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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The Darkest Childby Delores PhillipsISBN 1569473781 (1-56947-378-1)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darkest Child'Book summary:Evils regenerative powers and one girls fierce resistance. . . . A book that deserves a wide audience. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains and victims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racial tension and family violence. The Washington Post Book World
[An] exceptional debut novel. . . . [Has] a depth and dimension not often characteristic of a first novel. Library Journal (starred)
Phillips writes with a no-nonsense elegance. . . . As a vision of African-American life, The Darkest Child is one of the harshest novels to arrive in many years. . . . [Phillips] buttresses those harsh episodes with a depth of characterization worthy of Chekhov, pitch-perfect dialogue, and a profound knowledge of the segregated South in the 50s. The New Leader
Rozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Her ten children are mostly light, too. They constitute the only world she rules and controls. Her power over them is all she has in an otherwise cruel and uncaring universe.
Rozelle favors her light-skinned kids, but Tangy Mae, 13, her darkest-complected child, is the brightest. She desperately wants to continue with her education. Her mother, however, has other plans. Rozelle wants her daughter to work cleaning houses for whites, like she does, and accompany her to the Farmhouse, where Rozelle earns extra money bedding men. Tangy Mae, shes decided, is of age.
This is the story from an era when lifes possibilities for an African-American were unimaginably different.
Delores Phillips was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1950, the second of four children. She graduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor of arts in English and works as a nurse at a state psychiatric hospital. Her work has appeared in Jeans Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis. She has lived in Cleveland, Ohio since 1964.
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Demby William Melvin Kelley, John S. WrightISBN 1566891027 (1-56689-102-7)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dem'Book summary:Originally published in 1967, dem is a classic of the Black Arts Movement. This surrealistic satire lays bare the convoluted and symbiotic relationship between whites and blacks. Coffee House Press is pleased to bring back into print this widely unavailable work.[via]
Upper-middle-class Manhattanite Mitchell Pierce and his wife Tamara enact the twists and turns of human relationships in this startling fable about the intersections of race, class, sex, love, and marriage. Kelley questions the nature and validity of subjective realities as he examines the constraints and consequences of prejudice.
Mitchell is convinced he has it made. With advancement at work, an attractive wife, and a comfortable apartment, he has achieved the 1960s version of the white mans American dream. Then, slowly but surely, that dream becomes a nightmare, and Mitchell cant seem to wake up. Did he really find his bosss wife and children dead in an upstairs bedroom of their suburban home? Did his wife really become pregnant after a brief fling with their black maids boyfriend?
Notable as a satiric portrayal of white characters from an African American perspective, this milestone achievement tugs at our ability to suspend disbelief and forces us to reexamine stereotypes from the past and current images in Americas racial divide.
William Melvin Kelleys other books include the novels A Different Drummer, A Drop of Patience, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, and the short story collection, Dancers on the Shore. Kelley attended the Fieldston School and Harvard, where he studied under Archibald MacLeish and John Hawkes. He lives in Harlem, is a professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and regularly teaches seminars at the Taos Institute of Art in Taos, New Mexico.More editions of Dem:
Dreaming Me : An African American's Woman Spiritual Journeyby Jan WillisISBN 1573229091 (1-57322-909-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Essential Black Literature Guideby Roger M. ValadeISBN 1578590558 (1-57859-055-8)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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The Ethnic Vegetarian : Traditional and Modern Recipes from Africa, America, and the Caribbeanby Angela Shelf MedearisISBN 1579546188 (1-57954-618-8)
Hardcover, Rodale Press, Incorporated
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Eulogiesby Imanu Amiri BarakaISBN 1568860072 (1-56886-007-2)
Hardcover, Marsilio Pub
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Everyday Racism: A Book For All Americansby Annie S. BarnesISBN 1570716536 (1-57071-653-6)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastorsby Thabiti M. Anyabwile, John PiperISBN 1581348274 (1-58134-827-4)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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The Farming of Bonesby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1569471266 (1-56947-126-6)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Farming of Bones'Book summary:In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity, the unexpected double delivery gels into a metaphor for the military-sponsored mass murder of Haitian emigrants. As the Señora's doctor explains: "Many of us start out as twins in the belly and do away with the other."
But Danticat's powerful second novel is far from a currently modish victimization saga, and can hold its own with such modern classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Color Purple. Its watchful narrator, the Señora's shy Haitian housemaid, describes herself as "one of those sea stones that sucks its colors inside and loses its translucence once it's taken out into the sun." An astute observer of human character, Amabelle Désir is also a conduit for the author's tart, poetic prose. Her lover, Sebastian, has "arms as wide as one of my bare thighs," while the Señora's complicit officer husband is "still shorter than the average man, even in his military boots."
The orphaned Amabelle comes to assume almost messianic proportions, but she is entirely fictional, as is the town of Alegría where the tale begins. The genocide and exodus, however, are factual. Indeed, the atrocities committed by Dominican president Rafael Trujillo's army back in 1937 rival those of Duvalier's Touton Macoutes. History has rendered Trujillo's carnage much less visible than Duvalier's, but no less painful. As Amabelle's father once told her, "Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of." Thanks to Danticat's stellar novel, the world will now know. --Jean Lenihan [via]
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Give Me Libertyby Dave GibbonsISBN 1569710457 (1-56971-045-7)
Hardcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Give Me Liberty'Book summary:In 1990 Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons introduced the world to Martha Washington, a young girl from the slums of Chicago who became an unlikely hero in America's fight for freedom. The world responded with an Eisner Award for best limited series of 1990. Now you can get this important story in a package truly worthy of the contents. Dark Horse has collected Give Me Liberty in a special limited-edition hardcover format. Each copy is signed by both Miller and Gibbons, and each copy is individually numbered and packaged in a slipcase. This limited edition also contains a bonus section of never-before-seen sketches and commentary about the creation of Martha Washington. If you're a fan of Miller or Gibbons, this is a true collector's item that you won't want to live without.
A young girl from the ghetto struggles against impossible odds to save the world from the Fat Boy Burger corporate army, the Aryan Thrust, and the meanest Mr. Clean ever... the Surgeon General! That young girl is Martha Washington, and she redefines heroism in Give Me Liberty. Give Me Liberty sets the stage for the outstanding Martha Washington Goes to War series. [via]More editions of Give Me Liberty:
Give Me Libertyby Frank MillerISBN 1569710678 (1-56971-067-8)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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The Good Bookby Peter J. GomesISBN 1568954514 (1-56895-451-4)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Book'Book summary:Written by the man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America, The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today. Beginning with a bracing crash course in biblical literacy and interpretation, Gomes proceeds to rescue the Bible from those who would misuse its passages to alienate and exclude. In stirring chapters on what the Bible says to us about anti-Semitism, women, homosexuality, and race, Gomes suggests new ways to read and interpret Scripture. Finally, with compassion, humor, and refreshing originality, Gomes seeks to illuminate what the Bible has to say about suffering, joy, evil, temptation, wealth, science, mystery, and the good life. This wise book gives us the tools we need to make the Bible a dynamic, living, and transforming part of our daily lives.
-- A major national bestseller: The Good Book appeared on The New York Times, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, and Wordstock bestseller lists."Brilliant and thought-provoking...a wonderful road map to a text that, if read properly, can provide solace and wisdom in troubled times". -- Boston Globe
"This fine work reflects Gomes's great intelligence, open mind, humanity, wisdom, and struggle to understand the meaning of life and God's word". -- Marian Wright Edelman, President, the Children's Defense Fund
"I am thrilled by this book...easily the best contemporaryy book on the Bible for thoughtful people...a triumph of scholarship and devotion". -- The Right Reverend Lord Runcie, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury [via]
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A Hard Road to Glory: Baseball The African-American Athlete in Baseballby Arthur R. AsheISBN 156743035X (1-56743-035-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Hard Road to Glory: Footballby Ashe, Arthur R., Jr., John MackeyISBN 1567430384 (1-56743-038-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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A Hard Road to Glory Vol. 3: A History of the African American Athlete, 1946-Presentby Ashe, Arthur R., Jr.ISBN 1567430082 (1-56743-008-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Here and Nowby Kimberla Lawson RobyISBN 1575663368 (1-57566-336-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Hide & Seekby James PattersonISBN 1568953453 (1-56895-345-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Kehindeby Buchi EmechetaISBN 1577664191 (1-57766-419-1)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Listen to Your Life: Following Your Unique Path to Extraordinary Successby Valorie BurtonISBN 157856820X (1-57856-820-X)
Softcover, Waterbrook Pr
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Live at Fiveby David HaynesISBN 1571310096 (1-57131-009-6)
Hardcover, Milkweed Editions
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Mama's Girlby Veronica ChambersISBN 1573225991 (1-57322-599-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Miracle at St. Annaby James McBrideISBN 1573229717 (1-57322-971-7)
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Most Way Homeby Kevin YoungISBN 1581950217 (1-58195-021-7)
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Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Sojourner TruthISBN 1576468380 (1-57646-838-0)
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Off-white: A Memoirby Laurie GunstISBN 1569474001 (1-56947-400-1)
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Our Peopleby Angela Shelf Medearis, Michael BryantISBN 1577684400 (1-57768-440-0)
Hardcover, Gingham Dog Pr
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dreamby George Jenkins, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, Lisa Frazier PageISBN 157322989X (1-57322-989-X)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Although this inspiring and easy-to-read book would be enjoyed by any teenager or educator, it seems perfect for minority youth, especially young men of junior high and high school age, who may lack more immediate role models. If the ordinary boys who made this pact could survive college and medical school by sticking together, then so can others. --Regina Marler [via]
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Paul Marchand, F.M.Cby Charles W. Chesnutt, Matthew WilsonISBN 1578060559 (1-57806-055-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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The Port Chicago Mutinyby Robert L. AllenISBN 1567430104 (1-56743-010-4)
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The Pursuit of a Dreamby Janet Sharp HermannISBN 1578061296 (1-57806-129-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Richard Wright: Daemonic Geniusby Margaret WalkerISBN 156743004X (1-56743-004-X)
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Rosewood: Like Judgement Dayby Michael D'OrsoISBN 1572972564 (1-57297-256-4)
Softcover, Boulevard
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Singing in the Comeback Choirby Bebe Moore CampbellISBN 1568956134 (1-56895-613-4)
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Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Educationby Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, Anna L. GreenISBN 1579220398 (1-57922-039-8)
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Slavery in the Clover Bottoms: John McCline's Narrative of His Life During Slavery and the Civil Warby Jan Furman, John McClineISBN 1572330074 (1-57233-007-4)
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Somebody Else's Mamaby David HaynesISBN 1571310037 (1-57131-003-7)
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Soul Mates Dissipateby Mary B. MorrisonISBN 1575669137 (1-57566-913-7)
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Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theologyby James H. ConeISBN 1570752419 (1-57075-241-9)
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Spunkby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 1569247439 (1-56924-743-9)
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Succeeding Against the Oddsby Lerone Bennett, John Harold JohnsonISBN 1567430023 (1-56743-002-3)
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Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad Attendantby David D. Perata, Daneil D. PerataISBN 156833124X (1-56833-124-X)
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To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minorby Kevin YoungISBN 1581950330 (1-58195-033-0)
Hardcover, Zoland Books
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To Sir, With Loveby Edward Ricardo BraithwaiteISBN 1567232086 (1-56723-208-6)
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Toni Morrison's Fictionby Jan FurmanISBN 157003317X (1-57003-317-X)
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Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (1961-1995)by Imamu Amiri Baraka, Paul VangelistiISBN 1568860137 (1-56886-013-7)
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Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jonesby Paul Vangelisti, Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 1568860145 (1-56886-014-5)
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Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race In Americaby Pooja MakhijaniISBN 1580051170 (1-58005-117-0)
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Unshakable Faithby John PerryISBN 1576734935 (1-57673-493-5)
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Vanishing Roomsby Melvin DixonISBN 1573441236 (1-57344-123-6)
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What's Really Holding You Back?: Closing The Gap Between Where You Are And Where You Want To Beby Valorie BurtonISBN 1578568218 (1-57856-821-8)
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Whispers, Secrets and Promisesby E. Ethelbert MillerISBN 1574780115 (1-57478-011-5)
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 1568959508 (1-56895-950-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun: How Reginald F. Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empireby Reginald F. Lewis, Blair S. WalkerISBN 1574780360 (1-57478-036-0)
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Yesterday, I Criedby Iyanla VanzantISBN 1568957785 (1-56895-778-5)
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You Can Make It If You Try: The Ted Jarrett Story of R&b in Nashvilleby Ruth White, Ted JarrettISBN 1577363671 (1-57736-367-1)
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Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Presentby Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Anthony AppiahISBN 1567430287 (1-56743-028-7)
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