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Abiyoyoby Pete Seeger, Michael HaysISBN 0689718101 (0-689-71810-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abiyoyo'Book summary:No one wants to hear the little boy play his ukelele anymore...Clink, clunk, clonk. And no one wants to watch his father make things disappear...Zoop! Zoop!
Until the day the fearsome giant Abiyoyo suddenly appears in town, and all the townspeople run for their lives and the lives of their children! Nothing can stop the terrible giant Abiyoyo, nothing, that is, except the enchanting sound of the ukelele and the mysterious power of the magic wand. [via]
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African Americansby David Boyle, Barry MorenoISBN 0764156284 (0-7641-5628-4)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Americans'Book summary:They arrived in North America as slaves of the first European settlers, and their history is largely one of hardship and injustice. Here is their story, including their emancipation in the 1860s, their leadership in the civil rights movement of a century laterbut also their artists, intellectuals, musicians, educators, military heroes, athletes, and social leaders. There are brief, vivid sketches of important individuals, including Sojourner Truth, Ralph Ellison, Louis Armstrong, Martin Luther King, Jr., Colin Powell, and others.
This important new series documents and dramatizes the immigration experience of untold numbers of men, women, and children who arrived in America from the four corners of the world. As they assimilated into American society, they enriched the nations character and experience. Many of Americas immigrants passed through the Ellis Island Immigration Center in New York Harbor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the initial hopes and fears of these new arrivals? Where did they first settle, and what kinds of work did they find? Which elements from their various cultures have since blended into the national scene and helped reshape what has become modern America? The first titles in this dramatic series bring alive the experiences of four important ethnic groups, with contemporary photos and first-person accounts of their dramatic, life-changing experiences. Readers glimpse each groups social customs, family life, traditional food and drink, festivals, and much more. There are also brief but vivid capsule biographies of famous individuals who rose to prominence from each ethnic group. Approximately 150 illustrations in each book. [via]More editions of African Americans:
African Systems of Kinship and Marriageby Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, Daryll FordeISBN 0710302347 (0-7103-0234-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience The Concise Desk Referenceby Henry Louis Gates, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Anthony Kwame AppiahISBN 0762416424 (0-7624-1642-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisibleby Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail ThernstromISBN 0684844974 (0-684-84497-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Art and History of Black Memorabiliaby Alex Markovich, Larry V. Buster, Halima Taha, Kenneth PaulISBN 0609604252 (0-609-60425-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Manby James Weldon JohnsonISBN 0679727531 (0-679-72753-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man'Book summary:With the possible exceptions of Dr. Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois, no African American excelled on as many different levels as James Weldon Johnson. Along This Way--the first autobiography by a person of color to be reviewed in The New York Times--not only chronicles his life as an educator, lawyer, diplomat, newspaper editor, lyricist, poet, essayist, and political activist but also outlines the trials and triumphs of African Americans from post-Reconstruction to the rise and fall of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Florida in 1871 to middle-class West Indian parents, Johnson recognized the challenges and absurdities of segregated America early on. But it was his experience as a tutor to rural blacks while a student at Atlanta University that was to alter the course of his life: "It was this period that marked the beginning of psychological change from boyhood to manhood," he writes. "It was this period that marked also the beginning of my knowledge of my own people as a race."
With a rare blend of pride and humility, Johnson recounts how he, among other accomplishments, became Florida's first black lawyer in 1898, a diplomat in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and lyricist for his brother Rosamond Johnson's famous song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Johnson's commentary on his epochal novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as writings on his works of poetry--The Creation, God's Trombones, and Fifty Years and Other Poems--is priceless. Equally important are the logical and even-tempered opinions on race that he wrote for The New York Age, which offered comprehensive critiques of Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey, along with his analysis of the racial climate while serving as head of the NAACP. This remarkable man left a mark on the 20th century that goes beyond the boundary of race. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphillis Experimentby James H. JonesISBN 0614225019 (0-614-22501-9)
Softcover, Independent Pub Group
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0701130601 (0-7011-3060-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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The Black Americansby Milton MeltzerISBN 0690044186 (0-690-04418-6)
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Black Bourgeoisieby Edward Franklin Frazier, William Julius WilsonISBN 0684832410 (0-684-83241-0)
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0671742922 (0-671-74292-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story Of The 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotton Heroesby Anthony Walton, Kareem Abdul-JabbarISBN 0767909135 (0-7679-0913-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cane Riverby Lalita TademyISBN 0786233737 (0-7862-3373-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Color of Waterby James McBrideISBN 0613065425 (0-613-06542-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Water'Book summary:Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. The book is a success story, a testament to one woman's true heart, solid values, and indomitable will. Ruth Jordan battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered. In telling her story--along with her son's--The Color of Water addresses racial identity with compassion, insight, and realism. It is, in a word, inspiring, and you will finish it with unalloyed admiration for a flawed but remarkable individual. And, perhaps, a little more faith in us all. [via]
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veilby W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering LewisISBN 074346060X (0-7434-6060-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil'Book summary:W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published Darkwater -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk. Throughout his long life and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and educator, Du Bois's body of work illumined America's understanding of the "problem of the color line." While much of his early texts were sociological investigations of the Black community, the author increasingly incorporated autobiographical, poetic and spiritual elements into his works. The results are some of the most electrifying commentaries ever written on race and class in America.
After decades of obscurity, this literary jewel is presented with a new introduction written by David Levering Lewis, author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963; Lewis is the foremost scholar of the work of Du Bois.
"If The Souls of Black Folk achieved its singular impact through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and the universal in such a way that each appropriated something of the illustrative and symbolic value of the other, much of Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil was a cri de coeur in which the author's anger at the absurdities of racial prejudice crackled through the text like electric jolts that scorched, illumined, or stunned."
-- David Levering Lewis, from the Introduction [via]
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Dream Keeper and Other Poemsby Langston Hughes, J. Brian PinkneyISBN 0679883479 (0-679-88347-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Escape to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Adventures of Callie and Williamby Barbara Brooks SimonISBN 0792265513 (0-7922-6551-3)
Softcover, Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 067974472X (0-679-74472-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Next Time'Book summary:It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream."
Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation.
Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. --David Laskin [via]
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Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist Editorby Nathan Irvin Huggins, Sharman Apt RussellISBN 0791002047 (0-7910-0204-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist Editor'Book summary:A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the early nineteenth century. [via]
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Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist Editorby Sharman Apt Russell, Heather Lehr Wagner, Nathan Irvin HugginsISBN 0791081575 (0-7910-8157-5)
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Freedom Seekers : Blacks in Early Canadaby Daniel G. HillISBN 0773757805 (0-7737-5780-5)
Softcover, Stoddart Kids
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Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderlandby J. Blaine HudsonISBN 078641345X (0-7864-1345-X)
Hardcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland'Book summary:Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history.
This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistanceall are topics covered. [via]
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George Washington Carverby Gene AdairISBN 0791002349 (0-7910-0234-9)
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The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of Americaby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 067147832X (0-671-47832-X)
Hardcover, Washington Square Press
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Goin' Someplace Specialby Patricia C. McKissack, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0689818858 (0-689-81885-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goin' Someplace Special'Book summary:Confronted with the indignities and humiliations of segregated Nashville in the 1950s, young 'Tricia Ann holds her head high and remembers that she is "somebody, a human being--no better, no worse than anybody else in this world." For the first time, 'Tricia Ann has been allowed to venture outside her community all by herself. Her grandmother has prepared her well, fortifying her "with enough love, respect, and pride to overcome any situation." 'Tricia Ann, though frustrated by the Jim Crow laws that forbid her, as an African American, to enter certain restaurants and hotels, or even to sit on park benches marked "For Whites Only," rises above her pain and makes her way to one of the only places in the city that welcomes her with open arms: the public library.
Drawing on her own Nashville childhood, Newbery Honor-winning author Patricia C. McKissack (The Dark- Thirty) brings the injustices of segregation to life in this bittersweet picture book. Illustrator Jerry Pinkney, four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor Medalist, captures the spirit of the '50s with his lovely watercolors. McKissack and Pinkney previously collaborated on Mirandy and Brother Wind. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Guerrillasby V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0679731741 (0-679-73174-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Happy to Be Nappyby bell hooks, Chris RaschkaISBN 0786807563 (0-7868-0756-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books for Children
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Harriet Tubman: Conductor to Freedomby Nick HealyISBN 0736837434 (0-7368-3743-4)
Hardcover, Capstone Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet Tubman: Conductor to Freedom'Book summary:Learn about the great men and women who changed out history in Fact Finders Biographies. Beautiful Illustrations, photography, maps, and time lines bring these esciting personalities into focus. [via]
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Harriet Tubman: Freedom's Trailblazerby Kathleen Kudlinski, Robert BrownISBN 0689848668 (0-689-84866-8)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides)by Harold BloomISBN 0791077683 (0-7910-7768-3)
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simoneby Nina Simone, Stephen ClearyISBN 0679410686 (0-679-41068-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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If a Bus Could Talkby Faith RinggoldISBN 0689856768 (0-689-85676-8)
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Justin and the Best Biscuits in the Worldby Mildred Pitts Walter, Catherine StockISBN 0688066453 (0-688-06645-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0671834835 (0-671-83483-5)
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Langston Hughes, American Poetby Alice Walker, Don MillerISBN 0690002181 (0-690-00218-1)
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0679455612 (0-679-45561-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lesson Before Dying'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime. [via]
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation A Three-Dimensinal Interactive Book With Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust exhiby Velma Maia ThomasISBN 0609600303 (0-609-60030-3)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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The Lonely Africanby Colin TurnbullISBN 0671641018 (0-671-64101-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Harold BloomISBN 0791036669 (0-7910-3666-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings accomplishes a controlled poignance in representing a portrait of the young artist as a black woman. Her novel is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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More Black Memorabilia: A Handbook with Pricesby Jan LindenbergerISBN 0764308491 (0-7643-0849-1)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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The Narrative of Hosea Hudson, His Life As a Negro Communist in the South: His Life As a Negro Communist in the Southby Hosea Hudson, Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0674601106 (0-674-60110-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Margaret WashingtonISBN 067974035X (0-679-74035-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate and indefatigable abolitionist.
In this new edition, which has been edited and extensively annotated by the distinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Washington, Truth's testimony takes on added dimensions: as a lens into the little-known world of northern slavery; as a chronicle of spiritual conversion; and as an inspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and political empowerment. [via]More editions of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth:
Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africaby Eddy L. HarrisISBN 0679742328 (0-679-74232-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Nettie's Trip Southby Ronald Himler, Ann Warren TurnerISBN 0689801173 (0-689-80117-3)
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Nobody Owns the Skyby Reeve Lindbergh, Pamela PaparoneISBN 0763603619 (0-7636-0361-9)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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Now Let Me Flyby Dolores JohnsonISBN 0689809662 (0-689-80966-2)
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Osceolaby Alan B. Govenar, Osceola Mays, Shane EvansISBN 0786804076 (0-7868-0407-6)
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Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magicianby John Patrick DeveneyISBN 0791431207 (0-7914-3120-7)
Softcover, State University of New York Press
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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedomby Bettye Stroud, Erin Susanne BennettISBN 0763624233 (0-7636-2423-3)
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The Patchwork Quiltby Valerie Flournoy, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Jerry PinkneyISBN 0803700970 (0-8037-0097-0)
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The People Could Fly: The Picture Bookby Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0679843361 (0-679-84336-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The People Could Fly: The Picture Book'Book summary:Virginia Hamilton, Newbery Medal winner and recipient of the National Book Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, teams up with two-time Caldecott Medal winners, Leo and Diane Dillon, in this classic collection of American black folktales, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. By turns droll, grisly, and spine-tingling, the 24 stories celebrate the indomitable human spirit, surviving under the most crushing circumstances of slavery. Traditionally, storytelling has helped people to push through sorrow and pain, especially when the stories are saturated with magic, mysticism, and fantasy. Bruh Rabbit, He Lion, Tar Baby, and other animals populate many of the stories. In others, John, the traditional trickster hero, outwits the slave owner time after time to win his freedom.
Included with this very special edition is a CD featuring the commanding voices of Hamilton and actor James Earl Jones. Eleven selections, including "The Peculiar Such Thing," "John and the Devil's Daughter," "A Wolf and Little Daughter," and "The People Could Fly," bring to life the rhythm and lyrical energy of Hamilton's text. Leo and Diane Dillon's strikingly beautiful black and white illustrations continue to mesmerize and haunt the reader. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Possessing the Secret of Joyby Alice WalkerISBN 0671789422 (0-671-78942-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Classby Robin D.G. KelleyISBN 0684826399 (0-684-82639-9)
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0679755330 (0-679-75533-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. [via] 
Remember: The Journey to School Integrationby Toni MorrisonISBN 061839740X (0-618-39740-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0606118071 (0-606-11807-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Shadow and Actby Ralph EllisonISBN 0679760008 (0-679-76000-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Slaves in the Familyby Edward BallISBN 0783886284 (0-7838-8628-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sojourner Truth: American Abolitionistby Terry WhalinISBN 0791050343 (0-7910-5034-3)
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0679445048 (0-679-44504-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sounderby William Armstrong, James BarkleyISBN 078627915X (0-7862-7915-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sounder'Book summary:Sounder is no beauty. But as a coon dog, this loyal mongrel with his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who has raised Sounder from a pup is hauled off to jail for stealing a hog, his family must suffer their humiliation and crushing loss with no recourse. To make matters worse, in the fracas, Sounder is shot and disappears. The eventual return of a tattered and emaciated Sounder doesn't change the fact that the sharecropper's oldest son is forced to take on man's work to help support the family. His transition to adulthood is paved by the rocks and taunts hurled at him by convicts and guards as he searches for his father. But along this rough road he ultimately finds salvation as well.
William H. Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel quickly became a classic as a moving portrayal of resilience and hope in the face of profound human tragedy. Decades later, the bittersweet story still rings true, as strong-spirited individuals continue to battle the evil of prejudice. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Spirits of the Passageby Rosenarte RobothamISBN 0684818191 (0-684-81819-1)
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racismby James W. LoewenISBN 0743294483 (0-7432-9448-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism'Book summary:No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's best-kept secrets as he unearths the making of sundown towns and discloses the fact that many white neighborhoods and suburbs are the result of years of racism and segregation. Anna, Illinois; Darien, Connecticut; and Cedar Key, Florida, are just a few examples of the thousands of all-white towns established between 1890 and 1968, many of which still exist today. White residents of these towns used any means possible -- including the law, harassment, race riots, and even murder -- to keep African Americans and other minority groups out.
Powerful and unprecedented, Sundown Towns tells the story of how these towns came into existence, what maintains them, and what to do about them. It also deepens our understanding of the role racism has played and continues to play in our society.
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 078381884X (0-7838-1884-X)
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Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eyeby Harold BloomISBN 0791051919 (0-7910-5191-9)
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The title, Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Toni Morrison, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Unappropriated People: Freedom in the Slave Society of Barbadosby Jerome HandlerISBN 0801815657 (0-8018-1565-7)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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W.e.b. Du Bois: The Fight For Equality & The American Century, 1919-1963by David L. LewisISBN 0613708725 (0-613-70872-5)
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Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisonsby Bruce JacksonISBN 0674945476 (0-674-94547-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Warriors Don't Cryby Melba Pattillo BealsISBN 0671866397 (0-671-86639-7)
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-- The soldier assigned to protect Melba
Please, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Sometimes I just need to be a girl.
-- Melba's diary, on her sixteenth birthday
In 1957 Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board Education, she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. This is her remarkable story.
You will listen to the cruel taunts of her schoolmates and their parents. You will run with her from the threat of a lynch mob's rope. You will share her terror as she dodges lighted sticks of dynamite, and her pain as she washes away the acid sprayed into her eyes. But most of all you will share Melba's dignity and courage as she refuses to back down. [via]
A Weed Is a Flowerby AlikiISBN 0671664905 (0-671-66490-5)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Weed Is a Flower'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Brief text and pictures present the life of George Washington Carver, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted his entire life to helping the South improve its agriculture. [via]
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?by Jean Fritz, Dyanne Disalvo-RyanISBN 0698117646 (0-698-11764-6)
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