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African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Strugglesby Allan D. AustinISBN 0415912709 (0-415-91270-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experienceby August Meier, Elliott M. RudwickISBN 0252071077 (0-252-07107-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 0393312887 (0-393-31288-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund S. MorganISBN 039332494X (0-393-32494-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 0393301575 (0-393-30157-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Censusby Philip D. CurtinISBN 0299054047 (0-299-05404-7)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nceby James JohnsonISBN 0393972860 (0-393-97286-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0375704140 (0-375-70414-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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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Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Beloved: ISBN 0375405623 (0-375-40562-3)
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The Black Bookby Harris, M. A., CompISBN 039448388X (0-394-48388-X)
Softcover, Random House
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The Black Bookby Middleton A. Harris, Morris Levitt, Roger FurmanISBN 0394706226 (0-394-70622-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Black Genesis: African Roots A Voyage from Juffure, the Gambia, Through Mandingo Country to the Slave Port of Dakar, Senegalby Jurgen VollmerISBN 0312083130 (0-312-08313-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Black Majorityby Peter WoodISBN 0394483960 (0-394-48396-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellionby Peter H. WoodISBN 0393314820 (0-393-31482-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930by Irma Watkins-OwensISBN 0253210488 (0-253-21048-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0307278441 (0-307-27844-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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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 Forgotten Heroesby Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony WaltonISBN 0385503385 (0-385-50338-5)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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Celia, a Slaveby Melton A. McLaurinISBN 0380719355 (0-380-71935-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Celia, a Slave: A True Storyby Melton A. McLaurinISBN 0380803364 (0-380-80336-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Circle Unbrokenby Margot Theis Raven, Earl B. LewisISBN 0374312893 (0-374-31289-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South A Brief History With Documentsby Paul FinkelmanISBN 0312133278 (0-312-13327-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Dream Keeper and Other Poemsby Langston Hughes, Helen SewellISBN 0394910966 (0-394-91096-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Presentby Kathleen Thompson, Hilary Mac Austin, Darlene Clark HineISBN 025333635X (0-253-33635-X)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present'Book summary:Ordinary black women, more than any other group in America, have been left out of history. As Darlene Clark Hine points out in her introduction to this powerful and affecting book, "disseminating a visual history is more important with Black women, perhaps, than with any other single segment of the American population. We know all too well what this society believes black women look like. The stereotypes abound, from the Mammy to the maid, from the tragic mulatto to the dark temptress. America's perceptions of Black women are colored by a host of derogatory images and assumptions that proliferated in the aftermath of slavery and, with some permutations, exist even today. We have witnessed the distortion of the image of black women in movies and on television. We have seen black women's faces and bodies shamed and exploited. What we have not seen is the simple truth of their lives. This book will help to eradicate, or at least to dislodge, the many negative and dehumanizing stereotypes and caricatures of Black women that inhabit our consciousness.
What do black women look like? What do they look like at work or with their families? What faces do they choose to present to the world, and what faces has the world forced them to acquire? We can look in vain to most pictorial histories of America and even of African America for images of Black women. With noteworthy exceptions, even scholarly studies in Black women's history tend to include few, if any, photographic images. Of the images that previously have been presented in print, the majority have been of famous Black women.
The Face of Our Past brings the ordinary Black woman to center stage, showing how she lives, loves her family, works to survive, fights for her people, and expresses her individuality. In addition to 302 cartefully chosen images, Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin provide quotations from letters, diaries, journals, and other sources
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Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Ownby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0307382389 (0-307-38238-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own'Book summary:Finding Oprahs Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by historys unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know ones distant tribal roots in Africa.
For Oprah, the path back to the past was emotion-filled and profoundly illuminating, connecting the narrative of her family to the larger American narrative and anchoring her in a way not previously possible. For the reader, Finding Oprahs Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience. [via]More editions of Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own:
Frederick Douglassby Benjamin QuarlesISBN 0306807904 (0-306-80790-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Free Women of Petersburgby Suzanne LebsockISBN 0393952649 (0-393-95264-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860by Suzanne LebsockISBN 0393017389 (0-393-01738-9)
Hardcover, Norton
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Guerrillasby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394498984 (0-394-49898-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerrillas'Book summary:A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence. [via]
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The Heart of a Womanby Maya AngelouISBN 0375500723 (0-375-50072-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of a Woman'Book summary:Millions have read Maya Angelou's national bestseller The Heart of a Woman, and now you can hear her fascinating story in the author's own voice. Angelou exposes a turbulent period of her life as she struggles to raise a child, fulfill her goals as a writer, and fight for civil rights in an age of social injustice; Angelou's rich and resonating voice draws the listener into the unexpected details of her life. Working as a nightclub singer in Los Angeles, Angelou decides to move to New York with her son Guy in hopes of building stronger ties with the black art community. In an attempt to find stability for Guy and make a name for herself, her love life takes wild turns. Should she marry the bail bondsman who's as dry as stale bread or run away with the African freedom fighter? Her heart takes her to Africa, where her writing career blossoms but her marriage sours. The Heart of a Woman is filled with beautiful prose and songs; Angelou displays her music talent in several vignettes, most memorably in a scene with Billie Holiday: Angelou is performing at a nightclub when Holiday shrieks, "Stop her, stop her... she sounds like my mama!" [via]
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A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Presentby Romare Bearden, Harry HendersonISBN 0394570162 (0-394-57016-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present'Book summary:A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world.
Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late eighteenth-century portrait painter widely assumed by historians to be one of the earliest known African-American artists, Bearden and Henderson go on to examine the careers of Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Edmonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Hale A. Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles H. Alston, Ellis Wilson, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Horace Pippin, Alma W. Thomas, and many others.
Illustrated with more than 420 black-and-white illustrations and 61 color reproductions -- including rediscovered classics, works no longer extant, and art never before seen in this country -- A History of African-American Artists is a stunning achievement. [via]More editions of A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present:
Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Eraby Clarence LusaneISBN 0415932955 (0-415-93295-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0375507892 (0-375-50789-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simoneby Nina Simone, Stephen ClearyISBN 0306813270 (0-306-81327-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone'Book summary:James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it." Simone has created for herself a world of magnificent peaks. Often compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, Simone is known as one of the greatest singers of her generation. She has recorded forty-three albums, ranging from blues to jazz to folk, and her hits like "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Baby Just Cares for Me," "I Put a Spell on You," and "Mississippi Goddam" have confirmed her as an enduring force in popular music. Her song "Young, Gifted, and Black" became the anthem for the Civil Rights Movement and thrust her beyond international stardom into the center of activism. But such worlds as Simone's are not without their grim valleys: disastrous marriages, arrest and the threat of imprisonment, mental breakdown, poverty, and attempted suicide. She has survived these trials and continues to perform throughout Europe and the United States. With undiminished passion and in her unconquerable voice, this is Nina Simones powerful memoir of her tempestuous life.[via]More editions of I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone:
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0385150598 (0-385-15059-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kindred'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An African American woman from 1976 Southern California is transported back to the 19th-century and the violent days of slavery before the Civil War. [via]
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.by Wil HaygoodISBN 039570068X (0-395-70068-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Leon's Storyby Leon Tillage, Susan L. RothISBN 0374443300 (0-374-44330-0)
Softcover, Sunburst
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0375702709 (0-375-70270-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Like Judgement Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewoodby Michael D'OrsoISBN 0399141472 (0-399-14147-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.by King, Martin Luther, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott KingISBN 0312090633 (0-312-09063-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.'Book summary:Let freedom ring from every hill[via]
and molehill of Mississippi. From
every mountaintop, let freedom
ring. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the dusty back roads of Montgomery, Alabama, to the legendary March on Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., brought a stirring message of peace, equality, and justice to a divided people. He aspired only to be a Baptist minister, but by the time he was tragically assassinated in 1968 at the age of thirty-nine, he had led a movement that destroyed segregation in the South, and he had won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Now, a quarter century after his death, his words are as significant and moving as they were in the 1960s. Watts burns today as it did then; issues of race, justice and human dignity are still the most critical problems facing our nation. This handsome quotation book represents the finest of the Reverend King's words; it is a classic volume compiled from his essays, lectures, and speeches by his wife, Coretta Scott King. Excerpts form his most famous speech-"I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop"-are included, as well as equally powerful but lesser known quotations. King's vision of healing and forgiveness is a timeless message that American can ill afford to ignore.More editions of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.:
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott KingISBN 0312199902 (0-312-19990-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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and molehill of Mississippi. From
every mountaintop, let freedom
ring. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the dusty back roads of Montgomery, Alabama, to the legendary March on Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., brought a stirring message of peace, equality, and justice to a divided people. He aspired only to be a Baptist minister, but by the time he was tragically assassinated in 1968 at the age of thirty-nine, he had led a movement that destroyed segregation in the South, and he had won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Now, a quarter century after his death, his words are as significant and moving as they were in the 1960s. Watts burns today as it did then; issues of race, justice and human dignity are still the most critical problems facing our nation. This handsome quotation book represents the finest of the Reverend King's words; it is a classic volume compiled from his essays, lectures, and speeches by his wife, Coretta Scott King. Excerpts form his most famous speech-"I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop"-are included, as well as equally powerful but lesser known quotations. King's vision of healing and forgiveness is a timeless message that American can ill afford to ignore.More editions of Martin Luther King, Jr., Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.:
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0253202086 (0-253-20208-6)
Softcover, Indiana University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mules and Men'Book summary:MULES AND MEN contains many types of tales, including fanciful myths devised to explain the mysteries of nature and life (why the rabbit has a short tail, why some people are black), imaginative stories about how to defeat the devil or win a loved one, and anecdotes that condemn American injustice toward blacks. Hurston also introduces the reader to the realm of Hoodoo, or Voodoo, and its practitioners. Hurston produced in MULES AND MEN a book that is not only a mine of information for professionals but a source of delight to the general reader. [via]
My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, Peter P. Hinks, Sean P. Adams, Gerald Fulkerson, L. Diane BarnesISBN 0300091737 (0-300-09173-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Narrative of Hosea Hudson : The Life and Times of A Black Radicalby Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0393310159 (0-393-31015-9)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Other Sideby Jacqueline Woodson, Earl B. LewisISBN 0399231161 (0-399-23116-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side'Book summary:Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.[via]
With the addition of a brand-new author's note, this special edition celebrates the tenth anniversary of this classic book. As always, Woodson moves readers with her lyrical narrative, and E. B. Lewis's amazing talent shines in his gorgeous watercolor illustrations.More editions of The Other Side:
The People Could Fly : American Black Folktalesby Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0394869257 (0-394-86925-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The People Could Fly: The Picture Bookby Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0375824057 (0-375-82405-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The People Could Fly: The Picture Book'Book summary:THE PEOPLE COULD FLY, the title story in Virginia Hamiltons prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity to fly away, who remained slaves with only their imaginations to set them free as they told and retold this tale.
Leo and Diane Dillon have created powerful new illustrations in full color for every page of this picture book presentation of Virginia Hamiltons most beloved tale. The authors original historical note as well as her previously unpublished notes are included.
Awards for The People Could Fly collection:
A Coretta Scott King Award
A Booklist Childrens Editors Choice
A School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
A Horn Book Fanfare
An ALA Notable Book
An NCTE Teachers Choice
A New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Books of the Year
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Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The People Could Fly: The Picture Book: ISBN 0375824057 (0-375-82405-7)
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Pink and Sayby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0399226710 (0-399-22671-0)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pink and Say'Book summary:In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison. [via]
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twinsby Mark Twain, Sidney E. BergerISBN 0393925358 (0-393-92535-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins'Book summary:Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America. This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]
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A Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0375508333 (0-375-50833-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Raisin in the Sun; A Drama in Three Actsby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0394406885 (0-394-40688-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Raisin in the Sun; A Drama in Three Acts'Book summary:"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
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]More editions of A Raisin in the Sun; A Drama in Three Acts:
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0395775302 (0-395-77530-2)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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Rush Home Roadby Lori LansensISBN 0316069027 (0-316-06902-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rush Home Road'Book summary:Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured-and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever. [via]
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Shadow and Actby Ralph EllisonISBN 0394717163 (0-394-71716-3)
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Show Wayby Jacqueline Woodson, Hudson TalbottISBN 0399237496 (0-399-23749-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Show Way'Book summary:[via]Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways -- maps for slaves to follow to freedom. When she grew up and had a little girl, she passed on this knowledge. And generations later, Soonie -- who was born free -- taught her own daughter how to sew beautiful quilts to be sold at market and how to read.
From slavery to freedom, through segregation, freedom marches and the fight for literacy, the tradition they called Show Way has been passed down by the women in Jacqueline Woodson's family as a way to remember the past and celebrate the possibilities of the future. Beautifully rendered in Hudson Talbott's luminous art, this moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women whose strength and knowledge illuminate their daughters' lives.More editions of Show Way:
Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838by Barbara BushISBN 0253212510 (0-253-21251-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Slaves in the Familyby Edward BallISBN 0345431057 (0-345-43105-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaves in the Family'Book summary:Writer Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote: "My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,' he would say. 'Religion, sex, death, money and the Negroes.'" Ball himself seemed happy enough to avoid these touchy issues until an invitation to a family reunion in South Carolina piqued his interest in his family's extensive plantation and slave-holding past. He realized that he had a very clear idea of who his white ancestors were--their names, who their children and children's children were, even portraits and photographs--but he had only a murky vision of the black people who supported their livelihood and were such an intimate part of their daily lives; he knew neither their names nor what happened to them and their descendents after they were freed following the Civil War. So he embarked on a journey to uncover the history of the Balls and the black families with whom their lives were inextricably intertwined, as well as the less tangible resonance of slavery in both sets of families. From plantation records, interviews with descendents of both the Balls and their slaves, and travels to Africa and the American South, Ball has constructed a story of the riches and squalor, violence and insurrection--the pride and shame--that make up the history and legacy of slavery in America. [via]
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbolby Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0393317080 (0-393-31708-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol'Book summary:Though she was born into slavery and subjected to physical and sexual abuse by her owners, Sojourner Truth, who eventually fled the South for the promise of the North, came to represent the power of individual strength and perseverance. She championed the disadvantaged--black in the South, women in the North--yet spent much of her free life with middle-class whites, who supported her, yet never failed to remind her that she was a second class citizen. Slowly, but surely, Sojourner climbed from beneath the weight of slavery, secured respect for herself, and utilized the distinction of her race to become not only a symbol for black women, but for the feminist movement as a whole. [via]
Sojourner Truth, a Self-Made Woman.by Victoria OrtizISBN 039731504X (0-397-31504-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans from 1850-1950by Chester Higgins, Orde CoombsISBN 038512001X (0-385-12001-X)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394497848 (0-394-49784-8)
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 038533379X (0-385-33379-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. [via]More editions of Soul on Ice:
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine: Recipes and Reminiscences of a Familyby Norma Jean DardenISBN 0385124686 (0-385-12468-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedomby Bell HooksISBN 0415908086 (0-415-90808-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0252017781 (0-252-01778-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
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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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in Americaby Vincent HardingISBN 0394711483 (0-394-71148-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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They Came Before Columbus : The African Presence in Ancient Americaby Ivan Van SertimaISBN 0394402456 (0-394-40245-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'They Came Before Columbus : The African Presence in Ancient America'Book summary:This controversial book by Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese historian, linguist, and anthropologist, claims that Africans had been to the New World centuries before Columbus arrived there in 1492. Citing--among other things--the huge Negroid-looking Olmec heads of Central Mexico and the similarities between the Aztec and Egyptian calendars and pyramid structures, Van Sertima pieces together a hidden history of pre-Columbian contact between Africans and Native Americans. He also puts forth the possibility that Columbus may have already known about a route to the Americas from his years in Africa as a trader in Guinea. The ideas in this book have been debated and discussed since its first publication in 1976; even those who choose not to believe Van Sertima's theories should take his argument seriously. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk, the Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man.by Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0380015811 (0-380-01581-1)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Timelines of African-American History : 500 Years of Black Achievementby Tom Cowan, Jack Maguire, Richard Newman, Emory J. TolbertISBN 0399521275 (0-399-52127-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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To Die for the Peopleby Huey P. NewtonISBN 0394718348 (0-394-71834-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbeanby David Barry Gaspar, David Patrick GeggusISBN 0253210860 (0-253-21086-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnsonby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0375710043 (0-375-71004-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson'Book summary:He was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebratedand most reviledAfrican American of his age. In Unforgivable Blackness, the prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex and compelling than the newspaper headlines he inspired could ever convey. Johnson battled his way from obscurity to the top of the heavyweight ranks and in 1908 won the greatest prize in American sportsone that had always been the private preserve of white boxers. At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled just to survive, he reveled in his riches and his fame. And at a time when the mere suspicion that a black man had flirted with a white woman could cost him his life, he insisted on sleeping with whomever he pleased, and married three. Because he did so the federal government set out to destroy him, and he was forced to endure a year of prison and seven years of exile. Ward points out that to most whites (and to some African Americans as well) he was seen as a perpetual threatprofligate, arrogant, amoral, a dark menace, and a danger to the natural order of things.
Unforgivable Blackness is the first full-scale biography of Johnson in more than twenty years. Accompanied by more than fifty photographs and drawing on a wealth of new materialincluding Johnsons never-before-published prison memoirit restores Jack Johnson to his rightful place in the pantheon of American individualists. [via]More editions of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson:
The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Artby Andrea D. BarnwellISBN 0295979224 (0-295-97922-4)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Artby Walter O. Evans, Andrea D. Barnwell, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Kirsten Buick, Amy M. MooneyISBN 0295979208 (0-295-97920-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Where I Was Born and Raisedby David CohnISBN 0268002991 (0-268-00299-1)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?by Jean Fritz, Dyanne Disalvo-RyanISBN 0399227865 (0-399-22786-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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