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Abiyoyoby Pete Seeger, Michael HaysISBN 0027814904 (0-02-781490-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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African American Livesby Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamISBN 019516024X (0-19-516024-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African American Lives'Book summary:African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present.
African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize. [via]More editions of African American Lives:
African Americans: A Concise Historyby Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, Stanley HarroldISBN 0131114417 (0-13-111441-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experienceby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195170555 (0-19-517055-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience'Book summary:Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999.
This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created.
More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids , to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth. [via]More editions of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience:
American Dilemmaby G. MyrdalISBN 006034590X (0-06-034590-X)
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American Negro Slavery: A Modern Readerby David Sarasohn, Frank Otto Gatell, Allen WeinsteinISBN 0195024702 (0-19-502470-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Army Life in a Black Regiment: And Other Writingsby Thomas Wentworth Higginson, R. D. MadisonISBN 0140436219 (0-14-043621-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Autobiography of an Ex-colored Manby James Weldon Johnson, William L. AndrewsISBN 0140184023 (0-14-018402-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored 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 Syphilis Experimentby James H. JonesISBN 0029166764 (0-02-916676-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment'Book summary:From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the disease might do to them; and, with the exception of a smattering of medication during the first few months, they were not given health care. Instead of the powerful drugs they required, they were given aspirin for their aches and pains. Health officials systematically deceived the men into believing they were patients in a government study of "bad blood", a catch-all phrase black sharecroppers used to describe a host of illnesses. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications. "Bad Blood" provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur. Tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of decision making in bureaucracies, Jones attempted to show that the Tuskegee Study was not, in fact, an aberration, but a logical outgrowth of race relations and medical practice in the United States. Now, in this revised edition of "Bad Blood", Jones traces the tragic consequences of the Tuskegee Study over the last decade. A new introduction explains why the Tuskegee Study has become a symbol of black oppression and a metaphor for medical neglect, inspiring a prize-winning play, a Nova special, and a motion picture. A new concluding chapter shows how the black community's wide-spread anger and distrust caused by the Tuskegee Study has hampered efforts by health officials to combat AIDS in the black community. "Bad Blood" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the "N.Y. Times" 12 best books of the year. [via]
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0140283404 (0-14-028340-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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 006446055X (0-06-446055-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Americans'Book summary:'Meltzer has produced [and updated] a single volume [a condensation of his three-volume In Their Own Words] that covers three and a half centuries of black life in the United States, consisting of source materials: letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and book excerpts. From this collage a vivid picture emerges of the power, passion, and pride of black life.' -C. Notable Children's Books of 1984 (ALA) 100 Favorite Paperbacks of 1989 (IRA/CBC) Notable 1984 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children's Books of 1984 (Library of Congress) [via]
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Black Bourgeoisieby Edward Franklin FrazierISBN 0029105803 (0-02-910580-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United Statesby Edward Franklin FrazierISBN 0020956002 (0-02-095600-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Heroes of the American Revolutionby Burke DavisISBN 0152085610 (0-15-208561-0)
Softcover, Odyssey Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Heroes of the American Revolution'Book summary:An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence. [via]
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The Black Image in the White Mind; The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914by George M. FredricksonISBN 0061316881 (0-06-131688-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Black Juiceby Margo LanaganISBN 0060743921 (0-06-074392-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Juice'Book summary:As part of a public execution, a young boy forlornly helps to sing his sister down. . . . A servant learns about grace and loyalty from a mistress who would rather dance with Gypsies than sit on her throne. . . . A terrifying encounter with a demonic angel gives a young man the strength he needs to break free of his oppressor. . . . On a bleak and dreary afternoon a gleeful shooting spree leads to tragedy for a desperate clown unable to escape his fate.In each of Margo Lanagan's ten extraordinary stories, human frailty is put to the test by the implacable forces of dark and light, man and beast. black juice offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the knowledge that black juice runs through us all.
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Black Pioneers of Science and Inventionby Louis HaberISBN 0152085661 (0-15-208566-1)
Softcover, Odyssey Classics
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0030850746 (0-03-085074-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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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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Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853by Paul EricksonISBN 0140566686 (0-14-056668-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Dragon Can't Danceby Earl LovelaceISBN 0233970681 (0-233-97068-1)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 003055442X (0-03-055442-X)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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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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For the Inward Journey: The Writings of Howard Thurmanby Howard ThurmanISBN 0151326568 (0-15-132656-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Guerrillasby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0233967028 (0-233-96702-8)
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Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth About an American Heroby Robert L. Allen, Allene G. CarterISBN 0066212367 (0-06-621236-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The House of Dies Drearby Virginia HamiltonISBN 0020435207 (0-02-043520-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Dies Drear'Book summary:A huge, old house with secret tunnels, a cantankerous caretaker, and buried treasure is a dream-come-true for 13-year-old Thomas. The fact that it's reputedly haunted only adds to its appeal! As soon as his family moves in, Thomas senses something strange about the Civil War era house, which used to be a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. With the help of his father, he learns about the abolitionists and escaping slaves who kept the Underground Railroad running. While on his own, he explores the hidden passageways in and under the house, piecing clues together in an increasingly dangerous quest for the truth about the past. Newbery medalist Virginia Hamilton creates a heart-pounding adventure with this absorbing classic for older readers. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
King of the Cats: The Life And Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.by Wil HaygoodISBN 0060842415 (0-06-084241-5)
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Langston Hughes: American Poetby Alice Walker, Catherine DeeterISBN 0060798890 (0-06-079889-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Langston Hughes: American Poet'Book summary:When Langston Hughes was a boy, His grandmother told him true stories of how African people were captured in Africa and brought to America enslaved. She told him about their fight for freedom and justice.
Langston loved his grandmother's stories. To learn more stories and bear more beautiful language, he began to read books. He fell in love with books and decided that one day he would write stories too, true stories about Black people.
When he was only fourteen, Langston wrote his first poem, and for the rest of his life he was always writing -- stories and essays and, most of all, poems. He wrote about Black people as he saw them: happy, sad, mad, and beautiful. Through his writing he fought for freedom from inequality and injustice; and his gift of words inspired and influenced many other writers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker was one writer Langston influenced. In this moving and richly detailed portrait she celebrates the life of an extraordinary man. Accompanied by stunning paintings by artist Catherine Deeter, Langston Hughes: American Poet will introduce a whole new generation to the life and works of a great African American Poet of the twentieth century, and one of the most important poets of all time.
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Let the Circle Be Unbrokenby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0140348921 (0-14-034892-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Modernism and the Harlem Renaissanceby Houston A. BakerISBN 0226035255 (0-226-03525-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060916486 (0-06-091648-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mules and Men'Book summary:Set intimately within the social context of black life, this is a collection of stories, "big old lies," songs, voodoo customs and superstitions passed down through oral tradition. [via]
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My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass, John David SmithISBN 0140439188 (0-14-043918-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Bondage and My Freedom'Book summary:Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) grown more mature, forceful, analytical, and complex with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and liberties.[via]
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth : A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0140436782 (0-14-043678-2)
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Nettie's Trip Southby Ann Warren Turner, Ronald HimlerISBN 0027892409 (0-02-789240-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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North of Slavery; The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860by Leon F. LitwackISBN 0226485862 (0-226-48586-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Now Let Me Fly : The Story of a Slave Familyby Dolores JohnsonISBN 0027476995 (0-02-747699-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africaby Keith B. RichburgISBN 0156005832 (0-15-600583-2)
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Papa Tells Chita a Storyby Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, Floyd CooperISBN 0027446239 (0-02-744623-9)
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Paul Robesonby Virginia HamiltonISBN 0060221887 (0-06-022188-7)
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Possessing the Secret of Joyby Alice WalkerISBN 0151731527 (0-15-173152-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Malcolm BradburyISBN 0140430407 (0-14-043040-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery. [via]
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The Queen's Slave Trader: Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Soulsby Nick HazlewoodISBN 0060935693 (0-06-093569-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Classby Robin D.G. KelleyISBN 002916706X (0-02-916706-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 014034893X (0-14-034893-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'Book summary:In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now but one day you will. Then you'll see."
Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever. Taylor's vivid portrayal of ugly racism and the poignancy of Cassie's bewilderment and gradual toughening against social injustice and the men and women who perpetuate it, will remain with readers forever. Two award-winning sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and a long-awaited prequel, The Land, continue the profoundly moving tale of the Logan family. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Rosa Parksby Rosa Parks, James HaskinsISBN 0141301201 (0-14-130120-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosa Parks'Book summary:Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Yet there is much more to her story than this one act of defiance. In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the civil rights movement and her active role in it. Her dedication is inspiring; her story is unforgettable. "The simplicity and candor of this courageous woman's voice makes these compelling events even more moving and dramatic." ? Publishers Weekly, starred review[via]More editions of Rosa Parks:
Runaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantationby John H. Franklin, Loren SchweningerISBN 0195084497 (0-19-508449-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantationby John Hope Franklin, Loren SchweningerISBN 0195084519 (0-19-508451-9)
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Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Lifeby Stanley M. ElkinsISBN 0226204774 (0-226-20477-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 0224616951 (0-224-61695-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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Sounderby William H. Armstrong, James BarkleyISBN 0060739460 (0-06-073946-0)
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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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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston, Gates, Henry Louis (AFT), Edwidge DanticatISBN 0060838671 (0-06-083867-1)
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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 0156890895 (0-15-689089-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America'Book summary:From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photographs.[via]More editions of There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America:
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This Is the Dreamby Diane Zuhone Shore, Jessica Alexander, James RansomeISBN 006055519X (0-06-055519-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Is the Dream'Book summary:Our nation was founded on the belief that all men are created equal. Nearly two hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, slavery had been abolished but America was still segregated.
Then: Enter the students who marched into the first desegregated school, the passengers who boycotted the buses, and the leaders who stood up and spoke out. When they started, it was all just a dream. . . .
Through striking, powerful verse and gorgeous, detailed illustrations, this is the dream catalogs the American experience before, during, and after the civil rights movement. Come along on this incredible journey, and see how far we've come in attaining freedom and justice for all.
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Sherley Anne Williams, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195101472 (0-19-510147-2)
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The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114159 (0-19-511415-9)
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When We Were Coloredby Clifton L. TaulbertISBN 0140244778 (0-14-024477-8)
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