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Fiction
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Bud,
Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis
During the 1930s, Bud Caldwell is 10 years old. Since his mother's death four
years ago, he's lived in several foster homes. On the way to his third foster
home, Bud can't stomach the idea of living in that type of environment again
and decides to run away, determined to find his father. The only clues he has
to take with him are the old fliers his mother collected that mention a jazz
musician named Herman E. Calloway. Will Bud finally be reunited with his father?
Winner of the 2000 Newbery
Medal and the 2000 Coretta Scott King Author Award. (read
more)
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Mumbo
Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western
civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed,
one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical
figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime
to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five
hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a
trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history,
from a keen observer of our culture. (read
more)
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Selected
Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
This new volume by a distinguished modern poet, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
in 1950, brings together the best of her work from three earlier books.... Selected
Poems reaffirms impressively Ms. Brooks's rich and varied gifts – her
technical mastery, her compassionate, illuminating response to a world that
is both special and universal, her warm humanity. (read
more)
Hear
"We Real Cool"
in Real Cool Audio
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Cane
by Jean Toomer
"Cane is Jean Toomer's acclaimed exploration of the American racial
temperament of the 1920s. Using his own life as a model, Toomer explores the issues
of race and identity that simmer just below the fragile American social veneer.
Organized in three sections, these stories and vignettes are also interspersed
with poetry. Toomer's brilliant interweaving of black folk culture within themes
of miscegenation, black sexuality, and racial identity and conflict turned this
novel into a literary high point...." (read
more)
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Mama
Day by Gloria Naylor
Go
Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Happy
to be Nappy by bell hooks
The
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
The
Fisher King by Paule Marshall
Don't
the Moon Look Lonesome by Stanley Crouch
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Nonfiction
Pimp:
The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
 "Probably
the first book written by an actual pimp. Iceberg Slim tells his cold, brutal
story from his first sexual experience at the age of three to his eventual break
from prison and the 'life.'" Paul Addis, Powell's Books (read
more)
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Black,
White, and Jewish by Rebecca Walker
 "In
this powerful memoir, Rebecca Walker mines the terrain of her biracial upbringing
in a voice that is deeply affecting and wholly her own. She tackles her complicated
history with passion and lucidity. This is more than just a personal narrative:
it is the story of a whole generation of movement babies for whom the definition
of 'home' was always and already up for debate." Danzy Senna, author
of Caucasia (read
more)
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Voices
in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement edited by Jon Meacham
Voices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most important and artful
interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present. It showcases what
forty of the nation's best writers – including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin,
Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren,
Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright – had to say about the central domestic
drama of the American Century.... (read
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King:
The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles Johnson
& Bob Adelman
W.E.B.
Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
by David Levering Lewis
Before
the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
America in the King Years by Taylor Branch
Part
One: Parting the Waters: 1954-1963
Part
Two: Pillar of Fire: 1963-1965
Detroit:
I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgakas
and Marvin Surkin
Workin'
on the Chain Gang by Walter Mosley
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