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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... ( read more)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley
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An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... ( read more)
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
by Larry Tye
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Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class.... ( read more)
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nation Series)
by Eric Foner
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Reconstruction chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. Reconstruction addresses: the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal... ( read more)
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The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
by Clayborne Carson
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A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movement has come and how far it has yet to go... ( read more)
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Pauline Hopkins
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"Brilliant....It is not hard to imagine that, once her fiction is given the attention it deserves, Hopkins could replace Chestnutt as the foremost black novelist of the period."--Eric J. Sundquist, The New York Times Book Review "The three novels... ( read more)
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The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature with Audio CD with CD (Audio)
by Rochelle Smith
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Tracing African American literary and artistic contributions from the 1700s to the 1990s, this anthology presents a diverse collection that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, speeches, songs, paintings and photography. Readers learn about... ( read more)
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Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 2
by Martin Bernal
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What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic... ( read more)
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
by John Bailey
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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... ( read more)
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... ( read more)
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Guests | June 10, 2009
By Krista Wheeler
Don't listen to Bo Diddley. You're welcome to judge the cover of Portland Noir. It's a good one, in my opinion. I shot the cover photograph. I feel...
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