African American Studies
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A Field Negroes Handbook
by Napoleon Wells  Publisher Comments A Field Negroes Handbook is the first work from author Napoleon Wells and takes a hard look at issues of manhood, fidelity, responsibility and survival within the African American community. Written in prose, poetry and essay formats A Field Negroes...
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Secret Epidemic, The
by Jacob Levenson Publisher Comments As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this...
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White Guilt
by Shelby Steele Publisher Comments In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against...
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Getting It Wrong
by Algernon Austin Publisher Comments Black public intellectuals, from liberal to conservative, are all talking about how black America is degenerating culturally. But there is little concrete evidence for this conclusion. In most areas of life, black Americans have made significant positive...
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The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America
by Ellis Cose Publisher Comments With an eloquence and compassion reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a frank and realistic examination of the daunting challenges facing black men in twenty-first-century America and offers a way out of the cycle of...
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The Future Of The Colored Race In America
by William Aikman Publisher Comments No man understood this so well or so soon as the great Nullifier. He was a thinker and a philosopher, and so with great logical consistency he became the early author of the doctrine of slavery as now almost universally held at the South. He startled and...
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Black Rebellion
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Publisher Comments In this plot four of the men had been already initiated--Henry, Hark or Hercules, Nelson, and Sam. Two others were novices, Will and Jack by name. The party had remained together from twelve to three o'clock, when a seventh man joined them,--a short...
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
by bell hooks Publisher Comments World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose...
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The African in the Mirror
by Abimbola Lagunju Publisher Comments The African in the Mirror takes us through the predicament of Black Africa from slavery times till the present day. It seeks to establish the cause of vulnerability of the African in his relationship with the outside world and his historical...
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Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom Or The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery
by William Craft Synopsis In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship -...
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Is The Negro Having A Fair Chance?
by Booker T. Washington Publisher Comments From an economic point of view, the negro in the North, when compared with the white man, does not have a fair chance. This is the feeling not only of the colored people themselves, but of almost every one who has examined into the conditions under which...
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Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
by David Wright Publisher Comments Fire on the Beach brings a previously undiscovered chapter of American history and maritime adventure to light. It tells the story of the U.S. Life-Saving Service (forerunner of today's Coast Guard) and its "surfmen" who, in crews of seven, shouldered...
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Fear of a "Black" America
by Donald Earl Collins Publisher Comments Fear of...
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
by John Russell Rickford Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and index....
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The Anti Slavery Crusade
by Jesse Macy Publisher Comments This history of the anti-slavery movement in pre-Civil War america....
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Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl
by Jonetta Rose Barras Review "VIVID, PIERCING . . . THIS BOOK HAS GREAT VALUE. . . . [Barras] speaks with the passion and penetrating detail of one who has firsthand experience." -The Washington...
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Miracles Of Mentoring, The
by Thomas W. Dortch Publisher Comments With more than 10,000 members in eighty-two chapters in the United States, the Virgin Islands, and Africa, The 100 Black Men of America is one of the most highly recognized non-profit organizations in the African American community. In this book the 100...
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Fifty-Five Positive Steps Black People Can Take to Preserve Themselves Into the 21st Century
by Michael W. Cromwell Publisher Comments The American black is a unique individual, with a unique past and history that needs to be preserved. The American black is not a saint; neither is he a ghost. But he is flesh and blood, a human being that needs to be respected and treated fairly. But...
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American Patriots
by Gail Lumet Buckley Publisher Comments American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and...
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem 100 Years,100 Voices
by Julian Bond Publisher Comments Pasted into Bibles, schoolbooks, and hearts, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' written by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson in 1900, has become one of the most beloved songs in the African American community--taught for years in schools, churches...
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