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Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph, the
by Ben Joravsky  
Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to life all the richness and subtlety of the experiences of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two gifted urban hoopsters determined to make it to the NBA, in this intimate, suspenseful, and heart...
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Used: $11.95 Hardcover List Price $23.00
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Life is So Good
by George Dawson
Synopsis What makes a happy person, a happy life? George Dawson, who learned how to read when he was 98, tells how as he describes his own remarkable odyssey across the span of the 20th century....
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
by bell hooks Publisher Comments In Rock My Soul, world-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day. Why do so many...
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24 Reasons Why African Americans Suffer: A Critical Analysis of an African American Teenage Subculture
by Jimmy Dumas Publisher Comments This book investigates the effects of prejudice on blacks in American culture and spells out strategies that can be implemented to close the gap between the races. Acknowledging that racism is a root cause, the book offers strategies to get beyond today&#...
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Souls of Black Folk : With a New Introduction (95 Edition)
by W. E. B. Dubois Publisher Comments First published in 1903, this extraordinary collection of 14 essays was a groundbreaking literary work. Grappling with the contradictions of being black and being American, W.E.B. Du Bois created a manifesto for the emerging class of African-American...
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Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
by Mark S Weiner Publisher Comments From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning three centuries, "Black Trials "details the...
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Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
by Keith Boykin Publisher Comments Bolstered by national television exposure on Oprah and a cover story in the New York Times Magazine, the "down low"—a term used to refer to "straight" men who have sex with men—was thrust into the open in 2004. Keith Boykin, a former Clinton...
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The Big Sea
by Langston Hughes Publisher Comments Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In "The Big Sea" he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in...
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African American Firsts: Famous Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America
by Joan Potter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-401) and index....
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The Black Infantry in the West 1869-1891
by Arlen L Fowler Publisher Comments After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars...
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Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
by Howard Dodson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-219) and index....
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Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as "Why are there more...
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
by Paula J Giddings Publisher Comments From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history, comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells--a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight against segregation and...
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Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
by Hill Harper Publisher Comments Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success. Based on the author's motivational speaking at inner-city...
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An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments This challenge to influential educator Ruby Payne's theories about the impact of class differences and economics on teaching and learning puts forward other factors as better predictors of student performance. Pointing to...
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From Brotherhood to Manhood: How Black Men Rescue Their Relationships and Dreams from the Invisibility Syndrome
by Anderson J. Franklin Publisher Comments A groundbreaking exploration of the African American male psycheIn this important book, the foremost African American expert on black male psychology draws on more than twenty-five years of success in counseling black men to expose the invisibility...
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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
by Houston A., Jr. Baker Publisher Comments Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing...
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I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African Amercian Owned Television and Radio Minority Owned Television and Radio
by Kristal Zook Publisher Comments Why are so few radio and television stations currently owned by African Americans? The airwaves are public resources; they belong to the people. And yet minorities, who form 33 percent of the population, control only 3 percent of the broadcast...
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American...
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He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization Among Black Children
by Marjorie H Goodwin Publisher Comments ..."carefully researched and clearly written....Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and acress contexts." --American...
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