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Women in Transition: Voices from Lithuania
by Suzanne Lafont  Book News Annotation Addresses the historical, social, economic, and political dynamics affecting the lives of women during Lithuania's transition from communism to democracy and demonstrates that democracy has not diminished gender discrimination. Topics include the...
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Psalms from Prison
by Benjamin Jr Chavis Publisher Comments "These are psalms of faith, psalms of struggle, psalms of praise. These are the prayers we need to hear", from the former executive director and CEO of the NAACP. -- The Other Side "Cries out with ... determination and faith, and because of his courage...
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American :an autobiography.
by Benjamin O Davis Book News Annotation Davis, the first African American general in the Air Force, was "silenced" for all of his four years at West Point because African Americans were not wanted at that institution. However, in spite of this treatment, Davis graduated 35th in a class of...
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Harlem Renaissance
by Cary D Wintz Publisher Comments The Harlem Renaissance was the most significant event in African American intellectual and cultural life in the twentieth century. Its most obvious manifestation was in a self-conscious literary movement, but it touched almost every component of African...
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A Personal Odyssey
by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry....
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Sambo :the rise & demise of an American jester
by Joseph Boskin Publisher Comments Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended hislong life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and comical entertainer. This stereotypical image of the black male, which developed during the Colonial period, extended into all...
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Dream makers, dream breakers :the world of Justice Thurgood Marshall
by Carl T Rowan Publisher Comments According to Carl Rowan, writing this impassioned biography of Justice Thurgood Marshall was "tantamount to trying to write the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of this nation over most of the twentieth century." Crucial events in...
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Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
by Kelly Brown Douglas Synopsis Part One determines why sexuality has become a "taboo" issue for the Black church and community. Douglas examines the function of sexuality in White culture and the denigration and exploitation of Black sexuality through a discussion of White cultural...
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A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America
by Corey D. B. Walker Publisher Comments A Noble Fight examines the metaphors and meanings behind the African American appropriation of the culture, ritual, and institution of freemasonry in navigating the contested domain of American democracy. Combining cultural and political theory with...
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Africa Reawakening: What the Continent Did with International Aid
by James L. De Jongh Publisher Comments "Ever since Rene Dumont's "False Start In Africa," development professionals have been agonizing over the continent's failure to take advantage of massive foreign assistance and its substantial natural resource base. Drawing on his quarter century...
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Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground
by Adam J. Banks Publisher Comments In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean...
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Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure
by Elaine Lee Publisher Comments Maya Angelou tells the story of arriving in Africa a stranger but leaving claimed as a Bambara. Evelyn C. White writes about finding new pride in being black after visiting Egypt. Opal Palmer Adisa evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas of urban Chana...
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Are we not men? :masculine anxiety and the problem of African-American identity
by Phillip Bria Harper Publisher Comments In 1995, popular anxieties about black masculinity became evident in public reactions to the conclusion of the OJ Simpson trial and the Million Man March on Washington. The nation's divided response to the OJ verdict, together with the controversy...
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Real McCoy: African-American Invention & Innovation, 1619-1930
by Portia P James Book News Annotation Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the Smithsonian. Surveys contributions by black inventors to agriculture, transportation, safety, industry, and other fields. Over 100 b&w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews...
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Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean
by Moira Ferguson Publisher Comments This is the first anthology to bring together the writings of the earliest black women writers in the East and West Caribbean, Bermuda, Canada, the US and England. The selections span the American Revolution to the decade following the Civil War. The...
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Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
by Liisa H. Malkki Publisher Comments In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into...
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Manhandled: Black Females - U. S. A.
by Victoria King Publisher Comments Commentary and analysis on how black women are viewed and treated in society....
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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
by Doug Mcadam Publisher Comments In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial...
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Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America
by Geneva Smitherman Publisher Comments This highly readable collection draws together Smitherman's most important articles and essays, spanning a period from 1972 to the present day, and includes an autobiographical piece entitled From Ghetto Lady to Critical Linguist ....
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Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted
by Frances E W Harper Publisher Comments The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers<BR>General Editor: HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.<BR> The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Toni Morrison and Alice...
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