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More Body, More Soul: Beautiful Black Men
by Duane Thomas  Publisher Comments As hip hop conquers the world and black actors sweep up awards, a new group of black men has risen to the forefront of popular culture. These are men who are not afraid to express themselves and who possess a unique sense of freedom when it comes to...
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Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Black Power Politics
by Komozi Woodard Publisher Comments Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black...
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Slavery and Its Aftermath
by Peter I. Rose Synopsis Whoever has tried to understand the "Black Experience" in the United States is well aware of its controversial nature. Highly regarded scholars often differ markedly in their interpretations of empirical findings. For many years, for example, the views...
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Ralph Ellison: A Biography
by Arnold Rampersad Publisher Comments The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century — Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of an innocent young black...
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My Confederate Kinfolk (06 Edition)
by Thulani Davis Publisher Comments Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her-and uncovers a history...
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African American Family Life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity (Duke Series in Child Development and Public Policy)
by Vonnie C Mcloyd Publisher Comments Recognizing the diversity of contemporary African-American families, experts present the latest knowledge on such topics as family formation, gender roles, child rearing, care of the elderly, and religious practices....
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Chain of Change : Struggles for Black Community Development (81 Edition)
by Mel King Publisher Comments One-time mayoral candidate, founder of the Rainbow Coalition, and longtime political activist, Mel King surveys Black life in Boston, including the forces of racism and liberation, and shows how the Black community has worked to establish its identity...
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
by Herbert Aptheker Publisher Comments The first full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history, this meticulously researched document explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. Aptheker's book includes...
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Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial
by Bethany Kandel Publisher Comments A series of photographic essays, Meeting the Challenge demonstrates how young people facing a variety of special challenges make the adjustments their situations require. Each book tells the story of one child's day-to-day life, from the child's point of...
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Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama
by Steve Dougherty Publisher Comments The First Biographical Portrait Ever of This Key Political Figure Written by a leading journalist and filled with more than 100 color photographs, this authoritative and up-to-the-moment new biography provides much-needed perspective on one of the most...
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Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America
by Sandra Patton Publisher Comments Can White parents teach their Black children African American culture and history? Can they impart to them the survival skills necessary to survive in the racially stratified United States? Concerns over racial identity have been at the center of...
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Webs of Masculinity: Power, Money and Sex(uality)
by K. Coleman Synopsis Hip-hop culture sometimes encourages a masculinity, especially among young black males, that often collides with mainstream social institutions. Through literature and film, Webs of Masculinity, in clear and concise language, unravels the origin and...
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Angela Y. Davis Reader (98 Edition)
by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist...
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African American Yearbook the Resour 5TH Edition
by Tiym Publishing Comp Publisher Comments Recognized as the premier national resource and referral guide for the African American community in the areas of employment, business, education, government, and health, this guide includes detailed listings of community organizations, publications, and...
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The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
by Robert Philipson Publisher Comments A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness in Europe and...
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Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance
by R. J. Smith Publisher Comments This book, like a major archaeological dig, unearths a littleknown, now vanished civilization and changes how we understand history. In the 1940s, when FDR opened up the defense industry to black workers, it inspired a massive wave of black migration to...
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Road to Emancipation: From Slavery to Happiness
by Jonathan Sajiwandani Publisher Comments Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Eastern Africa, this moving and sometimes harrowing fictional account portrays the efforts of the Christian missionaries and enlightened African chiefs to stamp out the remnants of the trade of...
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Revolutionaries To Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (07 Edition)
by Johnson Publisher Comments The Black Power movement represented a key turning point in American politics. Disenchanted by the hollow progress of federal desegregation during the 1960s, many black citizens and leaders across the United States demanded meaningful self-determination....
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Rough Amusements
by Ben Neihart Publisher Comments From acclaimed novelist Ben Neihart, a vibrant portrait of gay Harlem's most memorable diva: A'Lelia Walker. <BR>When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of...
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Appeal in Favor of Africans
by Lydia Maria Francis Child Publisher Comments One of the most important abolitionist works, by one of America's most important women writers. Child, outspoken in her condemnation of slavery, pointed out its contradiction with Christian teachings, described the moral and physical degradation it...
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