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Black Power : Radical Politics and African American Identity (04 Edition)
by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar  Publisher Comments Drawing on deep archival research and interviews, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. He finds that black nationalism was more favorably received among...
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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
by George E Lewis Publisher Comments Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. From its working-class roots on the South Side of Chicago, the AACM went on to forge an...
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A Voice from the South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Anna Julia Cooper Review "A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published."--Robert Carr, George Mason University "A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era."--...
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The MIS-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson Publisher Comments In 1933, American historian and educator Carter Woodson delivered a powerful denouncement of "Euro-centric" school curricula that inspired black Americans to demand relevant learning opportunities inclusive of their own culture and heritage. Similar...
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Soul on Ice (92 Edition)
by Eldridge Cleaver Publisher Comments The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are...
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Hope in the Unseen
by Ron Suskind Publisher Comments It is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of...
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
by Ta Nehesi Coates Publisher Comments An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking...
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Black on the Block (07 Edition)
by Pattillo Publisher Comments In her award-winning and critically acclaimed Black Picket Fences, Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—forever changed the way we think of the black middle class in America today. With Black on the Block, Pattillo returns with...
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South End Press Classics #5: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
by bell hooks Publisher Comments An Interview with bell hooks, author of Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics SOUTH END PRESS: Your work on radical black feminism has been an inspiration for many young feminists of color, and you yourself were in your early 20s when you wrote...
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Life of Langston Hughes Volume 1 I Too Sing
by Arnold Rampersad Publisher Comments February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American...
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Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Judson L. (edt) Jeffries Synopsis Examining the grassroots activities of the Black Panther Party in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, "Comrades" reveals how these local organizations were committed to programs of community...
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American Apartheid : Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (93 Edition)
by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today....
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Raising Fences
by Michael Datcher Publisher Comments As a teenager raised in L.A.'s inner city without a father, Michael Datcher had already committed theft, learned the ways of the street, and developed a mortal fear of police. But Datcher had a dream about a very different kind of life — and a...
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Slave Trade : the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 (97 Edition)
by Hugh Thomas Publisher Comments In a balanced approach to an explosive subject, a history professor portrays the rise, apogee, and decline of the slave trade, exposing its impact on world politics and civilization. of photos. Maps....
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Taste of Power : a Black Woman's Story (92 Edition)
by Elaine Brown Publisher Comments Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent time in American history, this is the story of a black woman's battle to define herself....
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If the Creek Don't Rise
by Rita Williams Publisher Comments After her mother's death, the author--a child of four--was raised by her aunt, the last surviving African-American widow of a Union soldier who spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting...
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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Lewis R. Gordon Publisher Comments In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that...
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What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination
by Ricky L. Jones Synopsis Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching - and disturbing - shifts in black leadership in post-Civil Rights America....
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Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
by Adam Fairclough Publisher Comments The author Adam Fairclough chronicles the struggle of black Americans to acheieve civil rights and equality in a society that, after the collapse of the Reconstruction, santioned racial segregation, racial discrimination and political supremacy...
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