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Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-Violent Takeover of the House of Representatives
by Walter Mosley  Publisher Comments In this powerful, humorously honest work, Mosley examines his own sense of cultural dislocation as an African-American writer and attempts to transcend his earlier feelings of living a "life out of context" and seeks instead to find a political context....
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Conversation with the Blues CD Included
by Paul Oliver Publisher Comments Paul Oliver’s classic text containing transcriptions of interviews with blues singers made in 1960....
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Why Scouting Works for Black Boys
by Justin Lewter Publisher Comments Scouting is presented as a solution to the challenges faced by African American boys in this insightful resource. Whether children are raised in single-parent homes or without strong male role models, or for those lured by the surrogate support...
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Notes of a Native Son (84 Edition)
by James Baldwin 
Powells.com Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely...
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Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World
by Ralph Wiley Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, Wiley--in an immediate and unmistakable style--takes on popular culture as it relates to Black Americans today, adding a new dimension to the dialogue about race. Everyone and everything make their appearance: from Marion...
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Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
by Delores Aldridge Publisher Comments The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new...
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Fire in the Bones : Reflections on African-american Religious History (95 Edition)
by Albert J. Raboteau Publisher Comments "A Fire in the Bones is more than a history of black Christians: it is the compelling story of the ways in which black folk have turned to Christianity to describe their history and plight in America and to project their vision of redemption to the...
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Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
by Charles Barkley Publisher Comments In this controversial national bestseller, Charles Barkley takes on the major issue of our time in a series of charged, in-your-face conversations with some of America's most prominent figures-featuring new commentary about New Orleans and the aftermath...
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Circle of Stone
by Verne Jackson Publisher Comments A group of friends fights to overcome severe opposition in this empowering novel, which takes place in Arkansas during the Great Depression. When Ralph, a young black boy from Colored Town, is unfairly accused of murdering two white people,...
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Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture)
by Deborah Gray White Publisher Comments The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by...
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Venus in the Dark : Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (05 Edition)
by Janell Hobson Publisher Comments Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson...
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Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and also a leader who has...
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Pimpin' Ain't Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television
by Beretta E. Smith-shomade Synopsis Launched in 1980, cable network Black Entertainment Television (BET) has helped make blackness visible and profitable at levels never seen prior in the TV industry. In 2000, BET was sold by founder Robert L. Johnson, a former cable lobbyist, to media...
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The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present
by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin Publisher Comments What faces do they choose to present to the world and what faces has the world forced them to acquire? We can look in vain to most pictorial histories of America and even of African America for images of Black women. With noteworthy exceptions, even most...
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Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War
by Ishmael Reed Publisher Comments African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population from the very beginning. In this collection of essays, his first since "Airing Dirty Laundry in 1993, Reed explores the many forms that this homefront war has taken. His...
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A New Look at Black Families
by Charles Vert Willie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and index....
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Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents
by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments 1992 has been an explosive year for racial relations in the United States-from the reactions to the Rodney King verdict to debate about Malcolm X and the film portrayal of his role in American history. What relations do the recent events in Los Angeles...
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The Story of the Underground Railroad
by Peter F Copeland Publisher Comments Forty-four dramatically illustrated scenes tell the story of the secret network that took runaway slaves from southern states to the North and Canada between 1830 and 1860. Descriptive captions....
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100+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face...
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Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women
by Mary Hel Washington Publisher Comments This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections. The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material. <P><BR>"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American...
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