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Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
by Jasmine Guy  Publisher Comments Before becoming one of the most well-known members of the Black Power movement, Alice Faye Williams was not unlike any other poor, African American girl growing up in the impoverished South. But when her family moved to New York during the radical...
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
by Cornel West Publisher Comments From the bestseliing author of Race Matters, a bold and eloquent call for the deepening of democracy both at home and abroad in this threatening post-9/11 age of imperial overreach and fundamentalist rage. In his major bestseller, Race Matters...
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from...
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
by David Blight Publisher Comments Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group....
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin Publisher Comments A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing...
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
by Leroi Jones Publisher Comments ""The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... (If) the...
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Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School,1970 (Sightline Books)
by Huston Diehl Publisher Comments When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a " Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school’ s white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach " those...
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Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity
by David Marriott Book News Annotation In these seven essays, Marriott (history of consciousness, U. of California at Santa Cruz) explores issues of race and visuality guided by the idea that the way we "racially see" is permeated by a failed mourning over race-based slavery. The haunted...
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Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998
by James H Cone Publisher Comments "American religious thought at its best."--Michael Eric Dyson, author of I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.<BR>From the birth of Black Theology to James Cone's seminal work on the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr., and...
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Lincoln's Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928-1952
by Simon Topping Publisher Comments During the 1930s and 1940s, many African Americans left the Republican Party and joined ranks with the Democrats. Before this time, the few blacks actually able to exercise their franchise automatically voted for the party of Lincoln and emancipation...
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964
by Emily Bernard Publisher Comments These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and...
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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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Kokopelli Cassanova of the Cliff Dwellers
by John V. Young Publisher Comments The traveling salesman/hunchbacked flute player may have used the flute as a notice to villagers that he was coming in peace - a personality, an individual, the personification of a legend, a beneficent god to some and a confounded nuisance to others....
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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs
by David Hilliard Publisher Comments The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free...
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Salvation : Black People and Love (01 Edition)
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, "Salvation" takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans....
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington 
Publisher Comments From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only...
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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can't Win
by Shelby Steele Publisher Comments In Shelby Steele's beautifully wrought and thought-provoking new book, A Bound Man, the award-winning and bestselling author of The Content of Our Character attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is...
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Black Sexual Politics : African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (05 Edition)
by Patricia Hill Collins Publisher Comments In "Black Sexual Politics", one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today....
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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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Disposable People : New Slavery in the Global Economy (Rev 04 Edition)
by Kevin Bales Publisher Comments "A well-researched, scholarly, and deeply disturbing expose of modern-day slavery with well-thought-out strategies for what to do to combat this scourge. None of us is allowed the luxury of imagined impotence. We can do something about it."--Desmond...
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