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Honey, Hush! : an Anthology of African American Women's Humor (98 Edition)
by Daryl Cumber (ed.) Dance  Publisher Comments In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risque, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and...
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The Emancipation Proclamation (Little Books of Wisdom)
by Abraham Lincoln Publisher Comments A hardcover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of the Emancipation Proclamation. This treasure is sure to be cherished by anyone who celebrates freedom....
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On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
by Kareem Abdul Jabbar Publisher Comments Soon to be released as a major documentary produced by Spike Lee, this autobiography explores Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's personal journey to become the man he is today--a basketball superstar, jazz enthusiast, historian, and African-American icon. of photos....
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Something Within : Religion in African-american Political Activism (99 Edition)
by Fredrick C. Harris Publisher Comments One of the first book-length studies in decades solely devoted to religion and African-American political activism, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity encourages political activism among African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history...
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Don't Call Me African-American
by Donna Leonard Conge Publisher Comments Don't Call Me African-American rejects politically correct labels as the work of a society who, in its quest not to offend, ends up offending one woman's sensibility about who she is. Join the author as she describes a life riddled with rejection from...
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The Paradigm of Greed and Its Impact on African Americans
by Dr C. E. Pender Publisher Comments These United States were founded on the religion of greed; until this day it continues to have divesting impacts on the African American population. The Paradigms of Greed is the result of the CRABS (cognitive retrogression affecting the black society...
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They Say: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race (New Narratives in American History)
by James West Davidson Publisher Comments Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans. And yet the rest of the nation largely ignored the horror of lynching or took it for granted, until a young schoolteacher from...
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Imagined Geography : Sierra Leonean Muslims in America (04 Edition)
by Joann D'alisera Publisher Comments For more than a decade a vicious civil war has torn the fabric of society in the West African country of Sierra Leone, forcing thousands to flee their homes for refugee camps and others to seek peace and asylum abroad. Sierra Leoneans have established...
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Finding Fish: A Memoir
by Antwone Q Fisher Publisher Comments Born in prison to a single mother after his father was shot and killed, Antwone Fisher soon became a ward of Cleveland's foster care system. By the time he was five years old, he had been transferred to several different families. Eventually he came to...
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Choosing War : the Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (99 Edition)
by Fredrik Logevall Publisher Comments A dramatic study of the US decision to escalate the war in Vietnam. Logevall argues that there was a clear alternative to escalation, supported by our allies in France and Britain as well as numerous powerful people at home. It was discussed at the...
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Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by William L Andrews Publisher Comments The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War...
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The Negro
by W. E. B. Du Bois Publisher Comments The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archfological research in Africa has just begun, and many sources of information in Arabian, Portuguese, and other tongues are not fully at our command; and, too, it must frankly be...
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Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology
by William R. Jones Publisher Comments If a benevolent God has dominion over human history, why do certain ethnicities suffer disproportionately? Eminent scholar William R. Jones first posed this question over twenty years ago, in this landmark critique of the black theology movement. Now...
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Thirty years of the Nobel Laureate's reflections on life, writing, and other...
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Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
by Deborah Mathis Synopsis In a provocative examination of the state of race relations today, Deborah Mathis provides personal and sociological perspective on what it feels like for African Americans who continue to be segregated spiritually and emotionally from the rest of the...
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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
by Theodore Taylor Publisher Comments Jesse Leroy Brown was raised in the segregated South by a hard-working, loving family who instilled values of dignity, education, and perseverance. A star athlete and an outstanding student, he was determined to become a Navy pilot, although such a thing...
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Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow
by Adele Oltman Publisher Comments Using Savannah, Georgia as a case study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition tells the story of the rise and decline of Black Christian Nationalism. This nationalism emerged from the experiences of segregation, as an intersection between the sacred...
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Legacies of Lynching : Racial Violence and Memory (04 Edition)
by Jonathan Markovitz Publisher Comments Between 1880 and 1930, thousands of African Americans were lynched in the United States. Beyond the horrific violence inflicted on these individuals, lynching terrorized whole communities and became a defining characteristic of Southern race relations in...
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Great Black Way (06 Edition)
by 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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Lessons from the Other Side: Sex, Race and Politics Like You Never Heard It Before!
by Dc Clark Publisher Comments In a country where the Second Class status of American-Americans have become all too common place in the minds of many, DC Clark has stuck a stick of dynamite to the notion that Black People are inferior to anyone. In his book, "Lessons From The Other...
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