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Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts
by Ayana D Byrd  Publisher Comments Provocative essays on body image by black women. Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe. Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color,...
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Black British Feminism : a Reader (97 Edition)
by Heidi S. Mirza Publisher Comments "Black British Feminism: A Reader" reveals the historic development and important academic direction of black British feminism. This unique collection of key texts and writings by Black British women of Pacific, Asian, African, Caribbean and Latina...
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Black Art and Culture in 20TH Century (2ND 02 Edition)
by Richard J. Powell Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-261) and index....
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William Grant Still (American Composers)
by Catherine Parsons Smith Publisher Comments In this compact introduction to the life and work of eminent African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), Catherine Parsons Smith tracks the composer's interrelated careers in popular and concert music. Still merged both musical traditions...
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Souls of Black Folk (90 Edition)
by W.e.b. Du Bois Publisher Comments W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records...
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
by Catherine Clinton Publisher Comments This is a long-overdue historical work on one of the most important figures in American history, written by an acclaimed historian of the antebellum era. Harriet Tubman was the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the...
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Power of Black Music (95 Edition)
by Samuel A. Floyd Publisher Comments When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen,...
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Is Bill Cosby Right? : Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? (05 Edition)
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments The acclaimed writer, preacher, and "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve of class and generational warfare in black America with this provocative defense of poor African Americans....
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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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Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South
by Dan Carter Publisher Comments In a chapter written especially for this revised edition of his modern classic, Carter recounts the latest turns in the case. Included are the surprising story of the last surviving Scottsboro defendant and the vivid description of Victoria Price's libel...
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Nigger
by Dick Gregory Publisher Comments Published in 1964, the autobiography of comedian Dick Gregory is by turns funny, poignant, and thought-provoking....
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The Covenant in Action
by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments The Covenant in Action was developed to continue the inspirational spirit of the Covenant With Black America and to empower people to take effective action to achieve THE Covenant goals. The information, tools, and ideas presented in The Covenant...
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Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South
by Hugh Pearson Publisher Comments Hugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, encouraged by his parents to believe that nothing was beyond his reach. If he needed any further inspiration, he could look to his great-uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin. Although Griffin had stayed in the Deep...
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Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
by Mel Harris Lacewell Publisher Comments "While sociologists have produced wonderful ethnographic works on the black community, few have explained the political relevance of discourse in these communities. Harris-Lacewell links public discourse with ideology formation and political behavior in...
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
by Nathan McCall Publisher Comments In this "honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "Washington Post" reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one...
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Crisis of the Black Intellectual
by W D Wright Publisher Comments A reexamination of Harold Cruse's classic "Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," published in 1967 at the height of the civil-rights movement and now required reading in African American studies courses, this polemic pays tribute to the earlier book's...
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The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America
by Jacob Levenson Publisher Comments As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this...
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The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream
by Sheryll Cashin Publisher Comments On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, sounded the death...
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Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree : the African-american Church in the South 1865-1900 (93 Edition)
by William E. Montgomery Publisher Comments A comprehensive treatment of the black church and the southern environment in which it functioned from 1865 to 1900....
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