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The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America
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The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America
by Ellis Cose

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With an eloquence and compassion reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a frank and realistic examination of the daunting challenges facing black men in twenty-first-century America and offers a way out of the cycle of...
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From Brotherhood to Manhood: How Black Men Rescue Their Relationships and Dreams From the Invisibility Syndrome
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From Brotherhood to Manhood: How Black Men Rescue Their Relationships and Dreams From the Invisibility Syndrome
by Anderson J. Franklin

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Wisdom and guidance for African American men in search of a full and empowered life. ""From Brotherhood to Manhood explores-with rich clinical wisdom-the unique burdens of being black and male in America. A.J. Franklin offers insightful advice to inspire...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through 'color-blind' policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In 'Color Conscious', the authors, two eminent moral and...
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White Guilt
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White Guilt
by Shelby Steele

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In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against...
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Getting It Wrong
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Getting It Wrong
by Algernon Austin

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Black public intellectuals, from liberal to conservative, are all talking about how black America is degenerating culturally. But there is little concrete evidence for this conclusion. In most areas of life, black Americans have made significant positive...
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The Future Of The Colored Race In America
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The Future Of The Colored Race In America
by William Aikman

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No man understood this so well or so soon as the great Nullifier. He was a thinker and a philosopher, and so with great logical consistency he became the early author of the doctrine of slavery as now almost universally held at the South. He startled and...
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A Field Negroes Handbook
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A Field Negroes Handbook
by Napoleon Wells

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A Field Negroes Handbook is the first work from author Napoleon Wells and takes a hard look at issues of manhood, fidelity, responsibility and survival within the African American community. Written in prose, poetry and essay formats A Field Negroes...
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Black Rebellion
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Black Rebellion
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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In this plot four of the men had been already initiated--Henry, Hark or Hercules, Nelson, and Sam. Two others were novices, Will and Jack by name. The party had remained together from twelve to three o'clock, when a seventh man joined them,--a short...
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
by bell hooks

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World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose...
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The African in the Mirror
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The African in the Mirror
by Abimbola Lagunju

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The African in the Mirror takes us through the predicament of Black Africa from slavery times till the present day. It seeks to establish the cause of vulnerability of the African in his relationship with the outside world and his historical...
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Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom Or The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery
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Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom Or The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery
by William Craft

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In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship -...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through 'color-blind' policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In 'Color Conscious', the authors, two eminent moral and...
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Is The Negro Having A Fair Chance?
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Is The Negro Having A Fair Chance?
by Booker T. Washington

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From an economic point of view, the negro in the North, when compared with the white man, does not have a fair chance. This is the feeling not only of the colored people themselves, but of almost every one who has examined into the conditions under which...
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Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
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Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
by John H. McWhorter

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Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America...
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The Debt
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The Debt
by Randall Robinson

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The national bestseller by the author of Defending the Spirit. In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and...
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Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
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Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
by David Wright

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Fire on the Beach brings a previously undiscovered chapter of American history and maritime adventure to light. It tells the story of the U.S. Life-Saving Service (forerunner of today's Coast Guard) and its "surfmen" who, in crews of seven, shouldered...
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Fear of a
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Fear of a "Black" America
by Donald Earl Collins

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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
by Lawrence, Otis Graham

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Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black...
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Debt, The: What America Owes to Blacks
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Debt, The: What America Owes to Blacks
by Randall Robinson

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The national bestseller by the author of Defending the Spirit. In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and...
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
by John Russell Rickford

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and index....
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