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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... ( read more)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass
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Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... ( read more)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley
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An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... ( read more)
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Race Matters
by Cornel West
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With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. <BR>Cornel West is at the forefront... ( read more)
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Hope in the Unseen
by Ron Suskind
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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... ( read more)
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Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents
by Ronald Takaki
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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... ( read more)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
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An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... ( read more)
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... ( read more)
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom with CD (Audio)
by Cornel West
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The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that... ( read more)
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James Mcbride
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With a new Introduction to this touching homage to his mother, the author paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her... ( read more)
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The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country
by Henry Louis Gates
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ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL PROFILES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr.... ( read more)
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Mutiny on the Amistad Rev Edition
by Howard Jones
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This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinque led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship... ( read more)
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Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
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A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the... ( read more)
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True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity (Illinois)
by John W Fountain
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The true story of an African-American man who found, through faith and the self-assurance it provided, the strength to break free of the cycle of poverty and despair that had once characterized his life.... ( read more)
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Bone Black : Memories of Girlhood (96 Edition)
by bell hooks
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Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female... ( read more)
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Harriet Tubman: the Road To Freedom
by Catherine Clinton
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index.... ( read more)
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Last Man Standing : the Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (00 Edition)
by Jack Olsen
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Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history. Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he... ( read more)
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (88 Edition)
by Taylor Branch
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the... ( read more)
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The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry
by Truman Nelson
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"Truman Nelson's biography of John Brown is a refreshing and eloquent corrective to the common misconceptions about the character and actions of this extraordinary American hero."-Howard Zinn On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a historic attack on the... ( read more)
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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
by Judson L Jeffries
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Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black... ( read more)
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