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Home Grown: Conversations on Race and Culture Home Grown: Conversations on Race and Culture
by bell hooks

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While the black/Latino divide has been addressed in progressive newspapers and magazines, "Home Grown," is an inclusive call to reflect and act. Amalia Mesa-Bains, a pioneer scholar and producer of Chicana art, with bell hooks, one of the most acclaimed... (read more)

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Finding Fish: A Memoir Finding Fish: A Memoir
by Antwone Q Fisher

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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... (read more)

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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
by Kevin Boyle

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An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from... (read more)

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Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by William L Andrews

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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... (read more)

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The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity
by William Wells Brown

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Largely ignored by scholars, "The Negro in the American Rebellion"--written by a former slave--is a powerful transitional text, one that confronted squarely the neo-slavery of the Reconstruction era.... (read more)

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Black Legacy Black Legacy
by William D Piersen

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"Piersen draws on an impressive array of evidence . . . to assess the significance of African and African American culture in shaping the American South... (read more)

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Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology
by William Jones

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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... (read more)

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Shadow and ACT Shadow and ACT
by Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America.... (read more)

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Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
by Deborah Mathis

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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... (read more)

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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
by Theodore Taylor

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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... (read more)

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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
by William Dusinberre

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Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery's horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave... (read more)

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All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
by Charles J. Ogletree

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On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was unconstitutional. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., was not even two at the time, and his family, farm workers in southern California, had scant knowledge of how... (read more)

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The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance
by R J Smith

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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... (read more)

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Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries
by Orlando Patterson

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In the first essay, Patterson analyzes the very latest survey data to delineate the different attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women, dissecting both the external and internal causes for the great disparities he finds.In... (read more)

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Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
by Clive Webb

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Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on black-Jewish relations in the civil rights-era South. Clive Webb begins by ranging over the experiences of southern Jews up to the eve of the civil rights movement. He then shows how the historical burden... (read more)

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Black Theology Volume 1 1966 1979 Black Theology Volume 1 1966 1979
by James H Cone

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First published in 1979, this is the classic sourcebook for the emergence of Black Thelogy in the United States. Born out of the Civil Rights Movement and the emerging demand for Black Power, Black Theology has tried for 25 years to relate the gospel to... (read more)

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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
by Mitchell Duneier

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At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who... (read more)

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Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (Real Voices, Real History) Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (Real Voices, Real History)
by Patrick Minges

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Far More Terrible for Women contains first-hand accounts of what life was like for women in slavery. These accounts are drawn from interviews conducted in the 1930s and stored in the Library of Congress.... (read more)

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For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865 For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865
by Robert Zeiger

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Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation’s economy. Freedom in the post–Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African... (read more)

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The Vibe Q: Raw and Uncut The Vibe Q: Raw and Uncut
by Vibe

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To celebrate "Vibes" 15-year anniversary, the magazines editors have selected 20 of the hottest, rarest, and most controversial interviews to be published here for the first time in their full, expanded, uncut form. Illustrated.... (read more)

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