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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
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Robin D G Kelley
Ryan Davis
, April 10, 2013
Robin D. G. Kelly is a chronicler and a decoder of American/African American social movement; and no less in Africa Speaks America Answers.
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Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention
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Manning Marable
Ryan Davis
, April 21, 2012
This book is so full of context. It reminds me of Taylor Branch's America in the King Years Series. Marable's Malcolm is immediately more recognizable in that he is more human, touchable. All we've ever known about Malcolm is what we read in his autobiography. That is to say all that he and Alex Haley wanted to us to know. Marable's book can seem a bit tabloid-ish, particularly when he repeats unsubstantiated rumors concerning Malcolm's sexuality. Altogether, though, a masterfully painted picture of a great American,
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
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Gregory A. Freeman
Ryan Davis
, October 25, 2006
Sometimes history can be hard on you. This book is a very revealing look into America's racial past with much to say about its future, especially if we are not responsible with how and what we teach about history. Gregory Freeman writes objectively, without being sterile, about slavery, SLAVERY, almost 60 years after its abolition. He writes about a common system by which African Amricans were reduced to the kind of slavery two generations behind them, or so they thought. At a time when our President (Wilson) was a dyed-in-the-wool-racist , and Black veterans of WWI were lynched and Black communities were burned to the ground; at the height of Ku Klux Klan enrollment; after only a little more than a decade of the NAACP and the very beginning of the Harlem Renaissance this was happening in Georgia and in less extreme cases (maybe) in states all over the South. The most revealing book I have read this year.
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