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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Carter Godwin Woodson
Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and ...
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Passing
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Nella Larsen
A light-skinned African American woman is married to a white man who is ignorant of her racial heritage. Her childhood friend, equally capable of "passing," has chosen to live her life as a black woman and deny the existence of racism. A chance meeting forces both women to confront truths about themselves. First published in 1929, this novel has ...
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Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations.
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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John Hope Franklin
This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ...
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Song of Solomon
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Toni Morrison
In Toni Morrison's powerful 1977 novel, Milkman Dead hears a strange story: his father and his aunt Pilate witnessed their father's murder, and Pilate has carried his bones around with her for 20 years. Milkman travels south to find that this grandfather (who fled slavery and escaped, creating a myth of flight) has been immortalized in folktales ...
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Souls of Black Folk
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W E B Du Bois, PH.D.
This fictionalized account of the life of aviatrix Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first female African-American to receive a pilot's license, is told through a series of poems/eulogies presented at her funeral by those who knew her or knew of her adventures, celebrating Coleman's achievements while informing readers of the circumstances of her ...
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Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color
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Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant, a Yoruba priestess, offers brief and insightful pearls of wisdom that help to clear one's mind, and provide something positive on which to focus throughout the day.
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The strange career of Jim Crow
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C. Vann Woodward
This study of segregation was first published in 1955 and has long been considered a classic work in the history of the American South.
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The Intuitionist
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Colson Whitehead
This urban thriller introduces black heroine, Lila Mae Watson. It is election year in the Elevator Guild and the Empiricists would love nothing better than to bring down an Intuitionist. As Lila Mae seeks to uncover the truth she is sucked into a violent whirlpool of conspiracy and deceit.
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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
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Bebe Moore Campbell
In the pre-integration 1950s, a 15-year-old boy from Chicago goes to rural Mississippi for the summer and becomes involved in a fatal misunderstanding: the aftermath of that event is explored.
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Cane
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Jean Toomer
Considered to be a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, a brief period during the 1920s, this book consists of sketches, poems and stories of rural and urban black African life that evoke images of smoke, sugar-cane, dusk and flame in the southern landscape, while the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
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Chicken Sunday
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Patricia Polacco
A young white girl named Patricia and her two best friends, a pair of African-American brothers named Stewart and Winston, perform a secret ceremony that makes them brothers and sister. After Patricia's grandmother dies, she adopts the boy's grandmother, Miss Eula, as her own. When the trio hears Miss Eula wishing for a beautiful hat to wear on ...
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
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Juan Williams
This compelling oral history of the first ten years of the Civil Rights movement is a tribute to the men and women, both black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and kept their eyes on the prize of freedom. Companion to the highly acclaimed PBS television series. 100 photos.
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The autobiography of Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope ...
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Mules and Men
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Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston's collection of black American songs, stories, and folklore has become a classic.
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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
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Gloria Ladson-Billings
Education, like electricity, needs a conduit, a teacher, through which to transmit its power- i.e., the discovery and continuity of information, knowledge, wisdom, experience, and culture. Through the stories and experiences of eight successful teacher-transmitters, The Dreamkeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans. -Reverend ...
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Come On, Rain
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Karen Hesse, Jon J Muth (Illustrator), John Muth (Illustrator)
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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Fire Next Time
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James A Baldwin
The Modern Library edition of the book that William Styron said shook the conscience of a nation. This is James Baldwin's call for activism "to end the racial nightmare... and change the history of the world." Includes the long essay/sermon "Down at the Cross", his commentary on the rise of the Nation of Islam in America, and an argument against ...
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Jazz
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Toni Morrison
The unnamed omniscient narrator--like a Greek chorus, or a tribal storyteller--relates the story of Joe and Violet Trace, a pair of orphans who meet and marry in rural Virginia, then come north to Harlem in 1906. Trapped in their unfulfilling marriage for 20 years, Joe begins an affair with a young woman, Dorcas. When she leaves him, he kills her- ...
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes, Professor Arnold Rampersad (Editor), David E Roessel (Editor)
Hughes identified it as his mission as a writer "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experience, in all its diversity, in his work.
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Cheaters
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Eric Jerome Dickey
This bestselling novel, called everything from provocative and steamy to fresh and honest by the critics, takes a dip into the Los Angeles singles scene for a totally uncensored and outrageously entertaining adventure in seduction, betrayal, heartbreak, revenge, and oh-so-sweet true love.
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The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change
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Aldon D Morris
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., James Washington (Editor)
American civil rights leader and Nobel Prize recipient Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968) inspired and sustained the struggle for freedom, non-violence, racial integration and human brotherhood, and passionately defined the conscience of a nation by advocating social justice worldwide. Arranged chronologically, this is a collection of his public ...
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Middle Passage
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Charles R Johnson
Rutherford Calhoun escapes marriage and debt by stowing away on the illegal slave ship, the "Republic." Discovered, he is then put in charge of the ship's log. Calhoun must confront his self-centered philosophies as he writes the log, adrift with a cargo of slaves and forty crew members in search of new lives. This novel won the 1990 National Book ...
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Soul on Ice
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Eldridge Cleaver
Finally back in print, the prison memoirs of Black Panther activist Eldridge Cleaver that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the Black experience. "Brilliant and revealing".--New York Times Book Review.
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