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The Isis (Yssis) Papers

The Isis (Yssis) Papers more books like this

by Frances Cress Welsing

A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.

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The Color of Water

The Color of Water more books like this

by James McBride (Read by)

Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of ...

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl more books like this

by Nellie Y McKay (Editor), Frances Smith Foster (Editor), Harriet A Jacobs

This biography was the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. Born in 1813, Harriet Jacobs was unaware of her status as a slave until the deaths of her mother and a benevolent mistress exposed her to a sexually predatory master, "Dr Flint", whilst she was in her teens. She escaped "Dr Flint" at the age of 22, ...

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Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America more books like this

by Leon Dash

Based on a series that first appeared in the "Washington Post" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is the story of one woman, Rosa Lee, and her family living in the projects in Washington, DC. Leon Dash spent four years following the fortune of this family in an effort to understand--on a human level, ...

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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo

Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo more books like this

by Pagan Kennedy

n 1890 a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary named William Henry Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, where for more than twenty years he ran a mission staffed by black Americans. Returning to America periodically, he was billed as the "Black Livingstone" and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to ...

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For the Love of the Game: My Story

For the Love of the Game: My Story more books like this

by Michael Jordan, Mike Vancil (Editor)

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls looks back on his distinguished career.

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Freak!: Inside the Twisted World of Michael Jackson

Freak!: Inside the Twisted World of Michael Jackson more books like this

by Nick Bishop

From his weird marriage to Lisa Marie Presley to his paying a woman to be artificially inseminated with his children, it's all here - one man's desperate attempts to stay on top, even as he spirals out of control downward.

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A Choice of Weapons

A Choice of Weapons more books like this

by Gordon Parks, Jr.

This is the compelling autobiography of the award-winning photographer and artist who was only sixteen when he moved from Kansas to Minnesota in 1928.

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Powernomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America

Powernomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America more books like this

by Claud Anderson

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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches

Malcolm X: The Last Speeches more books like this

by Malcolm X

Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s. These speeches document Malcolm's progression from Black nationalism to internationalism, and are key to both understanding his extraordinary life and illuminating his angry yet uplifting cause.

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All That Glittered more books like this

by Tony Turner, Barbara Aria

The backstage story of the Supremes as seen by an insider who was there from "Baby Love" to the bitter end. Tony Turner grew up with the group as their mascot, helper, confidant and companion. Now he tells the whole tale, from the first exuberant taste of stardom to the last angry exchange. Black-and-white photographs.

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw more books like this

by Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw

Born in the 1890s, Nate Shaw could neither read nor write, but was able to tell his life story in detail. He had been a member of the Alabama Sharecropper Union in the 1930s, and his account reflects the social history of southern America.

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Losing Ground: American Social Policy more books like this

by Charles Murray

Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often made things worse.

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W.E.B. DuBois more books like this

by David Levering Lewis

A founder of the NAACP, a brilliant scholar and writer, Du Bois was a towering and controversial personality--a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the agitator's impatience. This book tracks the evolution of Du Bois' thinking and his tireless battles against racism. Photo inserts.

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The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America more books like this

by Samuel F Yette

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Daniel O'Donnell: My Story more books like this

by Daniel O'Donnell, Eddie Rowley

From humble beginnings in County Donegal in Ireland to worldwide recording success, Daniel O'Donnell recounts the incredible story of his life, charting the ups and downs with remarkable honesty. Through wonderful anecdotes, Daniel recalls his early years and the moment he set his heart on becoming a singer, and gives a personal acount of his ...

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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 more books like this

by Emily Bernard (Editor), Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten

Poet Langston Hughes met the critic Carl Van Vechten at a party in 1924. Shortly thereafter Van Vechten introduced Hughes's poems to Alfred Knopf, who published THE WEARY BLUES, a favor that was the beginning of a lasting friendship between Hughes and Van Vechten. This volume of letters offers insight about their relationship, and, with reference ...

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The Sweeter the Juice more books like this

by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

Haizlip's timely and provocative memoir tells the story of her seach for her mother's family, which passed for white, setting it against her father's successful black family. Tracking the origins of both families, she finally reunites two sisters--one "white", the other "black"--after 76 years.

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The Pact more books like this

by Dr. Sampson Davis

Filled with drama, courage, temptation, and ultimately, triumph, this is the uplifting story of three teenaged boys from broken homes in Newark, New Jersey, who pledged to support one another in realizing their dreams. Despite tremendous difficulties they faced, today two are doctors and one is a dentist.

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Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan Matzeliger more books like this

by Barbara Mitchell, Hetty Mitchell (Illustrator)

Jan Matzeliger felt anything but welcome in Philadelphia in 1873. As well as being a foreigner, Jan was half African American, which meant that most doors were closed to him. Although the Civil War had been over for nearly ten years, inequality for African Americans still persisted in its aftermath. However, Jan refused to let prejudice keep him ...

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Heat: My Life on and Off the Diamond more books like this

by Dwight Gooden, Bob Kapisch, Bob Klapisch

Dwight Gooden looks back at his fourteen years in the Big Leagues. He addresses the dangerous drug addiction that almost destroyed his career and describes his personal road to recovery.

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I Am Iman more books like this

by Iman, David Bowie (Foreword by), Sandra Bernhard (Contributions by)

Iman's emergence in 1975 sparked an upheaval in cultural identity that continues today, and her first book is a gloriously entertaining hybrid essay on the cultural cum-political power of good looks. A quarter century of the most shockingly famous photographs by HELMUT NEWTON, DAVID BAILY, BRUCE WEBBER and other tastemakers are contextualized by ...

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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island more books like this

by Cornelia Walker Bailey, Christena Bledsoe

Since the early 1800s, remote Sapelo Island in Georgia has been home to the Geechee, a semi-autonomous African-American society with its own customs, ways of speech, and means of living. Threatened by the encroachment of developers and the state of Georgia, Geechee culture faces eradication, a fate that this memoir does its best to forestall by ...

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Murder in Memphis more books like this

by Mark Lane, Dick Gregory

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Although James Earl Ray was arrested and charged with the crime in a prearranged and rehearsed hearing conducted without cross-examination or challenge by defense, he later insisted he was a pawn in a far-reaching conspiracy. Coinciding with the 25th ...

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The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game more books like this

by Oscar Robertson

The only player in the history of the NBA to average a triple-double an entire season reflects on the game that made him famous. THE BIG O traces Robertson's entire basketball career, from his college days at Indiana to his team's Olympic gold medal in 1960 to his storied days in the league. The book also provides an inside look into the sports ...

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