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Best African American Essays 2010
- ASIN: 0553385372
- ISBN: 0553385372
- Brand: Brand: One World/Ballantine
- Manufacturer: One World
Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors—provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction. The galvanizing election of Barack Obama was on the minds—and the pages—of authors everywhere. B... [Read More]
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
- ASIN: 0062448692
- ISBN: 0062448692
- Manufacturer: Amistad
NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the fore... [Read More]
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Best African American Essays: 2009
- ASIN: 0553385364
- ISBN: 0553385364
- Manufacturer: Bantam
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
- ASIN: 0399588191
- ISBN: 0399588191
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Ne... [Read More]
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759280414
- ASIN: 0486280411
- ISBN: 9780486280417
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human ... [Read More]
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100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
- ASIN: 0912517182
- ISBN: 0912517182
- Brand: Bluewood Books
- Manufacturer: Bluewood Books
Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized ch... [Read More]
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
- ASIN: 0385528205
- ISBN: 0385528205
- Brand: Spiegel Grau
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and b... [Read More]
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Small Great Things: A Novel
- ASIN: 0345544978
- ISBN: 0345544978
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism i... [Read More]
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The Color Purple
- ASIN: 0156028352
- ISBN: 9780156028356
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their ... [Read More]
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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
- ASIN: 0375702709
- ISBN: 9780375702709
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0307278441
- ISBN: 0307278441
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the f... [Read More]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- UPC: 800759284993
- ASIN: 0486284999
- ISBN: 9780486284996
- Brand: Dover Publications
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a... [Read More]
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These Truths: A History of the United States
- ASIN: B07BLKWBYT
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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The Fire Next Time
- ASIN: 067974472X
- ISBN: 9780679744726
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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From the Browder File: 22 Essays on the African American Experience (From the Browder File Series)
- ASIN: 0924944005
- ISBN: 0924944005
- Brand: Brand: Inst of Karmic Guidance
- Manufacturer: Inst of Karmic Guidance
We can be led to act in our own interest as a group if we tune into, and add to, our mental diets, the liberating thoughts that are provifef for us in the From The Browder File. No person or group outside of our own is likely to see our need for a collective rebirth of consiousness.
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Citizen: An American Lyric
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ISBN: 1555976905
- Brand: Graywolf Press
- Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe,... [Read More]
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The Essay: A Novel
- ASIN: B06XQ7ZTBH
- Manufacturer: Arcade
Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with trouble. Jimmy Lee hails from a heathen mix of thieves, moonshiners, drunkards, and... [Read More]
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- ASIN: 067975833X
- ISBN: 067975833X
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
National Bestseller For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more -- this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. When prize-winning war c... [Read More]
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
- ASIN: B01BSJIBJI
- Brand: Amistad
- Manufacturer: Amistad
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food... [Read More]
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
- ASIN: B00RM4IB30
- Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
In the best-selling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, here is a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool. "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and black. Someone once to... [Read More]
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