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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Mankiller A Chief and Her People Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis St. Martin's Griffin In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of...

Mass Market Paperbound : $4.99 Buy	Salma Hayek An Unauthorized Biography Patricia J.Duncan St. Martin's Paperbacks The long road to Hollywood success was never easy for Mexican-born beauty Salma Hayek-but it was never dull either! Starting out in her late teens starring in...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Never Before, Never Again The Autobiography of Eddie Robinson Eddie Robinson with Richard Lapchick Thomas Dunne Books Franklin Roosevelt was America's President when Eddie Robinson coached his first game. Fifty-seven years later, Robison left Grambling as the winningest coach...

Trade Paperback : $20.99 Buy	Executing Justice An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal Daniel R. Williams; With a Foreword by E.L. Doctorow St. Martin's Griffin Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of three well-received books and many essays. He is also a death-row inmate, awaiting execution in...

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963

The Fight for Equality and the American Century

David Levering Lewis A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year...

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Winner - Outstanding Contribution
National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Biography

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Women Hilton Als Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an...

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Levels of the Game

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	From Plantation to Ghetto August Meier and Elliott Rudwick Hill and Wang This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery,...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Modern Medea A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South Steven Weisenburger Hill and Wang The first in-depth historical account of the events that inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a...

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

Biography of a Race

David Levering Lewis Holt Paperbacks

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year...

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Winner - Nonfiction

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Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	Martin Luther King, Jr. Apostle of Militant Nonviolence James Colaiaco Palgrave Macmillan In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national black...

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The Thin Black Line

True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America's Meanest Streets

Hugh Holton Forge Books

Meet the black men and women policing our meanest streets... LaVerne Dunlap: she infiltrated a drug gang and testified against them in court ... only to have...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Open House Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own Patricia J. Williams Picador A warm and seductive meditation on the personal and political from a renowned columnist and "one of the great theorists of race and law" (Henry Louis Gates,...

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Malcolm X

A Graphic Biography

Written by Andrew Helfer; Art by Randy DuBurke Hill and Wang

The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer,...

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Target Zero A Life in Writing Eldridge Cleaver; Edited by Kathleen Cleaver; Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Afterword by Cecil Brown Palgrave Macmillan Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero...

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First Class Citizenship

The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson

Michael G. Long, editor Holt Paperbacks

“Brings together not only an extraordinary set of documents by and about the postbaseball Robinson but, through these letters, an extraordinary account of the...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Low Road The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Eddie B. Allen, Jr. St. Martin's Griffin Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary writers...

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Biko - Cry Freedom

Donald Woods Holt Paperbacks

Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's...

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King

Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop

Harvard Sitkoff Hill and Wang

In this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant and radical King. Honestly assessing his successes alongside his failures, King:...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...

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Catfish and Mandala

A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Andrew X. Pham Picador

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

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Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Winner - Pacific Rim Nonfiction
Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Nominee
Oregon Book Award - Nominee - Nonfiction

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Chasing America Notes from a Rock 'n' Soul Integrationist Dennis Watlington Thomas Dunne Books "And I thought I knew this crazy-brave black boy who bolted out of a Harlem ghetto into a white prep school and bobbed and weaved his way across the...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Equal Justice Under Law An Autobiography Constance Baker Motley Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Big Sea An Autobiography Langston Hughes; Introduction by Arnold Rampersad Hill and Wang Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two...

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