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Taboo
The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and...
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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
"A masterpiece of the biographer's craft. With this volume, David Levering Lewis has brought to magnificent completion his definitive biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. Lewis writes with consistent empathy, balance, and grace about one of the twentieth century's most complicated and controversial figures. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the tortured history of race relations in the modern world."—
David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University and author of
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Winner - Outstanding Contribution
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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919
Biography of a Race
David Levering Lewis
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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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W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader
W. E. B. Du Bois; Edited by David Levering Lewis
Holt Paperbacks
The essential writings of Du Bois have been selected and edited by David Levering Lewis, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.
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Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement
George Lewis
Bloomsbury USA
"An important and much needed contribution to historical scholarship on an important and perhaps neglected side of the civil rights era. If one were to choose one book on this particular subject, I believe this volume should be the one."—Joseph Michael Gratale,
European Association of American Studies
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Digging for Dirt
The Life and Death of ODB
Jaime Lowe
Faber and Faber, Inc.
A fan's exploration of the man behind the myth Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Russell Jones) rose to fame with the Wu-Tang Clan in the early ’90s, his unorthodox...
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Twice As Good
Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power
Marcus Mabry
Modern Times
Who is Condoleezza Rice? Award-winning Newsweek editor Marcus Mabry explores the contradictions—personal and public—of one of the most influential,...
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The Burning
Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Tim Madigan
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"A powerful book, a harrowing case study made all the more so by Madigan's skillful, clear-eyed telling of it."—
Adam Nossiter,
The New York Times Book Review
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One Drop of Blood
The American Misadventure of Race
Scott Malcomson
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"The best single history of race in America in many years, the one to read if you only have time for one book on the subject: It gets closer than the others to telling the whole story . . . As an outsider, Malcomson manages to breathe life into the study of race, mainly by connecting together just about all the important insights of previous specialists . . . He writes with the cool detachment of great social novelists: understanding the depth and universality of human depravity, he exposes it in a judicious, rather than judgmental, way. This seems the only road to trustworthy compassion."—
David L. Chappell, University of Arkansas,
Newsday
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Ace of Spades
A Memoir
David Matthews
Picador
"Channeling the bohemian style of Jack Kerouac, the literary elegance of James Baldwin, and the hip-hop soapbox edge of KRS-One, Matthews draws out the paradoxes of racial identity in America . . . A necessary insight."—
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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He Sleeps
A Novel
Reginald McKnight
Picador
Bertrand, a young African-American anthropologist, has ostensibly come to Senegal to do field research. In truth, he left his home in Denver to gain a fresh...
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Cross-X
The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education
Joe Miller
Picador
"While
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Caroline Leavitt,
The Boston Globe
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Rough Amusements
The Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture
Ben Neihart
Bloomsbury USA
From acclaimed novelist Ben Neihart, a vibrant portrait of gay Harlem's most memorable diva: A'Lelia Walker. When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a...
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American Nightmare
The History of Jim Crow
Jerrold M. Packard
St. Martin's Griffin
For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with...
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Inside the Crips
Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang
Colton Simpson with Ann Pearlman
St. Martin's Griffin
"Simpson shows us exactly how and why a bright, personable kid comes to join a gang and why that same kid would choose to stay despite the lethal risks, the soul-battering violence, and the inevitable incarcerations . . . Simpson gives us fresh, detailed snapshots of this highly disciplined supergang existence, where survival involves keeping abreast of group politics so intricate they resemble high-court intrigue."—
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Step Out on Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
Byron Pitts
St. Martin's Press
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing...
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The Producer
John Hammond and the Soul of American Music
Dunstan Prial
Picador
"Built upon interviews with musicians, family and colleagues, this admiring biography delivers a solid portrait of the famed 20th-century critic, journalist and producer. Known for his square crew cut, protuberant eyes and toothy grin, the sometimes arrogant, blues-loving Vanderbilt heir "seemed to know what America wanted to hear before America knew it," writes first-time author Prial . . . Prial's sedulous work pays off in the consistency of his narrative. His even-toned, chronological book is light on anecdotes, but his smart use of music histories, jazz autobiographies and Hammond's own Downbeat and Melody Maker writings results in an impressive and authoritative text . . . "—
Publishers Weekly
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The Professor's Daughter
A Novel
Emily Raboteau
Picador
"Compelling . . . Raboteau paints Emma's world with grand, sweeping strokes. Her prose is vibrant with life: Here is a crazy woman, here a downtrodden old man, here a homesick Ethiopian. Her timing is excellent, her humor is wry, her voice is on point, and her eye works with laserlike precision. Raboteau's sensitivity to life and to people is nothing short of astounding."—
Francesca Wodtke,
San Francisco
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And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since
From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
Charles B. Rangel with Leon Wynter
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
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Coltrane
The Story of a Sound
Ben Ratliff
Picador
“Ratliff suggests, intelligently and persuasively, that Coltrane had, among other attributes, a 'mystic's sensitivity for the sublime, which runs like a secret river under American culture.' Ratliff patiently explicates Coltrane's legend, writing in short, aphoristic bursts, often as elliptically as his subject played tenor saxophone, but never less than lucidly.”—
Pankaj Mishra,
The New York Times Book Review
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Somebody Scream!
Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Marcus Reeves
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"A strong and timely book for the new day in hip-hop. Don't miss it!"—Cornel West For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and...
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The Necessary Hunger
A Novel
Nina Revoyr
St. Martin's Griffin
As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Faced with the college recruitment process and...
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Longing to Tell
Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
Tricia Rose
Picador
"Tricia Rose's
Longing to Tell
is a powerful and pioneering work. For the first time we hear the painful and poignant voices of black women in all their humanity and complexity. Do not miss this pathblazing book."—
Cornel West, Princeton University, and author of
Race Matters
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The Devil's Own Work
The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
Schecter, Barnet
Walker & Company
On July 13, 1863, the largest riots in American history broke out on the streets of New York City, nearly destroying in four days the financial, industrial,...
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