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Ace of Spades
A Memoir
David Matthews
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"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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American Negro Poetry
An Anthology
Edited with an Introduction by Arna Bontemps
Hill and Wang
This classic anthology, a favorite of students, scholars, and general readers for decades, spans three generations to offer some 200 poems composed by African Americans.
"[A] vital, revealing collection."—
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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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American Slavery
1619-1877
Peter Kolchin; 10th-Anniversary Edition; With a New Preface and Afterword
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American Slavery
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Michael P. Johnson,
The Journal of Southern History
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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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And It Don't Stop
The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Edited by Raquel Cepeda; Foreword by Nelson George
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"An irresistible compilation of the most stylish prose and revelatory interviews of the last twenty-five years on hip-hop,
And It Don't Stop
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Jason King, New York University
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Annie John
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The...
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Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Award
"Masterful . . . An important, scholarly work . . . The writing is graceful [and] it endows the story with the majesty and consequence of an epic . . . This is the kind of book that causes students to major in history."—
Paul Butler,
The Boston Globe
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At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its...
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Arna Bontemps
Hill and Wang
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication,...
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Bellocq's Ophelia
Poems
Natasha Trethewey
Graywolf Press Paper
Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library Association In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of...
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The Best of Simple
Langston Hughes
Hill and Wang
Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind,...
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Betsey Brown
A Novel
Ntozake Shange
Picador
This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While rendering...
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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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The Bitten
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L. A. Banks
St. Martin's Griffin
"I highly recommend Banks' Vampire Huntress Series for use in courses ranging from high school to college. I have used this series as recommended reading for my graduate students in Women's Studies and they cannot stop talking about these works. Banks' writing is smart, poignant, and engaging. Students aren't able to put the books down. Each novel in the series brims with social critique and commentary. Banks is a perceptive writer who provides a wonderful critique of societal issues, from the impact of drugs to self-responsibility and self-reliance to the choices we all make in life. Students who engage in the work of L. A. Banks will leave the classroom with sharper critical thinking skills and a newfound joy of reading."—
Gwendolyn D. Pough, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Writing, Syracuse University, and author of
Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
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Black American Short Stories
Edited by John Henrik Clarke
Hill and Wang
The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this...
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The Body's Question
Poems
Tracy K. Smith; Selected and Introduced by Kevin Young
Graywolf Press Paper
Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, The Body's Question debuts Tracy K. Smith's ambitious and engaging new voice You are pure appetite. I am...
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Bone Black
Memories of Girlhood
bell hooks
Holt Paperbacks
Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing...
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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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But Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
Geoff Dyer
Picador
"May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang; Introduction by DJ Kool Herc
Picador
"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—
The New Yorker
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The Caribbean
Brief Histories
Gad Heuman
Bloomsbury USA
This book examines Caribbean history from the frst discovey by Europeans in Columbus's voyage to the New World to when the Caribbean became a pawn in the European struggle for empire and a victim of European steel, gunpowder and disease to the
twentieth century when the United States largely replaced Europe as the dominant player in the area, and intervened when it perceived its regional interests were threatened.
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Catch a Fire
The Life of Bob Marley
Timothy White
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"White has a deep appreciation for reggae's immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love."—
Chicago Sun-Times
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Cion
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"Takes the traditional pattern of a picaresque novel—an episodic recounting of roguish schemes gone awry—and decorates it with a richly textured overlay of embroidery, applique, collage and found art . . . Mda writes about hardscrabble lives without dwelling on the hardscrabble . . . Mda's elegant patchwork of clever storytelling, wry characterization and good-natured humor is more than enough."—
John R. Alden,
The Plain Dealer
(Cleveland)
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