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Hair Story
Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps
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Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. ...
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The Hairstons
An American Family in Black and White
Henry Wiencek
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several...
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He Sleeps
A Novel
Reginald McKnight
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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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Hokum
An Anthology of African-American Humor
Paul Beatty
Bloomsbury USA
Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by...
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Holding Pattern
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Jeffery Renard Allen
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The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might...
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Homemade Love
J. California Cooper
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In one of the best-loved volumes of her work, J. California Cooper tells exuberant tales full of wonder at the mystery of life and the hardness of fate. Awed,...
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Hood Rat
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K'wan
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"Street lit king K'wan returns with the story of four hood rats—i.e., women of uncertain repute—as they run a race to survive the ghetto."—
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Hoodlum
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K'wan
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He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan. Born to one of the city’s most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed...
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Hotter Than That
The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
Krin Gabbard
Faber and Faber, Inc.
“This is the smartest book about a single musical instrument that I've ever read. Like Miles Davis, who attended Juilliard and apprenticed with Charlie Parker, Krin Gabbard turns his immense learning into lines that are quick, witty, and irresistibly alluring. How did the trumpet emerge as the first-chair instrument in jazz history? What is this beautiful horn's significance as an instrument of desire and romance? A triumph of the new jazz studies,
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How Race Is Lived in America
Pulling Together, Pulling Apart
Correspondents of The New York Times, Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld
Times Books
"This is reporting at its best. This is how sociology should be, a comprehensive view in depth on a major social problem in America. This will be a benchmark for all future inquiries."—
Daniel Bell, professor emeritus, Harvard University
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A Novel
Percival Everett
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"Constantly shifting modes, from comic realism to tall tale, from recounted dreams to refashioned movie plots, Everett's hall of mirrors narrative presents African American identity itself as rooted in contradiction."—
Gregory Leon Miller,
San Francisco Chronicle
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I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
Hill and Wang
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land
A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Karolyn Smardz Frost
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"Karolyn Smardz Frost's superb research has produced a wonderful account of the underground railroad, elevating Thornton and Lucy Blackburn to their rightful place in the dramatic story of pre-Civil War slave resistance, abolition, and African American life on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. This finely detailed account depicts a truly international antislavery movement."—
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, coauthors of
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An Imperfect God
George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Henry Wiencek
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"[An] honest and compelling study of Washington and slavery . . . In Wiencek's superb telling, [slavery] certainly makes Washington more of a traditional planter than we have usually been willing to admit . . . Wiencek tells stories of miscegenation and incest in the Washington household that rival anything William Faulkner imagined."—
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Inherently Unequal
The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
Lawrence Goldstone
Walker & Company
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Inside the Crips
Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang
Colton Simpson with Ann Pearlman
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"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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Islam's Black Slaves
The Other Black Diaspora
Ronald Segal
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A comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the...
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
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M. K. Asante, Jr.
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Katori Hall Plays One
Hoodoo Love; Hurt Village; The Mountaintop; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
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Katori Hall
Methuen Drama
An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dynamic...
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killing rage
Ending Racism
bell hooks
Holt Paperbacks
One of our country’s premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in...
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King
Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
Harvard Sitkoff
Hill and Wang
“A marvelous read and striking achievement! This engrossing and perceptive biography offers a balanced yet critical analysis of both Martin Luther King Jr. and his epochal times in their full complexity.”—
Waldo Martin, U.C. Berkeley, author of
No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America
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A Lawyer's Life
Johnnie Cochran with David Fisher
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The most famous lawyer in America talks about the law, his life, and how he has won. Johnnie Cochran has been a lawyer for almost forty years. In that time,...
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Leaving
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Richard Dry
St. Martin's Griffin
Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award Pushcart Editors' Prize Nominee In 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her thirteen-year-old half...
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Levittown
Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
David Kushner
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In the decade after World War II , real estate developer Levitt & Sons helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. They laid out...
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