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Toni Morrison - Beloved
Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later.
Score: 4.1 29 Reviews
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John Howard Griffin and Robert (AFT) Bonazzi - Black Like Me: Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
A white writer recounts his experiences in the American South following treatments that darkened his skin and shares his thoughts on the problems of prejudice and racial injustice. Reissue.
Score: 4.6 9 Reviews
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Claude Brown - Manchild in the Promised Land
The classic autobiography of growing up in Harlem in the fifties. From a life of mischief and encounters with gangs, drug pushers, and the police, Claude Brown eventually leaves Harlem for law school. The Harlem setting and the many characters in his family and neighborhood are evoked with frankness ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Alex Hailey - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.
Score: 4.8 16 Reviews
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Pat Conroy - The Water Is Wide
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their ver ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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James McBride - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
A young African-American man describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with his confusion over his own identity. Reissue.
Score: 4.7 15 Reviews
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Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Ellison's classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved with the Communist Party, but is soon disillusioned: the Communists see him not as a person but as a symbol of oppressed humanity, as does the Black Nationalist Group he en ... More
Score: 4.6 11 Reviews
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Ronald Takaki - A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Taylor Branch - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Traces the birth of the American civil rights movement and profiles Martin Luther King, Jr., detailing the roles played by key figures around him and in government during the period up to the assassination of President Kennedy.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilatio ... More
Score: 4.6 9 Reviews
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Melissa Fay Greene - Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Melissa Fay Greene's celebrated nonfiction book takes place in the '70s in a rural Georgia town, where a poor and uneducated black man stands up to the autocratic white sheriff and finds justice.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Jamaica Kincaid - Autobiography of My Mother
Xuela, a childless Dominican woman in her 70s whose own mother died while giving birth to her, tells the story of a life filled with tragedy and small triumphs: Sent at birth to live in the home of her father's washerwoman, she moves back to her father's house after seven years and must fend off the ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Jonathan Kozol - Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation/Cassettes
The New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Savage Inequalities reveals the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx--the poorest congressional district in the nation. "(Kozol) has produced perhaps his most affecting book . . . this volume has the tone and power of elegy".--Los ... More
Score: 4.7 7 Reviews
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Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation
Often called the most important South African novel, this is the story of love and courage in the face of injustice.
Score: 4.0 5 Reviews
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Russell Banks - Cloudsplitter
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantlyplotted, and peopled with a cast ... More
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Edward Ricardo Braithwaite - To Sir, With Love
Candidly describes the problems overcome by this Black teacher in teaching distrustful, rebellious teenagers in a London slum school.
Score: 4.0 3 Reviews
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Basil Davidson - The Lost Cities of Africa
Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Quincy Jones - Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
In a no-holds-barred memoir, the legendary musician, producer, and arranger chronicles his rise from the mean streets of Chicago to the heights of the entertainment world, detailing his painful youth, his remarkable musical and business accomplishments, and his turbulent personal life. Reprint.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Sandra Cisneros - El arroyo de la llorona/ The Stream of La Llorona: Y Otros Cuentos
The highly acclaimed short story collection by the author of The House on Mango Street is now available in a Spanish edition. El arroyo de La Llorana brings to life an astonishing array of characters and, like La casa en Mango Street, promises to become a book that will be cherished around the world ... More
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Madison Smartt Bell - All Souls' Rising
A retelling of an episode of history--the rebellion of Haitian slaves against French plantation owners. Madison Smartt Bell employs a cast of carefully drawn characters, including the legendary Toussaint, a self-educated, second-generation African slave, who is determined to see an end to French rul ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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St. Clair Drake and Horace Roscoe Cayton - Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration fieldworker in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto.
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Gunnar Myrdal and Sissela Bok - An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
A classic in sociology, this examination of race relations in the United States was first published in the early 1940s. It is often cited as one of the most powerful, if unheeded, calls for change.
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Raul Hilberg - The Destruction of the European Jews
Release Date: June 01, 2003
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Wole Soyinka - Ake: The Years of Childhood
AKE is the first volume of Wole Soyinka's acclaimed series of autobiographical works. This vivid, exuberant book is Soyinka's record of his childhood in colonial Nigeria. In rich and evocative prose he tells the tales of his schooldays and adventures in a captivating narrative, sometimes recollectin ... More
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Brent Staples - Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
'Eloquent and skillfully crafted...Staples's descriptions have a breathtaking brilliance...He puts flesh and blood on the people who are being signified about during this nasty and cold-hearted period of our history and explores their conditions in depth, bringing insights that only an outsider-insi ... More
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William H. Tucker - The Science and Politics of Racial Research
Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific purpose or value to the study of innate differences in ability between groups. William Tucker shows how, for more than a century, scientific ... More
$27.00 - $27.00
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John Richard Hersey - Wall
A compelling story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto.
$14.00 - $14.00
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Maxine Kingston - The Woman Warrior China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilatio ... More
$18.00 - $18.00
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John Lewis and Michael D'Orso - Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
In his autobiography, John Lewis looks back at his life and his role in the American civil rights movement. He describes his childhood in rural Alabama and his memories of the struggle: from the demonstrations in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham to the Freedom Rides, the march on Washington, and th ... More
$11.00 - $11.00
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