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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
2) Writings
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1986
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1334 p. ; 21 cm.
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Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2003
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xxviii, 212 p. : music ; 21 cm.
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"One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding...
4) Thunder Rose
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Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
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256 pages ; 23 cm.
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A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today?s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory has been a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he has always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a leading activist against...
9) Pet show!
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 7
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When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.
10) Autobiography of a people: three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
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xviii, 549 p. ; 25 cm.
11) And still I rise
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1978
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54 pages ; 22 cm
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Maya Angelou's third poetry collection, a unique celebration of life, consists of rhythms of strength, love, and remembrance, songs of the street, and lyrics of the heart.
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Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 2
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
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613 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. A devout Muslim, he takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway. To find her, Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures, and meets people...
14) Tops & bottoms
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 28 cm.
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Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Despite serious obstacles and setbacks Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop.
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One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of thefirst African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
18) Within our gates
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Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 DVD (approximately 77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Created as a response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks, Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 2
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A little boy wishes so much that he could whistle.
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"As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
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