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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.
3) 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...
5) 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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"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown;s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which weve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems...
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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...
12) 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.
14) 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.
15) Black magic
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
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Presents a poem celebrating the African-American experience and what it means to be part of a strong, proud, and free people.
16) A History of the African American people: the history, traditions, & culture of African Americans
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Smithmark
Pub. Date
1995
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208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.
17) 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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I survived volume 3
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Eleven-year-old Barry Hunter and his family attempt to ride out Hurricane Katrina at home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans when his little sister gets ill, but when the levees break, Barry gets swept away from his family.
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In the most seminal slave narrative ever written, Frederick Douglass writes, "From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom." Reading this narrative is to witness...
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