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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
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In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
2) Writings
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
1334 p. ; 21 cm.
3) 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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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
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...
10) Pet show!
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Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 7
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Description
When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.
11) Autobiography of a people: three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xviii, 549 p. ; 25 cm.
13) Black magic
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Description
Presents a poem celebrating the African-American experience and what it means to be part of a strong, proud, and free people.
14) The bluest eye
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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.
15) A History of the African American people: the history, traditions, & culture of African Americans
Publisher
Smithmark
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.
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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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Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
613 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
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...
20) Tops & bottoms
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 28 cm.
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Description
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
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