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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.49
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ayana Byrd::Lori Tharps
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.4
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Publication Date: 2002-01-12
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: 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. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade teacher's reading of the book Nappy Hair, the issues surrounding Black hair linger as we enter the twenty-first century.
Tying the personal to the political and the popular, Hair Story takes a chronological look at the culture behind the ever-changing state of Black hair-from fifteenth century Africa to the present-day United States. Hair Story is the book that Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history and that people of all races will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair.
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Price: $6.99
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Sale: $2.96
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Manufacturer: Fawcett
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Dennis Kimbro::Napoleon Hill
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Publisher: Fawcett
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
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Publication Date: 1992-09-23
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: "An inspiring an powerful success guide."
ESSENCE
Author and entrepreneur Dennis Kimbro combines bestseeling author Napolean Hilll's law of success with his own vast knowledge of business, contemporary affairs, and the vibrant culture of Black America to teach you the secrets to success used by scores of black Americans, including: Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, Dr. Selma Burke, Oprah Winfrey, and many others. The result is inspiring, practical, clearly written, and totally workable. Use it to unlock the treasure you have always dreamed of--the treasure that at last is within your reach.
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $3.18
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Manufacturer: Odyssey Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Louis Haber
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Publisher: Odyssey Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 509.22
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Publication Date: 2007-12-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted innovators who have played important roles in scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in many cases, altered the course of history. Includes a bibliography and an index.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.21
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Manufacturer: African American Images
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jawanza Kunjufu
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Publisher: African American Images
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 370.8996073
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Publication Date: 1984-12-01
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Reading Level: 107
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Description: This book discusses what's the relationship between selfesteem and student achievement? Find the answers to this and other questions in this book.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.28
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Manufacturer: African American Images
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jawanza Kunjufu
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Publisher: African American Images
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2004-04-01
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more black boys in remedial and special education classes than girls? Why are more girls on the honor roll? When do African American boys see a positive black male role model? Is the future of black boys in the hands of their mothers and white female teachers? and When does a boy become a man? The significance of rite of passage activities, including mentoring, male bonding, and spirituality, are all described.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.94
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Manufacturer: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lerone Bennett
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Publisher: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
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Edition: 8 Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
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Publication Date: 2007-10-28
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Reading Level: 784
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Description: The black experience in America—starting from its origins in western Africa up to the present day—is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. The most recent scholarship on the geographic, social, economic, and cultural journeys of African Americans, together with vivid portraits of key black leaders, complete this comprehensive reference. |
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.93
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William C. Rhoden
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.08996073
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Publication Date: 2007-07-24
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built.
Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s $40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing rings and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that black athletes’ “evolution” has merely been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Weaving in his own experiences growing up on Chicago’s South Side, playing college football for an all-black university, and his decades as a sportswriter, Rhoden contends that black athletes’ exercise of true power is as limited today as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is, today’s shackles are often of their own making.
Every advance made by black athletes, Rhoden explains, has been met with a knee-jerk backlash—one example being Major League Baseball’s integration of the sport, which stripped the black-controlled Negro League of its talent and left it to founder. He details the “conveyor belt” that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they’re cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the media. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that borders on treason.
Sweeping and meticulously detailed, $40 Million Slaves is an eye-opening exploration of a metaphor we only thought we knew.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.70
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark Bixler
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 2006-10
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Reading Level: 261
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Description: In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as "Lost Boys," who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. The Lost Boys of Sudan focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America. Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in Atlanta. Like most of their fellow refugees, they had never before turned on a light switch, used a kitchen appliance, or ridden in a car or subway train-much less held a job or balanced a checkbook. We relive their early excitement and disorientation, their growing despondency over fruitless job searches, adjustments they faced upon finally entering the workforce, their experiences of post-9/11 xenophobia, and their undying dreams of acquiring an education. As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys' daily lives, we also get to know the social services professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community leaders, and others who guided them-with occasional detours-toward self-sufficiency. Along the way author Mark Bixler looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee policy, the politics of international aid, the history of Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its government. America is home to more foreign-born residents than ever before; the Lost Boys have repaid that gift in full through their example of unflagging resolve, hope, and faith.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.99
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leonard E. Barrett
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.676
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Publication Date: 1997-12-12
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Reading Level: 306
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Description: The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence of the Rastafarians of Jamaica.
"Barrett offers the most comprehensive study to date of the Rastafarians."
—Bulletin of the Center for the Study of World Religions
"The most thorough, careful consideration of the Rasta phenomenon available to the general reader."
— The Boston Phoenix
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $4.45
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carol B. Stack
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301.45196073
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Publication Date: 1997-01-01
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Reading Level: 175
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Description: All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the community used by anthropologists -- through authority figures and community leaders -- she approached the families herself by way of an acquaintance from school, becoming one of the first sociologists to explore the black kinship network from the inside. The result was a landmark study that debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. On the contrary, her study showed that families in The Flats adapted to their poverty conditions by forming large, resilient, lifelong support networks based on friendship and family that were very powerful, highly structured and surprisingly complex. Universally considered the best analysis of family and kinship in a ghetto black community ever published, All Our Kin is also an indictment of a social system that reinforces welfare dependency and chronic unemployment. As today's political debate over welfare reform heats up, its message has become more important than ever.
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