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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: $29.95
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Sale: $17.17
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael Cunningham::Craig Marberry
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Publisher: Doubleday
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 391.43
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Publication Date: 2000-10-17
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black women of various religious denominations. A woman's hat speaks long before its wearer utters a word. It's what Deirdre Guion calls "hattitude...there's a little more strut in your carriage when you wear a nice hat. There's something special about you." If a hat says a lot about a person, it says even more about a people-the customs they observe, the symbols they prize, and the fashions they fancy.
Photographer Michael Cunningham beautifully captures the self-expressions of women of all ages-from young glamorous women to serene but stylish grandmothers. Award-winning journalist Craig Marberry provides an intimate look at the women and their lives. Together they've captured a captivating custom, this wearing of church hats, a peculiar convergence of faith and fashion that keeps the Sabbath both holy and glamorous.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.02
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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: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face. With an emphasis on pragmatic approaches that can be accomplished in the classroom, the book argues that many of the skills necessary for teaching in urban schools are not properly taught in university programs and that most white teachers simply have to learn by experience. Written from a black perspective and supported by real-life examples and details rather than theory, this helpful compendium of advice and expertise tackles issues of race and class while outlining the many ways in which the American school system is designed to contribute to a teacher's struggle.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.33
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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: $16.95
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Sale: $10.05
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Manufacturer: New Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: New Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 815.508896073
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Publication Date: 2007-01-15
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African American orators.
"I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!"—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many of them never before available in printed form.
From an 1895 speech by Booker T. Washington to Julian Bond's sharp assessment of school segregation on the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board in 2004, the collection captures a powerful tradition of oratory—by political activists, civil rights organizers, celebrities, and religious leaders—going back more than a century.
This paperback edition includes the text of each speech along with an introduction placing it in its historical context. Say It Plain is a remarkable historical record—from the back-to-Africa movement to the civil rights era and the rise of black nationalism and beyond—riveting in its power to convey the black freedom struggle.
Includes speeches by:, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Thurgood Marshall, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: HCI
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jack Canfield::Mark Victor Hansen::Lisa Nichols
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Publisher: HCI
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.48896073
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Publication Date: 2006-08-08
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul is a rich collection of stories that truly celebrate the mountaintops and share the valleys of the African American woman's experience; highlighting her moments of strength, as well as her struggles. This candid, touching and inspiring collection of stories proves that the spirit of sisterhood extends beyond geography, economics, age and time. Whether we're passing on family traditions, keeping the faith or just keepin' it real, one thing is for sure; we are here because of the shoulders we stand on. Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul will leave you feeling as if you've just shared a sacred space with some legendary African American women through quotes or stories from Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Mary McLeod Bethune, and modern day heroines like Patti LaBelle, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah. Experience inspiring moments of ordinary sisters doing extraordinary things in the world like voting in a time when voting could cost you your life to learning the true meaning of self love through the simple gesture of letting your hair down. Allow these stories - exclusively for sisters, from sisters - encourage and inspire you as you feed your soul and soothe your spirit.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $4.79
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Randall Kennedy
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 2003-01-14
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Nigger is Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's ornate, lively monograph on what he calls the "paradigmatic" racial slur in the English language. A neutral noun in the 17th century, nigger had, by 1830, become an "influential" insult. Kennedy traces the word's history in literature, song, film, politics, sports, everyday speech, and the courtroom. He also discusses its plastic, contradictory, and volatile place in contemporary American society. Should it be eradicated from dictionaries and the language? Should it be, somehow, regulated? What is the significance of its emergence among some blacks as a term with "undertones of warmth and good will"? Do blacks have a historical right to its use or does that place the term under a "protectionist pall"? With courage and grave measure Kennedy has, in effect, created a forum for discussion of the word he calls a "reminder of the ironies and dilemmas, the tragedies and glories, of the American experience." --H. O'Billovitch
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Price: $9.00
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Sale: $8.99
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Manufacturer: Full Surface Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Demico Boothe
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Publisher: Full Surface Publishing
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364
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Publication Date: 2008-04-28
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Reading Level: 70
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Description: The United States of America has more people behind bars than any other country in the world and every year nearly 700,000 prisoners get released back into society, the largest percentage of them being Black males. Getting Out & Staying Out is a short, easy to read set of guidelines intended to help incarcerated and newly freed African-American men (a) learn how to most productively do their time while in prison (b) know what to expect once they are released (c) understand that entrepreneuralship and self-employment is what their long-term focus should be on instead of a job, and (d) understand the importance of stable relationships and how they aid in successful re-entry. If followed, the advice and suggestions given in this very simple guide should prove very helpful for Black men who are serious about getting out of prison and not ever going back.
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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: $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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