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Price: $17.99
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Book Sales
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Susanne Everett
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Publisher: Book Sales
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Dewey Decimal Number: 331.1173409
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Publication Date: 1996-04
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Chronicles the story of the development of slavery, starting with the slave ships raiding Africa and the transport of eleven million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the American continent.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Sowell
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Publisher: Free Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.676004960730092
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Publication Date: 2000-09-21
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Thomas Sowell is known for speaking--and writing--his mind, even when his opinions won't win him any popularity contests. In thoughtful, straightforward books like The Quest for Cosmic Justice and Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? he questioned affirmative action and expressed frustration with government bureaucracy, elaborating on his ideas of personal freedom and responsibility in the process. In A Personal Odyssey, we're shown glimpses of the man behind the ideas, and while the narration is sometimes frustratingly distant, it's an enjoyable history of a fascinating man. Beginning with his early life in North Carolina, where his encounters with white people were so limited that he didn't really believe that "yellow" was a possible color for hair, Sowell details his childhood with humor and appreciation for the adults who raised him with love, attention, and high expectations. Throughout the experiences that follow, from the U.S. Marines to Howard and Harvard Universities to his fellowship at Stanford's Hoover Institute, Sowell's strong opinions make him stand out from the herd. His brother sums up this trait in describing Sowell's son: "Tommy, when I see a dozen kids, all doing the same thing, and in the midst of them is one kid doing something entirely different, I don't have to guess which one is our mother's grandson." You don't have to be familiar with Sowell's scholarly works to appreciate his life--this is a read for any freethinking iconoclast. --Jill Lightner
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.17
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Psyche A. Williams-Forson
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 394.12
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Publication Date: 2006-05-29
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness in relationship to these foods and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these phenomena clarifies how present interpretations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.06
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Manufacturer: The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Louise Meriwether
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Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2002-12-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Recently chosen by Essence magazine, this beloved modern classic tells the poignant story of a spirited young woman's coming of age in -Depression-era Harlem. While 12-year-old Francie Coffin's world and family threaten to fall apart, this remarkable young heroine must call upon her own wit and endurance to survive amidst the treacheries of racism and sexism, poverty and violence. "The novel's greatest achievement lies in the strong sense of black life that it conveys: the vitality and force behind the despair . . . a most -important novel."-New York Times Book Review
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $27.28
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Manufacturer: Universe Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Universe Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.21
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Publication Date: 2001-11-10
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: For centuries, painters have used their brushes to turn female nudes into their most famous masterpieces. Now a New York-based, award-winning photographer does the same in this phenomenal homage to women of color titled Beautiful: Nudes by Marc Baptiste. This gorgeous and moving book is a rich compilation of women baring their bodies and their souls.
From fashion model icons Bethann Hardison and Beverly Johnson to soul singer N'dea Davenport to silver screen goddesses Stacy Dash, Rosario Dawson, and Vanessa Williams, and a host of other contemporary women, Beautiful is a labor of love that captures the essence of all women while simultaneously celebrating cultural roots.
Quotes from the subjects take a candid look at how ethnic women view their bodies and give the readers a provocative glimpse into the world of female body image. This work is alternately passionate and intelligent, inspiring and seductive. It is Beautiful.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.25
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Goodman
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: Updated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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Reading Level: 418
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Description: In April 1994, South Africa held its first ever democratic elections, ushering Nelson Mandela into office as the nation's first black president. What has followed that election, as the country attempts to reinvent a society founded on racism and the indignities of apartheid, is the subject of Fault Lines. "How does a nation deal with the memory of its brutal past?" is perhaps the question that most guides David Goodman, a journalist and longtime observer of South African life. Like the Truth and Reconciliation hearings, the political instrument of South Africa's struggle to come to terms with apartheid-era crimes, the strength of Fault Lines rests on an unflinching yet compassionate quest for truth. Goodman brings all his investigative skills to the task of getting an answer from all sides. He juxtaposes profiles of a victim of police brutality and the former security officer who helped torture him, or a well-off Afrikaner farmer and his neighbor, a black South African forcibly removed from his land. While formal apartheid has ended, Goodman finds "an unfinished revolution," with many citizens still mired in terrible economic and social injustice. Fault Lines is fascinating, if disturbing, reading for anyone interested in understanding the history and present of what the author calls "the most exciting country in the world." --Maria Dolan
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Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Martin Luther, Jr. King
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Publisher: Harpercollins
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.40924
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Publication Date: 1986-01
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Reading Level: 676
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $17.89
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Edition: First Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970.019
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Publication Date: 1987-01-01
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Reading Level: 250
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Description: This volume presents what is presently known about the links between Africa and America before the age of Columbus. It makes a convincing case for pre-Columbian contacts between Africa and America before the era of the slave trade. The contributors draw upon the evidence of cultures in private collections and findings from excavations, and evidence of ancient African mathematics, astronomy, map-making, scripts, navigations, trade routes, pyramidal structures, linguistic connections, and technological and ritual complexes. The volume is profusely illustrated. Many readers will find the evidence presented here startling.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $13.50
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Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Evans Crawford
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Publisher: Abingdon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 251.008996073
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Publication Date: 1995-03-01
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: Firmly rooted in the black experience, this approach to homiletics helps readers understand preaching as an oral event. The call/response tension in black preaching is what drives the musicality of speech in black churches. Crawford refers to this musicality as "hum thoughts," and leads the reader to a better understanding of this type of preaching and its effects on the congregation.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $19.00
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Manufacturer: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jennifer A. Lemak
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Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.743
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Publication Date: 2008-10-09
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Reading Level: 191
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Description: The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.
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