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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $31.30
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Manufacturer: Walker Art Center
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philippe Vergne::Sander Gilman::Thomas McEvilley::Robert Storr::Kevin Young::Yasmil Raymond
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Publisher: Walker Art Center
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
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Publication Date: 2007-03-01
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses and slave men, women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation. Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography, and a 36-page insert by the artist.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.33
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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: $26.95
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Sale: $22.46
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frances E. Kendall
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.809
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Publication Date: 2006-03-15
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Racial privilege is hard to see for those who were born with access to power and resources. Yet it is very visible for those to whom it was not granted. Understanding White Privilege is written for individuals and those in organizations who grapple with race every day, as well as for those who believe they don't need to. It is written for those who have tried to build authentic professional relationships across races but have felt unable to do so. It is written for those who believe strongly in the struggle for racial justice and need additional information to share with their friends and colleagues. Inviting readers to think personally about how race--theirs and others'--frames experiences, relationships, and the way we each see the world, Understanding White Privilege focuses squarely on white privilege and its implications by offering specific suggestions for what we each can do to bridge the racial chasm.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.49
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ira Katznelson
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2006-08-14
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. In the words of noted historian Eric Foner, "Katznelson's incisive book should change the terms of debate about affirmative action, and about the last seventy years of American history."
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $4.91
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Manufacturer: Barricade Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Randy Kearse
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Publisher: Barricade Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 427.97308996
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Publication Date: 2007-01-25
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Reading Level: 700
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Description: 700 pages with 10,000 entries, this unique dictionary simplifies the complex hip-hop slang vernacular.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $4.99
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Manufacturer: Law Dog Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mark Rosenkranz
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Publisher: Law Dog Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 2007-01-01
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: Discrimination and racism has existed in America since the very early days of colonization. In the Declaration of Independence, our founding fathers declared "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." and yet, it would be another 189 years before Americans would be equal by law. It has been suggested that with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, America had finally overcame its ugly past of racism and discrimination. As we entered into the new millennium, the author wondered if America had really set aside its biases and discriminatory practices. The author interviewed eight people as he developed the foundations for this book. One of the people he was honored to interview was Brian Swann, the brother of famous footballer Lynn Swann. Brian shared his story of a racial motivated encounter that he and his brother's had experienced in the 1970's in San Francisco, California, at the hands of the San Francisco Police Department. Each of the eight people interviewed for this book brought with them a different experience and viewpoint as it relates to discrimination and racism in America, and more specifically, white male privilege in America. The author brought these eight individual viewpoints together, and told their story as they relate to American history, from the early days of colonization through the present day.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $6.84
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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: S. Craig Watkins
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421649
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Publication Date: 2006-08-15
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Reading Level: 295
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Description: Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. He presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop and the rampant misogyny that undermines the movement's progressive claims. Ultimately, we see how hip hop struggles reverberate in the larger world: global media consolidation; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop music industry; and the ongoing struggle to enrich the lives of ordinary youth.
"Watkins wisely chooses to focus on what has not been said . . . [and] tells his version of hip-hop's history in lyrical prose, often mirroring the rhythms and wordplay of the music he's discussing. This is undoubtedly a book for fans, but it is also an intriguing look at how hip-hop has become part of a universal cultural conversation." —Publishers Weekly
"Offering a fast-moving and well-researched book, Watkins successfully unearths some of the disturbing and encouraging implications of hip-hop culture." —Library Journal
"Quite an exposition of all things hip-hop." —Mike Tribby, Booklist
S. Craig Watkins is associate professor of radio-TV-film, sociology, and African American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $0.10
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ian Buruma
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 2007-08-28
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West
Ian Buruma ’s Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned. On a cold November day in Amsterdam in 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that “insulted the prophet Mohammed.” The murder sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the event and its larger meaning as part of the great dilemma of our time.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.82
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Saidiya Hartman
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.36209667
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Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger—torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. There are no known survivors of Hartman’s lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way and with figures from the past whose lives were shattered and transformed by the slave trade. Written in prose that is fresh, insightful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a “landmark text” (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams).
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.77
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Manufacturer: MacAdam/Cage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brian Copeland
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Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 250
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Description: In the summer of 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family moved from Oakland to San Leandro, California. At the time, San Leandro was 99.99% white and widely considered one of the most racist enclaves in the nation. This reputation was confirmed immediately: Brian got his first look at the inside of a cop car after walking to the park with a baseball bat in hand. Days later, Brian was turned away by several barbers who said we don t cut that kind of hair. And that Christmas, while shopping at a local department store, Brian was accused of stealing and forced to empty his pockets in front of store security.
It was a time that Brian spent his adult years trying to forget, until one day an anonymous letter arrived that forced him to reevaluate his childhood: As an African American, I am disgusted every time I hear your voice because YOU are not a genuine black man!
A poignant and disarming memoir about growing up black in an all-white suburb, Not a Genuine Black Man is also a powerful contemplation on the meaning of race, and a thoughtful examination of how our surroundings make us who we are.
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