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Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

June Jordan

• Paperback | Engels
• A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, th... Lees meer

Come Hell or High Water

Michael Eric Dyson

• Paperback | Engels
• When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and death. The m... Lees meer

In Search of Hannah Crafts

Hollis Robbins, Henry Louis Gates

• Paperback | Engels
• Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped... Lees meer

Ripples of Hope

• Paperback | Engels
• Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial p... Lees meer

We Won't Budge

Manthia Diawara

• Paperback | Engels
• In this deeply personal and unflinchingly honest exploration of what it means to be African, Manthia Diawara recounts the bittersweet experience of an... Lees meer

Living Black History

Manning Marable

• Paperback | Engels
• Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" w... Lees meer

The Right Mistake

Walter Mosley

• Paperback | Engels
• Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profoun... Lees meer

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop

Bakari Kitwana

• Paperback | Engels
• Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out of date. Hip hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book th... Lees meer

The Great Wells of Democracy

Manning Marable

• Paperback | Engels
• In his boldest and most accessible book to date, Manning Marable lays out a new way to think about the past and the future of race in America. Explodi... Lees meer

Total Chaos

Jeff Chang

• Paperback | Engels
• It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to... Lees meer

Why I Love Black Women

Michael Eric Dyson

• Paperback | Engels
• In this open love letter to black women everywhere, Michael Eric Dyson celebrates the strength and beauty of African-American women. From Miss James, ... Lees meer

Book of Rhymes

Adam Bradley

• Paperback | Engels
• If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop ... Lees meer

Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays

June Jordan

• Paperback | Engels | New and and Selected Essays
• "Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art." --Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays ... Lees meer

The Ordeal of Integration

Orlando Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Ordeal of Integration | nr. 1
• For many years Orlando Patterson has been a major contributor to the public discussion of race in America. In this eagerly anticipated new volume, the... Lees meer

Triangular Road

Paule Marshall

• Paperback | Engels
• In "Triangular Road," famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery,... Lees meer

April 4, 1968

Michael Eric Dyson

• Paperback | Engels
• Celebrates the leadership of Dr. King and challenges America to renew its commitment to his vision Lees meer

Considering Genius

Stanley Crouch

• Paperback | Engels
• Stanley Crouch-MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Book Award nominee, and perennial bull in the china ... Lees meer

Open Mike

Michael Eric Dyson

• Paperback | Engels
• Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Explorin... Lees meer

The Hip-Hop Generation

Bakari Kitwana

• Paperback | Engels
• The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to... Lees meer

Can You Hear Me Now?

Michael Eric Dyson

• Paperback | Engels
• Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it, declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable p... Lees meer

Dark Days, Bright Nights

Peniel E Joseph

• Paperback | Engels
• The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon eclips... Lees meer

My Confederate Kinfolk

Thulani Davis

• Paperback | Engels
• Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the "white folk" i... Lees meer

Mercy, Mercy, Me

Michael Eric Dyson

• Paperback | Engels
• A widely acclaimed reassessment of the remarkable life, art, struggles, and death of an American icon, from the celebrated author of Holler If You Hea... Lees meer

The Artificial White Man

Stanley Crouch

• Paperback | Engels
• Stanley Crouch uses his experience as a columnist, novelist, essayist, and television commentator to explore the subject of authenticity in music, wri... Lees meer