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Black Power 50Edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi WoodwardForeword by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Gotta Go Gotta FlowLife, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side From the SeventiesCity Files Press
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The DozensA History Of Rap's MamaOxford University Press
Elijah Wald's book looks at the tradition of African American street rhyming and verbal combat that ruled urban neighborhoods long before rap: the viciously...
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Black KlansmanA Memoir by Ron StallworthArrow Books
Adapted as a major motion picture by Spike Lee. Black Klansman is an amazing true story and a rollercoaster of a crime thriller; a searing and timely portrait...
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Black MusicLeroi Jones (Amira Baraka)Akashic Books,U.S.
A reissue of a classic, long out of print, featuring a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative...
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Stars for FreedomHollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights MovementUniversity of Washington Press
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Flash Of The SpiritAfrican & Afro-American Art & PhilosophyVintage Books
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Nina: Jazz Legend and Civil-Rights Activist Nina Simoneby Alice Briere-HaquetCharlesbridge
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Ocha in New York: Orisha WorshipBy Pauline M. JamesPauline James
Nigerian Yoruba orisha worship in New York
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Black PantherThe Revolutionary Art of Emory DouglasRizzoli International Publications
The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party's message, and artist Emory Douglas became the paper's art director and later the party's...
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Portraits Of Who We AreThe David C. Driskell CentreThe University of Maryland
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, organised by the The David C. Driskell Centre for the study of the Visual...
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Rising StarThe Making of Barack ObamaWilliam Collins
The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United States – the formative years, confluence of forces,...
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The Other Side of ColorAfrican American Art in the Collection of Camille O.and William H.Cosby Jr.FlatIron Books
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Double ExposureAfrican Americans Before and Behind the CameraThe Amistad Center for Art & Culture
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Pillar of FireAmerica in the King Years 1963-65Simon & Schuster
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In the second volume of the three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began...
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At Canaan's EdgeAmerica in the King Years, 1965-68Simon & Schuster
These concluding years of the freedom era show King at the height of his powers even as his worldly prestige falls under withering attack. We witness non-violent...
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Narratives of African American Art and IdentityDavid C.Driskell CollectionPomegranate Communications Inc
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Blood BrothersThe Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm XBasic Books
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James BaldwinThe FBI FileArcade Publishing
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Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born...
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The Black PresidencyBarack Obama and the Politics of Race in AmericaMariner
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They Can't Kill Us AllFerguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice MovementLittle Brown
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Traditional Music in Coastal LouisianaThe 1934 Lomax Recordings by Joshua Clegg CafferyLouisiana State University Press
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Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist...
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Aesthetic Of The CoolAfro-Atlantic Art and MusicPeriscope publishing
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Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson is a living...
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Mo' Meta BluesThe World According to QuestloveHachette Books
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MO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson tells his own story while tackling...
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Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?A Memoir by George ClintonAtria Books
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Now, finally, after fifty years in the business, George Clinton is ready to deliver the whole P-Funk saga....
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This is the DayThe March on WashingtonGetty Publications
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This title offers a superb collection of emotionally charged photographs that document a poignant day...
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RootsAlex HaleyDa Capo Press
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"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West...
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I Am Not Your NegroFrom texts by James BaldwinPenguin Books
In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered...
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Soul of a Nation (BOOK)Art in the Age of Black Power
BACK IN STOCK!!!!In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions...
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Blues PeopleBy LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)Harper Perennial
Seminal work from playwright, poet, critic and activist LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, in which the author traces the influence of jazz and...
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Trick Baby (1967)By Iceberg SlimPayback Press
This novel charts the rise of White Folks, a light-skinned African-American who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the con. Blue-eyed,...
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Where Did Our Love Go?The Rise And Fall Of The Motown SoundOmnibus Press
Secondhand paperback in good conditionThe acclaimed best selling story of Tamla Motown records - the most successful independent record label in the world....
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Sacred SteelInside an African American Steel Guitar TraditionUniversity of Illinois Press
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Author Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the...
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Pieces Of A ManGil Scott-Heron - By Marcus Baram
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Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,"...
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Trying to Get OverAfrican American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986University of Texas Press
From 1972 to 1976, Hollywood made an unprecedented number of films targeted at black audiences. But following this era known as "blaxploitation," the momentum...
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Party MusicThe Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul MusicLawrence Hill Books
Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement...
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A Choice Of WeaponsThe Autobiography Of Gordon ParksMinnesota Historical Society Press
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) - the groundbreaking photographer, writer, composer, activist, and filmmaker - was only sixteen in 1928 when he moved from Kansas...
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A Mighty Long WayMy Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High SchoolOne World
Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to...
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Native Son (1940)Richard WrightHarper Perennial
Gripping and furious, "Native Son" follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved...
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A Change Is Gonna ComeMusic, Race And The Soul Of AmericaCanongate Books
This volume chronicles more than 40 years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom Movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock...
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Our Auntie RosaThe Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and LessonsJeremy P. Tarcher
The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother figure...
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Spike LeeDo the Right ThingAmmo
Including an unprecedented insider's look at the film, with behind-the-scenes visuals and interviews, this impressive book celebrates the impact of "Do...
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Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of ChicagoPaul SteinbeckChicago University Press
This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians....
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John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the MusicEdited by Leonard L. BrownOxford University Press
Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration...
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Paul RobesonThe Years of Promise and AchievementUniversity of Massachusetts Press
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Compelling biography of a great American in his formative years. The son of a former slave,...
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