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Claude Brown - Manchild in the Promised Land
The classic autobiography of growing up in Harlem in the fifties. From a life of mischief and encounters with gangs, drug pushers, and the police, Claude Brown eventually leaves Harlem for law school. The Harlem setting and the many characters in his family and neighborhood are evoked with frankness ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Jonathan Kozol - Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation/Cassettes
The New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Savage Inequalities reveals the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx--the poorest congressional district in the nation. "(Kozol) has produced perhaps his most affecting book . . . this volume has the tone and power of elegy".--Los ... More
Score: 4.7 7 Reviews
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John S. Haller - Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900
In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin's 'Origin Of Species' and the discovery of Gregor Mendel's experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr. shows the relationship between scientific 'conviction' and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally ... More
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Alex Hailey - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.
Score: 4.8 16 Reviews
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Melissa Fay Greene - Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Melissa Fay Greene's celebrated nonfiction book takes place in the '70s in a rural Georgia town, where a poor and uneducated black man stands up to the autocratic white sheriff and finds justice.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Basil Davidson - The Lost Cities of Africa
Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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John Lewis and Michael D'Orso - Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
In his autobiography, John Lewis looks back at his life and his role in the American civil rights movement. He describes his childhood in rural Alabama and his memories of the struggle: from the demonstrations in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham to the Freedom Rides, the march on Washington, and th ... More
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Gunnar Myrdal and Sissela Bok - An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
A classic in sociology, this examination of race relations in the United States was first published in the early 1940s. It is often cited as one of the most powerful, if unheeded, calls for change.
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Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Hunger Of Memory is the story of a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey is a "mi ... More
Score: 2.7 3 Reviews
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St. Clair Drake and Horace Roscoe Cayton - Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration fieldworker in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto.
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Maxine Kingston - The Woman Warrior China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilatio ... More
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Abigail M. Thernstrom - Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
'Thernstrom maneuvers successfully between the civil rights ideology and the requirements of democratic politics. She sustains a strong concern for the struggles of American blacks while conceding very little to the affirmative action or electoral quota position. Exactly right.' - Michael Walzer, In ... More
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
Chronicling the long career of a prime mover in America's nascent civil rights movement, a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning biography shows the major impact this great and controversial thinker had on America.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer - The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
In lyrical language, Cofer recounts her experiences with the homesick Puerto Rican women who live in her building in Paterson, New Jersey.
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Milton Myron Gordon - Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins
A sociological analysis of the theories of assimilation in American society, noting the cultural and behavioral characteristics of religions, racial and ethnic groups.
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George M. Fredrickson - The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
Provides a history on racial thinking from the early nineteenth-century to the end of World War I.
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Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moyniham - Beyond the Melting Pot; The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
A conservative interpretation of the characteristics and problems of selected ethnic groups in New York City.
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Leonard Dinnerstein - The Leo Frank Case
This book details the events surrounding the murder accusation and lynching of a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, Georgia, which resulted in one of the most unforgettable incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States.
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Eugene D. Genovese - Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
'The most profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery to appear since World War Il.
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Farley Mowat - People of the Deer
A classic account of the degradation of a tribe of Canadian Indians focuses on the fate of the Ihalmiut people of Northern Canada who suffered cultural decline, food shortages, and outside exploitation throughout the twentieth century. Reprint.
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Vine Deloria - Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans.
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James Graham Leyburn - The Haitian People
Release Date: June 01, 1980
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George Eaton Simpson and J.M. Yinger - Racial and Cultural Minorities: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination
Release Date: July 01, 1985
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