African American Studies
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
by Sanyika Shakur  Publisher Comments Written in solitary confinement, the author's memoir of 16 years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles makes palpable the despair and decay of America's inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto experience....
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X....
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Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was...
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Finding Fish
by Antwone Fisher Publisher Comments Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the...
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
by John Bailey Publisher Comments It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years...
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin 
Powells.com Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely...
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin Publisher Comments The author tells of his experiences after he darkened his skin and traveled through the South in order to find out how it feels to be black....
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking...
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The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet Classics)
by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments By 1944, over six thousand ex-slaves had written moving stories of their captivity, providing a prolific testimony to the horrors of bondage and servitude. Noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. compiles four of the most important "slave narratives" in...
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X....
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattill Beals Publisher Comments Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil...
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Race Matters
by Cornel West Publisher Comments With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. <BR>Cornel West is at the forefront...
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
by bell hooks Publisher Comments In Rock My Soul, world-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day. Why do so many...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her...
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history...
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from...
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Praying for Sheetrock
by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments Somehow, the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement had bypassed rural McIntosh County, Georgia. In the 1970s, the white sheriff there still wielded all power; he controlled everyone and everything. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man...
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Life of Olaudah Equiano (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Olaudah Equaino Publisher Comments Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, 6 months among the Miskito Indians in Central...
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Three Classic African-American Novels: Clotel, Iola Leary, the Marrow of Tradition (Vintage Classics)
by Henry L Gates Publisher Comments William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels....
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Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics)
by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Dr. King\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s remarkable account of the struggle for civil rights in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, tracing the history of the movement back to its beginnings three centuries ago and looking to...
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