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  • Portrait of Eric Foner
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    Eric Foner

    …noble calling, it is Professor Foner.” Eric Foner, born in New York City, grew up alongside a brother playing stickball and riding bikes in the oceanside community of Long Beach,…

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    Naught for Your Comfort

    Trevor Huddleston

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    Free Book Giveaway at the WestSide Market

    September 22, 2024, 10:00 am

    …and Carol and John’s Comic Shop will have free comics, and Rust Belt Humanities Lab will be on hand for a free talk on documentary comics. Great for the whole…

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    Latin Americans in Texas

    Pauline R. Kibbe

    …field associate to the Executive Committee on Inter-American Relations in Texas. In 1943 she became the first executive secretary of the Good Neighbor Commission. In 1944 she wrote Community Organization…

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    Colored Television

    Danzy Senna

    A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.   Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously,…

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    Gods of the Upper Air

    Charles King

    …mores and practices are parochial (and potentially changeable) habits of place and time rather than being the only way that civilized life can be lived. But commonplaces weren’t always common…

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    What the Eye Hears

    Brian Seibert

    …foot to “emphasize offbeat accents and to ground his more complex syncopations afforded by the tempo.” And the political complexities framing Savion Glover’s solos in “Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring…

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    The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    …janitor; his mother was a housewife. Gates describes his youth and coming of age in the storytelling memoir Colored People (1994), in which he recalls a vibrant black community about…

  • Portrait of Ernest J. Gaines
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    Ernest J. Gaines

    …Miss Jane and her community through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement. The compelling narrative that resulted — still considered Gaines’s masterpiece—became a best-selling book and a…

  • Cover of Sing, Unburied, Sing
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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    …its inhabitants has provoked critical hosannas, and comparisons to William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The ghosts in Ward’s most recent novel – Sing, Unburied, Sing – evoke the hauntings found…

  • Portrait of Samuel R. Delany
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    Samuel R. Delany

    …Hugo prize by the time he was 27; he did so despite severe dyslexia. Throughout his career, Delany has been equally comfortable at academic conferences and comic book conventions. “Physically,…

  • Cover of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

    Walter Mosley

    …researched historical details, and realistic dialogue transcend the cliches of the genre. He portrays the complexity of the Los Angeles African American community between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, and…

  • Portrait of Gordon Parks
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    Gordon Parks

    …autobiographical novels that was completed by A Choice of Weapons (1966) and To Smile in Autumn, A Memoir (1979). Parks combined his literary and visual talents in a 1969 movie…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …science research and communities,[2] and later serving as the institution’s first African-American president from 1946-1956. In addition to his academic career, Johnson worked as a board member on many national…

  • Cover of Simple Takes a Wife
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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …fiction writer, autobiographer, and anthologist, Hughes captured the moods and rhythms of the black communities he knew and loved—and translated those rhythms to the printed page. Hughes has been called…

  • Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    …which concludes with Malcolm X’s reevaluation of the Nation of Islam religious movement, highlights the complexity, compassion, and humanity of a figure whose public image might otherwise have remained monolithic…

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    The Family Chao

    Lan Samantha Chang

    …Leo, he was larger than life: a vibrant, strong-willed man with a habit of making blunt remarks.” Still, it took Chang a dozen years to compose “The Family Chao” amid…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …the war, and then they came home and immediately started fighting for civil rights. They were fighting for a better version of America.” The title for Delmont’s book comes from…

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    Bunk

    Kevin Young

    …is an American cultural history that explores almost 200 years of perpetrating frauds – from P.T. Barnum to birther-ism. The word “bunk” itself comes from politics, sourced to a congressional…

  • Cover of Of Fear and Strangers
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    Of Fear and Strangers

    George Makari

    …word kept coming to the psychiatrist’s mind: xenophobia. Long interested in how “we mis-know one another,” Makari “decided to look into it.” So, the seed of a third book germinated…