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BookIn the Mecca
…in the vibrant literary scene of the South Side during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The literary scene included important black writers Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Theodore Ward, Margaret…
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BookOne Nation
…Stegner’s most notable works are Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), an autobiographical novel about an itinerant Western childhood; Angle of Repose (1971), an imagined family history spanning a century; and…
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BookCuster Died for Your Sins
Standing Rock Sioux Vine Deloria Jr. has achieved an eminence amongst Native Americans that New York Times reviewer Dee Brown has likened to the impact of Sitting Bull a century…
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BookOn Beauty
…the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and was short listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. On Beauty was recognized with the Orange Prize for Fiction and The Commonwealth Writers’…
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AuthorGordon 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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BookThe Fortunes
…longlisted for the Booker Prize, explores questions of Welshness. Davies sees his second novel, The Fortunes, as “examining the burdens, limitations and absurdity of Asian stereotypes.” It bends genre and…
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EventsCIFF STREAMS + AWBA Film Selections
…focus on racial equity. No closed captioning available. Shorts Program 1 The Treasures of Mrs. Grady’s Library (3 minutes) One day he wandered into the library, where he came across…
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BookThe Woman Warrior
…memory.” Hong Kingston’s two-part autobiography, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980), explores gender constraints, assimilation, and intergenerational conflicts experienced by Chinese immigrants living in California. The Woman Warrior,…
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BookThe Latin Deli
Poet and novelist Ortiz Cofer offers her readers an affecting view of Puerto Rican New York in this autobiographical assortment of essays and poems. Her stories celebrate, mourn, and honor…
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BookParting the Waters
…career. He went on to write a study of corporate whistle-blowers, and to ghost-write the autobiographies of Watergate figure John Dean and NBA star Bill Russell, as well as contribute…
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BookManchild in the Promised Land
When Claude Brown wrote his autobiography, Manchild in the Promised Land (1965), he expected to sell 100 copies. Over four million copies later, Manchild remains a classic, echoing the slave…
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BookA Many-Splendored Thing
Daughter of a Dutch mother and Chinese father, Elizabeth Chou assumed the pseudonym Han Suyin, meaning “the Chinese gamble-for liberty.” Suyin was profoundly sympathetic to the government of Mao Tse…
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EventsThe Power of Prohibited Words with Angela Davis
…Recently, there have been increased efforts to restrict access to certain books in schools and libraries–particularly those that cover LGBTQ+ and racial equity topics. Banned Books Week aims to draw…
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BookQuincy Jones
…Oscar and 79 Grammy nominations, making him the most nominated Grammy artist of all time. He has won 27 Grammy Awards and The Grammy Living Legend Award. His 27th Grammy…
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BookVernon Can Read
…American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the National Advisory Committee on Selective Service and the Council of the White House Conference “To Fulfill Thee Rights.” Jordan’s autobiography covers his fascinating life from…
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AuthorGeorge Lamming
George Lamming is an illustrious Caribbean novelist, poet and cultural critic from Barbados. He was just 23 and living in London when he wrote “In the Castle of My Skin.”…
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EventsCity Club Friday Forum – Rediscovering Resistance: John Swanson Jacobs and 600,000 Despots
…600,000 Despots. This was not a typical slave narrative, and they published it. In 2016, in the midst of other research, historian Jonathan D.S. Schroeder came across Jacobs’ autobiography, which…
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BookAll That She Carried
…and about Charleston itself, as well as the material history of cotton. She read widely in the literature that imagines Black women’s lives during the eras in question. The result,…
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BookAn American Dilemma
…with degrees in law and economics. The young professor lost no time challenging conventional beliefs in his field, criticizing theories that seemed to him likely to harm the poor. As…
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BookThe Reluctant African
…his journalism career at the Afro-American and the Chicago Defender, two newspapers focused on news of interest to African-American readers. In 1958, he became the first Black television journalist when…