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    The Renunciations

    Donika Kelly

    …sun as fast a boy might? Surely he did that, oracle, surely that. Joyce Carol Oates, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards juror, observed, “‘Renunciations’ is a delicately rendered, toughly honest, courageous…

  • Portrait of Eric Foner
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    Eric Foner

    …generous, and genuinely passionate, professors of his generation,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards jury. “As a scholar and writer, his footprint is vast, and…

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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

    …Springdale, Arkansas. His mother, Karleen, worked as a junior high school cook, and his late father, Jackie, as a machinist and a farmer. King studied history and philosophy at the…

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    What the Eye Hears

    Brian Seibert

    …he came upon Swing 46, a midtown club where a tapper of almost 90 named Buster Brown presided over Crazy Tap Jam, where he opened the floor to all comers,…

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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…

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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    …taught me to appreciate language.” That appreciation burnished Sing, Unburied, Sing into what Anisfield-Wolf juror Joyce Carol Oates calls “a beautifully rendered, heartbreaking, savage and tender novel, a tour de…

  • 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

    …Mosley worked a series of jobs, including caterer, potter, and computer programmer. In 1981 he moved to New York and began taking graduate writing courses at the City College of…

  • Portrait of Gordon Parks
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    Gordon Parks

    …at the Office of War Information in 1943, then for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey as a documentary photographer. Continuing his work in fashion photography, he published two…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …President Truman appointed him to the UNESCO delegation to Paris, and Johnson was also part of the commission that reorganized education in Japan after WWII.[3] Johnson died at the age…

  • Cover of Simple Takes a Wife
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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …during his travels, publishing much of it in the United States in black journals such as The Crisis and the publication of the National Urban League, Opportunity: A Journal of…

  • 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

    …characters are not really well-behaved or virtuous.” Not the jurors of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Joyce Carol Oates called the novel “an outstanding work of fiction,” saying she had read…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …logistical units or with the engineers or quartermasters. So, Sgt. Edward A. Carter Jr. — fluent in German, Hindi and Mandarin and a military veteran of the Spanish Civil War…

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    Bunk

    Kevin Young

    …as of this writing, 14,394 songs on my computer.” Other influences include Langston Hughes, John Berryman, Emily Dickinson and the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young’s 2001 book, To Repel Ghosts, is…