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    The Autobiography of an Unknown South African

    Naboth Mokgatle

    Mokgatle’s keen interest in reading inspired him to enroll at a number of night schools in Pretoria and Johannesburg. Some of these were run by members of the South African…

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    The Renunciations

    Donika Kelly

    …much credit to her therapists, a community to whom she dedicated her first book. In a poem from “The Renunciations” entitled “Donika Questions the Oracle,” she writes: Did he ever…

  • Portrait of Eric Foner
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    Eric Foner

    …in Connecticut. Their daughter, Daria Rose Foner, will receive her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in May. “Many people don’t really know much about that period after the…

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    Naught for Your Comfort

    Trevor Huddleston

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    Latin Americans in Texas

    Pauline R. Kibbe

    …reported in the Texas Spectator. Valley growers objected and Kibbe resigned, apparently under pressure. She charged authorities with imposing a “gag rule.” In 1948 she became state PAC director for…

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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

    …to ‘culture’ rather than being the proper stations of people who were innately primitive or otherwise fitted to their roles. It is also part of our common understanding that our…

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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

    …Another family down the road eventually helped them. Ward, her partner, their young daughter and son still make their home in rural Mississippi. She told an audience in November that…

  • Portrait of Samuel R. Delany
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    Samuel R. Delany

    …resulting in its sale six weeks later when Delany was 19. The pair later had a daughter, Iva Hacker-Delany. Both writers grew in success and creativity. Readers flocked to such…

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    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

    Walter Mosley

    …character as a private investigator, and Mosley seemed to have found a strong voice as an author of detective fiction. After Devil he published four more Easy Rawlins books: A…

  • Portrait of Gordon Parks
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    Gordon Parks

    …and composer, and he wrote the music for a ballet about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Parks received the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …worked with Gunnar Myrdal on his epic study of race in America from 1938-1940. He remained at Fisk for the rest of his career, establishing financial support for black social…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …its insider’s portrayal of the Harlem Renaissance. Two years later, he began writing a weekly column for the Chicago Defender that unexpectedly spawned his most popular literary character, Jesse B….

  • 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

    …her responsibilities directing the Iowa Writers Workshop, mentoring and teaching, creating a home with landscape painter Robert Caputo and raising their daughter. Her novel’s first character, Leo Chao, came to…

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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…