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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920, as art and writing flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, W. E. B. Du Bois published The Brownies' Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun-the first periodical for African American youth, collecting original art, stories, letters, and activities to celebrate their identities and inspire their imaginations and ambitions. Building upon Du Bois's mission, esteemed professor and scholar Karida Brown and celebrated artist Charly Palmer...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 771 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this definitive volume includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture,...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this memoir-in-essays, the author, weaving unflinching criticism with intimate anecdotes, examines America's cultural history and relationship to black Americans through the ages, providing a deeper examination of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being today.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amidst the search for a peaceful resolution, Jax and his friends find themselves facing an imminent war as the witches gear up for battle against the formidable Scourge, threatening to drain all magic from both realms.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Radical Reparations, this conversation shifter, social justice pioneer, change agent, and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, which redefined the global conversation on racism and social justice, offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities. Hunter reimagines reparations through a profound new lens as he defines seven types of compensation: political, intellectual,...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston pioneered jazz poetry and published nearly twenty poetry...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alvin Hall set out to revisit the world of the Green Book to instruct us all on the real history of the guide that saved many lives. With his friend Janée Woods Weber, he drove from New York to Detroit to New Orleans, visiting motels, restaurants, shops, and stores where Black Americans once found a friendly welcome. They explored historical and cultural landmarks, from the theatres and clubs where stars like Duke Ellington and Lena Horne performed...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiv, 143 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
10) Shark teeth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
254 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the fascinating, unexplored history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on cocktail and drinking culture through rediscovered recipes, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Jubilee. Toni Tipton-Martin's volume on Black culinary history celebrates the lore and people behind our favorite drinks. With cocktail recipes such as the Jerk-Spiced Bloody Mary, the Absinthe Frappe, and the Clover Leaf Cocktail, Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are.' So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A prize-winning scholar draws on new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the resignations...
16) Seoul food
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hana's grandparents visit, Hana decides to cook a meal that represents both her Korean and Southern heritages.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A four-hundred-year history of the African-American experience traces four pivotal migrations, including the violent relocation of one million slaves to the antebellum South and the movement of millions to industrial cities a century later.
In this masterful account, one of the nation's most distinguished historians offers a revolutionary new view of African-American history.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era, the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage--setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty--are examined.
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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