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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound

Nelson George's chronicle of Motown Records' rise and fall remains a classic account of an essential American music company and its dynamic founder Berry Gordy Jr.

Gordy's uncanny instinct for finding extraordinary talent--from performers and musicians to songwriters and producers--packed the label's roster with a who's who of historic artists and hitmakers. Here is the story of the Supremes and superstar Diana Ross, of the towering solo acts Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, of vocal groups led by the Temptations and Four Tops, of the phenomenal Jackson Five and Michael Jackson, and of singer/songwriter and Motown executive Smokey Robinson. Up front about Gordy's manipulative and complex relationships with his artists, George reveals the inner workings of how Motown conducted its business. He also offers portraits of the Funk Brothers and other musicians who played the unforgettable songs.

George's preface shows how Motown influenced a later generation of young artists and music moguls, including R. Kelly, D'Angelo, Sean Combs, and Russell Simmons.

Where Did Our Love Go?

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Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party

Curtis J. Austin's Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another - Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley - left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party's early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. Austin carefully highlights the internal tension between advocates of a more radical position than the Panthers took, who insisted on military confrontation with the state, and those such as Newton and David Hilliard, who believed in community organizing and alliance building as first priorities. Austin interviewed a number of party members who had heretofore remained silent. With the help of these stories, Austin is able to put the violent history of the party in perspective and show that the "survival" programs, such as the Free Breakfast for Children program and Free Health Clinics, helped the black communities they served to recognize their own bases of power and ability to save themselves.

Up Against the Wall

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Black Cake

Please see pictures. Small corner creasing from sitting on shelf and scratch in front cover. #paperback #psychology #nonfiction #africanamerican #DeFreitas

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Social Studies

A Positive Psychology Perspective

This innovative text is the first to examine the contemporary psychological experience of African Americans through the lens of a positive, strengths-based model. It combats the deficit perspective that has permeated the psychological literature about African Americans by focusing on the strengths that have facilitated their growth and resilience--while also considering existing challenges and struggles.

The author examines in depth the major areas of psychological research across family, peer, and romantic relationships, education, work, ethnic-racial socialization and identity, prosocial behavior and civic engagement, and the mental and physical health of African Americans today. With a focus on real life applications, the text includes pedagogical elements introducing topics in Current Events, Interventions in Practice, Individual Issues, African Cultural Values, and Media and Technology. Additional features include learning objectives in each chapter, discussion questions, a closing summary, an extensive trove of additional resources, and PowerPoints and a sample syllabus for instructors. Print version of book includes free, searchable, digital access to the entire contents.

Key Features:

 * Serves as the first text to examine African American psychology from a strengths-based perspective
 * Grounded in a lifespan perspective
 * Focuses on ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity
 * Addresses mental and physical health
 * Demonstrates how communities have used strength-based techniques to achieve positive outcomes
 * Integrate values common to Western Africa
 * Includes learning objectives, discussion questions, closing summary, and boldfaced key terms
 * Provides PowerPoints and a sample syllabus

African American Psychology

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Steve Harvey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

What Men Really Think about Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

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Brand new still in shrink wrap. Collectible limited edition. Oversized. Huge book, full color.

Black Cotton is a celebration of the beauty of black women, their natural hair, fashion, as well as a display of the African presence in other cultures. It exhibits a collection of work that displays the passionate love mixture of fashion, make-up, hair design, photography, and graphic art.


About the Author
Rasta Asaru Escott El was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he currently resides and creates. His inspiration came to at an early age where he found himself intrigued by the various elements, textures, and colors of materials. During this curious time, he began to mimic these objects on paper while teaching himself how to sketch, draw, and use color. 

His creative desires continued into high school where he advanced from sketching and drawing on paper to graffiti art. He began to embrace his creative freedom, created his first bust, and started his artistic work in the medium of sculpture for various galleries and festivals. 

In 1995, during an Art Festival, Rasta met fellow artist, Charles Dickson, who offered him an apprenticeship at The Dickson Studio. During his apprenticeship at Dickson Studios, he learned how to break down and manipulate materials.


Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Maryland

Art book featuring Black Women

Black Cotton

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North Carolina

BLOW tells the story of Tay, a young man living on the dangerous streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Although he was making a decent living selling weed, he one day discovers something far more sinister. Blow. Heroin, or Horse depending on what era you're from. After doing a little research, he finds out that he can make more money by selling blow than crack or coke. He now has the money, women, and power. But Tay soon finds that success is not all it's cracked up to be. Jealous tensions eventually build and the same cats he once rolled with now become mortal enemies and try to thwart his rise to power.

Blow

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Art, Music, Drama/Theater

The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance

It's impossible to think of the heritage of music and dance in the United States without the invaluable contributions of African Americans. Those art forms have been touched by the genius of African American culture and have helped this nation take its important and unique place in the
pantheon of world art.

Steppin' on the Blues explores not only the meaning of dance in African American life but also the ways in which music, song, and dance are interrelated in African American culture. Dance as it has emanated from the black community is a pervasive, vital, and distinctive form of expression--its movements speak eloquently of African American values and aesthetics. Beyond that it has been, finally, one of the most important means of cultural survival.

Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life. From the cakewalk to the development of jazz dance and jazz music, all Americans can take pride in the vitality, dynamism, drama, joy, and uncommon singularity with which African American dance has gifted the world.

Steppin' on the Blues

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Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue

A passionate memoir by legendary bandleader and musician Otis, who recalls the sheer joy and energy of the blues--and the stifling ugliness of racism. During Otis' 50-year career, he encountered, discovered, or performed with every significant figure in the early days of RandB and rock and roll. 75 illus.

Upside Your Head!

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#hardcover #africanamerican #biography #jazz

Offers a personal, anecdotal biography of the controversial jazz pianist, who was big on the New York jazz scene during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Monk

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The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood

Details the 1923 massacre of black inhabitants of the small Florida town of Rosewood by a white lynch mob, tracing the lives of survivors and describing the unprecedented award given to survivors and their descendants by the state of Florida some seventy years after the rampage. 30,000 first printing.

Like Judgment Day

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This is a beautiful book of poetry with every haiku illustrated.  Many of the poems illustrate the African American experience.  

California

Haiku in my Neighborhood

Burton Albert

Brian Pinkney

A bundle of four Brian Pinkney illustrated books by Andrea Davis Pinkney and others. Coretta Scott King Award

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Duke Ellington ; Benjamin Banneker; Where Does the Trial Lead; A Wave in Her Pocket

With the smell of the sea always in his nostrils, a boy follows an island path through flowers and pine needles, over the dunes, to a reunion with his family at the edge of the sea.

Brian Pinkney Illustrated African American picture Books Bundle 

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New Jersey

Walkin' the dog

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Traces Baker's life from the slums of St Louis and her early days on the New York stage as That Comedy Chorus Girl, doing a new dance called the Charleston, through her cabaret fame in France, her participation in the French Resistance, and her role as mother of 12 adopted children.

Josephine Baker

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Book as a rental rent it out only twice has one day let torn on back

From Bose Ikard and Cherokee Bill to Deadwood Dick- Here is the story of some of the finest men of the old west

The Adventures Of The Negro Cowboys

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Pilgrim Journey 

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Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality

From the time the first tracks were laid in the early 19th century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution - the story of African Americans on the railroad.

Brotherhoods of Color

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Publications International Ltd. Staff

A Treasury of Tradition and Pride

Contains African American folktales adapted and illustrated by various authors and artists; folksongs and hymns; historical information; and profiles of noteworthy African Americans from diverse professions.

African American Children's Stories

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#hardcover #firstedition #africanamerican #novel 

A novel that explores a neighborhood in L.A.'s South Central and conveys what it means for African-American teenagers to survive on its streets.

Understand This

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Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz

During the Roaring '20s, Gennett Records captured, on wax, the music of America's grassroots in a primitive recording studio beside the railroad tracks in Richmond, Indiana.

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy

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#hardcover #firstedition #africanamerican #history 

Or Does It Explodes?

Jacqueline Woodson

Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.

Last Summer with Maizon

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The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954

A history of various efforts to desegregate northern schools during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, exploring two dominant themes. The first considers the role of law in accomplishing racial change. Most northern state legislatures enacted legislation after the Civil War that prohibited school segregation and most northern courts, when called upon, enforced that legislation. Notwithstanding this clear legal opposition to school segregation, racially separate schools flourished in much of the north until the late 1940s and early 1950s. The second theme is the ambivalence in the northern black community over the importance of school integration. Since the antebellum era, northern blacks have sharply divided over the question of whether black children would fare better in separate black schools or in racially integrated ones. These competing visions of black empowerment in the northern black community as reflected in the debate over school integration are addressed here.

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Nelson George; Quincy Jones (Foreword by)

Where Did Our Love Go?

Curtis J. Austin; Elbert Howard (Foreword by)

Up Against the Wall

Charmaine Wilson

Black Cake

Stacie DeFreitas

African American Psychology

Steve Harvey

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

Rasta Asaru Escott EL

Black Cotton

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Blow

Jacqui Malone

Steppin' on the Blues

Johnny Otis; George Lipsitz (Contribution by)

Upside Your Head!

Laurent De Wilde

Monk

Michael D'Orso

Like Judgment Day

Dee Dee McNeil

Haiku in my Neighborhood

Burton Albert; Brian Pinkney

Brian Pinkney Illustrated African American picture Books Bundle

Walter Mosley

Walkin' the dog

Bryan Hammond; Patrick O'Connor

Josephine Baker

Phillip Durham and Everette L. Jones

The Adventures Of The Negro Cowboys

Naomi Long Madgett

Pilgrim Journey

Eric Arnesen

Brotherhoods of Color

Publications International Ltd. Staff

African American Children's Stories

Jervey Tervalon

Understand This

Rick Kennedy; Steve Allen (Foreword by)

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

Or Does It Explodes?

Jacqueline Woodson

Last Summer with Maizon

Davison M. Douglas

Jim Crow Moves North