Tag: Toni Morrison
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{New Releases} Jan 29-Feb 4, 2018
Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.…
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{Book Attraction} Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life by:Terrion L. Williamson
From sapphire, mammy, and Jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists–much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of…
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{Book Attraction} Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom by:Sonja D Williams
Posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007, Richard Durham creatively chronicled and brought to life the significant events of his times. Durham’s trademark narrative style engaged listeners with fascinating characters, compelling details, and sharp images of pivotal moments in American and African American history and culture. In Word Warrior , award-winning…
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{2015 New Releases} Week 17: April 20-26
One Night by:Eric Jerome Dickey The New York Times bestselling author checks in to the hotel of readers’ dreams for an ardent romantic adventure that lasts just One Night. For one night, a couple checks in to an upscale hotel. The pair seem unlikely companions, from opposing strata of society, but their attraction is palpable…
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{2015 New Releases} Week 16: April 13-19
Finding Samuel Lowe by:Paula Williams Madison This powerful debut tells the story of Paula Williams Madison’s Chinese grandfather, Samuel Lowe. He became romantically involved with a Jamaican woman, Paula’s grandmother, and they lived together modestly with their daughter in his Kingston dry goods store, Chiney Shop. In 1920 his Chinese soon-to-be wife arrived to set…
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{Between The Lines} New Toni Morrison Novel
The gods have heard our cry and answered our prayers. Nobel Laureate/Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison next novel God Help The Child is set to be released on April 21, 2015. Synopsis Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of…
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{Eye} Civil Rights Childhood : Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks by: Katharine Capshaw
Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been—and continues to be—a social agent that demands…
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