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sort list by title | author Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis Frederick Douglass, Angela Y. Davis A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis To Die for the People Huey Newton, Toni Morrison A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America Between Barack and a Hard Place Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama Tim Wise How Barack Obama's rise is reshaping the meaning of race in the United States today. The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood Pocket Poets Number 57 Kamau Daaood A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the spoken word movement, these poems soar and sway with the syncopation and melodies of jazz. Portraits, chronicles, incantations and invocations, drawn from a lifetime of prolific activity. From his early... Free Enterprise A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant Michelle Cliff In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her... Atet A.D. Nathaniel Mackey The letters in Atet A.D. span a seven-month period from shortly after Thelonious Monk's death to the former Mystic Horn Society's recording an album on John Coltrane's birthday. Written by composer and multi-instrumentalist N., this imaginative work... Whatsaid Serif Nathaniel Mackey Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his... Whose Song? And Other Stories Thomas Glave "Thomas Glave walks the path of such greats in American literature as Richard Wright and James Baldwin . . . he cuts to the bone of what it means to be black in America, white in America, gay in America, and human in the world at large." - Gloria... School of Udhra Nathaniel Mackey School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however, is only one of the strands of world revery these...