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THE
BLACK ATLANTIC: MODERNITY AND DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS.
Paul Gilroy.
A look at the common threads tying
together peoples of African descent on both sides
of the Atlantic.
CERAMIC
UNCLES AND CELLULOID MAMMIES: BLACK IMAGES AND
THEIR INFLUENCES ON CULTURE. Patricia A.
Turner.
Looks at the one-dimensional and often
hostile ways blacks have been portrayed in the
popular culture.
CHALLENGING
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ESTABLISHMENT: PROFILES OF A NEW
BLACK VANGUARD. Joseph G. Conti and Brad
Stetson.
Pulls together the thinking of black
conservative writers, including Glenn Loury of
Boston University, Shelby Steele, and Thomas
Sowell.
CONFRONTING
AUTHORITY: REFLECTIONS OF AN ARDENT PROTESTOR.
Derrick Bell.
Why struggle is necessary.
DEALS
WITH THE DEVIL: AND OTHER REASONS TO RIOT. Pearl
Cleage.
The racist and sexist facts of life,
fiercely related in a collection of essays and
performance pieces.
I
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE: RUMOR IN AFRICAN
AMERICAN CULTURE. Patrica A. Turner.
Is Church's Fried Chicken really out to
sterilize black men? Are Kool cigarettes the secret
weapon of the KKK?
KEEPING
FAITH: PHILOSOPHY AND RACE IN AMERICA. Cornel
West.
Concerning culture, canon, and the black
intellectual; the limits of political engagement;
the nature of race.
LURE
AND LOATHING: ESSAYS ON RACE, IDENTITY AND THE
AMBIVALENCE OF ASSIMILATION. Gerald Early,
editor.
Twenty black intellectuals address W.E.B.
DuBois' dilemma of the double consciousness of
African Americans.
ON
THE REAL SIDE: LAUGHING, LYING AND SIGNIFYING--THE
UNDERGROUND TRADITION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HUMOR
THAT TRANSFORMED AMERICA CULTURE FROM SLAVERY TO
RICHARD PRYOR. Mel Watkins.
THE
TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY: FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS IN
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. Lani
Guinier.
A collection of the law articles which
torpedoed the author's 1993 nomination as Assistant
Attorney General for Civil Rights.
WHAT
BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD DO NOW: DISPATCHES FROM NEAR
THE VANGUARD. Ralph Wiley.
The author of "Why Black People Tend to
Shout" offers directives for survival and
empowerment in a racist society.
WITNESS
FOR FREEDOM: AFRICAN AMERICAN VOICES ON RACE,
SLAVERY, AND EMANCIPATION. C. Peter Ripley,
editor.
Firsthand accounts of the Civil War and
Reconstruction.
*Recommended
for Teens
This
selected list was compiled by: Moonyean Carlton,
General Library Reader and Information Services;
Catherine Clancy, General Library Teen Services; Marylou Coveney, South End Branch; Sara Markell, Codman Square Branch. Winsome Hudson, Brighton
Branch, Committee Chairperson.
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