Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
A MAN FROM ANOTHER LAND: HOW FINDING MY ROOTS CHANGED MY LIFE
Publisher Comments: In this inspirational memoir, Grey's Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington explains how filling in the gaps of his past led him to discover a new passion: helping those less fortunate. DNA testing revealed that Washington was descended from the...
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THELONIOUS MONK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL
The first full biography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian who enjoyed full access to the family's archives and provides the author with dozens of interviews."The piano ain't got no wrong notes!" So...
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MILES
UNIVERSALLY ACCLAIMED AS A MUSICAL GENIUS, MILES DAVIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS IN THE WORLD. HERE, MILES SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HIS EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. "Miles: The Autobiography, "like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly...
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LET LOVE RULE
"I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow."Let Love Rule is a work of deep...
$29.99
BEATS, RHYMES, AND CLASSROOM LIFE: HIP-HOP PEDAGOGY AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
Hill shares his experience teaching a hip-hop centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap music, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other aspects of hip-hop were incorporated into the curriculum. Annotation: Hill shares his experience teaching a hip-hop...
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KNOW WHAT I MEAN?: REFLECTIONS ON HIP HOP
Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, Dyson probes the most compelling and controversial dimensions of hip-hop culture.Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has...
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BRUCE W. TALAMON. SOUL. R&B. FUNK. PHOTOGRAPHS 1972-1982
"For ten glorious years, I had the best seat in the house." -Bruce W. Talamon Talamon saw it all during the golden age of soul, R&B, and funk. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, this young African American photographer from...
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JAZZ IMAGES BY WILLIAM CLAXTON
William Claxton. He was the product of a musical household -his mother was a semi-professional singer and his father avidly collected big band records, William Claxton rapidly became an habitué of local jazz venues. 1952, while shooting Gerry Mulligan and...
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BAAD BITCHES AND SASSY SUPERMAMAS: BLACK POWER ACTION FILMS
This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical,...
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DECODED
Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our...
$28.00
BLUES LEGACIES AND BLACK FEMINISM: GERTRUDE "MA" RAINEY, BESSIE SMITH, AND BILLIE HOLIDAY
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts...
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BLUES PEOPLE
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but...
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THE MEANING OF MARIAH CAREY
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to...
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RAP ON TRIAL: RACE, LYRICS, AND GUILT IN AMERICA
Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music...
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AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE: BLACK MUSIC AND THE FREE JAZZ REVOLUTION
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American...
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JAY-Z: MADE IN AMERICA
The author wrestles with the biggest themes of Jay-Z's career, including hustling, and recognizes the way that he's always woven politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth, and social injustice.
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INSIDE A THUG'S HEART
Even after his death, Tupac Shakur maintains star status as his books and music are hotter than ever. Finally, fans can read this collection of letters which offers insight into the psyche of the rap icon.- Tupac Shakur continues to...
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GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: NOTES TO A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theoryand Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves...
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SOLD OUT: SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE: REVELATIONS ON CREATIVITY FROM THE LYRICAL GENIUS
Autographed Bookplate Edition NOW SOLD OUT as of 10:21 am 10/18/20The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful...
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I AM THESE TRUTHS: A MEMOIR OF IDENTITY, JUSTICE, AND LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS
The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and...
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WRITING MY WRONGS: LIFE, DEATH, AND REDEMPTION IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (PB)
New York Times bestseller - Member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100 - one of World Economic Forum's "Most Recommended Books of 2016" Now in paperback, the harrowing, * inspiring**, and unforgettable+ memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America's mass incarceration epidemic. ...
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BEVELATIONS: LESSONS FROM A MUTHA, AUNTIE, BESTIE
Bevy Smith is the host of SiriusXM's Bevelations on Radio Andy and a former cohost of Bravo's Fashion Queens and the entertainment news show Page Six TV. She is a beloved motivational speaker, brand ambassador, pop culture aficionado, television personality, and businesswoman. Quintessential Harlem girl and...
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THE OSIRIS PAPERS: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR. FRANCES CRESS WELSING
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. Some of these writings will...
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LOOKING FOR LORRAINE: THE RADIANT AND RADICAL LIFE OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black...
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THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING: LIVING AT THE INTERSECTION OF BLACK, FEMALE, AND FEMINIST IN (WHITE) AMERICA
"A writer to be reckoned with."-Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vogue, Nylon, The Millions, Refinery29, the Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bitch Media, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Paperback Paris From one of...
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DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE
Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America. photos. High school &...
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IDA B. WELLS AND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LYNCHING
Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching a practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but...
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THE SUN DOES SHINE: HOW I FOUND LIFE AND FREEDOM ON DEATH ROW (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB)
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming...
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MY VANISHING COUNTRY: A MEMOIR
What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black...
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REDEFINING REALNESS: MY PATH TO WOMANHOOD, IDENTITY, LOVE & SO MUCH MORE
In this "New York Times" bestseller--the first transgender memoir written by an African American--an extraordinary young woman recounts her coming-of-age. "Undercurrents of strong emotion swirl throughout this well-written book...An enlightening, much-needed perspective on transgender identity" ("Kirkus Reviews"). In 2011, "Marie...
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