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![A promised land [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/232245@2x.jpg)
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Barack Obama
(32,540)
Summary: Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the...
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Call #: CD BOOK B OBAMA
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Mikki Kendall
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Summary: Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues author Mikki Kendall, but...
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Call #: 305.42 KEN
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Mychal Denzel Smith
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Summary: "We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe...
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Call #: 973.933 SMI
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Elliott Currie
(92)
Summary: In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer,...
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Call #: 305.8 CUR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr
(2,213)
Summary: We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a...
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Call #: 305.8 GLA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Stacey Abrams
(2,576)
Summary: Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity -- who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics,...
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Call #: 324.62 ABR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Zetta Elliott
(712)
Summary: Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter....
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Call #: 811.6 ELL YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Richard Bell
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Summary: Philadelphia, 1825. Five young, free black boys are lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay. They are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their...
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Call #: 306.362 BEL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Morgan Parker
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Summary: An archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs, these American poems are both elegy...
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Call #: 811.6 PAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Saeed Jones
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Summary: Haunted and haunting, Jones' memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own...
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Call #: 306.766 JON
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Amazing grace [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/207560@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album "Amazing Grace" at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
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Call #: DVD 782 AMA
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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Rachelle Chase
(19)
Summary: Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived worked and attended school together. It was a thriving,...
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Call #: 977.7865 CHA 2019 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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Henry Louis Gates Jr
Summary: A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of...
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Call #: 973.0496 GAT
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Carol Anderson
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Summary: This young adult adaptation brings Carol Anderson's ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response...
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Call #: 323.1196 AND YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Richard Rothstein
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Summary: Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation, that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of...
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Call #: 305.8 ROT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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David W. Blight
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Summary: The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the...
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Call #: B DOUGLASS
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Michelle Obama
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Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped...
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Call #: B OBAMA
Locations: Adult Biographies, Hot Picks
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America...
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Call #: 306.362 HUR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Dick Gregory
(1,113)
Summary: Dick Gregory has been a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he kept it real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard...
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Call #: 323.1196 GRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Dana Canedy
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Summary: In February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs -- and explored the history behind them -- and chronicled them in the popular blog...
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Call #: 973.0496 UNS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ann Bausum
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Summary: Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple...
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Call #: 323.1196 BAU YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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