Author: Gwendolyn Brook
Publisher: Third World Pre
Keywords: blacks
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0883781050
ISBN-13: 9780883781050

Here is a necessary collection of poetry for admirers of words and treasurers of literary beauty. Spanning more than 30 years, this collection of literary masterpieces by the venerable Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, arguably Illinois’ most beloved Poet Laureate and Chicago’s elder black literary stateswoman, Blacks includes all of Ms. Brooks’ critically acclaimed writings. Within its covers is the groundbreaking "Annie Allen," which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. There is also the sweepingly beautiful and finely crafted "A Street in Bronzeville," a highly anticipated and laude

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: show, clown, blacks
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802150284
ISBN-13: 9780802150288

Author: Oscar Reiss
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: america, colonial, blacks
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2006-11-27
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786429577
ISBN-13: 9780786429578

By the time of the American Revolution, blacks made up 20 percent of the colonial population. Early in colonial history, many blacks who came to America were indentured servants who served out their contracts and then settled in the colonies as free men. Over time, however, more and more blacks arrived as slaves, and the position of blacks in colonial society suffered precipitous decline. This book discusses the lives of blacks, both slave and free, as they struggled to make homes for themselves among the white European settlers in the New World. The author thoroughly examines colonial slaver

Author: Walter M Keesey
Publisher: A&C Black
Keywords: sketchbooks, blacks, cambridge
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-03-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1408111233
ISBN-13: 9781408111239

Found in our archives, the Black’s Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on Continental cities such as Paris and Venice. The result is a charming series of books that present a fascinating look at British and European locations as they were almost a century ago. This title is a delightful look at Cambridge as it was in 1913.

Author: Fred Richards
Publisher: A&C Black
Keywords: sketchbooks, blacks, oxford
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-06-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1408115557
ISBN-13: 9781408115558

Found in our archives, the Black’s Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on Continental cities such as Paris and Venice. The result is a charming series of books that present a fascinating look at British and European locations as they were almost a century ago. This title is a delightful look at Oxford as it was in 1913.

Author: Randall Robinson
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: blacks, owes, america, debt
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0452282101
ISBN-13: 9780452282100

In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and segregation severed. Drawing from research and personal experience, he shows that only by reclaiming their lost past and proud heritage can blacks lay the foundation for their future. And white Americans can make reparations for slavery and the century of racial discrimination that followed with monetary restitution, educational programs, and the kinds of equal opportunities that will ensure the social and economic

Author: Willis Barnstone
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: poems, memoir, blacks, jews
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2004-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253344190
ISBN-13: 9780253344199

Willis Barnstone’s third book of memoirs begins with his childhood and ends with his brother’s death in 1987. A central theme is labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. Barnstone speaks as a Jew who has from early in his life shared parallel experiences with African Americans. He dwells on his own experience of ’passing’, already present in the name Barnstone, a name changed before his birth to conceal - or not to advertise - that he was a Jew, which might affect admission to private schools and college, his integratio