Urban LIT.
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of “blackness.” What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement...
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated “ghetto” myths to justify racist policies that concentrated poverty in the hood...
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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show...
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height...
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers...
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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
In We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders...
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We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and “mysterious” deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as...
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We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today...
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A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story
Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now as a senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can call out the uncomfortable truths that...
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Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
May 31, 2022
Hardcover : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1982176210
ISBN-13 : 978-1982176211
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better...
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion...
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of...
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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while...
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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done,...
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing...
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify...
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights...
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Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to Reconstruction, curated by the Schomburg Center. Unsung makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin...
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Unraveling
From famous spoken word poet, artistic educator, and founder/CEO of “Called to Move” Brandon Leake comes his debut poetry collection Unraveling. In an era of self love, the ability to love oneself is only as effective as the ability to know oneself....
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