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Welcome to Basic Civitas - The home of today's most talented and influential African-American authors.
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Triangular Road
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Paule Marshall
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"An elegantly written memoir that reflects more on world history than on personal history." --Kirkus
In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall's life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent funded by the State Department.
In the course of her journeys to Europe, Barbados, and eventually Africa, Marshall comes to comprehend the historical enormity of the African diaspora, an understanding that fortifies her sense of purpose as a writer. In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Paule Marshall offers an indelible portrait of a young black woman coming of age as a novelist in a literary world dominated by white men ...
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Book of Rhymes
The Poetics of Hip Hop
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Adam Bradley
One of hip-hop studies’ brightest young scholars celebrates the lyrics of hip hop as the most vivid, most revolutionary form of American poetry today
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The Execution of Willie Francis
Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
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Gilbert King
A heroic-and ultimately tragic-tale of one man’s quest for moral justice in a nation still blinded by race
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Party Crashing
How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
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Keli Goff
One of the biggest young talents in Democratic politics takes on a subject she knows from the inside: why the new generation of black voters is leaving the Democratic Party
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The Right Mistake
The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
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Walter Mosley
After ten years, the street philosopher Socrates Fortlow returns in a major new novel by best-selling author Walter Mosley
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Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
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John Jackson
A provocative new paradigm of race relations in the twenty-first century, in which the overt racism of the past has been replaced by subconscious suspicions and whispered conspiracy theories
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Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
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Camille F. Forbes
From the traveling troupes of the Wild West all the way to the bright lights of Broadway, Bert Williams broke through the color barriers and changed the face of the American stage
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