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Welcome to Basic Civitas - The home of today's most talented and influential African-American authors.
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Living Black History
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Manning Marable
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How Reimagining the African-American Past
Can Remake America's Racial Future
Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and W.E.B. Du Bois. Marable creates a "living history" that brings the past alive for a generation he sees as having historical amnesia. His activist passion and scholarly memory bring immediacy to the tribulations and triumphs of yesterday and reveal that history is something that happens everyday.
Living Black History dismisses the detachment of the codified version of American history that we all grew up with. Marable's holistic understanding of history counts the story of the slave as much as that of the master; he highlights the flesh-and-blood courage of those figures who have been robbed of their visceral humanity as members of the historical cannon. Living Black History will empower readers with knowledge of their collective past and a greater understanding of their part in forming our future. ...
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Triangular Road
A Memoir
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Paule Marshall
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
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Black Women , Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
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Jacqueline Jones
The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated
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Born to Use Mics
Reading Nas's Illmatic
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Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai
The best and brightest writers of the hip-hop generation reflect upon the era’s landmark album: Nas’s Illmatic
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Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
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Henry Louis Gates
With erudition, wit, and grace, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. elucidates the roots and limitations of cultural studies
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Dark Days, Bright Nights
From Black Power to Barack Obama
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Peniel E. Joseph
A rising historian’s narrative chronicle of race in America, and the successes, failures, and stalemates of black leaders in the past fifty years
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Can You Hear Me Now?
The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
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Michael Dyson
Seventeen riffs from the inimitable Michael Eric Dyson…on everything from Obama to hip-hop, from gender to leadership--and everything in between
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