Basic Civitas Books

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34 Publications Found

Stokely: A Life
Stokely
Peniel E. Joseph
Feb 2016
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists And Progressive Politics During World War Ii
Harlem Nocturne
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Sep 2013
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power To Barack Obama
Dark Days, Bright Nights
Peniel E. Joseph
Feb 2013
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
May 2012
In Defense of Taboos
In Defense of Taboos
Stanley Crouch
Nov 2011
Triangular Road: A Memoir
Triangular Road
Paule Marshall
Jan 2010
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
Born to Use Mics
Michael Eric Dyson
Dec 2009
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, And Insight Of Michael Eric Dyson
Can You Hear Me Now?
Michael Eric Dyson
May 2009
Something Torn And New: An African Renaissance
Something Torn And New
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Feb 2009
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
The Right Mistake
Walter Mosley
Oct 2008
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death And How It Changed America
April 4, 1968
Michael Eric Dyson
Mar 2008
Party Crashing: How The Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
Party Crashing
Keli Goff
Feb 2008
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
Michael Eric Dyson
Jul 2007
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
An Unbroken Agony
Randall Robinson
Jun 2007
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
Considering Genius
Stanley Crouch
Apr 2007
Debating Race: with Michael Eric Dyson
Debating Race
Michael Eric Dyson
Feb 2007
Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop
Total Chaos
Jeff Chang
Jan 2007
My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots
My Confederate Kinfolk
Thulani Davis
Jan 2007
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Michael Eric Dyson
May 2005
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Come Hell or High Water
Michael Eric Dyson
Jan 2006
Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future
Living Black History
Manning Marable
Jan 2006
The Artificial White Man: Essays On Authenticity
The Artificial White Man
Stanley Crouch
Nov 2005
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop
Bakari Kitwana
May 2005
Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
Mercy, Mercy Me
Michael Eric Dyson
Jan 2005
Why I Love Black Women
Why I Love Black Women
Michael Eric Dyson
Jan 2003
The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life
The Great Wells Of Democracy
Manning Marable
Nov 2003
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
The Hip Hop Generation
Bakari Kitwana
Apr 2003
Some Of Us Did Not Die: New And Selected Essays (New And And Selected Essays)
Some Of Us Did Not Die
June Jordan
Mar 2003
Open Mike
Open Mike
Michael Eric Dyson
Dec 2002
Out There
Out There
Darryl Pinckney
May 2002
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur
Holler If You Hear Me
Michael Eric Dyson
Aug 2001
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
Soldier
June Jordan
Apr 2001
The Cornel West Reader
The Cornel West Reader
Cornel West
Aug 2000
Africana
Africana
Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Oct 1999

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