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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America Amiri Baraka 9780688184742 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "The path the slave took to ’citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analo...
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues Kevin James Breaux and Zander Vyne 9781905091898 Nonfiction LL-Publications LL-Publications Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the D...
Blues Poems
Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...
Jelly Roll: A Blues
Jelly Roll: A Blues Rondall Brasher Book Review I preface this review by saying that I am an avid fan of the Blues. So, when someone comes along and captures the unmistakable feeling that comes w...
The Music Is the People
The Music Is the People Sean Qualls 9780063144255 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR ARTIST, SEAN QUALLS From Coretta Scott King Honor artist and illustrator of Questlo...
Jelly Roll: A Blues
Jelly Roll: A Blues Rondall Brasher Book Review Please allow me to set off the mood of this review by quoting one of my favorite Blues songs: I’ve been downhearted baby Ever since th...
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe Tony Rose 9781937269487 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications Group FROM THE INTRODUCTION - AN INVESTI...
Blues From Down Deep
Blues From Down Deep Thumper Book Review Reviewed by Thumper Blues From Down Deep is the second novel I have read by Gwynne Forster, the first being Once In A Lifetime which I enjoyed. I was not pl...
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy Ralph Ellison Book Review Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma is not an easy book for an American Negro to review. Not because he mig...
Nine Bar Blues
Nine Bar Blues Sheree Renée Thomas 9780997457896 Fiction Third Man Books Third Man Books Individually, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture, bu...
Black Families in White America
Black Families in White America Andrew Billingsley 9780130774538 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A number of American Negro families managed to escape the more crippling consequence...
The Negro Wage Earner
The Negro Wage Earner Lorenzo J. Greene and Carter G. Woodson 9781434472458 Nonfiction Wildside Press Wildside Press
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove Questlove and Ben Greenman 9781455501359 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Mo’ Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyo...
“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” Langston Hughes Article One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, “I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet,” meanin...
The Negro Problem
The Negro Problem Booker T. Washington 9781612030449 Nonfiction Bottom of the Hill Publishing Bottom of the Hill Publishing The Negro Problem is a collection of six historic essays on the state of rac...
It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music
It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692781876 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Cl...
Unfinished Blues…Memories of a New Orleans Music Man
Unfinished Blues…Memories of a New Orleans Music Man Harold Battiste Jr. and Karen Celestan 9780917860553 Nonfiction The Historic New Orleans Collection The Historic New Orleans Collection Unfinished...
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781461186373 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LL...
Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players
Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players Cam Perron with Nick Chiles 9781982153601 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The up...
African Background Outlined
African Background Outlined Carter G. Woodson 9781574781328 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American...
Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of Cedell Davis
Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of Cedell Davis Jason Peterson 9781662681011 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Young CeDell Davis learns to play the blues in a style unlike a...
Blues In The Wind
Blues In The Wind Thumper Book Review Whitney LeBlanc makes his literary debut with an impressive, multidimensional, highly entertaining family drama, written in the glory of the blues. I threw ope...
Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America Gerald L. Early 9781984863225 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House An authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped base...
All-Negro Comics #1 (Reprint)
All-Negro Comics #1 (Reprint) Orrin C. Evans 9781794099869 Fiction Thomas Publications Thomas Publications “…every brush stroke and pen line in the drawings on these pages are by Negro artists.” All-N...
Dirty Bird Blues
Dirty Bird Blues Clarence Major 9780143136590 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classi...
Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music
Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692508176 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson is best known a...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend Jackie Kay 9780593314272 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith....
Shadows of the Blues
Shadows of the Blues Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Whitney J. Leblanc’s sequel to "Blues in the Wind," readers are introduced to the lives of the Ferguson and Broussard familie...
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret A. J. Baime 9780358447757 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A riveting biography of Walter F. White, ...
Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks
Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks Langston Hughes 9798217007769 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legenda...
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture Greg Tate 9780767908085 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs....
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism Robin DiAngelo 9780807047415 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterprod...
We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball
We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball Kadir Nelson 9780786808328 Nonfiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide "We are the ship; all else the sea."-Rube Foster, founde...
We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music
We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music Stephanie Phillips 9780306832758 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock ’n’ roll an...
It Happened on Negro Mountain
It Happened on Negro Mountain Jeff Carroll 9780692255650 Fiction Black Bed Sheet Books Black Bed Sheet Books Matthew Abraham is a drug dealer being forced out of his empire in Baltimore, Maryland. Rat...
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters Evan Turk 9781481443494 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. An Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winner A New York Times Best Illu...
Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems
Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780688156985 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni’s u...
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Angela Y. Davis 9780679771265 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House From one of this country’s most important in...
Whitney J. Leblanc
Whitney J. Leblanc NONE Whitney J. LeBlanc is a Louisiana-born author and Hollywood veteran with over 25 years of experience in theater and television. He's known for his trilogy about a Creole famil...
Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story
Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story Robert Fleming Book Review When I Left Home, the memoir of legendary blue guitarist Buddy Guy, with support from noted writer David Ritz, traces the musician ...
Lackawanna Blues
Lackawanna Blues Brian Egeston lackaw3.jpg Film Review How Matriarchs Have Made Us A Film Review of Lackawanna Blues. Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV) Directed by George C. Wolfe Written by Ruben Santi...
Can Black People Go 5 Minutes Without Music?
Can Black People Go 5 Minutes Without Music? Troy Johnson Article ...or rather why do we have to blast the music during every gathering? Having been back in Harlem now for about 4 years -- after bein...
Negro Folk Music U.S.A.
Negro Folk Music U.S.A. Harold Courlander 9780486836492 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications This thorough, well-researched exploration of the origins and development of a rich and varied ...
Walter White
Walter White 0000000081462565 “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” Explore A.J. Baime's 2022 autobiograp...
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company Paul Carter Harrison and Cus Edwards 9780822955603 Fiction University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press This anthology celebrates more th...
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson 0000000108766551 “Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes.” —African Proverb Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves, became a renowned scholar, earning a...
Kathryn M. Johnson
Kathryn M. Johnson NONE Compiler of “The Two Foot Shelf of Negro Literature” Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, born in the Jim Crow Era, was a champion for literacy, education, and social justice....
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/authors/images/im-not-your-negro.jpg Film Review Oscar-Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin’s Unfinished Manuscript Excellent (...
Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango (2013) - film Review
Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango (2013) - film Review Kam Williams Interview Musical Documentary Examines the African Roots of the Tango. Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango (2013) U...
Yellow Dog Blues
Yellow Dog Blues Alice Faye Duncan 9780802855534 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company A lyrical road trip through the Mississippi Delta, exploring the landmarks ...
Melodies of the Weary Blues: Classic Poems Illustrated for Young People
Melodies of the Weary Blues: Classic Poems Illustrated for Young People Langston Hughes 9780063327054 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A gorgeously illustrated centennial of Langston Hughes’ first ...
Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream
Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber 9780998782232 Nonfiction Ascent Book Publishing Ascent Book Publishing In 1972 CBS Recor...
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words Smiley Books 9781401924058 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” — W. E. B. Du ...
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music Jabari Asim 9780762479412 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Get ready to swing with A ...
Mojo Hand
Mojo Hand J.J. Phillips 9781681376271 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books Race, obsession, and the blues are the themes of this wildly original novel by African American poet, novelist, and ac...
When I Left Home: My Story
When I Left Home: My Story Buddy Guy 9780306819575 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues g...
Bodacious Blues
Bodacious Blues Whitney J. Leblanc 9781432773007 Fiction Outskirts Press Outskirts Press Bodacious Blues completes the saga-trilogy of a Creole family from Estilette Louisiana. From the depression on,...
Blues From Down Deep
Blues From Down Deep Gwynne Forster 9781575669205 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. No one brings home the power of family to shape and heal us like national bestselling author Gwynne For...
Soul Clap Hands and Sing
Soul Clap Hands and Sing Paule Marshall 9781684220014 Fiction Martino Fine Books Martino Fine Books 2016 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Re...
White Men Can’t Hump (As Good As Black Men): Volume II: Sex & Race in America
White Men Can’t Hump (As Good As Black Men): Volume II: Sex & Race in America Todd Wooten 9781425959760 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions White Men Can’t Hump is a book of hope. The hope is that...
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9781538768914 Poetry Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books From Harlem Renaissance po...
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Imani Perry 9780062977397 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role ...
Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace
Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace D.L. Hughley 9780062953704 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Surrender, white people! After 400 years of white supremacy in America, a...
Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey
Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey Colin Grant 9780099501459 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Definitive biography of Marcus Garvey from an exciting and talented new writer.At o...
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance Jose Andres and Matt Goulding Excerpt “Harlem” by Alain Locke If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem has come to mean in the short s...
Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens 9781469690575 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of...
Walkin’ Blues
Walkin’ Blues Kalamu ya Salaam 9798989919710 Fiction MBW Modern Book Works Walkin’ Blues is a meditation and speculation on the life and legend of bluesman Robert Johnson. It is a hero’s journey, larg...
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 9780060821203 Nonfiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney present a poignan...
Shadows of the Blues
Shadows of the Blues Whitney J. Leblanc 9781432714758 Fiction Outskirts Press Outskirts Press Now comes the powerful sequel toWhitney LeBlanc’s Blues in the Wind….Shadows of the Blues — a story of lus...
Conversations With Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series)
Conversations With Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series) Roberta S. Maguire 9781578060078 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi As a cultural critic, biogr...
Clifford’s Blues
Clifford’s Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century”—Ishmael...
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power Albert B. Cleage, Jr. 9780865430785 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Reprint. Originally published: Sheed and Ward, 1968. For nearly ...
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780307908711 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About ...
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds Roland S. Martin with Leah Lakins 9781637740286 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books White Fear has shaped our democr...
Negro Universities Press
Negro Universities Press Negro Universities Press Negro Universities Press Not Black-owned
Negro Universities Press
Negro Universities Press Negro Universities Press Negro Universities Press Not Black-owned
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson 9781568528403 Fiction Konecky & Konecky Konecky & Konecky Decembe...
The Negro in Our History
The Negro in Our History Carter G. Woodson 9780266906544 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Negro in Our History In this condensed form certain situations and questions could ...
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Michael Eric Dyson Article Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White AmericaBeloved, the deed has been done. We have—since that ’we’ mu...
What Does It Mean to Be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, a Collection of Personal Narratives
What Does It Mean to Be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, a Collection of Personal Narratives Gabrielle David 9781940939483 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press What Does It Mean To...
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin Michelle Meadows 9780063273474 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Celebrate James Baldwin’s one-hundredth birthday anniversary with ...
Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)
Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback) Albert Murray 9780306803628 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group This study of the blues by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists will change ...
The Story of West African Music: How it Conquered the World
The Story of West African Music: How it Conquered the World Doye T. Agama 9781806547425 Nonfiction BookVault BookVault Publishing This powerful exploration of African music traces its journey from...
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches Malcolm X 9781628728293 Nonfiction Arcade Skyhorse Publishing The End of White World Supremacy The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled wi...
Mo’ Better Blues
Mo’ Better Blues Spike Lee 9780671725709 Fiction Fireside Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Millions have seen Spike Lee’s films - She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, and the most provocative film of 1989, D...
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory Dante D. King 9781794862500 Nonfiction lulu.com lulu.com The 4...
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded Benjamin Quarles 9780684818887 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The bestselling, definitive study of African Am...
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C. Stewart 9780195089578 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Alain Locke a tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Phila...
Music Is History
Music Is History Questlove 9781419751431 Nonfiction Abrams Image Abrams Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last fifty ye...
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People D.L. Hughley 9780062698544 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins 200 years ago, white people told black folks, “‘I suggest you pick the cotton...
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs Albert Murray 9781598535037 Nonfiction Library of America Library of America In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916€“2013) took aim at ...
America, My Love, America, My Heart
America, My Love, America, My Heart Daria Peoples 9780062993298 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins America, do you love me? Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answe...
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables Marvin X B00I1PTMDW Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press In “Wisdom of Plato Negro,” Marvin teaches by stories, ancient devices of instruction tha...
Hubert Harrison The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927
Hubert Harrison The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 Jeffrey B. Perry 9780231182638 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press The St. Croix–born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (188...
The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers
The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers George Padmore 9781877880049 Nonfiction Borgo Press Borgo Press Originally published in London in 1931 by the R.I.L.U. (Red International of Labour Unions) Maga...
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins―The First Lady of Children’s Music
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins―The First Lady of Children’s Music Traci N. Todd 9781452170640 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Once upon a time, children’s music was just Mothe...
Music Is in Everything
Music Is in Everything Ziggy Marley 9781617759437 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves...
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor L. Wooten 9780425220931 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor...