Soulaan (Black/African American) History/Culture

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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,586 ratings
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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream
Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream 4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America 4.60 avg rating — 6,319 ratings
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S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 4.24 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown 4.02 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Heart & Soul: A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975
Heart & Soul: A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit 4.42 avg rating — 977 ratings
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The Meaning of Mariah Carey
The Meaning of Mariah Carey 4.08 avg rating — 24,165 ratings
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law 3.91 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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Black Talk
Black Talk 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
The Music of Black Americans: A History 4.28 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Story of the Blues
The Story of the Blues really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King
by: B.B. King
4.12 avg rating — 937 ratings
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone 4.10 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States 4.33 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America 4.20 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies 4.05 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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Dick Gregory's Political Primer
Dick Gregory's Political Primer 4.06 avg rating — 72 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,605 ratings
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia 4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century 4.18 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians 4.33 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Volume 7)
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Volume 7) 4.09 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating — 7,357 ratings
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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study 4.40 avg rating — 865 ratings
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s 4.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Immigration and the Remaking of Black America
Immigration and the Remaking of Black America 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition And The Cultural Politics Of Race
Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition And The Cultural Politics Of Race 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll 4.43 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Middle Passage
Middle Passage 3.85 avg rating — 5,410 ratings
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
If He Hollers Let Him Go 3.97 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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The Work of Frances E.W. Harper
The Work of Frances E.W. Harper 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon
The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,557 ratings
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The Walls of Jericho
The Walls of Jericho 3.94 avg rating — 155 ratings
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A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men 4.09 avg rating — 6,825 ratings
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The Conjure-Man Dies
The Conjure-Man Dies 3.83 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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In Search of Satisfaction
In Search of Satisfaction 4.46 avg rating — 3,372 ratings
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories 4.51 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales 3.86 avg rating — 847 ratings
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Eight Men
Eight Men 3.98 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled
Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America 4.24 avg rating — 998 ratings
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 4.05 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Readings in Black American Music
Readings in Black American Music 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Black Art: A Cultural History (Second Edition)
Black Art: A Cultural History (Second Edition) 4.01 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015
Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America 3.98 avg rating — 839 ratings
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African American Dance: An Illustrated History
African American Dance: An Illustrated History 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America 4.16 avg rating — 5,706 ratings
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Souls Grown Deep Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art
Souls Grown Deep Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s 4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom 4.49 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music
Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy 4.33 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series)
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Blacks
Blacks 4.48 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900)
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900) 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment 4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America
Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms (The African American Experience Series)
The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms (The African American Experience Series) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery 4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 4.42 avg rating — 3,069 ratings
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives 4.33 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida: A Sword Among Lions 4.27 avg rating — 946 ratings
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans 4.32 avg rating — 630 ratings
77.
The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback 4.33 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers 4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 4.02 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing 4.37 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings
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From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918
From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Black Culture Industry
The Black Culture Industry 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical 3.98 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance
Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings
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From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore: An Anthology (Norton Paperback)
From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore: An Anthology (Norton Paperback) 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling 4.51 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans
Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States 3.98 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Paul Robeson: A Biography
Paul Robeson: A Biography 4.32 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations 4.07 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie
Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie 4.65 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s 4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings
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I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans 4.20 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Bruce W. Talamon. Soul. R&B. Funk. Photographs 1972–1982
Bruce W. Talamon. Soul. R&B. Funk. Photographs 1972–1982 4.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Going There: Black Visual Satire
Going There: Black Visual Satire 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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