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| Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965
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Audreen Buffalo, ed.
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| Publisher: Studio Museum of Harlem. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780942949124. Daedalus Item Code: 31257 |
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| Just as African American authors and musicians in the mid-20th century found an acceptance in Paris that remained elusive in their homeland, artists like Lois Mailou Jones, Herbert Gentry, Harold ... (Read More)
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| Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War
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Donald Yacovone, ed. Charles Fuller, foreword.
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| Publisher: Lawrence Hill. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781556525216. Daedalus Item Code: 23143 |
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| This book gathers stirring, unabridged testimonies from many African Americans during the Civil War era, including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before being liberated, soldiers ... (Read More)
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| Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
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John Stauffer.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780446580090. Daedalus Item Code: 30050 |
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| The author of The Black Hearts of Men, a co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and runner-up for the Lincoln prize, Harvard literature professor John Stauffer offers this ... (Read More)
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| The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America
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James Sullivan.
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| Publisher: Gotham Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781592404902. Daedalus Item Code: 20546 |
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| Since James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received many tributes, yet few have addressed his contribution in the bleakest hour of the civil rights movement. The former pop ... (Read More)
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| Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781847084576. Daedalus Item Code: 30651 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2011 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) This perceptive and impressionistic history of Harlem seeks ... (Read More)
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Toni Morrison.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307594167. Daedalus Item Code: 29274 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2012) Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison offers this bittersweet novella, a poetically lean, fast-moving distillation of ... (Read More)
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| The Hornes: An American Family
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Gail Lumet Buckley.
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| Publisher: Applause. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781557835642. Daedalus Item Code: 21791 |
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| More than a compassionate biography of musical legend Lena Horne, this is a history of a leading African-American family, written by Horne's daughter. Gail Lumet Buckley traces her own as well as her ... (Read More)
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| The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
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Ashley Kahn.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393330717. Daedalus Item Code: 21064 |
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| Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through the 1960s and 70s, producing politically charged avant-garde jazz. Here three-time ASCAP/Deems ... (Read More)
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Maya Angelou.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812980028. Daedalus Item Code: 29190 |
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| When this first of her six autobiographical books was published in 1969, Maya Angelou garnered the attention of an international audience with the pangs and lessons of her childhood in the American ... (Read More)
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| Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz
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James L. Dickerson.
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| Publisher: Cooper Square. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780815411956. Daedalus Item Code: 12539 |
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| "When the young Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago to play second cornet in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, he was first given the once-over and then the cold shoulder by the band's 20-year-old piano ... (Read More)
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