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Manchild in the Promised Land

Manchild in the Promised Land
Author: Claude Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451626673

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Manchild in the Promised Landis indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem - the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humour. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.


The Children of Ham

The Children of Ham
Author: Claude Brown
Publisher: Scarborough House
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1976
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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The children of Ham are a group of young people ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two, who live in a condemned tenement in upper Harlem, a shell of a building owned by New York City. The children look out for themselves; they are a self-constituted family. They give to each other what they cannot get anywhere else: friendship and a sense of belonging. As you eavesdrop on their conversations, you learn about the families who abandoned -- or who abandoned them. Home for the children of Ham is this wreck of a house, the Harlem castle where they protect and sustain each other on hope as tenuous as life. It is their life that brims over in this book by Claude Brown. -- From publisher's description.


Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)
Author: Michael Bennett
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1642590797

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Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Bennett adds his voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice. Following in the footsteps of activist-athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, Bennett demonstrates his outspoken leadership both on and off the field. Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Sitting Down to Stand Up is a sports book for young people who want to make a difference, a memoir, and a book as hilarious and engaging as it is illuminating.


Their Promised Land

Their Promised Land
Author: Marcia Kunstel
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780517572313

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Tells the story of two gamilies--one Jewish and one Arab--who lived for generations in the valley outside of Jerusalem. Their story is told from the rise of Zionism and the 1948 war for Israel's independence to the present Palestinian uprisings.


The Land of Tomorrow

The Land of Tomorrow
Author: William B. Stephenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1919
Genre: Alaska
ISBN:

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Still the Promised Land

Still the Promised Land
Author: Natwar Gandhi
Publisher: Arch Street Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781938798238

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This book narrates Natwar Gandhi's journey from a primitive Indian town to Mumbai and then, through hard work, determination and good luck, to New York. "Still the Promised Land" provides an uplifting message for present-day America, where immigrants are often reviled and immigration is viewed as bad for the country.


Sag Harbor

Sag Harbor
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385529392

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times). Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own. The summer of ’85 won’t be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!


Makes Me Wanna Holler

Makes Me Wanna Holler
Author: Nathan McCall
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011-01-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307787680

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery. In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. With a new afterword by the author


Confederate Devil John

Confederate Devil John
Author: Claude Brown
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595372856

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Confederate Devil John is the story of John Wright as he grew up in Pike and Letcher Counties, Kentucky. John started life at an early age making corn likker with Rosan Burke. Rosan taught John how to make likker and to survive in the east Kentucky Mountains. After Rosan was caught by revenuers John set out to make his living outside the mountains. His initial horse-trading led him to meet John Hunt Morgan and joining the Confederate cause in the Civil War. He served under Confederate Capt. Quantrill, and he escaped during the battle when Quantrill was captured. During this period he met the James brothers, Bill Anderson and Sue Mundy. John and his best friend, Talt Hall, made their way back to east Kentucky after escaping capture to rejoin the Confederate Army. They were later captured and imprisoned in Fort Douglas. They escaped the fort returning to east Kentucky. John adventurous life begins by joining the circus, marrying Mattie, becoming marshal and judge, fathering thirty-two children and feuding with his archenemy, Caleb Jones.


Land Run

Land Run
Author: Mark Graham
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617770116

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Developer Rusty Watson is determined to acquire, by any means necessary, a plot of land owned by an elderly man in the Willow Springs, Oklahoma, community. Driven by greed and personal torment, Rusty is hell-bent on retaliation against the one he believes took his son. But his adversary has different ideas. Elijah Montgomery is the grandson of a former slave to the Creek Indian Nation. He resides in the local nursing home, though he still owns the house and land his grandfather was once slave to. Rusty and his cohorts believe Elijah's tie to the land is simply sentimental. They hope he can, therefore, be bought with a price, but Elijah's dreams show him something that no one else knows. The story of this modern day Land Run twists and turns through events of fate, and everyone, including Elijah, will find that these events, like the extreme weather of their region, are driven by forces beyond their control. No one in Willow Springs will be left untouched by this battle. The unexpected conclusion to this contest of wills shows to all that this battle is not their's to fight.