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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop–And Why It Matters
$26.90 Add to cartHow hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hop
Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0465008976
- Language: English
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Stokely: A Life
$21.99 Read moreFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers “an unflinching look at an unflinching man” (Daily Beast).
Stokely Carmich- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0465065589
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
$21.99 Add to cartOn the evening of June 12, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance “Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Missi… [more below]
- Author: Evers-Williams, Myrlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0465021786
- Language: English
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Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays
$0.00 Read more“Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” –Toni Morrison
Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black America- Series: New and and Selected Essays
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23, 2007
- ISBN10: 0465036937
- Language: English
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Holler if You Hear Me
$30.07 Add to cartAcclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African American intellectu
- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05, 2006
- ISBN10: 0465017282
- Language: English
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Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
$19.99 Add to cartAt the age of nineteen, Nasir “Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album — and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has pro
- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0465002110
- Language: English
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
$19.99 Add to cartIf asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting develop… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094406
- Language: English
