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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)	Walter Mosley	Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. His stint in the Army didn't do anythin…	OL115528W
Fear Itself	Walter Mosley	Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble just comes and gets you. "Fearless Jones shows up at Paris Minton's …	OL115532W
The long fall	Walter Mosley	A brand-new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office…	OL115548W
A red death	Walter Mosley	It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS ag…	OL115566W
Derelict	50 Cent,Relentless Aaron	Despite the opinions of others, who view him merely as a derelict, Johnny "Pooh" Thompson follows his own wayward path toward self-destruction.	OL12276410W
Jewish marriage and divorce in imperial Russia / ChaeRan Y. Freeze	ChaeRan Y Freeze	"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the explo…	OL12330723W
Love prescription	Jeffrey Roger Gardere	Clinical psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere believes that it's war out there. And as a guest on major national TV shows, and as a therapist in private practice, "Dr. Jeff" is on the front lines. He hea…	OL13696150W
The new Jim Crow	Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander	This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race…	OL13826369W
12 angry men	Gregory Parks	When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was questioned by the police on the front porch of his home in an affluent section of Cambridge, many people across the country reacted with surprise and …	OL15444204W
Satisfied with nothin'	Ernest Hill	A black youth swallows his pride and puts up with humiliation from whites in order to make it as a football player in college. But it is all for nothing because when he is injured, the college withdr…	OL15844989W
The wrecked, blessed body of Shelton Lafleur	John Gregory Brown	Shelton Lafleur, an elderly artist, recalls growing up as a young Black orphan in New Orleans during the Depression, the accident that cripples him for life, and his encounter with Minou, who takes h…	OL16069918W
Raising African American males	Theresa Harris	"Raising African American Males is comprised of strategies and interventions that can assist and improve African American males' achievement in all areas of academics as well as in their everyday liv…	OL16167679W
Social determinants of health among African American men	Henrie M. Treadwell,Clare Xanthos,Kisha B. Holden	"This groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinants of health to the health of African-American men. While there have been significant efforts in recent years to eliminate health dis…	OL16672975W
Men We Reaped	Jesmyn Ward	In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. But why? As she began to …	OL17509612W
Backstabbers	Rahsaan Ali	Tracy Kane is the man--tall, good-looking, and arrogant. He's the top model for a hip-hop clothing line by designer Christian Elijah. When Tracy punches an African bootlegger in the face for pirating…	OL17817590W
Three days before the shooting--	Ralph Ellison	Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "D…	OL18818429W
The wished-for country	Wayne Karlin	"Wayne Karlin's novel, The Wished-for Country, is set during the founding period of the Maryland colony during the mid-seventeenth century. The novel focuses on the entwined stories of James Hallam, …	OL1886971W
A brother's honor	Brenda Jackson	The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate--and the bad memories it holds--years ago, but their dying grandfather's request brings them home: to a failing business, a legacy of s…	OL19706585W
Tug	G. E. Patterson	Tug, a thoroughly contemporary first collection, astonishes with its scope and vitality. Ranging in tone from formal to informal, and in mood from longing to celebration, Patterson deftly articulat…	OL2040443W
African American men in college	Michael J. Cuyjet	Publisher description: This book offers help for administrators and faculty concerned with recruitment, retention, and graduation of African American men. The book has two main purposes: First, to fi…	OL20546075W