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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Jazmin’s Notebook	Nikki Grimes	Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings—a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her…	OL103723W
Black gods of the metropolis	Arthur Huff Fauset	"From his anthropological fieldwork among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream blac…	OL1199489W
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
The new African Americans	Brent K. Ashabranner	Looks at Africans who have immigrated to the United States since the 1890s, examining who they are, why they came, how American laws work for and against them, and how they have fared.	OL15001026W
Outlaw Culture	Bell Hooks	Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran…	OL15053153W
Home of the Brave	Katherine Applegate	Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comf…	OL15068822W
This our dark country	Catherine Reef	Explores the history of the colony, later the independent nation of Liberia, which was established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven for free African Americans.	OL15281022W
X	Jessica Sarah Gunderson,Keith Mayes,William Hayden	"In graphic novel format, explores the life and death of Malcolm X"--Provided by publisher.	OL15538524W
How they got over	Eloise Greenfield	Profiles African American men and women who have had a strong connection with the sea, from slaves whose owners sent them to work on ships to today's fishermen, naval officers, and marine biologists.	OL15837073W
I believe I'll testify	Cleophus James LaRue	xvi, 160 p. ; 22 cm	OL16211485W
Carter G. Woodson	Patricia McKissack	"A simple biography for early readers about Carter G. Woodson's life"--	OL16694959W
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay	Cari Best	Zulay and her three best friends are all in the same first grade class and study the same things, even though Zulay is blind. When their teacher asks her students what activity they want to do on Fie…	OL19091214W
Reparations for slavery and the slave trade	Ana Lucia Araujo	"Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to …	OL19726105W
Becoming	Michelle Obama	This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17930367W	OL19756681W
Letters to an incarcerated brother	Hill Harper	"A compelling, important addition to Hill Harper's bestselling series, inspired by the numerous young inmates who write to him seeking guidance After the publication of the bestselling Letters to a Y…	OL19970884W
Democracy in Black	Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.	"A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today…	OL20030527W
Never look an American in the eye	Okey Ndibe	"Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential--but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency--African Comme…	OL20040294W
BOX	Carole Boston Weatherford	In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slaver…	OL20705566W
Here we go round	Alice McGill	In 1946, seven-year-old Roberta goes to her grandparents' North Carolina farm during the last month of her mother's pregnancy.	OL2676051W
Quiz book on Black America	Clarence N. Blake	More than seventy quizzes challenge and increase the reader's knowledge of the roles played by blacks in American life.	OL6909440W