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Raw Sugar is a collection of poetry and prose that turns the gaze outward to the world. It is a critical analysis of experiences in contemporary society without the typical American filter. Raw Sugar is direct and confrontational with a sensitivity and compassion that Red Summer is known for. ... Read more

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Raw Sugar is a collection of poetry and prose that turns the gaze outward to the world. It is a critical analysis of experiences in contemporary society without the typical American filter. Raw Sugar is direct and confrontational with a sensitivity and compassion that Red Summer is known for.
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Book Description for We Created These FoodsStep into a delicious journey through history with We Created These Foods! This vibrant children's book celebrates the creativity, resilience, and brilliance of Black people who shaped American cuisine. From crispy fried chicken to sweet potato pie, from gumbo to barbecue, the flavors we love today are rooted in traditions passed down through generations ... Read more

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Book Description for We Created These FoodsStep into a delicious journey through history with We Created These Foods! This vibrant children's book celebrates the creativity, resilience, and brilliance of Black people who shaped American cuisine. From crispy fried chicken to sweet potato pie, from gumbo to barbecue, the flavors we love today are rooted in traditions passed down through generations
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The Souls of Black Folk

by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ...

Key themes and ideas presented in "The Souls of Black Folk" include:Double Consciousness: Du Bois introduces the concept of "double consciousness," which refers to the psychological conflict experienced by African Americans due to their identity as both black individuals and American citizens. He discusses how this dual identity shapes their perception of themselves and the world around them.The ... Read more

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Key themes and ideas presented in "The Souls of Black Folk" include:Double Consciousness: Du Bois introduces the concept of "double consciousness," which refers to the psychological conflict experienced by African Americans due to their identity as both black individuals and American citizens. He discusses how this dual identity shapes their perception of themselves and the world around them.The
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Boy with Thorn

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Series series Pitt Poetry Series
In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art ... Read more

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In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art
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I Shall Not Be Moved

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In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind.This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free ... Read more

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In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind.This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free
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Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

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Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. ... Read more

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Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities.
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Map to the Stars

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A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardMap to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between race, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era. In the time of space shuttles and the Strategic ... Read more

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A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardMap to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between race, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era. In the time of space shuttles and the Strategic
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The Black Unicorn

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by Audre Lorde ...

The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; ... Read more

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When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

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Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in ... Read more

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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

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National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.In her newest collection, National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. From her parents’ move from the South to Chicago to being raised as an “up North” child under the spell of Motown music, she captures the rampant romanticism of ... Read more

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Words for the Soul: The Cure for Poetry, Hip-Hop, And Spoken Word

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Wild Hundreds

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