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RECOMMENDED NONFICTION - MAY 2008
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Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequalityand Gendered Violence Jody Miller
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The Beautiful Struggle: a father, two sons, and an unlikely road to manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates |
 Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home Lise Funderburg |
POINT OF VIEW  The 800 Pound Gorilla in the Closet: The Crack in the Male Self-image by Marc Collins
On one hand, many men suffer from a faltering sense of manhood and are in need of constant reassurance, placing an overburdening demand on their relationships. On the other, women are well aware that the cracks are there. They have been socialized to ignore or patch them as they appear, often to their own detriment...more |
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 Love Tornado Mable John & David Ritz |
 Once Upon A Project Bettye Griffin
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 Zora & Nicky Claudia Mair Burney
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THE DARKEST CHILD by Delores Phillips Review by Jacquie Bamberg Moore
TALES OF THE OUT AND GONE by Amiri Baraka Review by Grace F. Edwards
DREAMS OF AFRICA IN ALABAMA: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane Diouf.
ALSO RECOMMENDED - MAY 2008
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 Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rigts Era Houston A. Baker, Jr.
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 The Black Panther Party: Service To The People Programs Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
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 The Senator & Sharecropper The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland & Fannie Lou Hamer Chris Myers Asch
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 Race & Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Towards Africans and African Americans M. Dujon Johnson
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON: A LIFE IN LETTERS Collected and edited by Carla Kaplan Review by Arlene McKanic
THE ART OF ROMARE BEARDEN: The Prevalence of Ritual by M. Bunch Washington THE ART OF ELIZABETH CATLETT by Samella Lewis Review by Eli Kince
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 Crescent City Countdown Ronald Gauthier |

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 Discovering David's Destiny Pastor Timothy J. Winters |
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Overcoming Mediocrity: A Challenge to African American Youth Pastor Timothy J. Winters
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