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       RECOMMENDED NONFICTION  - MAY 2008

 
 Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequalityand Gendered Violence
Jody Miller

    
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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RECOMMENDED FICTION  - MAY 2008

 
Love Tornado
Mable John & David Ritz


Once Upon A Project
Bettye Griffin 


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


Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rigts Era Houston A. Baker, Jr.


The Black Panther Party: Service To The People Programs 
Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation


The Senator &
Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland & Fannie Lou Hamer
Chris Myers Asch


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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