A New Look At Black Families

Charles Vert Willie- General Hall, Inc.- 1981

The miracle of the black family is that it has survived and grown stronger over the years. Eighteen case studies provide a window through which we see patterns of variation in the life-styles of affluent, middle-class, working-class, and poor black families. A new feature of this edition is the overview that compares the way of life of blacks in the three social classes. A comparative analysis of black and of white families is introduced.

A shining Thread of Hope

Hne, Darlene Clark & Thompson, Kathleen - Broadway Books- 1998

The Complexities of the historical record of black women's lives. Examines the mythology of the American mainstream.

Acts of Faith

Iyanla Vanzant- Simon & Schuster- 1996

In confronting discrimination, racism, rejection, and alienation, many people of color are turning toward a move spiritual approach to solving the problems that are unique to them. Here is a book of positive meditations that is sure to raise the consciousness of any reader.

Africa and the Afro-American Experience

Williams, Lorraine A. - Howard University Press- 1981

Eight Essays of African-American Studies

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Bell Hooks- South End Press- 1981

This landmark work challenges every accepted notion about the nature of black women's lives. All progressive struggles are significant only when taking place within a feminist movement, which states that race class & sex are immutable facts of exist

All Our Kin

Carol B. Stack- Harper & Row, Publishers New York- 1974

Stratgies for Survival in a Black Community

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

Alice Walker- Random House- 1997

About her life as an activist, in a book rich in belief in the world as savable, if only we will act on our beliefs. Here are a superb writer's thoughts on politics, culture, feminism, race, religion, raising a daughter, writing and living

Black Families in Therarpy

Nancy Boyd-Franklin- The Guilford Press- 1989

It has all elements needed to become a classic in the field. The background which engenders the book's valuable presentation of specific techniques and it's true centribution.

Black Like Me

Griffin, John Howard - Signet- 1996

Journalist who changes the color of his skin and worked through the segregated deep south.

Black Women Feminism and Black Liberation: Which Way?

Dr. Gordon, Vivian - TWP- 1987

Black Women, Feminism, And Black Liberation, methodically examines the historical relationship between women's issues and the Black liberation movement in terms of traditional coalition perspectives, economic inequality and the historic oppression of Black women.

Black Women in America

Micheline R. Malson- The University of Chicago- 1988

This is an extremely useful guide to both the history and current status of African American women. The majority of the entries are biographical; organizations, movements, and the place of black women in the arts, literature, and various professions are also thoroughly discussed.

Black Women In America Volume A-L

Darlen C. Hine, Elsa B. Brown, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn- Indian University Press- 1993

A historical Encyclopedia

Black Women In America Volume M-Z

Darlen C. Hine, Elsa B. Brown, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn- Indian University Press- 1993

A historical Encyclopedia

Black Women In White America

Gerda Lerner- Vintage Books- 1972

A documentary history

Bone Black

Hooks, Bell - Owl Books- 1996

Memories of Girlhood

Cane River

Tademy, Lalita - Warner Books- 2001

On a Creole plantation with four generations of women battling injustice to unite their family.

Children of the Dream:The Psychology of Black Success

Audrey Edwards- Doubleday N.Y.- 1992

Edwards and Polite focus on African American baby-boomers who have grown up possessing something no generation of African Americans has ever before experienced--entitlement. Surprising and often controversial, this groundbreaking book stands as vivid testimony to the increasingly complex world in which African Americans strive to succeed.

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Moody, Anne - Dell Publishing Co.- 1976

Autobiography growing up poor and black in the rural south.

Conversations

Johnetta B. Cole- Doubleday - 1993

Feminist, educator, African American spokeswoman, and "Sister Prez" to thousands of alumnae of Spelman College, where she has been President for the last seven years--Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole tells young African American women how to take an active role in making their world a better place.

Daughters

Marshall, Paule - A Plume Book- 1992

Fictional world that bridges black life in this coutry and the Carribean.

Days of Grace a Memoir

Arthur Ashe & Aronald Rampersad- Ballantine Book, NY- 1993

A tireless crusader for racial and social justice, a triumphant star in the all-white world of professional tennis, an outspoken voice on AIDS issues--Arthur Ashe was all of these and more. Gone too soon, Ashe has left behind an eloquent testament to his deepest beliefs with this book.

Different & Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society

Drs. Darlene Powell-Hopson & Derek S. Hopson- Fireside, N.Y.- 1992

Renowned psychologists Darlene Powell Hopson and Derek S. Hopson explore the sometimes tough, sometimes unspoken, questions that face the Black middle-class today, particularly parents.

Embracing the Fire

Julia Boyd- Dutton- 1997

Sisters about sex and relationships

Essences 25 Years Celebrating Black Women

Patricia Mignon Hinds- Essences Communication- 1995

Twenty-five years ago, Essence magazine was founded as a forum for African-American women to address a full complement of lifestyle issues. This visually stunning book surveys more than two decades of changing times as reflected in the pages of this enormously popular and influential publication.

Everybody Say Freedom

Richard Newman & Marcia Sawyer- Plume/Penguin- 1996

Most Americans are woefully uninformed when it comes to their own history, and most standard history books provide little, if any, information on African Americans. Using a lively question-and-answer format, this book fills that void, bringing to life the tremendous impact African Americans have had on this country's history.

Eyewitness: A Living Documentry of the African Am. Contribution to American History

William Loren Katz- Touchstone- 1995

In this extraordinary selection of the writings, speeches, and reminiscences of African-Americans, Katz creates a chronicle that reflects the true experiences of a people often neglected or misrepresented in other histories. Contributors include Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others.

Faces at the Bottom of the Well

Derrick Bell- Basic Books- 1992

The performance of racism

Gender Camouflage

D'Amico, Francine and Wienstein, Laurie - New York University Press- 1999

Women in the US military

Glorying in Tribulation

Erlene Stetson & Linda David- Michigan State University Press- 1994

The life work of Sojourner Truth

Harlem-Renaissance and Beyond

Lorraine Elena Roses& Ruth Elizabeth Randolph- G.K. Hall & Co.- 1990

In this groundbreaking collection of literary biographies, many with pictures, the authors chronicle the lives and works of 100 black women novelists, including Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Angelina Weld Grimke, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, and Ida Bell Wells-Barnett. 25 halftones.

Home Girls

Smith, Barbara - Rutgers University Press- 1983

A Black Feminist Anthology

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing

Alice Walker- The Feminist Press- 1979

Story of Zora Neale Hurston, outstanding novelist, journalist, folkorist and critic. Foremother of a generation of black women writers

I, Momolu

Lorenz Graham- Graham Books- 1980

Lorenz Graham's years as a teacher in Liberia, his visits in other countries help him write effectively about problems, changes and developments in the life of Momolu

I, Tina

Tina Turner, Kurt Loder- Avon Books, N.Y.- 1986

Tina Turners life story

In My Place

Charlayne Hunter-Gault- Vintage Books- 1992

1st black woman to attend the University of Georgia. Recounts her transformation from a girl who grew up wanting to be Brenda Starr to a young woman who w/quiet confidence crosses America's racial divide.

In the Company of My Sister

Julia A. Boyd- Penguin Books- 1993

Is a praise song delievered in authentic and loving voice of a sister who clearly cherishes Black women.

Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs- Harvard University Press, Cambridge- 1987

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, Self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch. A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family.

John Brown, A Cry for Freedom

Lorenz Graham- Thomas Y Crowell- 1980

A biography of the controversial abolitionist who played a role in the Pottawatomie massacre, the northward movement of runaway slaves, and the raid on Harper's Ferry.

Loose That Man

T.D. Jakes- Albury- 1995

This book offers clarity, healing, and restoration to a generation of men- believers and non-believers confused about their God- given purpose and vision.

Manchild In The Promise Land

Claude Brown- Penguin Group- 1965

Black man who made it out of the ghetto. Because a law Student at one of America's leading university

Merry Christmas, Baby

Paul L. Woods & Felix H. Liddell- Harper Collins- 1993

Christmas in African-American communities is a rich and varied blend of traditions that reach back hundreds of years. And since 1966, Kwanzaa has given us a new opportunity to reaffirm our beliefs in sharing, thanksgiving, rejoicing and reuniting with family and friends.

Quicksand and Passing

Larsen, Nella - Rutgers University Press- 1988

Document of the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920's and the social world of the black bourgeoise.

Quite Strength

Rose Park w/Gregory J. Reed- Zonderven Publishing Hourse- 1994

Printed record of the legacy of Rosa Parks

Roots

Alex Haley- Dell Publishing Co.- 1976

Begins with the birth in 1750, in an African Villiage: it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor

Rosa Parks "My Story"

Rosa Parks- Penguin Books- 1992

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." These are the simple yet eloquent words of Rosa Parks, who on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Written in her own straightforward and moving language, this is her compelling story.

Send My Roots Rain

ibis Gomez-Vega- Aunt Lute Books- 1991

An urban artist running from her past becomes the unwitting catalyst that exposes an entire town’s legacy of guilt. Carole Rio arrives in a small Texas border town to paint Murals on the mission church- a church, she finds, that no longer exists. In discovering the history of the town’s cure, she faces the source of her own terrifying nightmares and her previous inability to love.

Shirley Chisholm Teacher & Congresswoman

Catherine Scheader- Enslow Publishing, Inc.- 1990

A biography of the first black woman to run for president of the United States.

Sojourner Truth A Life, A Symbol

Nell Irvin Painter- W.W. Norton & Company- 1996

In this biography, Painter (history, Princeton Univ.) traces Truth's life and legacy, detailing her early life as Isabella, who was born a slave; her self-transformation to Sojourner Truth; and her strength and perseverance in pursuing her causes.

Souls of My Sisters

Daniels, Dawn Marie and Sandy, Candace - Dafina Books- 2000

Black Women who break their silence, tell their stories, and heal their spirits.

Success at Work

Anita Doreen Diggs- Barricade Books Inc.- 1993

Diggs, puts her experience to work in this handy guide to help young blacks, and she does it by breaking the process down to basics: how to look for a job, how to act once you get the job, and how to improve your situation within the context of the job. Diggs also discusses black executives in white-owned businesses, and she encourages black entrepreneurship, explaining methods of getting started with one's own business

Sugar in the Raw

Carroll, Rebecca - Three Rivers Press- 1997

Voices of young black girls in America.

Sula

Morrison,Toni - Plume/Penguin- 1982

This novel traces the lives of 2 black heroines from their close-knit childhood home in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths.

Supreme Faith

Nancy William- Harper Collins- 1990

More than 40 years ago, three girls from the Detroit projects made the world 'Stop!' and take notice of their fresh harmonies and classy style. Cultivated by the Motown star machine, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Florence Ballard popped onto the charts with hits like "Baby Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go" and made the Supremes not only a household name, but rock and roll legends. The story of their journey to fame is one that fairy tales are made of—complete with battles, tragedies, and triumphs. It's a story that only one of the founders of this talented trio is able or willing to share with the world. In "Dreamgirls & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme", Supremes' co-founder Mary Wilson boldly brings to life all the intimate details of the group's struggle to top the charts. This is the first book to tell the complete story of Mary's courageous life from childhood through the height of the Supremes, to the turn of the century.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley- Ballantine Book, NY- 1964

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African American in the 1960’s, that man was Malcolm X. His autobiography is now an established classic of modern America,