African American Studies
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Body Not My Own
A collection of tightly crafted poems of intense imagery, sharp cadence, and poignant emotional resonance, representing the African American experience of enslavement in the United States.
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That They Lived
African Americans Who Changed the World
Biographies on African Americans who will inspire today’s youth.
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Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists
1945 through the Black Arts Movement
Focusing on the paintings of the talented and thoughtful Harold Neal, this book explores the efflorescence of Detroit African American art in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and the impact the Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Arts Movements had on this art movement.
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You Are My Joy and Pain
Love Poems
A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.
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ISBN: 9780814348017
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ISBN: 9780814348024
"Black People Are My Business"
Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation
Exploration of Bambara’s practices of liberation that encourage resistance to oppression and solidarity.
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ISBN: 9780814346075
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ISBN: 9780814344293
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ISBN: 9780814344316
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The Burden
African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9780814348314
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ISBN: 9780814345153
Greening the Black Urban Regime
The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit
Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit.
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ISBN: 9780814346501
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ISBN: 9780814346518
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ISBN: 9780814346525
am-phib-ian
Exploring the will to survive the existential disorientation and emotional loss resulting from fractured relationships with lovers and kin.
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ISBN: 9780940713284
The Shape of Regret
An authentic voice that is reflective of the author’s sincere appreciation for poetry.
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ISBN: 9780814347249
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ISBN: 9780814347256
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come see about me, marvin
An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan.
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ISBN: 9780814347225
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ISBN: 9780814347232
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Shades
Detroit Love Stories
Interconnected stories exploring life, love, and passion in an ever-changing community.
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ISBN: 9780814346884
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ISBN: 9780814346891
African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness
Employs an interdisciplinary critical approach to discuss a selected group of black-oriented films.
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ISBN: 9780814345498
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ISBN: 9780814345481
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ISBN: 9780814345504
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I Got to Keep Moving
African American characters navigate a physical and spiritual journey beginning in the antebellum South.
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ISBN: 9780814345931
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ISBN: 9780814345948
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Meet Behind Mars
Explores the bonds of family, neighbors, lovers, and friends as they are tested in new environments.
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ISBN: 9780814345122
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ISBN: 9780814345139
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The Official Report on Human Activity
Jazz, opera, and various blues serve as the soundtrack for this collection of fairytales for grown-ups of all ages.
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ISBN: 9780814345207
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ISBN: 9780814345214
Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World
The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
A colllection of poetic reflections on the public and private life of an American intellectual giant.
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ISBN: 9780940713260
The Forgetting Tree
A Rememory
A personal narrative of past and present racial violence and resistance to terror in the United States.
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ISBN: 9780814344262
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ISBN: 9780814344279
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Beyond Blaxploitation
Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.
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ISBN: 9780814340769
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ISBN: 9780814340776
Blackness Is Burning
Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition
Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.
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ISBN: 9780814340516
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ISBN: 9780814340523
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Know the Mother
Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.
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ISBN: 9780814341490
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ISBN: 9780814341506