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RACE RELATIONS; On to Disneyland and Real Unreality
Nine years after a white boy spit at my son and accused him of being black, this year a white boy accused him of not being black. He was confused. ''Well,'' I said, ''white people complain a lot. They use blackness for lots of things - for whatever is going on in the world. Please don't let them define you. And please don't try to please them. Whatever they want you to be, chances are they want it for themselves, not for you.''
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To die for the people : the writings of Huey P. Newton
\"This new release of a ... collection of his writings and speeches traces the development of Newton's personal and political thinking, as well as the radical changes that took place in the formative years of the Black Panther Party\"--Amazon.com.
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THE BLUES MUSE WALTER MOSLEY'S TALE OF AN ART OF TRANSFORMATION
Easy is a hustler, a man trying to make a way in a land and world that would rather he break his back doing hard labor and then disappear into the dust when the break occurs. The African-American world of Easy's Los Angeles provides more space for its residents within its shadows but sometimes little more dignity than the South of his childhood. Now, in \"RL's Dream,\" [Walter] Mosley has written a novel of the blues life and of the nightmare that neither time nor travel has left behind. Once his pain and homelessness have been addressed by the wily Kiki, Soupspoon begins to reflect upon what he wants to do with the remaining days of his life. Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman, has returned to him--or is it for him? The legend of Johnson, or RL as his friends called him, is a vital part of Soupspoon's life, for it was with RL that the young Soupspoon played, loved and drank at various jook joints in the hamlets of the Mississippi Delta. \"RL's Dream\" is a meditation on the bluesman--and also on the legacy of slavery in the Jim Crow South, on a sharecropper economy and all the other social, political and economic forces that conspired to squeeze the hope and joy out of African-Americans. Instead, though, the strength of African cultural ways provided an ethos, a style and creative outlets that would turn the coal blackness of life in the South into the diamonds of the blues. And Mosley has succeeded in making the reader understand the emotional and intellectual reality of the blues life. Indeed, all the characters in \"RL's Dream\" have the blues: from the molested Kiki to her boyfriend Randy, who denies his blackness, to Soupspoon's barren and mourning ex-wife to the 18-year-old orphan Chevette, his last love.
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry \"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years.\"--Publishers Weekly \"All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it.\"--Publishers Weekly \"If you only read one poetry book in 2012,The Collected Poems of Lucille Cliftonought to be it.\"-NPR \"The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us.\"--The Washington Post \"The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton-both the woman and her poetry-is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness.\"-Toni Morrison, from the Foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titledthe book of days(2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose \"lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition,\" and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. \"mother-tongue: to man-kind\" (from the unpublishedthe book of days): all that I am asking isthat you see me as somethingmore than a common occurrence,more than a woman in her ordinary skin.
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