Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,670,476 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

BIBR recommends.


FICTION

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, by Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Books

A Distant Shore, by Caryl Phillips, Knopf

Some Things I Thought I Would Never Do, by Pearl Cleage, Ballantine/OneWorld

Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase Riboud, Doubleday

Kindred, by Octavia Butler, Beacon Press, 25th anniversary edition

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson, Warner Books

NONFICTION

America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Warner Books

Betye Saar by Jane Carpenter, Pomegranate pomegranate (pŏm`grănĭt, pŏm`ə–), handsome deciduous and somewhat thorny large shrub or small tree (Punica granatum  

Harriet Tubman: The Life and Life Stories by Jean M. Humez, University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (or UW Press), founded in 1936, is a university press that is part of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. It published under its own name and the imprint The Popular Press.  

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton, Little, Brown, & Company

In Black and White; The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. by Wil Haygood, Knopf

Passing; When People Can't Be Who They Are, by Brooke Kroeger, Public Affairs Books.

Pierre Toussaint: A Biography by Arthur Jones, Doubleday

Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop bebop
 or bop

Jazz characterized by harmonic complexity, convoluted melodic lines, and frequent shifting of rhythmic accent. In the mid-1940s, a group of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, rejected the conventions of
 to Hip-Hop by Guthrie Ramsey, The University of California Press "UC Press" redirects here, but this is also an abbreviation for University of Chicago Press

University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
 

Style and Grace: African Americans at Home by Michael Henry Adams, Bulfinch Press

Standing in the Need of Prayer, by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/The New York Public Library New York Public Library, free library supported by private endowments and gifts and by the city and state of New York. It is the one of largest libraries in the world. , Free Press

CHILDREN'S

Just Like Josh, by Angela Johnson, Simon and Schuster

Books for Young Readers The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume II, ed. Diane Johnson, University of Missouri Press The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, is a university press that is part of the University of Missouri System. External link
  • University of Missouri Press

 
COPYRIGHT 2004 Cox, Matthews & Associates
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2004, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Black Issues Book Review
Article Type:Bibliography
Date:Jan 1, 2004
Words:222
Previous Article:America's glass house: essays on Cold War global politics and the Civil Rights Movement.(Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs,...
Next Article:The Colossus of New York: a City in Thirteen Parts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Topics:



Related Articles
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Solid gold: the Black Writers Alliance, formerly the African American Online Writers Guild, presented their 2001 Gold Pen Awards at a banquet held...
Remember Me to Harlem: the Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. (BIBR recommends).(Brief Article)
Bad Boy Brawly Brown.(Brief Article)
Mr. Potter.(Brief Article)
Love the One You're With.(Brief Article)
BIBR talks with Connie Briscoe.(Interview)(Brief Article)
Paths to wellness: some other BIBR selections.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Soul City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Patrick White: a Bibliography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles