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Blues City
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty?mountains and hills and lakes and a bay?and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost, and... more...
Another Day At The Front
Basic Books 2004; US$ 14.95An irreverent, brilliant, politically charged barrage of essays aimed with Reed's famous vitriol and wit at the perpetrators of America's war on blacks more...
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media
Baraka Books 2010; US$ 15.99Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Some of the pieces include "Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man," "Crazy Rev. Wright," and "Obama Scolds Black Fathers, Gets Bounce in Polls." Previously unpublished... more...
Mixing It Up
Da Capo Press 2008; US$ 15.95A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence, more...
Going Too Far
Baraka Books 2012; US$ 15.99Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence?including Mark Twain?s Huckleberry Finn ?it argues that, in some ways, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850s. Not only are the representations of blacks in popular culture... more...
Up from Slavery
Penguin Group US 1986; US$ 4.95Long considered one of the most inspiring autobiographies in American literature, UP FROM SLAVERY chronicles the author's beginnings as a slave to his success as an educator, writer, and speaker. Noted for his leadership of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington promoted economic progress through vocational education. more...
For All the People
PM Press 2012; US$ 14.99Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social changefarmer, union, consumer, and communalistthat have been all but erased from collective memory. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, this... more...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 7.99THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful... more...
Dark Eros
St. Martin's Press 1999; US$ 8.99The overwhelming power of the erotic imagination is brought to full flower in this masterful collection of African-American writings. With pieces from more than seventy writers, Dark Eros explores the erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by authors both well-known and emerging. Using the literary to trace the range of the erotic impulse,... more...
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