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The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
Published: 2013-10-31
Paperback: 368 pages
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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will...
When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
Published: 1997-07-29
Paperback: 322 pages
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Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and wom...
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Published: 1993
Paperback: 312 pages
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This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twen...
Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
Published: 1992-11-10
Paperback: 256 pages
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A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from ...
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Published: 2007-02-01
Paperback: 256 pages
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In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-...
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Published: 1997-07-30
Paperback: 216 pages
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Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.
Royally Matched (Royally Series)
Published: 2017-02-21
Paperback: 276 pages
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Some men are born responsible, some men have responsibility thrust upon them. Henry John Edgar Thomas Pembrook, Prince of Wessco, just got the motherlode of all responsibility dumped in his regal lap. He’s not handling it well. Hoping to help her grandson to rise to the occasion, Queen Lenora agrees...
Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
Published: 2014-09-09
Hardcover: 296 pages
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The unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described ?Painter of Light,” and the dramatic rise ? and fall ? of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing business.
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
Published: 2006-01-31
Paperback: 432 pages
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In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry...
The Wiz: Vocal Selections From the 1978 Movie
Published: 1984-03-01
Paperback: 80 pages
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Vocal Selections). Piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of: Ease on Down the Road * Believe in Yourself * Home * and other great selections from this memorable retelling of The Wizard of Oz .
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