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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

by Jennifer Clement

Published: 2014-11-04

Paperback: 208 pages

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The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant a...

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Backwards Beauty: How to Feel Ugly in 10 Simple Steps

by Jessie Minassian

Published: 2016-03-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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If ten girls were asked to describe the “perfect” girl, they would likely rattle off an eerily similar list of qualities?from hair, skin, and weight to a cute button nose. That’s a problem, because God has given girls a desire to be desirable. If girls think that they will be most wa...

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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

by Eduardo Galeano

Published: 1997

Paperback: 317 pages

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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...

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Sunset Park Latin King

by Brandon Cory

Published: 2005-08-08

Paperback: 120 pages

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STORY OF A YOUNG MAN WHO JOINS THE LATIN KINGS. GUNS, KNIVES, MURDER, DRUGS, HE SEES IT ALL. A MUST READ

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It's A New Beginning: How to Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks

by Willie Alfonso

Published: 2015-07-04

Paperback: 118 pages

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Have you lost hope for a new beginning? If you believe your life is beyond saving—this book is for you. Willie Alfonso writes about his dramatic childhood story of growing up Brooklyn. He shares why he should be dead, dying of AIDS somewhere, or doing life in jail. His epic story with unbelievable...

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

by Jeff Chang

Published: 2005-12-27

Paperback: 546 pages

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Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a ge...

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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

by Tricia Rose

Published: 2008-12-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and ’hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as s...

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Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina

by Rosie Molinary

Published: 2007-05-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful trium...

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Moonwalk

by Michael Jackson

Published: 2009-10-13

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestseller! Michael Jackson’s one and only autobiography – his life, in his words. With original Foreword by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new Introduction by Motown founder Berry Gordy, and an Afterword by Michael Jackson’s editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart....

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Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009

by J. Randy Taraborrelli

Published: 2010-08-24

Paperback: 832 pages

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So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest...