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Saved for a Season
ISBN: 9780979041402 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High school classmates reconnect at a wedding in the small town in Florida. Once grounded in friendship and faith, each have new struggles that threaten their friendships and marriages. These struggles that have the promise of leading to self-destruction. Will Lela, Jake, Tristan and Jeff make the choice to live and love without fear?
High school classmates reconnect at a wedding in the small town in Florida. Once grounded in friendship and faith, each have new struggles that threat...
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45,64 zł |
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Election: : My Ride With Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781440447723 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During this election Barack Obama has taken a campaign and built a movement from the ground up. Omar Dyer was the foundation and the base of this movement. Fresh off the tour called: A Literacy Tour on America: "A Poem for Joy and A Poem for Pain;" plus, an 8 time nominated Award finalist: two-time Nobel in Literature nominated to the third rounds of nominations - down to the creator of parts of the speech: Yes We Can. When Barack made is race relations' speech: Yes We can was the slogan.
During this election Barack Obama has taken a campaign and built a movement from the ground up. Omar Dyer was the foundation and the base of this move...
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82,11 zł |
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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
ISBN: 9781933149561 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what's in these stories, or you think you don't need to know, you're wrong."--Patrick Califa, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism Exploring the crossroads of gender and sexuality, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary offers unusually engaging narratives that create a raw and honest depiction of dating,... "This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so muc... |
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73,68 zł |
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Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes of the Dirty Blues
ISBN: 9781905091898 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas blues. Called "the Devil's music," the stories of the blues goes beyond jump turns, slow drag ditties, reel, jigs, minstrel songs, ragtime, or the buzzard lope. These lyrics connected to these stories celebrate heartache, separation, distrust, betrayal, lust, but they promise a healing love of revival and renewal. It's a celebration of the present, of the now, and it's totally mad at the past and suspicious of the future. But who are kidding? Let us tell the truth. Really, the themes of...
Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas blues. Called "the Devil's music," the sto...
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91,44 zł |
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The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones
ISBN: 9780807869536 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section in which Jones describes his experiences as a minister in North Carolina, while still enslaved, and then on the abolitionist lecture circuit in Massachusetts and the Maritime Provinces of Canada after he stowed away on a ship bound for New York in 1849. The narrative's most prominent focus is...
Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, pu...
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98,60 zł |
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The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina
ISBN: 9780807869550 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian" master and mistress. He offers a scathing review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could not see the contradiction between worshiping a merciful God on Sundays and holding slaves under inhumane conditions. Jackson details his escape from slavery into Massachusetts as a ship stowaway...
In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He sp...
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98,60 zł |
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Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself
ISBN: 9780807869598 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture,...
By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it ...
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164,04 zł |
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The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN: 9780821420072 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experience the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906). In these four novels, readers can explore the characters, landscape, atmosphere, and visionary sensibilities of this preeminent African American writer.
In the prime of his literary career, between 1898 and 1902, Dunbar published "The Uncalled, " "The Love of Landry," "The Fanatics," and "The Sport of the Gods." Despite widespread critical interest, the novels have been largely subordinated to his short stories and poetry.... At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experience the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul Laurence D...
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141,36 zł |
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (a Critical Biography)
ISBN: 9780984122899 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall DavisNjournalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissance man of the Black Chicago RenaissanceNand to explore the myths and legacy that he left to the world.
Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall DavisNjournalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissanc...
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86,72 zł |
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The Gathering Place: Ordinary Women; Extraordinary Lives
ISBN: 9781432770211 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,68 zł |
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Syrup Sandwich: a life of measured progression
ISBN: 9781448616503 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the storytelling tradition of Ellison & McCourt, with his first effort, Devlon E Waddell offers a collection of captions chronicling a creative life in process. Using essays, short stories and some poetry as the foundation for this work, he captures the essence of his own 'coming of age' tale. Witty, heart-rending and deeply honest, Syrup Sandwich: a life of measured progression offers the young adult a snapshot into the potential pitfalls & promise of the maturation process. And, for the more seasoned reader, this work breathes an air of nostalgia into life's doldrums.
In the storytelling tradition of Ellison & McCourt, with his first effort, Devlon E Waddell offers a collection of captions chronicling a creative lif...
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36,29 zł |
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Writing at the Crossroads: Black World Essays
ISBN: 9781466227712 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing at The Crossroads: Black World Essays is an interdisciplinary collection of essays shaped by the forces that gave rise to the Modern Black Studies Movement. The essays trace both the development of the Black Studies Movement, and the evolution of one of the discipline's important scholar-practitioners-Dr. Norman Harris. The essays are introduced by a prologue that establishes a framework consistent with the way African people have traditionally made sense of the world. From there, Harris uses Karenga's Nguzo Saba to organize the essays into three sections. The first section of essays...
Writing at The Crossroads: Black World Essays is an interdisciplinary collection of essays shaped by the forces that gave rise to the Modern Black Stu...
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68,47 zł |
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We Must be Up and Doing: A Reader in Early African American Feminisms
ISBN: 9781551119175 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The readings in this unique anthology give readers a sense of early black feminism across regions, movements and organizations. African American women have been 'up and doing' for their communities for as long as they have been in the United States, and their ability to resist the institution of slavery was central to the survival of African Americans. This anthology gives readers access to African American feminist thought in its foundational period by drawing together key documents from the late 1820s through the 1920s. Going beyond a focus on the 'greats' of black feminism to include...
The readings in this unique anthology give readers a sense of early black feminism across regions, movements and organizations. African American women...
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236,40 zł |
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Notes of a Native Son
ISBN: 9780807006115 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the... In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful tod...
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125,84 zł |
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Rooted Reflections: A Collection of Hair Stories, Trials and Triumphs
ISBN: 9780984518470 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,91 zł |
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A Literacy Tour On America: A Poem For Joy And A Poem For Pain
ISBN: 9781440447464 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second edition, with full color features, January of 2009: Omar Dyer in 2007 created the pen name called TheFanNJ: and launch a movement on changing America. This book was nominated for a Nobel in Literature, and has a promising story about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Omar Dyer during this year became the Internet Phenonmon that struck a nation by story -- he also was iTunes top promoter for their iPod music.
This is the second edition, with full color features, January of 2009: Omar Dyer in 2007 created the pen name called TheFanNJ: and launch a movement o...
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182,53 zł |
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Tired of Being Black
ISBN: 9781475945249 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,60 zł |
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The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers
ISBN: 9780252037696 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration programs. The Federal Writers' Project helped to sustain "New Negro" artists during the 1930s and gave them a newfound social consciousness that is reflected in their writing. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro in Illinois employed major black writers living in Chicago during the...
A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division...
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532,20 zł |
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James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780814253908 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Baldwin's and Morrison's black male characters employ as they negotiate discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. According to Oforlea, these characters navigate a discursive divide that separates limiting representations of black males in dominant discourses from a decolonized and empowered subjectivity. Specifically, the discursive divide creates an invisible boundary between how black subjects are seen, imagined, and experienced in...
In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Bald...
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225,09 zł |
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Conversations with Percival Everett
ISBN: 9781617037597 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books, Everett has established himself as one of America's--and arguably the world's--premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his many honors since... For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed hi... |
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249,73 zł |
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