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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR MAATHAI Wangari 2007
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MEMOIR MAATHAI Wangari 2007
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR MAATHAI Wangari 2006
1 available
MEMOIR MAATHAI Wangari 2006
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Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Morrison, Toni
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FIC Morrison, Toni
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Morrison, Toni
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FIC Morrison, Toni
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Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Morrison, Toni
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FIC Morrison, Toni
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Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Morrison, Toni
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LGTYPE FIC Morrison, Toni
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Morrison, Toni
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LGTYPE FIC Morrison, Toni
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Morrison, Toni
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BkOnCD Morrison, Toni
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Morrison, Toni
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BkOnCD Morrison, Toni
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest...
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.
“Brilliant and fiercely told.”—The New York Times
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and...
“Brilliant and fiercely told.”—The New York Times
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Hurston, Zora
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FIC Hurston, Zora
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Hurston, Zora
1 available
FIC Hurston, Zora
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8 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....
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85 copies available. 2 copies on order.
Brookline - Teen
TEEN FIC Reynolds, Jason
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TEEN FIC Reynolds, Jason
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN FIC Reynolds, Jason
1 available
TEEN FIC Reynolds, Jason
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Teen
TEEN FIC Reynolds, Jason
1 available
TEEN FIC Reynolds, Jason
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the...
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Brookline - Adult
BIOG LACKS Henrietta 2010
2 available
BIOG LACKS Henrietta 2010
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
BIOG LACKS Henrietta 2010
2 available
BIOG LACKS Henrietta 2010
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
BIOG LACKS Henrietta 2011
1 available
BIOG LACKS Henrietta 2011
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG LACKS Henrietta
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BkOnCD BIOG LACKS Henrietta
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG LACKS Henrietta
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BkOnCD BIOG LACKS Henrietta
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"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era's prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement--physical, social, intellectual--the threat of being...
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Brookline - Adult
759.1 Farrington 2005
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759.1 Farrington 2005
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
704.042 Farrington 2011
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704.042 Farrington 2011
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Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of important works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting...
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Examines the lives and works of African American artists from the eighteenth century to the present, with biographical and critical text and illustrated examples of their work.
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Brookline - Adult
704.0396 Powell 2021
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704.0396 Powell 2021
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
704.0396 Powell 2021
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704.0396 Powell 2021
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"The African diaspora - a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism - has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae, to the paintings of the pioneering African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and video creations of contemporary hip-hop artists. This book concentrates on how these works, often created during times of major social upheaval and transformation, use black culture both as a subject...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR LEWIS John 1998
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MEMOIR LEWIS John 1998
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR LEWIS John 2015
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MEMOIR LEWIS John 2015
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR LEWIS John 2015
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MEMOIR LEWIS John 2015
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"Lewis's role in the Nashville Movement - a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville through nonviolent sit-ins - made him a defining activist of his day and helped set the tone for the civil rights movement. Though he was repeatedly a victim of violence and intimidation, his belief in peaceful action, inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, became the core of his cause and vision. In this classic bestseller, John Lewis vividly...
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"More than two decades after his death, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideas - his call for racial equality, his faith in the ultimate triumph of justice, and his insistence on the power of nonviolent struggle to bring about a major transformation of American society - are as vital and timely as ever. The wealth of his writings, both published and unpublished, that constitute his intellectual legacy are now preserved in this authoritative, chronologically...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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...
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR OBAMA Barack 2007
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MEMOIR OBAMA Barack 2007
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Brookline - Teen
TEEN FAMOUS LIVES OBAMA Barack 2021
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TEEN FAMOUS LIVES OBAMA Barack 2021
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR OBAMA Barack 2004
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MEMOIR OBAMA Barack 2004
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE BIOG OBAMA Barack 2008
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LGTYPE BIOG OBAMA Barack 2008
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
19) The outsider
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[The author] presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
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This path breaking study analyzes the impact of racism on the development of the nursing profession, particularly on black women in the profession, during the first half of this century. Hine uncovers shameful episodes in nursing history and probes the nature and extent of racial conflict and cooperation in the profession.