Showing posts with label african americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label african americans. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2009

The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington : picturing the promise

779/.9975300496073
E185.93.D6 S38 2009
National Museum of African American History and Culture in collaboration with the National Museum of American History
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington : picturing the promise
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, c2009.
224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
9781588342621 (hardcover)
$35.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Booklist

NAACP : celebrating a century, 100 years in pictures

973.0496
NAACP, The Crisis Magazine
NAACP : celebrating a century, 100 years in pictures
Salt Lake City, UT : Gibbs Smith, 2009.
456 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 22 x 25 cm.
9781423605270
1423605276
$40.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Library Journal

Friday, November 28, 2008

I have risen : essays by African-American youth

I have risen : essays by African-American youth
378.1/982996073
LC2781 .I2 2006
I have risen : essays by African-American youth
Charlottesville, Va. : CAP Charitable Foundation : Distributed by Ron Brown Scholar Program, c2006.
128 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
ISBN: 0977289508
$35.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Voice of Youth Advocates

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Hair Wars

779/.93915
TR679
Yellen, David
Hair Wars
Brooklyn, NY : powerHouse Books, 2007.
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm.
ISBN: 1576873994
$39.95 (trade cloth)

The family of black America

779/.26
TR681.F28F365 1996
The family of black America
New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, c1996.
189 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
ISBN: 051788822X
$20.00 (trade paper)
Reviews: Library Journal

Family history memory : recording African American life /

770.89
Willis, Deborah
Family history memory : recording African American life
New York : Hylas Pub., c2005.
256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 1592580866
Reviews: Reference & Research Book News

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Soul of the game : images & voices of street basketball

Soul of the game : images & voices of street basketball796.323/0973
GV885.4 .H84 1997
Huet, John
Soul of the game : images & voices of street basketball
New York : Melcher Media/Workman Pub., c1997.
1 v. unpaged : ill. ; 33 cm.
ISBN: 0761110283
$30.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: School Library Journal

Monday, July 28, 2008

Thursday, July 24, 2008

The spirit of Harlem : a portrait of America's most exciting neighborhood

974.7/1
F128.68.H3 M29 2003
Marberry, Craig
The spirit of Harlem : a portrait of America's most exciting neighborhood
New York : Doubleday, c2003.
xx, 209 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 0385504063
$27.50 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly


Fiction tie-in:

Rucker Park setup / by Paul Volponi

What they found : love on 145th street / Walter Dean Myers
Harlem Hustle
Harlem Hustle / Janet McDonald
Street love
Street love / Walter Dean Myers
Brother hood
Brother hood / Janet McDonald
The Beast
The Beast / Walter Dean Myers
Picture Book tie-in:
My feet are laughing
My feet are laughing / Lissette Norman ; pictures by Frank Morrison

Faces of Freedom Summer

976.2/18
E185.93.M6 R36 2001
Randall, Herbert
Faces of Freedom Summer
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2001.
132 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
ISBN: 0817310568
$39.95 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Choice, Library Journal

The Black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology

The black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology305.8/96/07471
Dodson, Howard
The Black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology
New York : John Wiley, c2000.
ix, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0471401730 (pbk.)
$24.95 (trade paper)

Monday, July 21, 2008

Black : a celebration of a culture

Black : a celebration of a cultureBlack : a celebration of a culture
Irvington, N.Y. : Hylas Pub., c2004.
319 p. : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 1592580513
Reviews: Reference & Research Book News, Choice

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Good and bad hair

Good and bad hair
646.7/24
TT972 .G38 1997
Gaskins, Bill
Good and bad hair
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 23 x 25 cm.
ISBN: 081352475X
$27.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Library Journal

Queens : portraits of black women and their fabulous hair

Queens : portraits of black women and their fabulous hair391.5
TR681.W6 C86 2005
Cunningham, Michael
Queens : portraits of black women and their fabulous hair
New York : Doubleday, c2005.
xiv, 199 p. : ill. ; 21 x 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780385514620
$29.95 (trade cloth)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America

364.1/34
HV6459 .W57 2000
Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America
[Santa Fe, New Mexico] : Twin Palms, 2000.
209 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0944092691
$60.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Reference & Research Book News

He had a dream : Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement

He had a dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement323/.092
E185.97.K5 S37 1995
Schulke, Flip
He had a dream : Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement
New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.
160 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
$39.95 (trade cloth)
ISBN: 0393037290
Reviews: Reference & Research Book News, Booklist, Library Journal

The civil rights movement : a photographic history, 1954-68

323.1/196073/00222
E185.61 .K347 1996
Kasher, Steven
The civil rights movement : a photographic history, 1954-68
New York : Abbeville Press, c1996.
255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
$45.00 (trade cloth)
ISBN: 0789201232
Reviews: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews