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9781583942109 | Frog Ltd, July 29, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “If you're black you don't need to get at anything.
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Product Description: “If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America...read more
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9780880013093 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: “If you're black you don't need to get at anything.
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9781556435737 | North Atlantic Books, May 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A call for reform about the dwindling representation of African-Americans in today's colleges contends that educators and the media are failing to credit the importance of the black oral tradition and do not test African-American students in accordance with their abilities, in an account that places a particular emphasis on California universities.
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9781403976574 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 9, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the controversial life story of the Black Panther information minister through a series of essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, charting his quiet childhood, prison-marked youth, emergence as a Black Panther leader, seven-year exile, and religious and political conversion following his return to the U.
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9781556435744 | Reprint edition (North Atlantic Books, April 10, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A novel based on the legend of Stagger Lee recalls the unfortunate chain of events that led St.
9781413466423 | Xlibris Corp, November 30, 2004, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a St.
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9781417993284 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 30, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9780674010567 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author peels back the layers of mythology surrounding 'Stagger Lee' to reveal the true story that inspired multiple songs and cast a long shadow over American music.
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9780674016262 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal--no one seems to know who Stagolee really is.
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Follows George Washington's journey of self-discovery in the 1960s as the African American travels from the United States to Copenhagen, where he meets other Black American expatriates
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9780880015172 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, October 1, 1996), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Follows George Washington's journey of self-discovery in the 1960s as the African American travels from the United States to Copenhagen, where he meets other Black American expatriates
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An account of the author's childhood in a small North Carolina farming village evokes a lost world of rural community experiences while describing a coming-of-age awareness of racism that leads to a painful confrontation. Reprint. LJ. NYT.
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9780880012935 | Ecco Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences growing up in the rural South in the 1940s and 1950s, his relationship with the aunt and uncle who raised him, the colorful characters populating his small town, and his growing awareness of racism
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9780880014144 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An account of the author's childhood in a small North Carolina farming village evokes a lost world of rural community experiences while describing a coming-of-age awareness of racism that leads to a painful confrontation.
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9780374526313 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1983, cover price $22.00
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