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The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate board... Read More about Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free

In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence, commonly held perceptions of black women as teenage mothers, welfare recipients, mammies, or exotic sexual playthings remain unchanged. For fear th... Read More about Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy

A comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995)From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the Amer... Read More about Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music / Culture)

How hip hop shapes our conversations about race -- and how race influences our consideration of hip hop Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. As scholar and cultu... Read More about The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, m... Read More about Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture

Follow the tail of the little Christmas tree shivering on a cold winter night waiting for a family to take him home for the holidays. Will he share Christmas Day with a family?... Read More about The Little Christmas Tree