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African American Fiction and Nonfiction Lagniappe issue, November 2020
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Did you know?
You can watch episodes of Finding Your Roots hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Access Video (Films on Demand) anytime! From the library's main page click on "eResources" then "eFilm." Access Video is the first service on the list. You can find that series with the search term "Finding your roots". There are also other great programs you can find using "African American family history." Check out first person narratives, do family history research, and more using two of our specialized databases: African American Heritage and African American Experience. You can also research your family history using the resources and staff in the Main Library's Local History Room.
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Black, Red, and deadly : Black and Indian gunfighters of the Indian territory, 1870-1907
by Arthur T. Burton
Recounts the exploits of Black and Indian outlaws and lawmen in the late nineteenth century including Dick Glass, the most notorious African-American outlaw of the 1880s, black men who rode for "hanging judge" Isaac Parker, lawman Bass Reeves, and the all-black cavalry units who built Fort Sill and patrolled the area before the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. Nonfiction.
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Black Fox
by Matt Braun
In a novel based on a true story of the early West, a plantation owner and his onetime slave enlist a ragtag army to fight the native American tribes determined to destroy the settlers. Fiction.
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Make me a city : a novel
by Jonathan Carr
A fanciful reinterpretation of 19th-century Chicago traces its rise from a frontier settlement to an industrial colossus through the stories of a bombastic speculator, a pioneering woman reporter and the city's unheralded founder, Jean Baptiste du Sable. Adult Fiction.
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Against all opposition : black explorers in America
by James Haskins
Celebrates the frequently overlooked achievements of black explorers, ranging from the contributions of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a trapper who founded Chicago, to the exploits of astronauts Ronald McNair and Guy Bluford. Juvenile nonfiction.
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Matthew A. Henson's historic Arctic journey : the classic account of one of the world's greatest black explorers
by Matthew Alexander Henson
Originally published in 1912 as A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by the renowned African American explorer Matthew Henson, this compelling firsthand account describes the journey he undertook with Robert Peary three years earlier to reach the North Pole. Some expedition members questioned Peary’s decision to take a black man on the final leg of the journey. Others defended it, citing Henson’s popularity with the Inuit, whose language and skills he’d mastered. Upon their return, Peary received wide recognition from the National Geographic Society and the U.S. government for his attainment of the Pole, but Henson was largely ignored, except in the Black community. In later years, Henson received much deserved acclaim for his twenty-three-year contribution to Peary’s expeditions. Nonfiction.
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American founders : how people of African descent established freedom in the new world
by Christina Proenza-Coles
While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas, and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. The multitude of events and mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the same ancestry. Nonfiction.
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Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
by Deborah Blumenthal
This beautiful picture book tells the story of Ann Cole Lowe, a little-known African-American fashion designer who battled personal and social adversity in order to pursue her passion of making beautiful gowns and went on to become one of society’s top designers. Designer of Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress. Juvenile picture book.
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Men of Color : Fashion, History, and Fundamentals
by Lloyd Boston
A celebration of African-American male fashion captures the elegance of Nat King Cole, sophistication of Sidney Poitier, comfort of Bill Cosby, hip-hop style of LL Cool J, and sex appeal of Denzel Washington, documenting their impact on all aspects of fashion. Nonfiction.
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Walking with the muses : a memoir
by Pat Cleveland
One of the first black supermodels describes her time jet-setting around the world, walking runways, and partying with rock stars and actors during the wild, glamorous, and gritty 1960s and 1970s. Nonfiction.
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Dressed in dreams : a black girl's love letter to the power of fashion
by Tanisha C Ford
The history of Black American fashion is discussed, including the author’s own story of growing up in the Midwest while trying to find her own personal style, and how black fashion has been appropriated by the mainstream America. Like this book? Try the author's Liberated Threads. Nonfiction.
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The face that changed it all : a memoir
by Beverly Johnson
Featuring stunning never-before-seen photos, the first black supermodel to grace the cover of Vogue and one of the most successful glamour girls ever shares her childhood growing up in the racially charged 1960s, her meteoric rise to fame, her struggles with racism, drug addiction and divorce and her triumph over adversity. Biography.
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Michelle style : celebrating the first lady of fashion
by Mandi Norwood
A celebration of the unique style of America's First Lady, Michelle Obama, describes outfits worn along the campaign trail and for the inauguration, and includes anecdotes and advice from famous designers and stylists. Nonfiction.
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Trouble & triumph : a novel of power & beauty
by T. I.
Leaving behind Power, the boy she's come to love, Tanya "Beauty" Long makes a name for herself in New York City's fashion industry, while Power becomes trapped in a world of drugs, women, and money where he makes a shocking discovery that brings Tanya back to him. Fiction.
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A.l.t. : A Memoir
by Andre Leon Talley
The editor-at-large for Vogue describes his odyssey from North Carolina to the heights of the fashion world, reflecting on the roles of two important women in his life--his maternal grandmother, Bennie Frances Davis, and Diana Vrelland, Vogue editor-in-chief and his mentor--and how they shaped his dreams, taste, and character. Biography.
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Wives, Fiancees, and Side-chicks of Hotlanta
by Sheree Whitfield
Arriving in Atlanta to realize her dreams of becoming both a fashion designer and an entrepreneur, recent college graduate Sasha Wellington spends a lot of time among the movers and shakers, getting a glimpse of what really goes on behind closed doors. Fiction.
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Black : a celebration of a culture
by Deborah Willis
Photographs from the birth of photography to the birth of hip-hop depict the history and evolution of Black culture in America, celebrating the worlds of family, worship, music, fashion, and sports. Nonfiction.
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Woman of color
by LaTonya Yvette
The African American lifestyle blogger writes about her experiences growing up in Brroklyn, gives advice on fashion, hair, and make-up, discusses motherhood, race, and entrepreneurship, and provides commentary from other African American stylemakers. Nonfiction.
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African American men in fiction
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Backstabbers
by Rahsaan Ali
Arrogant model Tracy Kane finds his life taking a dangerous turn when his boss, designer Christian Elijah, involves him in a deal with two ruthless African killers who have concocted a plot against New York City police officers that involves sending coded messages within Christian's clothes.
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Strivers Row
by Kevin Baker
Rev. Jonah Dove returns home to World War II-era Harlem, troubled by his history of passing as a white man in college and by the bleak prospects for his people in a racist America, and finds his life colliding with that of Malcolm Little, a teenage hustler from Lansing, Michigan, who is destined to rename himself Malcolm X.
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Mogul
by Terrance Dean
Hoping to become New York's next great hip-hop producer, Big A.T., a closet homosexual, launches a successful career with the assistance of a retired hip-hop mogul and a covert network of gay contacts, a situation that is threatened when his orientation is revealed to the media and his girlfriend.
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Gabriel's story
by David Anthony Durham
Reluctantly moving with his mother and younger brother from the urban East to join his stepfather, a Kansas homesteader, Gabriel hates their primitive, harsh new life and runs away to seek adventure as a cowboy, in a coming-of-age story of a young black man in the American West of the 1870s.
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Three days before the shooting
by Ralph Ellison
Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia
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Blowback
by Eric James Fullilove
National Security Advisor to the President Richard Whelan has been framed for the murder of his girlfriend and driven underground where he will use his considerable covert skills to catch the real killers and redeem his good name.
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