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GEOFFREY CANADA
on his personal history
of violence
ANITA HILL
on her new book,
twenty years after
WES MOORE
on the promise and
power of education
JOHN PRENDERGAST
on ending Africa’s human
rights crisis
REBECCA SKLOOT
on science, religion,
race, and class
Also, introducing:
CONTENTS
F E AT U R E T I T L E S
BOOKS BY MAYA ANGELOU ........................................................2–3
FIST STICK KNIFE GUN By Geoffrey Canada ..................................4–5 Random House, Inc.
OPEN CITY By Teju Cole ..................................................................6–7
THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING . . . By Ralph Ellison ........8–9
THE SHACKLED CONTINENT By Robert Guest ..........................10–11 EXAMINATION COPIES
REIMAGINING EQUALITY By Anita Hill ....................................12–13
STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS By Tracy Kidder ......................14–15 Examination copies are available to instructors
THE KING LEGACY By Martin Luther King, Jr. ............................16–17 seeking titles to review for adoption
consideration.
A MIGHTY LONG WAY By Carlotta Walls LaNier ........................18–19
SAVIORS AND SURVIVORS By Mahmood Mamdani ................20–21 The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for
each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off
THE OTHER WES MOORE By Wes Moore ..................................22–23
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THE ENOUGH MOMENT priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are
By John Prendergast with Don Cheadle ..................................24–25 limited to ten per instructor per school year and
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.
By Rebecca Skloot ..................................................................26–27
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY By Thomas J. Sugrue ......................28–29 To order, use the order form at the back of this
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THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS By Isabel Wilkerson ................30–31
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History, Politics, and Society ..............................................................38
Literature and Fiction ........................................................................40
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the unfinished second novel Page 8
By Ralph Ellison
Edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley
A new scholarly edition—with mostly never-before-seen material—of the final work of fiction by one
of America’s greatest writers, available for the first time in trade paperback.
“[A] vastly ambitious informing allegory, an allegory made rich, as in Invisible Man, with the sensory details
of which Ellison was such a master.” —The New York Review of Books
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MAYA ANGELOU
Poet, writer, performer, teacher and director maYa angelou was raised in Stamps,
Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies,
beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written five poetry
collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing?, as well as the
celebrated poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” which she read at the inauguration of President
William Jefferson Clinton.
For a complete listing of other titles by Maya Angelou, go to http://tinyurl.com/4gc48c4
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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
Angelou’s moving account of her childhood and adolescence in the Depression-
era South. This is an unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and
1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou’s grandmother’s store was the
heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from
another planet.
“Students [. . .] find this book plunges them into a passionate, sensitive life in the
midst of troubled and sometimes brutal realities. They found Maya Angelou’s spirit
and strength a wellspring of pride in womanhood. Students also experienced the book
as writers themselves and learned much about the memoir craft.” —Constance Berman,
Director of Professional Studies, Southern Vermont College
Selected for Common Reading at Berry College, Green River Community College (Auburn, WA),
Luther College, and others.
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LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My
Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with
meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life
that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons
in compassion and fortitude.
“A slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom. . . . Overarching each brief
chapter is the vital energy of a woman taking life’s measure with every step.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Sound advice, vivid memory and strong opinion. . . . What is clear is that [Maya]
Angelou is, all these years later, still a charmer, still speaking her mind.”
—Washington Post Book World
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A Message from Geoffrey Canada
When my memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, was first published in
1995, it told the story of my life growing up in the South Bronx as both a victim of violence
and as a perpetrator for my own survival. Things in my neighborhood and in many
neighborhoods across the country have not improved since I was young. In fact, they’ve grown
worse. Violence has always been a problem, but it has never been as deadly as it is today. In
2009, the Children’s Defense Fund reported that nearly nine children and teens are killed
every day as a result of gun violence. With more guns and more drugs available on the streets
than ever before, what chance do kids today have of surviving, let alone thriving, in the world
that has been provided for them?
This year my publisher, Beacon Press, has released a revised edition of Fist Stick Knife Gun,
updated to reflect some of the work that has been done over the last fifteen years. At Harlem
Children’s Zone, where I am now the president and CEO, we have grown to serve nearly one
hundred city blocks, reaching more than ten thousand children with free programming and
support. One way that we accomplish this is by placing trained and caring adults in the
middle of these underserved communities, in order to let these children know that they are
not alone out there. In Fist Stick Knife Gun I describe what it was like for me to be in the
middle of the violence, with nowhere to run and no one to turn to. In the years since I wrote
it, I have worked to protect the children who are still trapped in that difficult place.
In addition to the revised edition of my memoir, Beacon Press has also released a new
graphic novel adaptation of Fist Stick Knife Gun by cartoonist and illustrator Jamar Nicholas.
This new version brings the book into the twenty-first century in a fresh and exciting way. It
offers a new tool for understanding the circumstances and psychology of the children who
must face violence every day.
The problem of youth violence cannot be solved from a distance. While I believe it is
essential that people begin to understand the crisis that our children face, it is more important
that they start taking steps to protect them. I hope that these two new editions of Fist Stick
Knife Gun will inspire today’s students, parents, activists, and concerned citizens to take these
steps. When I was in college, I was absolutely focused on one thing: how to improve the
outcomes for the kinds of kids I knew growing up. I still dream of the day that we find the
answer to that question.
Geoffrey Canada
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A Message from Teju Cole
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Excerpt from Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Chapter One
Two days before the shooting a chartered planeload of Southern Negroes swooped down upon the
District of Columbia and attempted to see the Senator. They were all quite elderly: old ladies
dressed in little white caps and white uniforms made of surplus nylon parachute material, and men
dressed in neat but old-fashioned black suits, wearing wide-brimmed, deep-crowned panama hats
which, in the Senator’s walnut-paneled reception room now, they held with a grave ceremonial air.
Solemn, uncommunicative and quietly insistent, they were led by a huge, distinguished-looking
old fellow who on the day of the chaotic event was to prove himself, his age notwithstanding, an
extraordinarily powerful man. Tall and broad and of an easy dignity, this was the Reverend A. Z.
Hickman—better known, as one of the old ladies proudly informed the Senator’s secretary, as
“God’s Trombone.”
This, however, was about all they were willing to explain. Forty-four in number, the women with
their fans and satchels and picnic baskets, and the men carrying new blue airline take-on bags,
they listened intently while Reverend Hickman did their talking.
“Ma’am,” Hickman said, his voice deep and resonant as he nodded toward the door of the
Senator’s private office, “you just tell the Senator that Hickman has arrived. When he hears who’s
out here he’ll know that it’s important and want to see us.”
“But I’ve told you that the Senator isn’t available,” the secretary said. “Just what is your business?
Who are you, anyway? Are you his constituents?”
“Constituents?” Suddenly the old man smiled. “No, miss,” he said, “the Senator doesn’t even have
anybody like us in his state. We’re from down where we’re among the counted but not among the
heard.”
“Then why are you coming here?” she said. “What is your business?”
“He’ll tell you, ma’am,” Hickman said. “He’ll know who we are; all you have to do is tell him that
we have arrived. . . . ”
The secretary, a young Mississippian, sighed. Obviously these were Southern Negroes of a type
she had known all her life—and old ones; yet instead of being already in herdlike movement
toward the door they were calmly waiting, as though she hadn’t said a word. And now she had a
suspicion that, for all their staring eyes, she actually didn’t exist for them. They just stood there,
now looking oddly like a delegation of Asians who had lost their interpreter along the way, and
were trying to tell her something which she had no interest in hearing, through this old man who
himself did not know the language. Suddenly they no longer seemed familiar, and a feeling of
dreamlike incongruity came over her. They were so many that she could no longer see the large
abstract paintings hung along the paneled wall, nor the framed facsimiles of State Documents
which hung above a bust of Vice-President Calhoun. Some of the old women were calmly plying
their palm-leaf fans, as though in serene defiance of the droning air conditioner. Yet she could see
no trace of impertinence in their eyes, nor any of the anger which the Senator usually aroused in
members of their group. Instead, they seemed resigned, like people embarked upon a difficult
journey who were already far beyond the point of no return. Her uneasiness grew; then she blotted
out the others by focusing her eyes narrowly upon their leader. And when she spoke again her
voice took on a nervous edge.
Excerpted from Three Days Before the Shooting . . . by Ralph Ellison. Excerpted by permission of Modern Library, a division of
Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from
the publisher.
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A Message from Robert Guest
I once hitched a ride on a truck through a West African rain forest. The
journey was supposed to take less than a day, but it took four. The dirt roads
were fine so long as it didn’t rain. But we were in a rain forest, so it rained
often and hard, turning our route into a swamp. A collapsed bridge slowed us
down, too. The worst delays, however, were caused by police road blocks, of
which we met 47.
Every few miles, we’d see a couple of rusty oil drums and some barbed wire
in the middle of the road, and we’d have to stop. A plump gendarme would
check our axles and tail-lights and pick over our papers, hoping to find a fault
he could demand a bribe to overlook. Sometimes, this took hours.
The pithiest explanation of why travelers in Cameroon have to endure such
mistreatment came from the policeman at road block number 31. He had
invented a new rule about not carrying passengers in beer trucks. When I put
it to him that the law he was citing did not, in fact, exist, he patted his holster
and replied: “Do you have a gun? No. I have a gun, so I know the rules.”
Africa is poor today for many reasons, including the legacy of colonialism,
the frequent outbreak of civil war and the high prevalence of energy-sapping
diseases. But to my mind, the biggest obstacle to African prosperity is bad
governance. Those road blocks are a good illustration of how power is too
often wielded on the continent: the men with the guns make the rules, and
those who work for a living have to pay tribute. What Africans need is not
more aid, I argue, but less predatory government.
I’m always struck, when I give talks about Africa at American universities,
how many young people seem to care so much about my subject. When I tell
stories about war, disease and suffering, they are visibly moved. When I
describe the courage and ingenuity of so many Africans I know, they are
impressed. Yet what really animates them is the complex and incredibly
difficult question that I try to address in my book: why is Africa so poor, and
how can it become less so?
It is a question that links what they read in economics textbooks with what
they see on the news. It spans several disciplines, from political science to
environmental studies. It involves issues they are passionate about, from AIDS
to global warming. And thinking about it helps them to understand the world
we all live in a little better. At least, that is my hope.
Robert Guest
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A Message from Anita Hill
Now in
Paperback
T racy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the
college common reading program classic Mountains Beyond
Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master
of the nonfiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the
superb story of a hero for our time. Deo arrives in America from
Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and
genocide, and plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport
with two hundred dollars, no knowledge of the English language,
and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering
groceries, living in Central Park and learning English by reading
dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo meets the strangers who will
change his life, eventually pointing him in the direction of
Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.
With Strength in What Remains, Kidder breaks new ground, telling
an unforgettable story as he travels back with Deo over a turbulent
life in search of meaning and forgiveness.
“That 63-year-old Tracy Kidder may have just written his finest
work—indeed, one of the truly stunning books I’ve read this year—is
proof that the secret to memorable nonfiction is so often the writer’s
Random House | TR
978-0-8129-7761-5 | 304pp. readiness to be surprised. Deo’s experience can feel like this era’s
$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 version of the Ellis Island migration. Deo is propelled, so often, by
teacher’s guide available pure will, and his victories . . . summon a feeling of restored
confidence in human nature and American opportunity. Then we
plunge into hell. Having only glimpses of Deo’s past, we suddenly get
Selected for Common Reading at: a full-blown portrait. Kidder’s rendering of what Deo endured and
Alvernia University, Caldwell College, survived just before he boarded the plane for New York is one of the
Claremont McKenna College, Penn State Berks, most powerful passages of modern nonfiction.”
Stanford University, Trinity College, —Ron Suskind, The New York Times Book Review
University of Delaware,
Western Michigan University, and others
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A Message from the First Year Seminar Director at the University of Delaware
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Delaware chose Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder’s Strength in
What Remains as its First Year Common Reader in 2010. Strength in What Remains is the
story of Deogratias (Deo), a young medical student from the Central African nation of
Burundi, who fled the ethnic violence in Burundi and genocide in Rwanda and was
transported to New York City. Deo succeeded against all odds, graduating from Columbia
University, and subsequently returned to Africa. A truly remarkable story of survival, despair,
determination, evil, and kindness, the book was chosen by an advisory committee comprised
of faculty, students, advisors, and Student Life staff who believed that it would provide a
unique opportunity for students to consider issues related to that part of the world and to
begin addressing questions about personal meaning, transition, and passion. The committee
also felt that the book would encourage our students to consider what it means to be a global
citizen.
The choice proved extremely popular among the first year students, and the entire
University of Delaware community engaged in a number of events related to the book.
Author Tracy Kidder and the book’s hero Deo visited our campus to share their vision of hope
and renewal with our freshman class. Following their visit, a graduate of the University of
Delaware Honors Program spoke to the freshman class via Skype from the Village Health
Works Clinic in Burundi. Discussing how she had used her Delaware experience as a bridge
to help others achieve a better life in places that the rest of the world seems to have
overlooked, her talk complemented Kidder and Deo’s visit.
Strength in What Remains proved not only to be a popular choice, but to provide a unique
opportunity for our students to learn about another part of the world and to begin to
understand the complexities and interrelationships of the global landscape.
Sincerely,
Avron Abraham, Ph.D.
Faculty Director
First Year Seminar
and Common Reader Program
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THE TRUMPET OF CONSCIENCE
Foreword by Coretta Scott King; New Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman
In November and December 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures
for the renowned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Massey Lecture Series.
The collection was immediately released by the CBC under the title Conscience
for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, the book was republished as
The Trumpet of Conscience. Each oration found here encompasses a distinct theme
and speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues of racial equality,
conscience and war, the mobilization of young people, and nonviolence.
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A Message from Carlotta Walls LaNier
I started this book in earnest in January of 2006. I had in mind the upcoming 50th
anniversary of our entry into Little Rock’s Central High School. This September 2007
event might have been the impetus, but it wasn’t the reason. (Besides, I sort of missed that
deadline by a couple of years!)
As I say in the book, I didn’t talk much about my experiences until the late 1980s, after
our 30th anniversary, when the nine of us were all together again in Little Rock and Bill
Clinton was governor of the state. In the years that followed, Melba told her story in
Warriors Don’t Cry. Ernie had a movie about his experience, The Ernie Green Story. Mrs.
Huckaby, the assistant principal, told her story, which was made into a movie called Crisis
at Little Rock. Back in the 1960s, Mrs. Bates had told her story in The Long Shadow of
Little Rock.
So I started making my way into high school and college classrooms to tell my story.
Invariably, students who knew some of these other works would assume that my story was
also their story, that my story had already been represented by others. Well, that just was
not the case. Each of us has a story—not greater or lesser, just different.
So this is one reason: My story had not yet been told. I was the only one who could
tell it.
But why the long wait? Because this journey back in time was deeply painful. To revisit
that period, to really find out what it all meant and how it shaped the life I have lived,
took a great deal of courage I wasn’t sure that I had. Though I had friends along the way
who helped me get at that story, the journey backwards—as it was over fifty years ago—
was still a singular and lonely path. Quite frankly, I did not want to go there. But as with
all that weighs heavy in our psyches, there are things we need to see in the light of day to
understand. As the old woman said, when asked about her writing: “How do I know what
I think until I see what I say?”
This book is my understanding of my story. It’s out now, and I can see the light of day.
Upon the book’s release, I began to talk about it with students on college campuses. My
favorite moments during these visits are the question and answer sessions. On a recent
visit to a campus in North Carolina, it seemed that every student was bursting with
questions. Some of the African American students connected their own educational path
with my journey. By doing so, they came to know their nation’s history in a more personal
and real way. I also enjoy going to lunch or dinner with students; the talk becomes more
intimate. I get to know who they are, and they can ask me questions that often cause me
to think in new ways about my story.
I would be delighted to visit your campus so your students can get to know my story,
which is ultimately their story.
Carlotta Walls LaNier
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Excerpt from Saviors and Survivors
Introduction
The Save Darfur movement claims to have learned from Rwanda. But what is the
lesson of Rwanda? For many of those mobilized to save Darfur, the lesson is to rescue
before it is too late, to act before seeking to understand. Though it is never explicitly
stated, Rwanda is recalled as a time when we thought we needed to know more; we
waited to find out, to learn the difference between Tutsi and Hutu, and why one was
killing the other, but it was too late. Needing to know turned into an excuse for doing
nothing. What is new about Darfur, human rights interventionists will tell you, is the
realization that sometimes we must respond ethically and not wait. That time is when
genocide is occurring.
But how do we know it is genocide? Because we are told it is. This is why the battle for
naming turns out to be all-important: Once Darfur is named as the site of genocide,
people recognize something they have already seen elsewhere and conclude that what
they know is enough to call for action. They need to know no more in order to act. But
killing is not what defines genocide. Killing happens in war, in insurgency and
counterinsurgency. It is killing with intent to eliminate an entire group—a race, for
example—that is genocide.
Those who prioritize knowing over doing assume that genocide is the name of a
consequence, and not its context or cause. But how do we decipher “intent” except by
focusing on both context and consequence? The connection between the two is the only
clue to naming an action. We shall see that the violence in Darfur was driven by two
issues: one local, the other national. The local grievance focused on land and had a double
background; its deep background was a colonial legacy of parceling Darfur between tribes,
with some given homelands and others not; its immediate background was a four-
decades-long process of drought and desertification that exacerbated the conflict between
tribes with land and those without. The national context was a rebellion that brought the
state into an ongoing civil (tribal) war.
The conflict in Darfur began as a localized civil war (1987–89) and turned into a
rebellion (beginning in 2003). That Darfur was the site of genocide was the view of one
side in the civil war—the tribes with land who sought to keep out landless or land-poor
tribes fleeing the advancing drought and desert. As early as the 1989 reconciliation
conference in Darfur, that side was already using the language of “genocide”—and indeed
“holocaust.” But that charge was made against the coalition of tribes they fought, and not
against the government of Sudan. In spite of this important difference, that language has
come to inform the view of those who blew the whistle—genocide—at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 and was translated into a unanimous resolution of
both houses of the U.S Congress that year.
Excerpted from Saviors and Survivors by Mahmood Mamdani Copyright © 2009 by Mahmood Mamdani. Excerpted by
permission of Doubleday Religion, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be
reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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A Message from Wes Moore
I am living proof that a support system of family, mentors, and educators is critical for success
and, as such, have the most tremendous respect for those of you who give tirelessly of yourselves to
improve the future of a child. I would like to humbly thank all of you for being heroes to so many
of your students, for inspiring them in ways you probably cannot even fathom yet, and for
teaching them character and personal responsibility in addition to academics. It is your example,
your belief in them, along with the preparation you give them in the classroom, that will unlock
doors of opportunity.
I am a grandchild of a retired school teacher who taught in the Bronx public school system for
over twenty years, the son-in-law of a New York City public elementary school teacher of over
twenty years, and a proud advocate for schools and the kids they serve. I have grown up hearing
the stories of redemption and disappointment, of joy and pain, and of the success and failure of so
many kids who find themselves in a system that currently works for some, but doesn’t for too
many others. Like a captain on the front lines in Afghanistan, you are the front-line soldiers in the
most important battle our nation faces now: the battle to educate and prepare our next generation
of leaders.
Just as we need to mobilize leaders and resources around our battles overseas, the same must be
done to help our children navigate their journeys into adulthood.
We are all familiar with the disturbing statistics of low graduation and high dropout rates in our
nation’s public schools. And with more than fifty percent of marriages failing in today’s society,
and single-parent households the norm in many inner-city communities, children lack the
guidance that the family structure once provided. I am sure we are all alarmed that, in today’s
world, young men of color are more likely to be in prison than in college. For too many in our
nation, particularly those who live in our most precarious areas, a broken school system serves as a
precursor to entry into the juvenile justice system. But I believe this is a problem we can—and
must—tackle.
Studies show that students from low-income communities can and do achieve at high levels
when they are given the resources and attention they deserve. And there are amazing educators
and civic leaders who are already leading the charge with impressive steam. I know the fixes aren’t
simple, nor are they cheap. But there are a few things to remember: The answer isn’t simply
spending more money; it is to spend money wisely with a focus on the children we intend to serve.
The costs of inaction are unbearably high when you consider that it costs nearly $200,000 to
incarcerate someone in New York, while a recent Columbia University study shows that cutting
the dropout rate in half would yield 45 billion dollars annually in both new federal tax revenues
and cost savings.
Promising reforms that embrace alternative teaching platforms, teacher pay systems based on
performance, and the inspired 4.35 billion dollars in “Race to the Top” funds that the Obama
administration has allocated are tremendous, but a national embrace of innovation and policy
change is imperative.
We will need fortitude and ingenuity as we embark on the education reform battle of our
lifetime. The chance to raise expectations, the opportunity for our children to do better than their
parents, and the need to translate the experience of young students into the dreams of a nation
must now drive us all. Just as it was imperative for my fellow soldiers and I to win our fights, the
same can be said for you and the work you are doing. As President Obama recently expressed,
“The future belongs to the nation that best educates its citizens.” I could not agree more.
Wes Moore
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A Message from John Prendergast
Three of the most horrible scourges facing humanity are genocide (the destruction of people
based on their identity), rape as a war weapon (the deliberate destruction of women through
targeted sexual violence), and child slavery (children who are forcibly recruited to become
killing machines or sex slaves).
All three seem overwhelming and intractable, but the reality is that there are specific and
concrete solutions that can be implemented, if only there were the political and popular will to
do so.
Help is indeed on the way. In the last five years, a growing people’s movement has been born
in the United States and other countries to stop the genocide in Darfur. Similarly, there are
rapidly expanding international efforts to protect and empower the women of Eastern Congo,
who are subject to sexual violence more extreme than anywhere else in the world, as well as the
children of Central Africa (the Invisible Children), who have experienced the highest
abduction rates in the world at the hands of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group.
Once they learn about these human rights crimes, people are eager to learn how they can
make a difference. We’ve learned a lot in the last few years, from our travels around the U.S.
meeting concerned citizens, about how to empower people to get involved, how to appeal to a
wide cross-section of folks to demonstrate how change happens, and how the individual—
working in the context of community—is at the center of change throughout history. The
women’s movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the environmental
movement, the anti-apartheid movement—all of these were propelled in large part by
passionate and dedicated individuals, often small in number at the beginning, who believed in
standing up for human rights and human dignity.
For the first time in history, we have a real international anti-genocide movement. We also
have a growing chorus that could become a movement focused on stopping the destruction of
women in the Congo. We have a non-traditional, underground phenomenon called “Invisible
Children” sweeping through college campuses, dedicated to finding a solution to the child
soldier phenomenon in Central Africa. Building the scale and scope of these efforts through
this book and associated campaigns provides a unique and historic opportunity to help alter
the course of history.
The Enough Moment presents the transformative tales of what we call “Frontline Upstanders”
from war zones in Africa, “Citizen Upstanders” from around the U.S., and “Famous
Upstanders” from the world of celebrity, including Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, Madeleine
Albright, Ryan Gosling, Tracy McGrady, Ann Curry, and Mariska Hargitay. The book also
provides an expansive menu of action items to empower each reader to become part of the
movement. These stories will be channeled into what amounts to a recruitment drive: to help
build a meaningful people’s movement dedicated to ending these human rights crimes.
Ultimately, all the greatest policy ideas in the world mean nothing if we don’t have a
permanent constituency of people behind the ideas, demanding that our elected officials do
something. The Enough Moment provides a way for readers to become part of this popular
movement against mass atrocities that, if successful, could literally help change the fate of
millions of people.
John Prendergast
By Rebecca Skloot
Winner of 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Winner of The American Association for the Advancement of
Science’s Young Adult Science Book Award
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by over 60 publications,
including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington
Post and USA Today
I first learned about HeLa cells, and the woman behind them, as a teenager sitting in a
freshman biology class. I knew only fragments of Henrietta’s story, but those fragments inspired
me to start asking questions—about science and mortality, bioethics, and how I’d feel if my own
cells were used in research. I didn’t yet know that her cells had launched a multibillion dollar
industry while her children lived in poverty, or that the cells had devastating consequences for the
family.
Henrietta’s story captures the imagination of students in any number of disciplines, including
the sciences, medicine, African American studies, sociology, philosophy, law, bioethics, journalism,
and creative writing. I’ve spoken about HeLa at schools around the country, where students are
transfixed by the story. I tell them that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown on a scale they
would weigh more than one hundred Empire State Buildings, and that HeLa has been fused with
mouse cells to create Henrietta-mouse hybrid cells. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but it’s true, and
students love it. Combine that with the story of Henrietta’s family—a tale about science, religion,
race, and class—and students’ reactions are powerful.
During Q&As, the first question is usually: “Wasn’t it illegal to take her cells and use them in
research without asking?” The answer is no—not in 1951, and not in 2011. Today, most Americans
have their tissue on file somewhere through routine blood tests or biopsies. And since the late
sixties, when testing newborns for genetic diseases became required by law, each baby born in the
United States has had blood taken, and those samples are often stored and used by scientists. This
means that the majority of college students in this country have tissues of their own being used in
research, and neither they nor their parents likely realize it.
As a college professor, I always look for books that bring together the many disparate fields that
students will study throughout their careers and that allow them to explore the real-world
consequences of intellectual discoveries. Other professors tell me The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks does just that, bringing together health, community, family, ethics, religion, science,
storytelling, history, business, law, and humanity.
Since spring 2010, I have talked about my book at more than one hundred schools nationwide.
As a regular guest lecturer who’s also worked as a correspondent for radio and television, I
understand the importance of being an engaging speaker, and my talks have been called “moving
and engaging of both the heart and mind.” To find out more, you can visit the events page of my
website at www.RebeccaSkloot.com and you can contact me through the site.
As a college biology major, I couldn’t have imagined that Henrietta’s story would lead me to
become a writer, or that writing this book would be a ten-year journey. There’s no telling what
effect this story could have on students. I can’t wait to find out.
Rebecca Skloot
©DePauw University
©DePauw University
©Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca skloot talks with students and signs books at dePauw university and university of alabama
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Excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty
Chapter 1
And this will be the day—this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with
new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
As the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his speech at the 1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom to a thundering close, Anna Arnold Hedgeman sat a few feet away. It was a
long-overdue moment of recognition for the sixty-four-year-old civil rights activist, though it was
bittersweet. The only woman on the steering committee for the march, Hedgeman had a place of
honor on the dais at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. It was only at the last minute, at her
insistence, that march organizers gave a few minutes on the program to Little Rock leader Daisy
Bates and “casually” introduced Rosa Parks to the crowd. Hedgeman remained unacknowledged, her
presence mute testimony to the importance of decades of grassroots organizing, much of it in the
North, that had brought a quarter of a million people to the greatest demonstration in the nation’s
history. It is safe to say that most of the marchers gathered that hot August afternoon had no idea
who she was. At a moment when the black freedom struggle was growing younger and more
militant, Hedgeman was part of a largely forgotten generation of activists, women and men, black
and white, religious and secular, whose lives embodied the long history of civil rights in the North.
Anna Arnold Hedgeman’s journey began in the small-town Midwest at the dawn of the twentieth
century, took her through the North, and brought her into the heart of a remarkable and diverse
political and social movement to challenge racial inequality in America. She came of age as millions
of blacks headed north in search of opportunity but faced a regime of racial proscription there that
was every bit as deeply entrenched as the southern system of Jim Crow. During her lifetime of
activism, she encountered grassroots school desegregation activists and angry Klansmen; black and
white churchwomen committed to dialogue on race relations; poor black migrants and struggling
women workers; hypocritical white liberals who mouthed their commitment to racial equality but
continued to profit from it; musicians, activists, and intellectuals who created the Harlem
Renaissance; black separatists dreaming of a proud black nation; and blue-collar activists committed
to building an interracial labor movement. A tireless woman of political savvy and considerable
charm, she worked with nearly every important civil rights activist in the first half of the twentieth
century.
Excerpted from Sweet Land of Liberty by Thomas J. Sugrue Copyright © 2008 by Thomas Sugrue. Excerpted by permission of Random
House Trade Paperbacks, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or
reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Excerpt from The Warmth of Other Suns
Chapter 1
The night clouds were closing in on the salt licks east of the oxbow lakes along the folds
in the earth beyond the Yalobusha River. The cotton was at last cleared from the field. Ida
Mae tried now to get the children ready and to gather the clothes and quilts and
somehow keep her mind off the churning within her. She had sold off the turkeys and
doled out in secret the old stools, the wash pots, the tin tub, the bed pallets. Her husband
was settling with Mr. Edd over the worth of a year’s labor, and she did not know what
would come of it. None of them had been on a train before—not unless you counted the
clattering local from Bacon Switch to Okolona, where, “by the time you sit down, you
there,” as Ida Mae put it. None of them had been out of Mississippi. Or Chickasaw
County, for that matter.
There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that
was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes and not cry and bring undue attention
from anyone who might happen to see them leaving. Things had to look normal, like any
other time they might ride into town, which was rare enough to begin with.
Velma was six. She sat with her ankles crossed and three braids in her hair and did what
she was told. James was too little to understand. He was three. He was upset at the
commotion. Hold still now, James. Lemme put your shoes on, Ida Mae told him. James
wriggled and kicked. He did not like shoes. He ran free in the field. What were these
things? He did not like them on his feet. So Ida Mae let him go barefoot.
Miss Theenie stood watching. One by one, her children had left her and gone up north.
Sam and Cleve to Ohio. Josie to Syracuse. Irene to Milwaukee. Now the man Miss
Theenie had tried to keep Ida Mae from marrying in the first place was taking her away,
too. Miss Theenie had no choice but to accept it and let Ida Mae and the grandchildren
go for good. Miss Theenie drew them close to her, as she always did whenever anyone
was leaving. She had them bow their heads. She whispered a prayer that her daughter and
her daughter’s family be protected on the long journey ahead in the Jim Crow car.
“May the Lord be the first in the car,” she prayed, “and the last out.”
When the time had come, Ida Mae and little James and Velma and all that they could
carry were loaded into a brother-in-law’s truck, and the three of them went to meet Ida
Mae’s husband at the train depot in Okolona for the night ride out of the bottomland.
Excerpted from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. Copyright © 2010 by
Isabel Wilkerson. Excerpted by permission The Random House Publishing Group of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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MALCOLM X FOR BEGINNERS
By Bernard Aquina Doctor
Illustrated by Bernard Aquina Doctor
Powerful narrative and graphics tell the story of Malcolm X’s life, his journey of
self-discovery, his far-reaching ideas, his martyrdom and his impact on an era.
Embraced as a righteous prophet of Black power and pride, damned as the voice
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A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of
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NOBODY TURN ME AROUND VOICES OF FREEDOM
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How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed THE PROTEST PSYCHOSIS
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Cole, Teju ....................................................................6, 41 Glover, Bonnie ................................................................41
Author/Title Index Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, The ................2 Go Tell It on the Mountain ................................................40
Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, The..................................8 God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir........................................34
African Gods: Contemporary Rituals and Beliefs ................34
Color Me Butterfly: A Novel Inspired by One Family’s Going Down South: A Novel..............................................41
African History for Beginners............................................32 Journey from Tragedy to Triumph ..............................36 Golden, Marita ................................................................35
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: The Apollo Theater Coming of Age in Mississippi ............................................36 Golden, Thelma ..............................................................39
and American Entertainment ....................................37
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, Goodwin, Debi ................................................................34
Alexander, Amy ..............................................................35 and Profited from Slavery ..........................................39 Govenar, Alan..................................................................39
“All Labor Has Dignity” ....................................................16 Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography..............35 Griggs, Sutton ................................................................39
Amnesty International USA ......................................35, 42 Corner, The: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Grooms, Anthony ............................................................41
Anderson, S.E. ................................................................32 Neighborhood............................................................39 Guest, Robert ..................................................................10
Angelou, Maya ..............................................................2, 3 Daniels, Cora ..................................................................38 Hampton, Henry ............................................................39
Appiah, Anthony, editor ..................................................35 Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story........................................41 Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story ..............................35
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching Dau, John Bul ..................................................................34
of Black America ........................................................38 Hari, Daoud ....................................................................34
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime Harlem: A Century in Images ............................................39
Audacity of Hope, The: Thoughts on Reclaiming the That Changed America ..............................................40
American Dream ........................................................36 Harris, Middleton A., editor ............................................39
Decoded ..........................................................................37 Hatzfeld, Jean..................................................................34
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The ....................................37 Dennis, Denise ................................................................32
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The ........................41 Heart of a Woman, The ......................................................2
Devil Finds Work, The ......................................................40 Hill, Anita ........................................................................12
Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel ........................................41 Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan ........................34
Baldwin, James ..................................................38, 40, 41 Hodari, Askhari Johnson..................................................41
Dixie, Quinton ................................................................35 Hope for Africa: Voices from Around the World..................38
Balf, Todd ........................................................................37 Doctor, Bernard Aquina ..................................................33
Ball, Edward ....................................................................38 Hope in the Unseen, A: An American Odyssey from
Donovan, Brian ..............................................................35 the Inner City to the Ivy League ..................................37
Barack Obama For Beginners, Updated Edition: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight:
An Essential Guide......................................................33 House Behind the Cedars, The ..........................................41
An African Childhood..................................................34 Howard Zinn on Race ......................................................40
Barrett, Leonard ..............................................................38 Douglass, Frederick....................................................35, 36
Bashir, Halima ................................................................34 Huisman, Kim A., editor ..................................................39
Dray, Philip......................................................................38 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings........................................3
Bayou: Vols. 1 and 2 ........................................................41 Dreams from My Father:
Beautiful Struggle, The: A Father, Two Sons, and Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The................................26
A Story of Race and Inheritance ..................................36
an Unlikely Road to Manhood ....................................35 Imperium in Imperio ........................................................39
Du Bois, W.E.B. ................................................................38
Beckwith, Carol ..............................................................34 In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary
Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department?: African Americans Reclaimed Their Past......................39
Bennett, Barbara ............................................................34 The Disappearance of Black Americans from
Best African American Essays 2010 ..................................35 Incognegro ......................................................................41
Our Universities..........................................................38
Best African American Fiction 2010 ..................................35 IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in
Early African-American Classics ........................................35
Bird, Christiane................................................................34 the Americas ..............................................................40
Early, Gerald, series editor ..............................................35
Black Book, The: 35th Anniversary Edition ........................39 Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
Echo from Dealey Plaza, The ............................................38 The: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African ............................36
Black History For Beginners ..............................................32 Eding, June, editor ..........................................................38 Jay-Z. ..............................................................................37
Black Holocaust For Beginners..........................................32 Eichstedt, Jennifer L. ......................................................38 Johnson, James Weldon ..................................................41
Black Poets, The ..............................................................42 Ellison, Ralph ....................................................................8 Johnson, Mat ..................................................................41
Black Women For Beginners ............................................33 Enough Moment, The: Fighting to End Africa’s Jones, Roxanne ..............................................................37
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story ..........................40 Worst Human Rights Crimes ......................................24
Just Above My Head ........................................................41
Bolden, Abraham ............................................................38 Equiano, Olaudah ............................................................36
Kidder, Tracy....................................................................14
Bombingham ..................................................................41 Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson, The ............41
Kindred............................................................................41
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Euchner, Charles..............................................................39
Early Days of Hip Hop ................................................37 King, Martin Luther Jr. ..............................................16, 17
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family ........37
Boyd, Herb ......................................................................32 Kozol, Jonathan ..............................................................39
Faces of Africa: Thirty Years of Photography......................34
Breaking News: Contemporary Photography Kugelberg, Johan, editor ................................................37
Farrow, Anne ..................................................................39
from the Middle East and Africa..................................34 Laine, Daniel ..................................................................34
Ferguson, Leland ............................................................39
Brown, Cecil ..............................................................38, 41 LaNier, Carlotta Walls ......................................................18
Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman in American
Brown, Elaine Meryl ........................................................38 Last Resort, The: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem
Life and Culture ..........................................................36
Bumiller, Elisabeth ..........................................................35 on a Family Farm in Africa ..........................................35
Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own..........................39
Butler, Octavia ................................................................41 Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands ........................................41
First Emancipator, The: Slavery, Religion, and the
Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations Le Freak: The Life and Times of Nile Rodgers......................37
Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter................................36
in an Era of School Resegregation ..............................40 Leigh Fermor, Patrick ......................................................36
Firstbrook, Peter..............................................................36
Canada, Geoffrey ..............................................................4 Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American
Fisher, Angela..................................................................34
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Portraits......................................................................40
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence..............4
and the Making of the Americas ................................40 Letter to My Daughter ........................................................3
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and
Carlin, Richard, editor......................................................37 Letters from Black America: Intimate Portraits
Redemption of the Black Athlete ................................37
Carter, Vincent O. ............................................................41 of the African American Experience ............................35
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal
Chesnutt, Charles ............................................................41 Levy, Andrew ..................................................................36
Declaration of Human Rights ................................35, 42
Children of the Street: An Inspector Darko Dawson Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, The............................41
Fuller, Alexandra ............................................................34
Mystery......................................................................42 Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak..................34
Gaines, Ernest J. ..............................................................41
Christianse, Yvette ..........................................................41 Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs ................................41
Galliani, Francesca, photographer ..................................34
Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Little Black Book of Success, The: Laws of Leadership
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. ......................................................39
Campus......................................................................34 for Black Women........................................................38
Gather Together in My Name..............................................2
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth ....................................................38 Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in
Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women’s Equality in
Cleaver, Eldridge..............................................................38 Washington, D.C., 1910–1940 ..................................38
African American Communities ..................................38
Coates, Ta-Nehisi ............................................................35 Lorde, Audre....................................................................36
Ghettonation: Dispatches from America’s Culture War ......38
Cole, Johnnetta Betsch and Beverly Guy-Sheftall ............38 Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych..........................42
Giovanni’s Room ..............................................................40
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Love, Jeremy ..................................................................41 Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur ..........34
Maathai, Wangari............................................................34 Southern Plantation Museums ..................................38 They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence
Maggia, Filippo, editor ....................................................34 Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama in Ancient America ....................................................40
Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight White House ..............................................................40 Three Days Before the Shooting . . . ....................................8
to Be the World’s Fastest Human Being ......................37 Rhoden, William C...........................................................37 Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary ....................37
Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade Rice, Condoleezza............................................................37 Till-Mobley, Mamie ........................................................40
to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve Rodgers, Nile ..................................................................37 Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away ..................................................42
the Extraordinary ......................................................37 Rogers, Douglas ..............................................................35 Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times
Malcolm X. ......................................................................37 Ruck, Rob ........................................................................37 of Denys Finch Hatton ................................................37
Malcolm X For Beginners ..................................................33 Sadler, Nigel....................................................................35 Translator, The: A Memoir ................................................34
Mamdani, Mahmood ......................................................20 Sanchez, Sonia ................................................................42 Traveller’s Tree, The: A Journey Through the
Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, Sancton, Tom ..................................................................37 Caribbean Islands ......................................................36
and Courage................................................................35 Sanders, Edward..............................................................42 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph....................................................40
Mariners Museum, The, editor ........................................40 Santoro, Lara ..................................................................42 True Fires ........................................................................41
Marlow, L. Y. ....................................................................36 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend ..........38 Trumpet of Conscience, The ..............................................17
Maskalyk, James, Dr. ......................................................34 Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War Tye, Larry ........................................................................38
McCarthy, Susan Carol ....................................................41 on Terror ....................................................................20 Tyson, Timothy B. ............................................................40
Meacham, Jon ................................................................39 Say It Loud: An Illustrated History of the Black Athlete ......37 Uncle Tom’s Cabin ............................................................40
Mercy ..............................................................................42 Scurlock Studio and Black Washington, The: Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life among the Lowly......................40
Merida, Kevin..................................................................36 Picturing the Promise ................................................39 Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early
Metzl, Jonathan M...........................................................39 Seal, Mark ......................................................................35 African America, 1650–1800 ....................................39
Mighty Long Way; A: My Journey to Justice at Shackled Continent, The: Power, Corruption, and Unconfessed ....................................................................41
Little Rock Central High School....................................18 African Lives ..............................................................10 Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist’s Story of
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image ............................17 Shame of the Nation, The: The Restoration of Reporting and Reinvention ........................................35
Moody, Anne ..................................................................36 Apartheid Schooling in America..................................39 Unigwe, Chika ................................................................42
Moore, Wes ....................................................................22 Sharp, S. Pearl ................................................................33 Unlikely Brothers: Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and
Morning Haiku ................................................................42 Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Redemption ..............................................................24
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Washington Redskins ................................................38 Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom,
Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World ....14 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History....40 Opportunity, and Achievement ..................................39
My Bondage and My Freedom ..........................................35 Simon, David ..................................................................39 Up from Slavery: An Autobiography..................................37
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas ........3 Van Sertima, Ivan............................................................40
Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ..................36 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches ................................36 Vieux-Chauvet, Marie......................................................42
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman’s
Slave..........................................................................36 War-Torn Village ........................................................34 Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of
National Museum of African American History, editor ....39 Skloot, Rebecca ..............................................................26 African American Nonviolence ....................................35
Native Sons......................................................................41 Slave Trade, The ..............................................................35 Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights
Neer, Bob ........................................................................33 Slaves in the Family..........................................................38 Movement..................................................................39
Newkirk, Pamela, editor..................................................35 Smith, Thomas G. ............................................................38 Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents ....................39 Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s ............39
1963 March on Washington ......................................39 Song for my Fathers ........................................................37 Walker, Jerald..................................................................37
Notes of a Native Son ......................................................38 Soul of a Lion: One Woman’s Quest to Rescue Wall, Carolyn ..................................................................42
Obama, Barack................................................................36 Africa’s Wildlife Refugees............................................34 Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of
Obamas, The: The Untold Story of an African Family..........36 Soul on Ice ......................................................................38 America’s Great Migration ..........................................30
On Black Sisters Street: A Novel ........................................42 Souls of Black Folk, The ....................................................38 Washington, Booker T. ....................................................37
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 South African Township Barbershops & Salons..................35 Watson, Christie ..............................................................42
and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation......40 Soyinka, Wole..................................................................35 Weller, Simon..................................................................35
Open City: A Novel ........................................................6, 41 St. John, Warren ..............................................................39 Wheeler, Sara..................................................................37
Other Wes Moore, The: One Name, Two Fates ....................22 Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph ..............37 Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?............16
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, Stengel, Richard ..............................................................35 Whitaker, Robert ............................................................40
and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference ............39 Stowe, Harriet Beecher....................................................40 Why We Can’t Wait ..........................................................17
Parkin, Gaile....................................................................41 Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, Wife of the Gods: A Novel..................................................41
Parks, Sheri ....................................................................36 and Redemption ........................................................37 Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious
Patrick, Deval, Governor ..................................................36 Strength in What Remains................................................14 Death in Africa ..........................................................35
Poems for New Orleans ....................................................42 Strickland, Bill ................................................................37 Wilkerson, Isabel ............................................................30
Portrait of the New Angola, The........................................34 Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story ................17 Williams, Juan ................................................................37
Prendergast, John ..........................................................24 Stringer, C. Vivian ............................................................37 Willis, Deborah, editor ....................................................40
Protest Psychosis, The: How Schizophrenia Became Such Sweet Thunder: A Novel............................................41 Wolffe, Richard................................................................40
a Black Disease ..........................................................39 Sugrue, Thomas J. ..........................................................28 Word, The: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative
Pym: A Novel....................................................................41 Sultan’s Shadow, The: One Family’s Rule at the Power of Reading and Writing ....................................35
Quartey, Kwei ............................................................41, 42 Crossroads of East and West........................................34 You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir ............................35
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography......36
Black and Latin Game ................................................37 Clarence Thomas ........................................................36 Zinn, Howard ..................................................................40
Randall, Dudley, editor....................................................42 Suskind, Ron ..................................................................37
Rastafarians, The: Twentieth Anniversary Edition ............38 Sweeping Up Glass ..........................................................42
Reason to Believe, A: Lessons from an Improbable Life ......36 Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, Civil Rights in the North..............................................28
and Finding Home......................................................12 Tatum, Beverly ................................................................40
Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Tayac, Gabrielle, editor ....................................................40
Ourselves and the World ............................................34