Review, buy Social & Health Issues: The Village, Lumumba (Life & Times), Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda, Desert Children, All Over But the Shoutin', Searching for Daddy: Looking for a Family, Longing for Love, Go Play in the Sand, John: A Life Disabled by Dyslexia, Reclaimed Through Love, John Coltrane: Jazz, Racism and Resistence: the Extended Version, The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics), Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (World's Classics), My Stroke of Insight, Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years of Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China and Malaya, Loving Mr Spock: A Different Kind of Love, The Last Protest: Lee Evans in Mexico City, Britain's Betrayal in India: The Story of the Anglo Indian Community, Conquerors' Road: An Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945, The Secret Camera: A Marine's Story - Four Years as a POW, Survive the Worst and Aim for the Best: How to Get Your Life Back on Track (Quick Reads)

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The Village (Brandon)

Authors

Alice Taylor

Edition: Reprinted Ed
Publication date: 1998-06-10
Dewey code: 920
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Lumumba (Life & Times) (Haus Publishing Limited)

Authors

Leo Zeilig

Publication date: 2008-03-16
Dewey code: 967.5103092
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Review Plume / Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda (Plume)

Authors

Rosamond Halsey Carr
A. H Halsey

Publication date: 2005-11-28
Dewey code: 920
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Desert Children (Virago Press Ltd)

Authors

Waris Dirie

Publication date: 2007-12-06
Dewey code: 303
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All Over But the Shoutin' (Vintage Books)

Authors

Rick Bragg

Edition: Vintage Ed
Publication date: 1998-09-28
Dewey code: 070.92
Price: £8.35

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Searching for Daddy: Looking for a Family, Longing for Love (Hodder & Stoughton)

Authors

Christine Joanna Hart

Publication date: 2008-08-07
Dewey code: 362.76092
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Go Play in the Sand, John: A Life Disabled by Dyslexia, Reclaimed Through Love (KavanaghTipping Publishing)

Authors

John Tipping
Frances Kavanagh

Publication date: 2008-05
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Review Redwords / John Coltrane: Jazz, Racism and Resistence: the Extended Version

John Coltrane: Jazz, Racism and Resistence: the Extended Version (Redwords)

Authors

Martin Smith

Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 781
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Review Longman / The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Longman)

Authors

Dubois

Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-02-27
Dewey code: 973.0496073
Price: £2.99

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African-American intellectuals-a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true. With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation-from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T Washington and Others", where Du Bois criticises his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races", he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens". The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness", which he described as "a peculiar sensation. [+]

One ever feels this twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder". Thanks to WEB Du Bois' commitment and foresight-and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem-black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown and beige reflections. -Eugene Holley Jr.

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