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Welcome to Basic Civitas - The home of today's most talented and influential African-American authors.
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The Right Mistake
by
Walter Mosley
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The Further Philosophical Investigations
of Socrates Fortlow
Freed after serving twenty-seven years in prison, Socrates Fortlow is filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets. He calls together local people of all races from their different social stations -lawyers, gangsters, preachers, businessmen - to conduct meetings of a Thinkers' Club, where all can discuss the unanswerable questions in life. The street philosopher enjoins his friends to explore - even in the knowledge that there's nothing that they personally can do to change the ways of the world - what might be done anyway, what it would take to change themselves.
But simply by asking questions about racial authenticity, street justice, poverty, and the possibility of mutual understanding, Socrates and his unlikely crew actually begin to make a difference. The Right Mistake offers a profoundly literary and ultimately redemptive exploration of the possibility of moral action in a violent and fallen world ...
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Party Crashing
How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
by
Keli Goff
One of the biggest young talents in Democratic politics takes on a subject she knows from the inside: why the new generation of black voters is leaving the Democratic Party
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Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
by
John Jackson
A provocative new paradigm of race relations in the twenty-first century, in which the overt racism of the past has been replaced by subconscious suspicions and whispered conspiracy theories
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An Unbroken Agony
Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President of a President
by
Randall Robinson
Bestselling author and bold social commentator, Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately tragic history of Haiti
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Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
by
Camille Forbes
From the traveling troupes of the Wild West all the way to the bright lights of Broadway, Bert Williams broke through the color barriers and changed the face of the American stage
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Being Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete
by
Kenneth Shropshire
A biography of Sugar Ray Robinson and an intellectual expedition into the culture of celebrity in sports
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Debating Race
with Michael Eric Dyson
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Michael Eric Dyson
Bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson collects his previously unpublished intellectual encounters-cordial and combative-with some of today’s most influential thinkers and politicians
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