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How sweet the sound

Alexander, Kwame, author.

Publication Date

2025

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Books

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780.8996073 ALE

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SD_ILS:794072

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison

Ellison, Ralph, author.

Publication Date

2024

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Books

Call Number

814.54 ELL

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SD_ILS:710159

Gather me : a memoir in praise of the books that saved me

Edim, Glory, 1982- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Books

Call Number

028.8 EDI

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SD_ILS:729914

Black women writers at work

Tate, Claudia, editor.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Books

Call Number

809.89287 BLA

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SD_ILS:678325

Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky : the graphic novel

Venditti, Robert, author.

Publication Date

2022

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Books

Call Number

MBA

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SD_ILS:647976

Read until you understand : the profound wisdom of Black life and literature

Griffin, Farah Jasmine, author.

Publication Date

2021

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Books

Call Number

810.9 GRI

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SD_ILS:625288

King of ragtime : the story of Scott Joplin

Costanza, Stephen, author, illustrator.

Publication Date

2021

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Call Number

789.9 COS

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SD_ILS:640729

A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance

Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- author.

Publication Date

2021

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791.089 ABD

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SD_ILS:595354

The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War

Gorra, Michael Edward, author.

Publication Date

2020

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Call Number

813 GOR

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SD_ILS:591426

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The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games

Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth, 1977- author.

Publication Date

2019

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Call Number

813 THO

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SD_ILS:506130

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Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology

Edim, Glory, 1982- editor.

Publication Date

2018

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Call Number

810.8 WEL

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SD_ILS:487314

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The land between two rivers : writing in an age of refugees

Sleigh, Tom, author.

Publication Date

2018

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Call Number

814.6 SLE

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SD_ILS:447910

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