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  2. The New Jim Crow - Wikipedia

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    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is ...

  3. James Baldwin - Wikipedia

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    James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels. [ 1 ] His 1955 essay collection Notes of a Native Son helped establish his ...

  4. Black Like Me - Wikipedia

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    Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation. Griffin was a native of Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass as a black man. He traveled for six weeks throughout the racially segregated states ...

  5. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity - Wikipedia

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    We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity is a 2004 book about masculinity by feminist author bell hooks. It collects ten essays on black men. The title alludes to Gwendolyn Brooks ' 1959 poem "We Real Cool". The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies. [1]

  6. Richard Wright (author) - Wikipedia

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    Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children ...

  7. Black male studies - Wikipedia

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    Black male studies (BMS), [1] also known as Black men's studies, [2][3] Black masculinist studies, [4] African-American male studies, [5] and African-American men's studies, [6] is an area of study within the interdisciplinary field of Black studies [7][8][9] that primarily focuses on the study of Black men and boys. [10] Its research focus includes the study of Black manhood and Black ...

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