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Bob Marley

Sean Dolan

Traces the life of the Jamaican musician who helped popularize reggae before his untimely death.

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Gangsta Rap

Benjamin Zephaniah

When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.

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The Broken Bridge

Philip Pullman

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earli

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Pirates!

Celia Rees

At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery.

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Facing the Lion

Joseph Lekuton

A member of the Masai people describes his life as he grew up in a northern Kenya village, traveled to America to attend college, and became an elementary school teacher in Virginia.

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Kaffir Boy

Mark Mathabane

The true story of a black youth's coming of age in aparteid South Africa.

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Mathabane

Bob Marley

Sean Dolan

Traces the life of the Jamaican musician who helped popularize reggae before his untimely death.

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MARLEY

Voices of South Africa

Carolyn Meyer

The author recounts her visit to South Africa where she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white, to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart by racial strife.

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Native Son and How "bigger" Was Born

Richard Wright

The text of Native Son as restored by The Library of America was published in 1991 in a volume entitled Richard Wright: Early Works.

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Langston Hughes

S. L. Berry

This is a biography of the poet who spent his career writing about the experiences of African Americans, interspersed with examples of his work.

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