The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.

Sermons: Biblical Wisdom For Daily Living

Politics & Social Sciences

Gomes, Peter J.

Gates, Henry L.

Philosophy

HarperOne

The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has both a black president and black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies—and a large black underclass beset by persistent poverty, inadequate education, and an epidemic of incarceration. Harvard professor and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. raises disturbing and vital questions about this dichotomy. How did the African American community end up encompassing such profound contradictions? And what will “the black community” mean tomorrow?
Gates takes readers through the major historical events and untold stories of the sixty years that have irrevocably shaped both the African American experience and the nation as a whole, from the explosive social and political changes of the 1960s, into the 1970s and 1980s—eras characterized by both prosperity and neglect—through the turn of the century to today, taking measure of such racial flashpoints as the Tawana Brawley case, OJ Simpson’s murder trial, the murders of Amadou Diallo and Trayvon Martin, and debates around the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policies. Even as it surveys the political and social evolution of black America, And Still I Rise is also a celebration of the accomplishments of black artists, musicians, writers, comedians, and thinkers who have helped to define American popular culture and to change our world.

And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK

Arts & Photography

Burke, Kevin M

History & Criticism

Ecco

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Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)

Gibbs, James

Katrak, Ketu

Social Sciences

Greenwood

Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living

Following his ground breaking New York Times bestseller, The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart, Peter J. Gomes offers us the first major collection of his sermons, in which he draws on wisdom of the Bible to guide us through the year and enrich our daily lives.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

HarpPeren

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes is widely acclaimed as one of America's greatest preachers and most influential thinkers. For a quarter century at Harvard, Gomes's legendary sermons have mesmerized congregations. Humor and wit -- he quotes from T. S. Eliot and Woody Allen as well as from the Bible -- inform the serious moral content of his sermons, and have made him a sought-after speaker at Harvard and international events, including two presidential inaugurations.
Now, following his groundbreaking work, New York Times bestseller The Good Book, comes Sermons, a collection of forty timely addresses to guide us through the year. Starting with Advent and built around the Christian calendar, these are timeless distillations of Gomes's favorite sermons. With his characteristic eloquence and in an engaging and stimulating manner, he offers readers the tools they need to understand the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.

William Morrow

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Critical Perspectives - Past and Present Alice Walker is considered by many to be a feminist and literary giant'. Now, this provocative collection of essays delves into the work of this bestselling and critically acclaimed writer. Contributors include bell hooks, Griel Marcus, Barbara Christian and J M Coetzee.'

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harper Paperbacks

Richard Wright (1908 -- 1960)
Of the numerous achievements that distinguish Richard Wright's place in the history of American literature, perhaps none is more important than the fact that he was the first African-American writer to sustain himself professionally from his writings alone. Primarily through the success of Native Sonand Black Boy, Wright was able to support, for two decades, a comfortable life for himself and his family in Paris. He also became, with the publication of Native Sonalone, the first internationally celebrated Black American author. If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son,his first and most successful novel.-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Richard Wright: Critical Prespectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Zora Neale Hurston(1891 -- 1960)
Of the various signs that the study of literature in America has been transformed, none is more salient than is the resurrection and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston. Twenty years ago, Hurston's work was largely out-of-print, her literary legacy alive only to a tiny, devoted band of readers who were often forced to photocopy her works if they were to be taught ... Today her works are central to the canon of African-American, American, and Women's literatures ... The author of four novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937),Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); two books of folklore -- Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938); an autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road (1942); and over 50 short stories, essays, and plays, Hurston was one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors for the two decades between 1925 and 1945.-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Zora neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

James Langston Hughes (1902 -- 1967) 
With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and Black Arts movement of the sixties, Langston Hughes was the most prolific Black poet of his era. Between 1926, when he published his pioneering The Weary Blues, to 1967, the year of his death, when he published The Panther and the Lash, Hughes would write sixteen books of poems, two novels, seven collections of short stories, two autobiographies, five works of nonfiction, and nine children's books; he would edit nine anthologies of poetry, folklore, short fiction, and humor. He also translated Jaques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, Gabriela Mistral, Federico Garcia Lorca, and write at least thirty plays. It is not surprising that Hughes was known, variously, as "Shakespeare in Harlem" and as the "poet laureate of the American Negro."
 -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Community & Culture

Harper-perennial

In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies. And, while she is a citizen of the republic of literature in the broadest and most cosmopolitan sense, her work suggest formal linkage to that of Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and, more recently, Toni Morrison.-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

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Sermons: Biblical Wisdom For Daily Living

And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK

Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)

Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living

Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Richard Wright: Critical Prespectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Zora neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)

Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)