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Mumbo Jumbo
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let's forget all the talk about this being a crazy, unreadable, book. like james joyce's ulysses and vladimir nabokov's pale fire it requires some work, after all it is a book written for literate adults.
harold bloom referred to mumbo jumbo as one of the five hundred most significant books in the western canon, henry louis gates jr devote... »
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Black No More : A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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This satirical Harlem Renaissance-era novel by black conservative intellectual George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), who wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier and contributed to the NAACP's influential Crisis magazine, is a hilariously insightful treatise on the absurdities of racial identity. Dr. Junius Crookman, a Harlem-based African American phy... »
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Flight to Canada
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"Flight to Canada" was one of the required reading for one of my literature classes. One debate that came up regularly during class discussions was whether Canada is used by Reed as a literal place or a metaphor as a "state of mind". There are solid arguments for both based on the text.
For me, it became clear how fuzzy our history lesso... »
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Up from Slavery (Signet Classics)
Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest Ameri... »
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Apart from all the slick tricks this book pulls on the very ill-attired, stumblebum Popcorn John that is the Wes-tarn genre, it's just plain lovely USA ch... »
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
A weird, dreamlikle book, almost impossible to describe - makes Gravity's Rainbow look like Biggles, in terms of complexity and non-linearity. It basicall... »
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Japanese by Spring
This book starts out as the story of professor "Chappie" Putbutt, a black man chasing the American dream, and frankly, kissing a lot of butt in that pursu... »
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The Freelance Pallbearers
I read this book as a teenager in the 80's and never forgot it. I often end up telling everyone I know about it eventually. I decided to use a search eng... »
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