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Little Black Mingo & Little Black Sambo

By: Helen Bannerman

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Little Black Mingo & Little Black Sambo

By: Helen Bannerman

These two children's books were part of a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children. They were children's favorites for more than half a century.

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1681464918

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9781681464916

Licorice and Black Jack

By: Helen Jones

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This fable is about Licorice and Black Jack, twin seafaring cats that lived on the Clipper Ship “The Fair Winds” during the mid-1700s. These brother cats were famous for catching rats throughout the Seven Seas. One night, they were kidnapped by a dishonest, disgruntled crew member who sold them to a witch. After ridding the old harridan’s hut of rats, there was nothing left for them to eat, so they snuck off seeking freedom, food, and hopefully their ship. They then had the misfortune to be discovered by a disreputable merchant who sold them for their beautiful pelts. Their troubles took a turn for the worst from that moment on.

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122

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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ISBN 13

9798889101710

Basic Black With Pearls

By: Helen Weinzweig

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Basic Black With Pearls

By: Helen Weinzweig

A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad’s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance, however, is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad sends Shirley (who prefers to be known as “Lola Montez”) to Toronto, the last place she wants to go. There the trail leads her through the sites of her impoverished immigrant childhood and sends her, finally, to her own house, where she discards her pearls and trades in her basic black for a dress of vibrant multicolored silk. Helen Weinzweig published her first novel when she was fifty-eight. Basic Black with Pearls, her second, won the Toronto Book Award and has since come to be recognized as a feminist landmark. Here Weinzweig imbues the formal inventiveness of the nouveau roman with psychological poignancy and surprising humor to tell a story of simultaneous dissolution and discovery.

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177

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New York Review of Books

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ISBN 10

1681372177

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9781681372174

Piano Music by Black Women Composers

A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works

By: Helen Walker-Hill

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Piano Music by Black Women Composers

A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works

By: Helen Walker-Hill

In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published. Determined search, however, is needed to locate what little data is available on most such composers. Proceeding from a desire to use music of black women composers in her piano performance and teaching, Helen Walker-Hill has dedicated herself to uncovering this material, utilizing secondary sources and numerous archives, conducting interviews with composers, and engaging in voluminous correspondence with individuals and institutions. The result is the most comprehensive catalog of music composed by African American women to date. The depth of detail required limiting the scope to solo and ensemble piano music. However, an introductory overview on the contributions of black women in music and biographical sketches on the fifty-four composers profiled in the catalog contain broader information. Over 300 piano works are listed, with detailed descriptive information on close to 200 works the author was able to obtain and study, including sources and levels of difficulty. Appendixes list available published music, ensemble instrumentation, music for teaching, and music published before 1920. A selected bibliography and a selected discography are also provided. This biographical dictionary and descriptive catalog will be most directly useful to performers and teachers, but the breadth of information makes it valuable for research in music history, African American studies, and women's studies.

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161

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313064725

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9780313064722

The Story of Little Black Sambo

By: Helen Bannerman

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The Story of Little Black Sambo

By: Helen Bannerman

The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written in 1899, the story has become a childhood classic and the authorized American edition with the original drawings by the author has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Little Black Sambo is a book that speaks the common language of all nations, and has added more to the joy of little children than perhaps any other story. They love to hear it again and again; to read it to themselves; to act it out in their play.

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Harper Collins

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0397300069

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9780397300068

African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

By: Shaun L Gabbidon,Helen Taylor Greene,Vernetta D Young

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African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

By: Shaun L Gabbidon,Helen Taylor Greene,Vernetta D Young

This collection of writings is crucially important, in part, because it reminds us the theoretical paradigms of these and other African American scholars are excluded when crime, its causes, and its control are discussed by criminologists, criminal justice practitioners, and policy makers. To understand crime fully, the perspectives advanced by these scholars must become an integral part of discussions about who is a criminal and which public policies will best control crime." --From the forward by Anne Thomas Sulton, Ph.D, J.D. From W.E.B. Dubois through Lee Brown, this anthology provides a collection of the key articles in criminology and criminal justice written by black scholars. Available in a single volume for the first time, the articles collected in this book reflect the voices of African-American scholars and display the diversity of perspectives sought after in today's academic community. Crime in the African-American community is examined from social, economic and political perspectives, and the historical context of each article is provided by the editors. Spanning the 20th century, these works present a historical chronology of African-American views on crime and its control with theoretical perspectives that have often been tangential to mainstream scholarship. For your courses in: Criminological Theory Race and Crime Crime and Social Policy Minorities and Criminal Justice

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420

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SAGE

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ISBN 10

0761924337

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9780761924333

African American Criminological Thought

Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

By: Helen Taylor Greene,Shaun L. Gabbidon

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African American Criminological Thought

Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

By: Helen Taylor Greene,Shaun L. Gabbidon

Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.

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218

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SUNY Press

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0791446956

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9780791446959

Post-colonial Studies

The Key Concepts

By: Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin Bill Ashcroft,Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin

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Post-colonial Studies

The Key Concepts

By: Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin Bill Ashcroft,Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin

An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format.

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259

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Psychology Press

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0415243602

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9780415243605

The Empire Writes Back

Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures

By: Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin

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The Empire Writes Back

Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures

By: Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin

This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field.

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304

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Psychology Press

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0415280206

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9780415280204

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

By: Helen Cooper

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The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

By: Helen Cooper

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music will teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your memory. It contains all the terms and symbols you are likely to come across when studying music and explains them fully. Helen Cooper explains the written language of music in greater detail than you might get from your teacher. This book is ideal for the classroom, private lessons, and the home.

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Penguin

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0399511229

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Book's by Helen Black

Little Black Mingo & Little Black Sambo

Little Black Mingo & Little Black Sambo

Licorice and Black Jack

Licorice and Black Jack

Basic Black With Pearls

Basic Black With Pearls

Piano Music by Black Women Composers

Piano Music by Black Women Composers

The Story of Little Black Sambo

The Story of Little Black Sambo

African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

African American Criminological Thought

African American Criminological Thought

Post-colonial Studies

Post-colonial Studies

The Empire Writes Back

The Empire Writes Back

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

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