How to Create Your Own African American Library - Softcover

Ferebee, Dorothy L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345452283 ISBN 13: 9780345452283

Publisher: One World, 2003

Synopsis

Introduces an annotated collection of more than one hundred essential works for any African-American home library, covering such categories as literature, music, religion and spirituality, African-American history, and more, with works by such acclaimed authors as Maya Angelou, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, and others. Original.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

MANY CULTURES ONE WORLD

Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power.
DOROTHY L. FEREBEE

Here is the first book ever written to help African Americans build a home library that celebrates the diversity of their culture and heritage. How to Create Your Own African American Library truly does unlock the door to knowledge and power.

With warm and expert commentary, experienced book reviewer and avid reader Dorothy Ferebee reviews and recommends books that will help you to build your own home library. Inside you ll discover:

Nonfiction: From autobiography to history, including Resistance and Rebellion Against Slavery and the Civil Right Movement.
Fiction: Literature that explores the many facets of the African American life.
Culture and Anthropology: Books that will open doors to new insights on the African American experience.
Children s books: From picture books to teenage fiction books that empower children and make them proud of who they are.
Health: Guides that teach you how to take the very best care of yourself, with attention to health issues that affect African Americans.
Plus books on Travel, Music, Poetry, and Special Collections!

Here s all you need to know to create a mini-university in your own home, one that is open every day to support the highest aspirations of yourself, your children, and their children.

Edition details

• Publisher: One World
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345452283
• ISBN 13: 9780345452283
• Binding: Paperback