blacks

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Jamela's dress

1999
Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the expensive material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.

Carnavalia!

African-Brazilian folklore and crafts
1994
Presents the folklore behind the Carnival festivities which rule the streets of Brazil from Christmas to Ash Wednesday and provides instructions on festive, easy-to-make decorations and costumes.

Desert December

1992
A South African boy makes a long journey through the desert to join his parents in a mining village, reaching them on Christmas Day and seeing his new baby sister.

Growing up black

teens write about African-American identity
2010
Collects more than twenty stories in which African-American teens address identity and racism in the United States, and includes a related short fiction story.

"Master Harold"-- and the boys

2009
"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history

the Black experience in the Americas
2006
Presents volume three of a six-volume encyclopedia of African-American history that contains entries from G to L featuring biographies, important places and events, cultural achievements, and much more beginning in 1619 with the arrival of the first slaves from Africa.

Kaffir boy

the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
1998
Recreates the author's boyhood experiences in South Africa.

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

a novel
1995
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Nelson Mandela

the fight against apartheid
1992
Describes the life and career of the South African civil rights worker and his impact on race relations in his country.

Taste of salt

a story of modern Haiti
1992
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, seventeen-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.

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