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"The Prophet," Gibran's best known work, is beloved by millions
throughout the English speaking world.
The Book of Khalid is a novel that was written in 1911 by the Arab
author Ameen Fares Rihan. He wrote in English and described the
perilous journey of immigrants to America. This was the first book
to paint a picture of immigration, and also the first to break the
barrier between East and West. In telling the story it points out
the conflicts between Eastern and Western values and culture and
attempts to reconcile them.This edition comes with the original
illustrations by his friend and colleague Khalil Gibran, and some
think that this book influenced "The Prophet."
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize A Moyers & Company Best
Book of the Year "A brilliant work that tells us how directly the
past has formed us." -Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books How
did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant
and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in
the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness
reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime
statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black
crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public
education to policing to presidential elections, fueling racism and
justifying inequality. How was this statistical link between
blackness and criminality initially forged? Why was the same link
not made for whites? In the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald
Trump, under the shadow of Ferguson and Baltimore, no questions
could be more urgent. "The role of social-science research in
creating the myth of black criminality is the focus of this seminal
work...[It] shows how progressive reformers, academics, and
policy-makers subscribed to a 'statistical discourse' about black
crime...one that shifted blame onto black people for their
disproportionate incarceration and continues to sustain gross
racial disparities in American law enforcement and criminal
justice." -Elizabeth Hinton, The Nation "Muhammad identifies two
different responses to crime among African-Americans in the
post-Civil War years, both of which are still with us: in the
South, there was vigilantism; in the North, there was an increased
police presence. This was not the case when it came to white
European-immigrant groups that were also being demonized for
supposedly containing large criminal elements." -New Yorker
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Black Power 50 (Paperback)
Sylvaine A. Diouf, Komozi Woodward; Foreword by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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A sweeping 50th anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America
and around the world that accompanies a major exhibit on black
power at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Black Power 50 includes original interviews with key figures from
the movement, essays from today's leading Black Power scholars and
over one hundred stunning images from the Schomburg's celebrated
archives, offering a beautiful and compelling introduction to this
pivotal movement.
An attractive new edition of Khalil Gibran's "Sand and Foam" as
well as many other poems.
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