Harris, Jessica B.
Summary: In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era--the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, JESSICA B. HARRaiford, Matthew
Summary: "From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah-Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford's Nana handed over the deed to the family farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 RAITwitty, Michael
Summary: "The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry--both black and white--through food, from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 TWIHolland, Tanya
Summary: Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco. The restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled low and snug next to a scrap-metal yard in this Bay Area rust belt. Out front, customers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 HOLKiros, Tessa.
Summary: The author includes autobiographical memories, a family tree and portraits, and personal commentary with the recipes, explaining that she was, "born in London to a Finnish mother and a Greek-Cypriot father, when I was four we moved to South Africa. I now live in Italy."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McNeel 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 KIROnwuachi, Kwame
Summary: As a boy Onwuachi was sent from the Bronx to rural Nigeria by his mother to 'learn respect.' Through food, he broke out of a dangerous downward spiral and embarked on a new beginning at the bottom of the culinary food chain before going on to train in the kitchens of some of the most acclaimed restaurants in the country and appearing as a contestant on Top Chef. His love of food and cooking was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 ONWHudson, Wade
Summary: "The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUDGooding, James Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7415 GOOGill, Joel Christian
Summary: "Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GILFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISGraham, Lawrence.
Summary: Follows the lives and fortunes of the Bruce family, from Blanche Kelso Bruce, who was born a slave in 1841 and became the first black person to serve a full term in the Senate, to the scandal that sent his grandson to prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GRAWatkins, D. (Dwight)
Summary: "At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022