Black Issues Book Review back issues from May 2007:
People get ready for another Cosby book.(between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)("Come on, People!: On the Path From Victims to Victors" by Bill Cosby)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... "Come on, people!" That's what Bill Cosby (left) has been saying to the black community more loudly than usual in the past few years--from his notorious NAACP speech to his "call-out" sessions in local communities. And now he'll be saying it on the printed page in his forthcoming book, ...
Bringing the heat new young adult series.(between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Scholastic won the auction for worldwide publishing rights to Hotlanta, a new paperback series featuring African American teen girls by authors Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller. The deal was negotiated by Scholastic's Andrea Pinkney and agent Victoria Sanders of Victoria Sanders & ...
Cave Canem.(AWARDS)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Cave Canem, the "home for Black poetry," has been awarded a three-year contingency grant in the amount of $150,000 for operational support from the Lannan Foundation. Awarded under the foundation's Literary Program, established in 1987 to ...
Coe Booth.(AWARDS)(L.A. Times Book Prize Young Adult category)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Debut author Coe Booth received an L.A. Times Book Prize in the Young Adult ...
Marcus Samuelsson.(AWARDS)(James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Renowned chef and author Marcus Samuelsson won the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award, on May 7, 2007, in the ...
Peniel E. Joseph.(AWARDS)(Mark Lynton History Award)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... On May 8, 2007, Peniel E. Joseph, an associate professor in Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook, in New York, was named a finalist for the Mark Lynton ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.(AWARDS)(Anisfield-Wolf Book Award)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Nigerian-born author Chimarnanda Ngozi Adichie will receive an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award on September 6, 2007, for her novel ...
Moe Brighthaupt.(NONFICTION)
May 01, 2007; ... Former bodyguard for Anna Nicole Smith, Moe Brighthaupt's Baby Girl, tell-all about Smith's ...
The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak By Rick James Colossus Books/Amber Communications Group, May 2007 $18.95, ISBN 0-979-09763-8 Despite his many hits, Rick James did not have a tremendous impact on music. He certainly did not invent funk, the genre he ...
Beats, Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip-Hop.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Beats, Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip-Hop Edited by Kenji Jasper and Ytasha Womack Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, May 2007 $14, ISBN 0-767-91977-7 Without question, hip-hop culture and music have gone mainstream in ...
The Biography of Dr. Dre.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... The Biography of Dr. Dre By Ronin Ro Thunder's Mouth Press, May 2007 $24.95, ISBN 1-560-25921-3 Record producer Dr. Dre has been described as "a global phenomenon." And Ro's latest title--billed as the first biography of the multitalented rap star, cofounder of N.W.A., one of ...
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies By Brian Coleman Villard, June 2007, $16.95, ISBN 0-812-97775-0 in this updated edition of the cult classic Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight ...
Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis.(It's about That Time: Miles Davis on and off Record)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis By Gregory Davis with Les Sussman Backbeat Books, November 2006 $24.95, ISBN 0-879-30875-3 Add two new titles to the catalog of books written about the legendary jazz musician. In Dark Magus, the eldest of Davis's four ...
Day-O!!! The Autobiography of Irving Burgie.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Day-O!!! The Autobiography of Irving Burgie By Irving Burgie Caribe Publishing, September 2006 $15, ISBN 0-978-90380-3 Brooklyn-born Irving Burgie penned 34 songs for singer Harry Belafonte, yet their version of the Banana Boat Song, a ...
Frankie Manning: The Ambassador of the Lindy Hop.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Frankie Manning: The Ambassador of the Lindy Hop By Frankie Manning with Cynthia Millman Temple University Press, May 2007 $27.50, ISBN 1-592-13563-3 The Lindy hop was one of the most energizing dance crazes of the 20th century; and as the dance ...
From Spirituals to Symphonies: African American Women Composers and Their Music.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... From Spirituals to Symphonies: African American Women Composers and Their Music By Helen Walker-Hill University of Illinois Press, April 2007 $25 (paperback), ISBN 0-252-07454-7 Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) and Regina ...
The Notorious Ph.D.'s Guide to the Super Fly '70s: A Connoisseur's Journey Through the Fabulous Flix, Hip Sounds, and Cool Vibes That Defined a Decade.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... The Notorious Ph.D.'s Guide to the Super Fly '70s: A Connoisseur's Journey Through the Fabulous Flix, Hip Sounds, and Cool Vibes That Defined a Decade By Dr. Todd Boyd, Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, June 2007 $12.95, ISBN 0-767-92187-9 The in-your-face title says it all, and as ...
Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe By Gayle F. Wald Beacon Press, February 2007 $25.95, ISBN 0-807-00984-9 Sister Rosetta Tharpe rocked! Raised in the Pentecostal Church, the guitarist and singer ...
Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, AI Green, Phoebe Snow).(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, AI Green, Phoebe Snow) By Michael Awkward Duke University Press, June 2007 $21.95, ISBN 0-822-33997-7 Awkward selected three uniquely different soulful singers ...
Adventures and lessons await: a selection of children's and teen books that revisit old tales, introduce new characters, impart values and show some new moves.(children's bookshelf)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story From Africa By Niki Daly Clarion Books, April 2007 $16, ISBN 0-618-72345-5 Ages 5-8 Daly weaves an entertaining twist in his retelling of the popular Little Red Riding Hood tale, set in West Africa. The bright and colorful drawings ...
Marvelous World: The Marvelous Effect.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Marvelous World: The Marvelous Effect By Troy CLE Simon & Schuster Books or Young Readers, May 2007 $14.99, ISBN 1-416-93958-X Ages 10 and up If it's a sci-fi adventure you're looking for, this is the book to read. Marvelous World features two different worlds with seven ...
Harlem Summer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Harlem Summer By Walter Dean Myers Scholastic Press, March 2007 $16.99, ISBN 0-439-36843-X Ages 12 and up In the latest book from this award-winning author, Myers tells the story of a teenager's coming of age in Harlem in 1925. Sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis wants to become a jazz ...
Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates School Dances.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates School Dances By Brian James Simon Spotlight, June 2007 $5.99, ISBN 1-416-93562-2, ages 7-10 Television's lovable, precocious and little-bit-nerdy character Chris is now the lead in a series of chapter books. In this first installment, ...
Indigo Summer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Indigo Summer By Monica McKayhan Kimani TRU/Kimani Press, February 2007 $9.99, ISBN 0-373-83075-0 Ages 14 and up The extravagant heroines of the popular "mean girls" genre are outclassed by Indigo Summer, a young lady who deserves to have a book bear her name. Not that this ...
Nothing But Drama.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Nothing But Drama By ReShonda Tare Billingsley Pocket Books, November 2006 $9.95, ISBN 1-416-52560-8 Ages 14 and up Teen life is mad complicated for this novel's four young heroines. One girls gets arrested for harboring a fugitive boyfriend; another runs away from home to avoid ...
Janet McDonald 1953-2007: make some noise for the Project Girl.(tribute)(Obituary)
May 01, 2007; ... JANET MCDONALD, PROJECT GIRL, international lawyer and writer passed away on April 11, 2007, from colon cancer. She was a force in person and on the page; few lived as fiercely as she did. Janet grew up one of seven children in public housing in Brooklyn and went on to earn ...
The Gospel Remix: Reaching the Hip-Hop Generation.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... The Gospel Remix: Reaching the Hip-Hop Generation By Ralph C. Watkins With Jason A. Barr Jr., Jamal-Harrison Bryant, William H. Curtis, Otis Moss III Judson Press, January 2007 $14, ISBN 0-817-01507-7 Hip-hop. What started as rollicking beats, colorful street graffiti and ...
Answered Prayer Guaranteed! The Power of Praying with Faith.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Answered Prayer Guaranteed! The Power of Praying With Faith By Dr. Frederick K.C. Price Charisma House October 2006, $19.99 ISBN 1-599-79012-2 Answered Prayer Guaranteed! begins with a profound question: How do you pray? "Next to the salvation experience and ...
The Gospel According To Rev. Walt "Baby" Love: Inspirations and Meditations From the Gospel Radio Legend.(NOTEWORTHY TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... The Gospel According to Rev. Walt "Baby" Love: Inspirations and Meditations From the Gospel Radio Legend Touchstone Faith/Simon & Schuster February 2007, $22.95, ISBN 0-743-29165-4 Walter Shaw took his first radio job in Houston after leaving the military in 1968; and in 1970, ...
The Original African Heritage Study Bible (King James Version).(NOTEWORTHY TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... The Original African Heritage Study Bible (King James Version) By Cain Hope Felder, General Editor African American Study Bible Judson Press, January 2007 $39, ISBN 0-817-01511-4 The Original African Heritage Study Bible, King James Version, was previously published by the ...
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith By Tommie Smith With David Steele Temple University Press February 2007 $27.50, ISBN 1-592-13639-1 The year was 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E Kennedy were assassinated. The war in Vietnam intensified; violence ...
A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports By Brad Snyder Viking, October 2006 $25.95, ISBN 0-670-03794-X No matter how history night judge former major league baseball star Curt Flood, most serious baseball fans would argue that he deserves ...
Baseball: from the Negro leagues to MLB.(Major League Baseball)(The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip through Buck O'Neil's America)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America By Joe Posnanski William Morrow, March 2007 $24,95, ISBN 0-060-85403-0 John "Buck" O'Neil was not only a fine ballplayer, he was an ambassador and historian of Negro baseball. He was the first African American coach in ...
Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing Edited by G. Winston James and Other Countries RedBone Press, January 2007 $25, ISBN 0-978-62513-7 This new anthology of emerging and established black LGBT writers broadens ...
Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books.(Other Noteworthy Titles)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books Edited by Steven G. Fullwood and Lisa C. Moore RedBone Press, June 2007 $10, ISBN 0-978-62514-5 Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books is a seminal reference work, featuring more than 600 titles by and about black ...
A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader.(Other Noteworthy Titles)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride University Press of Mississippi, August 2006 $38, ISBN 1-578-06866-5 An important collection of critical essays by the activist, poet, novelist and ...
Looker.(Other Noteworthy Titles)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Looker By Stanley Bennett Clay Atria Books, June 2007 $13, ISBN 0-743-29102-6 In Clay's sexually charged story, Omar, a journalist, and Brando, a lawyer, have ...
Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought.(NONFICTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Broken Utterances; A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought Edited and illustrated By Michelle Diane Wright Three Sisters Press, March 2007 $24.95, ISBN 0-976-93651-0 Beginning with abolitionist Maria W. Stewart and ending with educator Mary Church ...
Color Me Butterfly: A Memoir.(NONFICTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Color Me Butterfly: A Memoir By L.Y. Marlow eL Publishing, February 2007 $14.95, ISBN 0-978-73205-7 In this poignant memoir, Marlow shares the story of four generations of women in her family who suffered years of abuse and violence. Their stories are testaments of overcoming ...
The Get a Life Campaign: A Pocket Guide for the Busy Woman Who Wants It All.(NONFICTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... The Get a Life Campaign: A Pocket Guide for the Busy Woman Who Wants It All By Tyeese Gaines Reed Infinity Publishing, May 2007 $10.95, ISBN 0-741-43925-5 The author gets right to the point from the beginning: "Everyone knows what the rut feels like ... This book is for any ...
No Momma's Boy: How I Let Go of My Past and Embraced the Future.(NONFICTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... No Momma's Boy: How I Let Go of My Past and Embraced the Future By Dominic Carter iUniverse, May 2007 $23.95, ISBN 0-595-42839-8 In an article in New York magazine, Dominic Carter says that "It was almost like I got hit with a double-barrel shotgun" referring to reading the ...
Chronicles of a Hot Stopper: The Rise of Devon Steele.(FICTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Chronicles of a Hot Stopper: The Rise of Devon Steele By Ras Jabari Around the Way Books, April 2007 $15.99, ISBN 0-975-53423-6 Devon Steele fled Jamaica after a killing in Kingston and reunites in the States with ...
Yardies: The Making of a Jamaican Posse.(FICTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Yardies: The Making of a Jamaican Posse By Prince Kofi GhettoLife Publishing Company, Inc. April 2007, $13.95, ISBN 0-979-40830-X Twenty-one-year-old Richie is one of those gangster youths in Jamaica who happens to be "a proud, enterprising, ambitious, and determined set." But ...
She's Gone.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... * She's Gone By Kwame Dawes Akashic Books March 2007 $15.95 ISBN 1-933-35418-7 Over the years, there have been many incidences of cross-cultural romances, but something very special happens when Kofi, a Jamaican reggae musician, and Keisha, a social researcher from South ...
Man Gone Down.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Man Gone Down By Michael Thomas Black Cat (Grove/Atlantic), January 2007 $14, ISBN 0-802-17092-3 "It's a strange thing to go through life as a social experiment--bused, tested, and bused elsewhere, groomed for leadership." These are the words of the main character (and ...
Weapons of Mass Seduction: A Novel to Unleash the Sensual You.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... * Weapons of Mass Seduction: A Novel to Unleash the Sensual You By Lori Bryant-Woolridge Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, May 2007 $12.95, ISBN 0-767-92665-2 Bryant-Woolridge's latest book gets off to an uncomfortable start, as Pia Jamison, a forty-something New York music video ...
Acacia: Book One, the War with the Mein.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... * Acacia: Book One, the War With the Mein By David Anthony Durham Doubleday June 2007, $26.95 ISBN 0-385-50606-6 Acacia is the first in Durham's War With the Mein trilogy, detailing the struggles of the house of Arkan against a deadly, dastardly and implacable foe. What we have ...
The Sacred Place.(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... The Sacred Place By Daniel Black St. Martin's Press, February 2007 $23.95, ISBN-0-312-35971-3 In this fictional retelling of the infamous 1955 Emmett Till case in Money, Mississippi, author Daniel Black, an associate professor at Clark Atlanta University, reprises how Clement, a ...
Sleeping With Strangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Sleeping With Strangers By Eric Jerome Dickey Dutton, April 2007 $24,95, ISBN 0-525-94999-2 Since releasing his first novel more than 10 years ago, best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey has crafted an incredibly popular blueprint for commercial fiction. Yet within this ...
Ralph Ellison: A Biography.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... * Ralph Ellison: A Biography By Arnold Rampersad Knopf, May 2007 $35, ISBN 0-375-40827-4 Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad is the story of the rise of an African American writer (Ellison, who died in 1994, preferred to be identified as Negro) out of desperate ...
Sterling Brown's A Negro Looks at the South.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... * Sterling Brown's A Negro Looks at the South Edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Mark A. Sanders Oxford University Press April 2007, $35 ISBN 0-195-31399-2 One of the icons in black letters, Sterling A. Brown was a poet, teacher, critic, essayist and folklorist in the early part ...
The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification By Caille Millner The Penguin Press February 2007, $22.95 ISBN 1-594-201099 As we stand at the cusp of Latinos taking the seat as the head minorities in charge, perhaps it is fitting that the black identity memoir should not be our ...
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... * To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic By William Jelani Cobb New York University Press, February 2007 $22.95, ISBN 0-814-71670-9 To the Break of Dawn marks a crucial turning point in hip-hop writing. Gone are the days when hip-hop's critical discourse was ...
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image.(Noteworthy Title)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image By Bennetta Jules-Rosette University of Illinois Press, April 2007 $60, ISBN 0-252-03157-1 Josephine Baker would have celebrated her 100th birthday last year. In Jules-Rosette's ...
Black Issues Book Review best-sellers list.(hardcover and paperback fiction and non-fiction books)(Book review)
May 01, 2007 ... Hardcover Fiction 1. Love and Lies/ Kimberla Lawson Roby (William Morrow, $23.95, ISBN 0-060-89249-8) How Charlotte Black manages to save her soul and her marriage to the Rev. Curtis Black, a popular minister and author with a notorious past. 2. Sleeping ...
Aug. 24-25, 2007 Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago.(National Book Club Conference)
May 01, 2007 ... Black Issues Book Review presents the National Book Club Conference--Chicago to be held on Friday and Saturday, August 24 and 25, 2007, at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Chicago. The unique event is modeled after the hugely successful NBCC annual gathering in Atlanta and ...