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• A million reasons to rejoice 

  In the past ten years, American Visions magazine has highlighted the ways in which the arts of African American people reflect the needs and...

  American Visions, 12/01/95 by Gary A. Puckrein · More from publication

• Tending liberty's garden: America's rising glory 

  African Americans have always been part of the White House staff, either as laborers, domestic staff or administrators. African Americans played a...

  American Visions, 02/01/95 by Gary A. Puckrein · More from publication

• Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America. - book reviews 

  Mary Frances Berry (Viking. 1994. $22.95)-- "The upsurge in racial intimidation and violence in recent years," Berry writes, "led me to believe...

  American Visions, 04/01/94 by Gary A. Puckrein · More from publication

• The Price You Pay. - book reviews 

  By Barbara Summers (Amistad Press. 1993. $19.95)--Summers, the editor of the widely acclaimed I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed...

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• Juba to Jive: The Dictionary of African-American Slang. - book reviews 

  Edited by Clarence Major (Penguin. 1994. $14.95)--Since the days when the conversations of slaves served as the classic example of a secret tongue,...

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• Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History. - book reviews 

  Sterling Stuckey (Oxford University Press. 1994. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $15.95)-The title of this work promises more than the book delivers. It is a...

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• Billy. - book reviews 

  By Albert French (Viking. 1993. $19.00)--In his first novel, French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in a harrowing tale of a young...

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• Selected Poems. - book reviews 

  By Rita Dove (Vintage Books. 1993. $12.00)--Dove is the Poet Laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose works evoke...

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• Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. - book reviews 

  By Mark Ribowsky (Simon & Schuster. 1994. $23.00)--This is the only complete biography of the first Negro leagues star to be inducted into...

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• On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying - the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor That Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor. - book reviews 

  By Mel Watkins (Simon & Schuster. 1994. $27.00)--On the Real Side chronicles the rise of black America's formerly underground humor, tracing the...

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