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Word on The Street

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Thalia Book Club: The Street by Ann Petry

Wed, Apr 24 at 7:30 pm

Symphony Space – Broadway and 95^th Street

Revisit this 1946 classic with authors Sapphire (Push), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Harlem is Nowhere), and actress Sonia Manzano (The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano) and other writers explore the gritty, emotional story set in Harlem. Actress Roslyn Ruff (The Piano Lesson; The Help) will read an excerpt.

“A gripping tale … overflowing with imaginative writing.”- The New York Times

“While Down These Mean Streets and Manchild in the Promise Land showed women’s experience as ancillary at best, The Street put a black woman’s experience, her struggles in the inner city, CENTER! That was important to me.” - Sapphire

“I was encouraged to read The Street as a 17-year-old taking a special summer course on “Geography and Literature” at Cornell University. The professors had a hunch that Ann Petry’s novel would resonate with my interests. They were right: I was captivated, terrified and enchanted — all at once. I was already building the Harlem of my mind through encounters with poetry, photography and art. Reading the The Street added another layer to that personal map, which I later explored when I came to live here and eventually began to write Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America.” Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

For a $5 ticket, use the code: Street

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What’s new in the Amsterdam News?

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I’ll tell ya what’s new in the Amsterdam News…

In Stock

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THE MOST ILLITERATE NATION IN THE WORLD

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“Not a thousand years ago it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning anything in this country. You see a nation which is the leader of the rest of the world, that had to pay the price of that ticket, and the price of that ticket is we’re sitting in the most illiterate nation in the world. THE MOST ILLITERATE NATION IN THE WORLD. A monument to illiteracy. If you doubt me all you have to do is spend a day in Washington. I am serious as a heart attack.”

James Baldwin. Black English: A Dishonest Argument.

The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History, 1626-1940

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“The Negro in New York is an unavoidably sketchy and uneven document, compiled by the Writers’ Program of New York City during that very brief period of the WPA when it was recognized that writers existed in our country and had to eat, and even had a certain utility – though, probably, no real value. The curator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, Jean Blackwell Hutson, points out that the material in this book has been sitting in the collection since 1940 with “publication deferred and prevented because information contained in it was too startling for conservative taste.” That the information in this book should be startling is an interesting comment on the conservative, that is to say, the prevailing, attitude toward American history. If so many people did not find the information in this book “startling,” they might be less at the mercy of their ignorance, and our present situation would be healthier than it is.

The book can be startling only to the brainwashed, in which category, alas, nearly all Americans are presently to be found, and, of course, it would be very hard to use it as a basis for a rousing television series. It strips the Americans of their fig leaves, as it were, and proves that Eden, if it ever existed, certainly never existed here. It proves that anyone who contends that the Northern racial attitudes have not always been, essentially, indistinguishable from those of the South is either lying or is deluded. Of course, one has become deluded when one has believed a lie too long.”

James Baldwin. Preface to The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History, 1626-1940.

Sunday morning, February, in the shop.

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Under counter: Polynesia, Natural History, The Pacific Theater WWII (left)

The Eastern Pacific, Exploration & Discovery, Galapagos, Easter Island, French Polynesia (right).

The Caribbean, Cuba, Jamaica: first stops.

Under the counter: Jamaica (left), Cuba (right) – for a change.

: Papua New Guinea. Our obsession.

A mess o’ Mesoamerica, under Dion’s self-portrait.

Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and through the Canal.

Anthro-apologies. Think Charlie Parker.

The Spell of the Pacific.

The seldom plastic arts.

: On the table, Papua New Guinea. Under, The Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga.

The Black Pacific (extended play)

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The Black Pacific at Jumel Terrace Books

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In stock

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From The Private Library

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