Origins of the Urban Crisis

The Art of Resilience: 100 Paths to Wisdom and Strength in an Uncertain World

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

a 1991 biography by Alex Kotlowitz that describes the experiences of two brothers growing up in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes

Poverty and place : ghettos, barrios, and the American city / Paul A. Jargowsky

bell hooks on black farmers and racial politics

http://sistahvegan.com/2009/10/03/bell-hooks-on-black-farmers-and-racial-politics/

Mind Over Mood

"We are not aware of the thoughts guiding our behavior because our actions have become routine. However, when we decide to change or learn a new behavior, thoughts can determine whether and how this change occurs.

Our expectations affect our behavior. We are more likely to try to do something and succeed if we believe it is possible" (Greenberger & Padesky 18).

Takin’ Over

By Brandon ‘Lil B’ McCartney
(Available now!) Rapper, songwriter and now author, Brandon ‘Lil b’ McCartney, writes from the heart about being BASED and POSITIVE and SHREDDING old concepts that rap music has to be about violence and anger.

TAKIN’ OVER is Lil b’s rap to the world – a world that that the San Francisco-based star says is about to be Takin’ Over with THE POSITIVE, THE LOVE and ALL POSSIBILITIES for everyone. Written in the form of text messages and emails to his thousands of fans and friends, it reveals his inner-most feelings about LIFE, LOVE, and MUSIC.

One reviewer of TAKIN’ OVER called Lil b, “A rappin’, philosophizin’, teenage Ben Franklin.” It’s possibly the most positive and insightful book to yet come out of the “Anything is Possible” generation.

Born in the Street: Graffiti

The Origins of the urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing and job discrimination played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long before the 1967 race riot. Sugrue argues that institutionalized and often legalized racism resulted in sharply limited opportunities for Detroit blacks for most of the twentieth century.