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Alexs Pate, Publications & Performances
“My love affair with writing and fiction, in particular, is one totally born out of a fascination with the seductive qualities of words. I am a poet at heart. In my head when I write, it’s like the...
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Alexs Pate: In the Heart of the Beat
In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap Buy In the Heart of the Beat Preview In the Heart of the Beat According to African American and African studies scholar Pate, rap is not just the emergent...
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Alexs Pate: Losing Absalom
Losing Absalom Buy Losing Absalom Preview Losing Absalom One final battle crowns a lifetime of struggle for the hard-working, African American family man at the center of this moving first novel. In...
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Alexs Pate: Finding Makeba
Finding Makeba Buy Finding Makeba In a Philadelphia bookstore, African American writer Ben Crestfield asks a young woman for her name so that he can autograph a copy of his first novel for her. When...
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Alexs Pate: Amistad
Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay Buy Amistad Based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny on board the Spanish slave ship, Amistad, here is the frightening sequence of events that led...
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Alexs Pate” The Multicultiboho Sideshow
The Multicultiboho Sideshow Buy The Multicultiboho Sideshow Preview The Multicultiboho Sideshow Ichabod “Icky” Word, an ambitious young African-American writer and the protagonist of Alexs Pate’s...
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Alexs Pate: West of Rehoboth
West of Rehoboth Buy West of Rehoboth Preview West of Rehoboth Richly conceived, this novel by the Alexs Pate, author of the official tie-in to the Spielberg movie Amistad, relates the story of...
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Alexs Pate: Innocent
Innocent: Poems Buy Innocent A limited edition collection of selected poems by Alexs Pate that explore the themes of guilt and innocence, particularly as it pertains to black men. Designed and printed...
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Alexs Pate: The Past is Perfect (excerpt)
Alexs Pate THE PAST IS PERFECT: A MEMOIR OF A FATHER/SON REUNION It is Friday and I am deep into the process of scouring my apartment. I know I can’t really make it clean. It’s not that kind of place....
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