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African American Studies
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Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks Publisher Comments Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Celia, a Slave by Melton Alonza McLaurin Publisher Comments Recounts the story of Celia, a slave in antebellum Missouri who killed her master after five years of sexual abuse at his hands and was later found guilty of murder and... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $6.17 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama by Sophia Nelson Publisher Comments "Sophia A. Nelson sets out to redefine black women of today's generation and demystify them beyond the disparaging myths, stereotypes, and definitions that have plagued them since slavery. In 'Black Woman Redefined,' Nelson eloquently arms readers of... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Black Cultural Front by Brian Dolinar Publisher Comments How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $55.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates Publisher Comments The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff Publisher Comments A Stunning Reappraisal of King and His Increased Relevance Might Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? His murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz Publisher Comments White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place. An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $24.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Publisher Comments At long last, the complex field of feminist legal theory is presented in accessible, teachable form by two of its experts, Nancy Levit and Robert R. M. Verchick. In this outstanding primer, the authors introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal... (read more) List Price $17.60 Your price: $16.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith Ann Carney Publisher Comments Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil,... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $21.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and Their Paths to Action by Eileen O'Brien Publisher Comments This book asserts the distinctive place that whites can take in the fight for racial justice, bringing together interviews with white antiracist activists from across North America. Avoiding the typical white options of being nonracist or feeling guilty,... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $26.90 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 by Michael Perman Publisher Comments Provides a history of the disfranchisement of African American and lower-class white voters in the South.... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $53.21 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Shane White Publisher Comments Collects songs, speeches, and sermons that provide a revealing window into the sufferings of slaves, as well as some of the most revealing of such documents from the 1700s through the 1850s.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family by Donna L. Franklin Publisher Comments There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Saving Our Sons by Marita Golden Publisher Comments Sharing her own experiences with raising her African-American son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, the author confronts the causes of violence surrounding African-American men while addressing the problems faced by growing boys... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change by Delores P. Aldridge Publisher Comments Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change is designed to provide information that has been carefully researched and written about a critical topic for those who would seek to understand the future of Black families-- the foundation of the... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Diaspora Conversions by Paul Christopher Johnson Publisher Comments By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna,... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience by Manning Marable Publisher Comments What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from... (read more) Your price: $21.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America by Hilary J. Moss Publisher Comments While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879 by Adele Logan Alexander Publisher Comments Written as a "reclamation" of long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family -- it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice Publisher Comments The personal story of the former Secretary of State traces her childhood in segregated Alabama, describes the influence of people who shaped her life and pays tribute to her parents' characters and sacrifices. 80,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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