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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Synopsis The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor Publisher Comments Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Chronicles of a Two-Front War: Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press by Lawerence Allen Eldridge Publisher Comments During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Publisher Comments Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the 1749 texts of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition corrected and published in his lifetime. The collection also includes perhaps the best known and... (read more) Your price: $7.95 New - Mass Market
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Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance by Stephanie Leigh Batiste Publisher Comments In Darkening Mirrors, Stephanie Leigh Batiste examines how African Americans participated in U.S. cultural imperialism in Depression-era stage and screen performances. A population treated as second-class citizens at home imagined themselves as empowered,... (read more) Your price: $30.25 New - Trade Paper
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Trust in Black America: Race, Discrimination, and Politics by Shayla C. Nunnally Publisher Comments Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 by Lawrence Goldstone Publisher Comments A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era. In the years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Kimberley L. Phillips Publisher Comments African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen Publisher Comments A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Ralph Ellison in Progress: From Invisible Man to Three Days Before the Shooting... by Adam Bradley About the Author Adam Bradley is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is coeditor of The Anthology of Rap (published by Yale University Press), coeditor of Ralph Ellison's unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . ,... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $21.25 New - Trade Paper
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Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cu) by Erik S. Gellman Publisher Comments During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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Divine Callings: Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentecostalism by Richard N. Pitt Publisher Comments List Price $32.50 Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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Trust in Black America: Race, Discrimination, and Politics by Shayla C. Nunnally Publisher Comments List Price $33.75 Your price: $31.75 New - Trade Paper
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Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture by Carol Magee Publisher Comments A study of pop culture's representation of a continent's visual... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (Difference Incorporated) by Erica R. Edwards Publisher Comments Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership—this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: Volume 2: Christian, Who Calls Me Christian?, April 1936 August 1943 by Walter Earl Fluker Publisher Comments Continuing the landmark documentary edition of the writings of a pioneer for social... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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The Proper Criticism of Some Decent People: A Candid, Unblinking, Unapologetic, Uncompromising Look at the Leadership Crisis in Black America and Its Impact on All of America by Theophilus Green Publisher Comments The Proper Criticism of Some Decent People A Candid, Unblinking, Unapologetic, Uncompromising Look at the Leadership Crisis in Black America and the Impact on the Leadership of America By Dr. Theophilus Green _____________________________________________... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Courage in the Moment: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1961-1964 by Jim Wallace Publisher Comments These remarkable photographs dramatically document protest marches and other demonstrations, primarily from 1963, a critical year in the civil rights movement. Student journalist Jim Wallace captured poignant scenes that range from sit-ins and a Klan... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement by Leslie G. Kelen Publisher Comments An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Customary Law and Slavery in WEST AFRICA by M.T. Rosalie Akouele Abbey Publisher Comments Customary Legal order predating the Slave Trades was based on Religion. When this order did not put them to death, it rejected on the margins of west Africa's traditional societeies, its inventors and creators whose descendants are still with us and are... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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