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Through Ebony Eyes : What Teachers Need To Know But Are Afraid To Ask About African American Students (04 Edition) by Gail L. Thompson Publisher Comments Taking on the volatile topic of the role of race in education, this work explores the black-white achievement gap and the cultural divide that exists between some teachers and African American students. It provides information and strategies that will... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Upon This Rock : the Miracles of a Black Church (93 Edition) by Samuel G. Freedman Publisher Comments Prologue Another Beggar "The first African slaves arrived in the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in 1626. Some thirty-four years later, it is recorded, slaves appeared in the adjoining town of Brooklyn. Well before the end of the century, historical... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776 (05 Edition) by Betty Wood Publisher Comments Slavery in Colonial America, 1619 1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prophesy Deliverance by Cornel West Publisher Comments In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life's experiences. He challenges African Americans to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Drylongso : a Self-portrait of Black America (93 Edition) by John Langston Gwaltney Synopsis A classic on the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform ordinary black life in America.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer Publisher Comments Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ideas of Slavery From Aristotle To Augustine (96 Edition) by Peter Garnsey Publisher Comments A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unchained Memories : Readings From the Slave Narratives (02 Edition) by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156).... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950 by Charles M Payne Publisher Comments 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century womens rights movement but was also the movements principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crowns by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Soul By Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (99 Edition) by Walter Johnson Publisher Comments Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Future of the Race (96 Edition) by Henry Louis Jr. Gates Publisher Comments Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity--And My Journey to Freedom in America by Francis Bok Publisher Comments Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harlem Renaissance : Hub of African-american Culture, 1920-1930 (95 Edition) by Steven Watson Publisher Comments It was W.E.B. DuBois who paved the way with his essays and his magazine The Crisis, but the Harlem Renaissance was mostly a literary and intellectual movement whose best known figures include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner by Geneva Smitherman Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated -- the ultimate guide to black talk from all segments of the African American community.Do you want to be down with the latest hype terms from the Hip Hop world? Black Talk is the perfect source. "Even if you think you're hip... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Rage ((2ND)92 Edition) by William H. Grier Publisher Comments The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, this widely acclaimed work has established itself as the classic statement of the desperation, conflicts, and anger of black life in America today. Black Rage... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 (09 Edition) by Devin Fergus Publisher Comments In this pioneering exploration of the interplay between liberalism and black nationalism, Devin Fergus returns to the tumultuous era of Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Helms and challenges us to see familiar political developments through a new lens. What if... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Power Movement : Rethinking the Civil Rights-black Power Era (06 Edition) by Peniel E. (ed.) Joseph Publisher Comments The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Narrative of My Escape From Slavery (03 Edition) by Moses Roper Publisher Comments Published in 1838, Moses Roper's autobiography ranks among the most important and authentic accounts of life in slavery. The North Carolina native was separated from his mother at the age of six, and sold or traded many times to plantation owners... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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