Black Heritage
There are 1126 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 New: $29.95 Hardcover 
add to wish list |
|
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon  Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World...
|
||||||
Used: $17.50 Trade Paper List Price $28.50
add to wish list |
|
Black Power : Radical Politics and African American Identity (04 Edition)
by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar Synopsis Drawing on deep archival research and interviews, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. He finds that black nationalism was more favorably received among...
|
||||||
New: $23.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther, Jr. King Publisher Comments Chapter One Nonviolence and Racial Justice This article appeared in "Christian Century," the premier liberal Protestant Journal, shortly after almost 100 black clergymen came to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in response to a call from the...
|
||||||
New: $14.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya Hartman Publisher Comments In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank...
|
||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver Publisher Comments The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a...
|
||||||
Used: $10.50 Trade Paper List Price $16.00
add to wish list |
|
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
by Kevin Boyle Publisher Comments An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from...
|
||||||
Used: $23.50 Hardcover List Price $30.00
add to wish list |
|
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American...
|
||||||
Used: $17.50 Hardcover List Price $25.00
add to wish list |
|
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
by David Blight Publisher Comments Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly...
|
||||||
New: $35.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
by Michael K. Honey Publisher Comments The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions...
|
||||||
New: $32.50 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men
by Tonya Bolden Synopsis An Epic History from Jamestown to the Million Man March Strong Men Keep Coming "In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep Coming, and this is her...
|
||||||
New: $19.99 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
African Americans of Spotsylvania County (Images of America)
by Terry Miller Synopsis Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was established in 1721, but it was not until after the Civil War that the names of approximately 4,700 African Americans born and/or living in the county were recorded for the first time. More than 150 African Americans...
|
||||||
Used: $7.00 Hardcover List Price $12.99
add to wish list |
|
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About (06 Edition)
by Stewart Publisher Comments Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-American history? Fear not, because 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History is history at...
|
||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
The Complete Kwanzaa: Celebrating Our Cultural Harvest
by Dorothy W Riley Publisher Comments Kwanzaa is the joyous and meaningful holiday when African-Americans reunite with family and friends and pay tribute to their rich cultural heritage. Celebrated from December 26 through January 1, it is an important part of the lives of 18 million people,...
|
||||||
Used: $11.99 Hardcover List Price $75.25
add to wish list |
|
Amazing Grace: African American Grandmothers as Caregivers and Conveyors of Traditional Values
by Dorothy Smith Ruiz Publisher Comments Intergenerational African families, in which the grandmother is the primary caregiver of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, are increasingly rapidly in American society. Over the past decade, researchers and policy makers have shown considerable...
|
||||||
Used: $9.00 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Taste of Power : a Black Woman's Story (92 Edition)
by Elaine Brown Publisher Comments Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent time in American history, this is the story of a black woman's battle to define herself....
|
||||||
New: $27.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
African American Religious History
by Milton C. (edt) Sernett Synopsis This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents...
|
||||||
New: $15.16 Trade Paper List Price $18.95
add to wish list |
|
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
by Charles E Cobb Publisher Comments This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and...
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Trade Paper List Price $20.00
add to wish list |
|
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History)
by Juan Williams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-297) and index....
|
||||||
Used: $13.50 Trade Paper List Price $18.25
add to wish list |
|
Bad Blood : the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ((Rev)93 Edition)
by James H. Jones Review James T. Patterson Author of The Dread Disease: CancerandModern American Culture By eschewing sensationalism, Jones offers a compelling narrative that enhances our understanding of race relations in the twentieth-century South, of professionalism in...
|
||||||
Used: $5.50 Trade Paper List Price $9.95
add to wish list |
|
To Be Popular Or Smart : the Black Peer Group (88 Edition)
by Jawanza Kunjufu Synopsis Information on peer pressure and how the peer group can be used to reinforce academic achievement....
|
||||||
