African American Studies
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Black Panther Party Reconsidered 1ST Edition
by Charles E Jones  Publisher Comments The Black Panthers was the most effective grassroots black revolutionary group in American history — but one whose legend, replayed in sensationalized news stories, a major movie, and countless publications, has outlived the group itself. Featuring...
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Inhuman Bondage : the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (06 Edition)
by David Brion Davis Publisher Comments David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his...
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Unbank the Fire; Visions for the Education of African American Children
by Janice E Hale Publisher Comments In her highly acclaimed work Black Children, Janice Hale argued that the difficulties many African American children have in school result from differences in learning style that are deeply rooted in African American culture. Now, in Unbank the Fire...
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African-American Christianity: Essays in History
by Paul E Johnson Synopsis Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present. Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus...
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Risks of Faith : the Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 (99 Edition)
by James H. Cone Publisher Comments "American religious thought at its best."—Michael Eric Dyson, author of I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. From the birth of Black Theology to James Cone's seminal work on the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the...
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
by Kevin Bales Publisher Comments Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in...
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Down By the Riverside : a South Carolina Slave Community (84 Edition)
by Charles Joyner Synopsis Reconstructs daily life in a Lowcountry slave community....
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My Face Is Black Is True : Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-slave Reparations (05 Edition)
by Mary Frances Berry Publisher Comments “My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899) In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of...
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Fire in the Bones : Reflections on African-american Religious History (95 Edition)
by Albert J. Raboteau Publisher Comments '\"A Fire in the Bones is more than a history of black Christians: it is the compelling story of the ways in which black folk have turned to Christianity to describe their history and plight in America and to project their vision of redemption to the...
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American Slavery 1619 1877
by Peter Kolchin Publisher Comments A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the context of a general trend toward use of forced...
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Power of Black Music (95 Edition)
by Samuel A. Floyd Publisher Comments When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen,...
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Fight the Power : Rap, Race, and Reality (97 Edition)
by D. Chuck Publisher Comments From the early eighties, the provocative and brilliant lyrics of Chuck D have created controversy and raised the ire of almost every conservative group in the country. His championing of black leaders from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to Malcolm X to...
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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....
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Turbulent Voyage : Readings in African-american Studies (3RD 00 Edition)
by Floyd Hayes Publisher Comments This anthology is designed to introduce the reader to the contours and content of African American Studies. The text and readings included here not only impart information, but seek, as their foremost goal, to precipitate in the reader an awareness of...
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Mutiny on the Amistad Rev Edition
by Howard Jones Publisher Comments This book is the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history in which African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. In 1839, Joseph Cinque led other blacks in a revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad in...
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Huey P. Newton Reader (02 Edition)
by David Hilliard Synopsis Co-edited by one of Newton's former colleagues in the Black Panther Party, this collection combines published and previously unpublished writings from the founder of the American black liberation organization. After excerpts from Newton's autobiography...
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Souls of Black Folk (Trade) (03 Edition)
by W.e.b. Dubois Publisher Comments The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
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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 In this book, Gail L. Thompson takes on the volatile topic of the role of race in education and explores the black-white achievement gap and the cultural divide that exists between some teachers and African American students. Solidly based on research...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
by W E B Dubois Publisher Comments "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first...
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Courage To Hope : From Black Suffering To Human Redemption (99 Edition)
by Quinton Hosford (ed.) Dixie Publisher Comments A collaborative theology built on African-American religious experience and American spiritual life Judith Weisenfeld, Albert J. Raboteau, Charles Long, James H. Cone, and many other prized and esteemed voices collaborate to build a new theology based on...
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