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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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All About Love : New Visions (00 Edition) by bell hooks Publisher Comments Chapter One The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word "love" lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama Publisher Comments “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.00 Used - Mass Market
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Publisher Comments “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks Publisher Comments What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments Somehow, the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement had bypassed rural McIntosh County, Georgia. In the 1970s, the white sheriff there still wielded all power; he controlled everyone and everything. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America’s Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him “an angel from God,” Geoffrey Canada was a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks Publisher Comments "Where We Stand" is a powerful new book by one of America's most admired critics and writers. For years we have turned to bell hooks-feminist, social thinker, memoirist, teacher-for her deeply felt ideas on women, race, culture, sexuality, and more... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper Publisher Comments Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions) by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African-Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $1.25 Used - Trade Paper
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We Had a Dream: A Tale of the Struggle for Integration in America by Howard Kohn Synopsis This masterful, provocative examination of the continuing struggle with issues of race in America focuses on the lives of a handful of Prince George County, Maryland, residents--black and white--showing how they have coped with the challenges of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.80 Used - Hardcover
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Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick A Bell Publisher Comments When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision finding public school segregation unconstitutional could become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F Litwack Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this " rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slavery (Oxford Readers) by Stanley Engerman Publisher Comments This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Panthers Speak by Philip Sheldo Foner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Year of Malcom X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary by George Breitman Synopsis Malcolm X's political evolution after he left the Nation Of Islam. Analyzes the conflicts that resulted in Malcolm's being driven out of the Nation, his views on how to combat anti-Black discrimination, and how, as he put it, to "internationalize" the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall Publisher Comments In this "honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "Washington Post" reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.38 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas by Michael A Gomez Publisher Comments A social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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