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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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&... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments This is a collection of classic sermons preached by Martin Luther King, Jr.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreams From My Father : Story of Race and Inheritance (07 Edition) by Barack Obama Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama, the son of a black African father and a white American mother, recounts his search for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Bluest Eye -with New Introduction ((Rev)07 Edition) by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Killing the Black Body : Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (97 Edition) by Dorothy Roberts Publisher Comments The image of the "Welfare Queen" continues to dominate white America's perceptions of black women and to shape our government's policies concerning black women's reproductive decisions. In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts explodes the myths about... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Publisher Comments In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America’s most visible—and quotable—public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students by Theresa Perry Publisher Comments Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school. In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Staff Pick The Other Wes Moore is the fascinating tale of two men who shared a name and a birthplace; their lives started out in similar circumstances and ended up very differently (one a Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in jail). A moving... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal by James R Mcgovern Book News Annotation An unaltered reprint of the Louisiana State University Press edition of 1982. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Publisher Comments If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity by Joan Singler Publisher Comments Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story—the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks Publisher Comments Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, 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... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments In the second volume of the three-part trilogy of monumental history that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Parting the Waters", Taylor Branch recreates the dramas that affected every American as the civil rights movement grew in size, impact, and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking on Water by Randall Kenan Publisher Comments Walking on Water is a profoundly moving and provocative account--both timely and enduring--of the thoughts, the feelings, the lives, of African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the nineties, by the highly praised author of Let the Dead Bury... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas) by Herbert S Klein Publisher Comments This survey synthesizes the economic, social, cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave trade. It details the current scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The book examines the 400... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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