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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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments 'When award-winning educator and activist Geoff Canada was growing up in the Bronx, the \"sidewalk\" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked--and to some degree protected--through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mawi Asgedom Synopsis This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by bell hooks Publisher Comments A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism" In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Taylor Branch 
Publisher Comments Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clayborne Carson Synopsis Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpublished writings, interviews, recordings, and correspondence, King scholar Clayborne Carson has constructed a remarkable first-person account of Dr. King's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $18.25 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments On April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cornel West Synopsis With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. Cornel West is at the forefront of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Haley Publisher Comments Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Olaudah Equaino Publisher Comments Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, 6 months among the Miskito Indians in Central... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $0.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Malcolm X Publisher Comments "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, and important book." THE NEW YORK TIMES If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malcolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the result of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments The Covenant in Action was developed to continue the inspirational spirit of the Covenant With Black America and to empower people to take effective action to achieve THE Covenant goals. The information, tools, and ideas presented in The Covenant... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shawn Taylor Publisher Comments Being black and male is a serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments In this founding work in the literature of black protest, Du Bois eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to... (read more) Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cornel West Publisher Comments From the bestseliing author of Race Matters, a bold and eloquent call for the deepening of democracy both at home and abroad in this threatening post-9/11 age of imperial overreach and fundamentalist rage. In his major bestseller, Race Matters... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-468) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Karl Fleming Synopsis Fleming crafts a remarkable and moving memoir of growing up an orphan in the rough South, becoming a "Newsweek" reporter and covering the most brutal--though often inspiring--aspects of the civil rights revolution.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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