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Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution) by Mark A Graber Publisher Comments Challenging the belief that the Dred Scott decision was a misinterpretation of the US Constitution.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South by Edward Ball Publisher Comments Chapter One William Harleston was born in 1804 at The Hut, a plantation owned by his parents, twenty-five miles north of Charleston, South Carolina. The Hut was one of several assets in a Harleston dynasty of land and slaves. (Other family estates were... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal by J Patrick Oconnor Publisher Comments Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America is Me: 170 Fresh Questions and Answers on Black American History by Kennell Jackson Publisher Comments Arranged in a dynamic question-and-answer format, this engaging reference addresses the most asked and least understood questions about black history, ranging through such topics as African culture, slavery and the black resistance, important black... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reviving the Spirit: A Generation of African Americans Goes Home to Church by Beverly Lawrence Publisher Comments Drawing on her own experiences and those of the parishioners of Baltimore's Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the author traces and celebrates the current renaissance of religious feeling among middle-class blacks.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list John Brown: Making of a Martyr (Southern Classics Series) by Robert Penn Warren Publisher Comments Portrait of the tormented liberator by America's first poet laureate.... (read more) List Price $23.90 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 50 Years After Brown the State of Black Equality in America: African Americans Continuing Pursuit of 14th Amendment Rights by Anthony Samad Publisher Comments 50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in America is an assessment of the state of equality for Blacks in America. Examining equality in the context of the legal successes and policy challenges of Brown versus. The Board of Education of Topeka,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior by Judith Kilpatrick Publisher Comments Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people. There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics and the Color of Our Character by Karla F C Holloway Publisher Comments Karla Holloway meditates on the dynamics of race and ethnicity as they are negotiated in the realms of power. Her uniquely insightful and intelligent analysis guides us in a fresh way through Anita Hill's interrogation, the assault on Tawana Brawley, the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in African American Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan by Amy Alexander Publisher Comments The Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan is undeniably one of the most controversial and oft-maligned figures in American social and cultural politics. Now, for the first time, leading African-American voices speak out about Farrakhan, the myth and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington Publisher Comments From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Detroit I Do Mind Dying 2ND Edition by Dan Georgakas Publisher Comments Since its publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United States. It tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery by Arlene R. Keizer Synopsis Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new book, Arlene R. Keizer contends that these writers... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968 by Robert Mann Publisher Comments When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954?1968 recalls the most significant and inspiring legislative battle of the twentieth century?the two decades of struggle in the halls of Congress that resulted in civil rights for the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life of Langston Hughes Volume 1 I Too Sing by Arnold Rampersad Publisher Comments February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson by Murali Balaji Publisher Comments W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson were both leading figures of the African American movement; their writing and teachings continue to inspire people around the world today. "The Professor and the Pupil" chronicles the 40-year friendship between Du Bois... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Assassination of the Black Male Image by Earl Hutchinson Publisher Comments A compelling expose of the truth behind society's racial and sexual stereotypes of black men, this book offers a wide historical perspective and insights into such recent racially charged events as the Clarence Thomas hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Synopsis Destined to become a classic, this powerful and inspirational autobiography of America's greatest civil rights leader calls upon Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including Dr. King's previously unpublished writings... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family by Stephanie St Oliver Publisher Comments "Song for My Father" is a daughter's memoir of her father, Charles M. Stokes, a prominent African-American member of the National Republican Party. Known as "Stokey," he was born just forty years after the abolition of slavery. But by the time he became... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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