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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures) by Glenn C Loury Publisher Comments Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals--and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies ofboth left and right, one of the most controversial. A major... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Mind Set on Freedom (American Ways Series) by John A Salmond Publisher Comments A compact, remarkably successful narrative history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968, chronicling the major events, describing the key players, and showing how the revolution transformed the American South. American Ways Series.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $5.78 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Knocking at Our Own Door (Columbia History of Urban Life) by Clarence Taylor Publisher Comments The struggle for school integration in New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system, was one of the most wrenching episodes in the story of America's civil rights movement. Following a disastrous struggle in 1964 between a new... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L Chappell Publisher Comments In a new assessment of the Civil Rights Movement, Chappell argues that its success was not due to the triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress, but to the tradition of prophetic religion that brought the vitality of a religious revival... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation (Space, Place, and Society) by David Wilson Publisher Comments This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black"--"referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased identities, and rampant physical decay made American blacks... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives by Patricia Bell Scott Publisher Comments A new and exciting collection from the editor of the enormously successful Life Notes and the award-winning Double Stitch. With a foreword by Marcia Ann Gillespie. To tell the flat-footed truth is a southern saying that means to tell the naked truth... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $1.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist by Judson L Jeffries Publisher Comments A new consideration of the Black Panther's leadership, political thought, and intellectual... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by William J Switala Publisher Comments Tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. Pinpoints major routes in the states, with maps and information for locating them today.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography,... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Atlas of African-American History (Facts on File Library of American History) by James Ciment Publisher Comments With authoritative text and a wealth of full-color maps and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.00 (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   Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West by William H. Leckie and Shirley A. Leckie Publisher Comments Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family by Ronne Hartfield Publisher Comments In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of mixed race with ease and harmony for generations. Her moving family history is filled with such stories, told in... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Negro, Old Left: African-american Writing and Communism Between the Wars by William J. Maxwell Publisher Comments Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh by Dick Littleton Publisher Comments For almost four hundred years, black Americans have been entertaining the masses through humor, though many times inadvertently and often quite reluctantly. Starting on the slave ships of the Middle Passage through blackface, vaudeville, the chitlin... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments In what has become a landmark of American history and literature, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her descriptions,... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Color Complex by Kathy Russell Publisher Comments A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt by Robert E Washington Publisher Comments This book challenges the long-held assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. Offering a novel sociological approach, Washington delineates the social and political forces that shaped the leading black... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War by Ira Berlin Publisher Comments Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, transcripts, and records depicting the drama of Emancipation in the midst of the nation's bloodiest conflict. Drawn from the award-winning Freedom: A... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow by Eleanor Alexander Publisher Comments A remarkable story of tortured love among the African American elite When acclaimed African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar saw a photo of Alice Ruth Moore in a literary magazine in 1895, he sparked off one of the most important-and turbulent-romances... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage by Elaine Bell Kaplan Publisher Comments One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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