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American Jihad: Islam After Malcom X by Steven Barboza Publisher Comments "American Jihad is the only popular book available about the religious experience of Muslims, both black and white, in America. With over one billion faithful worldwide, and over six rnillion in the United States alone, Islam is the world's fastest... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800 by Leland Ferguson Publisher Comments Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. Best Book of South Carolina History Finalist, South Carolina Historical Society. Tracing the advances of African-American archaeology since the 1960s, Uncommon Ground... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen Publisher Comments Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history. <BR>Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson Publisher Comments "WHEN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS WHITE demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. This was no accident. With the United States still in an era of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism by Scot Brown Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents.   Read the Introduction. "A detailed and sober account . . . Fighting for US is of enormous and permanent value." —Publishers Weekly "Readers will find Brown's study a well-researched document on the key... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad by Betty Deramus Publisher Comments Written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this is a collection of fascinating, true, and largely untold stories of couples who risked their lives to be together--demonstrating love as a driving force in the resistance to American slavery.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Huey P. Newton Reader by David Hilliard Publisher Comments "The Huey P. Newton Reader" includes now-classic texts ranging from the formation of the Black Panthers, the arming of young urban blacks for self-defense, and Eldridge Cleaver's controversial expulsion from the party. It also features never-before... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list International law and the Black minority in the U.S. by Yussuf Naim Kly Publisher Comments "Kly's unique perspective is worthy of consideration and debate by minority and non-minority individuals alike". -- American Journal of International Law<P>Named Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in the U.S., 1990, this book is truly... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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

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   Race and Politics: New Challenges and Responses for Black Activism (Haymarket) by James Jennings Publisher Comments In a sequel to his widely read RACE, POLITICS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Jennings here assembles case studies of cities such as Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with practical discussions of programs designed to establish more effective Black politics... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives by Spencer Crew Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156).... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Leverin Lewis Publisher Comments Stretching from the close of World War I to immediately after the Depression, the Harlem Renaissance was a time of glorious artistic freedom and intellectual collaboration between black artists and white bohemians of Greenwich village. In his masterful... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not a Genuine Black Man: Or How I Learned to Be Black in the Lily-White Suburbs by Brian Copeland Publisher Comments Based on the longest-running one-man show in San Francisco history — now coming to Off-Broadway — a hilarious, poignant, and disarming memoir of growing up black in an all-white suburb. In 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Deep Talk: Reading African-American Literary Names by Debra Walker King Book News Annotation King (English, U. of Florida) draws on the work of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to explore the interpretive guidelines necessary to read what she calls the "metatext" of names, where these chosen words comment on and revise the action... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 by William L Andrews Publisher Comments To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition--the autobiography--from its beginnings to the end of the slavery era.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience by Juan Williams Publisher Comments More than 30 people tell personal stories about the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, then and now, not only the leaders but also ordinary citizens who bear witness to transforming moments when they suddenly found the courage to try to change things.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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