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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 $10.95 (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 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 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 $37.50 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 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

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 Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W Blight Publisher Comments In this history, Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, the ritual of Memorial Day, and resurrects African-American voices and memories of the... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $9.95 (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 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 $9.95 (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 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 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 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 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 The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip Publisher Comments The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and her undeniably multiracial heritage, started on a journey of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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