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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 Encyclopedia of African American Culture & 5 Volumes by Jack Salzman Synopsis The "Encyclopedia" is a 5-volume set and a supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses... (read more) List Price $868.75 Your price $60.00 (Used - Set Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hoop Roots by John Edgar Wideman Publisher Comments This multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, and race is Wideman's first nonfiction work since his National Book Award finalist, "Fatheralong." Bringing "a touch of Proust to the blacktop" ("Time"), "Hoop Roots" tells of Wideman's love for a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list I'm a Man Who Happens to Be Black by Brian Bolden Publisher Comments As a race, we can no longer hold the entire Caucasian race responsible for what their parents and grandparents did to our parents and grandparents because they had nothing to do with it. Through the actions of many men and women who happened to be white,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Barnes & Noble C: An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama by Culpepper Clark Publisher Comments On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace physically blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama's campus. His intent was to defy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor by Paul Beatty Publisher Comments Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, "Hokum" is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by black Americans. <BR>This book is less a comprehensive collection of African-American humor... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles Johnson Synopsis Man, martyr, and myth – an American giant in a photobiography of unprecedented scope and depth. King is the first true photobiography of a hero's journey. Never before has his life been so richly chronicled from so many different points of view.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War by Ishmael Reed Publisher Comments African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population from the very beginning. In this collection of essays, his first since "Airing Dirty Laundry in 1993, Reed explores the many forms that this homefront war has taken. His... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Emerson's Antislavery Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments This book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians -- writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are speeches and lectures... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $6.00 (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   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 Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties by Mike Marqusee Publisher Comments Marqusee puts Muhammad Ali in his true historical context to explore the 1960s crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. 16 photos.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Journey Home: A Father's Gift to His Son by Clifton L Taulbert Publisher Comments A son connects to his father's history. Clifton Taulbert had given his twenty-year-old son, Marshall, all of the necessities and many of the extras, but had Marshall gotten the most important things? A journey home to the Mississippi Delta community of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life by Freddie Mae Baxter Publisher Comments Told with the irrepressible warmth and humor of a natural-born storyteller, The Seventh Child is the chronicle of a remarkable woman's life, and of three generations of an African-American family. The seventh of eight children, Freddie Mae Baxter was... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport by David K Wiggins Publisher Comments This extraordinarily rich compendium of primary sources charts the significant, intertwining history of African Americans and sport. The Unlevel Playing Field contains more than one hundred documents--ranging chronologically from a challenge issued by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-Violent Takeover of the House of Representatives by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments In this powerful, humorously honest work, Mosley examines his own sense of cultural dislocation as an African-American writer and attempts to transcend his earlier feelings of living a "life out of context" and seeks instead to find a political context.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World by Ralph Wiley Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, Wiley--in an immediate and unmistakable style--takes on popular culture as it relates to Black Americans today, adding a new dimension to the dialogue about race. Everyone and everything make their appearance: from Marion... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 by Gary B Nash Publisher Comments This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how, from colonial times through the Revolution and into the turbulent 1830s, blacks in... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and Their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Stephen Kendrick Publisher Comments The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schools. One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A New Look at Black Families by Charles Vert Willie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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