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Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Herb Boyd Synopsis Benjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson's hypocrisy * Old Elizabeth on spreading the Word * Frederick Douglass on life in the North * Sojourner Truth on black women's rights * W.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth * Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina (Blacks in the New World) by Daniel Littlefield Publisher Comments A study of how the combined efforts of the Africans and Europeans molded American civilization.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairstons share a complex and compelling history: divided in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Negro in the Civil War by Benjamin Quarles Publisher Comments Quarles writes powerfully about the role of three-and-a-half million blacks in the South, who were impressed into non-combatant service building forts and entrenchments, working in factories and mines. In the North, black Americans fought with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment. Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments In "Rosa Parks, " "the best of the new generation of American historians" (Stephen Ambrose) brilliantly examines an American heroine in the context of the tumultuous time of the Civil Rights movement.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africana: The Concise Desk Reference by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Americans At War an Encyclopedia 2 Volumes by Jonathan Sutherland Publisher Comments A fascinating chronicle of the endeavors of African Americans who fought for their country: this book recounts their stories, their bravery, and their contributions.... (read more) List Price $185.00 Your price $40.33 (Used - Set Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by T H Breen Publisher Comments Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Afro-Orientalism by Bill V Mullen Publisher Comments As early as 1914, in his pivotal essay "The World Problem of the Color Line," W.E.B. Du Bois was charting a search for Afro-Asian solidarity and for an international anticolonialism. In "Afro-Orientalism, Bill Mullen traces the tradition of revolutionary... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $12.00 (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   Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B Oates Publisher Comments Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement by Jim Carrier Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-360) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America by Jacob Levenson Publisher Comments As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bon by John Blake Publisher Comments Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity by John W Fountain Publisher Comments John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shakedown by Kenneth R Timmerman Publisher Comments In this new paperback edition, the author exposes Jesse Jackson's life and works, uncovering a sordid tale of greed, ambition, and corruption from a self-proclaimed minister who has no qualms about poisoning American race relations for personal gain.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King JR.'s Mission to Save America: 1955-1968 by Stewart Burns Publisher Comments More than a biography, "To the Mountaintop" is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Uncle Tom Mania by Sarah Meer Publisher Comments Explores the public reception of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as an ideological battleground.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches by Josh Gottheimer Publisher Comments Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Atlantic Sound by Caryl Phillips Publisher Comments Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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