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The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream by Sheryll Cashin Publisher Comments On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, sounded the death... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement by Townsend Davis Publisher Comments Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What's Love Got to Do with It?: Understanding and Healing the Rift Between Black Men and Women by Donna Franklin Publisher Comments RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BLACK MEN AND WOMEN IN AMERICA ARE IN CRISIS. IT'S TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GONE WRONG AND START THE HEALING PROCESS. The current divorce rates for black couples has quadrupled since 1960 and is now double that of the general... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Black Diaspora by Ronald Segal Publisher Comments The Black Diaspora tells the enthralling story of African-descended people outside Africa, spanning more than five centuries and a dozen countries of settlement, from Britain, Canada, and the United States to Haiti, Guyana, and Brazil. Ronald Segal's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and H by Harold Courlander Publisher Comments In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles, and songs from the numerous Negro cultures of the New... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still by George Hendrick Publisher Comments Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by Donald Mcrae Publisher Comments “ Richly detailed...a compassionate case history.”... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Essence 50 of the Most Inspiring African-Americans by Patricia M. Hinds Publisher Comments This extraordinary commemorative book takes an inside look at some of today's most inspiring African Americans. With dynamic photos and captivating biographies, it features prominent women and men who have enriched readers lives.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Martin Luther King, Jr. by Adam Fairclough Publisher Comments In this concise and readable biography, Adam Fairclough chronicles the major events of King's life and assesses his achievements as the preeminent leader of the civil rights movement.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.50 (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   Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Marthin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Fredrik Sunnemark Publisher Comments Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than the civil rights movement's most visible figure, he was its voice. This book describes what went into the creation of that voice. It explores how King used words to define a movement. From a place situated between... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism by Nancie Caraway Book News Annotation Caraway, a white feminist political theorist who attempts to center her thinking in the paradigms of black feminism, examines the historical and theoretical schisms that prevent black and white women who are feminists from working together on a common... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Amistad: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner by Helen Kromer Publisher Comments Echoing a cry for freedom that can still be heard today, "Amistad" portrays the dignity and agony of the charismatic leader Cinque and 52 other kidnapped Africans, who overthrew their captors and embarked on a long journey toward liberty in a world that... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives by Norman R Yetman Publisher Comments Vivid descriptions of the horrors of slave auctions, and many other unforgettable and sometimes unrepeatable details of slave life. Accompanied by 32 starkly compelling photographs.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of African-American New Orleans by Michael P Smith Publisher Comments Documents the thriving cultural richness of black New Orleans and captures the expressions of urban black folk culture.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Calabar to Carter's Grove by Lorena S Walsh Publisher Comments The history of a Virginia slave community... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Introduction by Michael... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Giant Steps the New Generation of Africa by Kevin Young Publisher Comments Standing at the crossroads of American literature and the current African American renaissance, Giant Steps presents a vibrant and wonderfully diverse collection of young black writing. Through generous selections of award-winning poetry, fiction, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony by Dwight A. Mcbride Publisher Comments It addresses some of the major literary figures and representations of slavery in light of discourses on natural rights and law, offers an account of Foucauldian discourse analysis as it applies to the problem of "bearing witness," and analyzes specific... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height Publisher Comments Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.78 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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