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by Nathan McCall  Publisher Comments In this "honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "Washington Post" reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ahmed Shawki Publisher Comments A sharp and insightful analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States-from the separatism of Marcus Garvey, to the militancy of Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party, to the eloquence of Martin Luther King Jr. and much more-with... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gordon Parks Publisher Comments Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, novelist, and memoirist, Gordon Parks has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. In A Hungry Heart, Parks reflects on the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas S Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cornel West Publisher Comments With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. <BR>Cornel West is at the forefront... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments By 1944, over six thousand ex-slaves had written moving stories of their captivity, providing a prolific testimony to the horrors of bondage and servitude. Noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. compiles four of the most important "slave narratives" in... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by George Breitman Publisher Comments <div>These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments In what has become a landmark of American history and literature, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her descriptions,... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Foner Publisher Comments The World the War Made The Coming of Emancipation On January 1, 1863, after a winter storm swept up the east coast of the United States, the sun rose in a cloudless sky over Washington, D.C. At the White House, Abraham Lincoln spent most of the day... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Howard Griffin Publisher Comments The author tells of his experiences after he darkened his skin and traveled through the South in order to find out how it feels to be black.... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Olaudah Equaino Publisher Comments Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, 6 months among the Miskito Indians in Central... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $0.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Delany Publisher Comments "When you get real old, honey," says Bessie Delany, "you lay it all on the table. There's an old saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth." In Having Our Say Bessie, age 101, and her sister Sadie, age 103, do just that-and then some... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Haley Publisher Comments It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond Arsenault Publisher Comments They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Douglass Book News Annotation **** A reprint of the Harvard University Press publication of 1960, cited in BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rita Williams Publisher Comments After her mother's death, the author--a child of four--was raised by her aunt, the last surviving African-American widow of a Union soldier who spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Beverly Lowry Publisher Comments From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People. Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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