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Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story by Evers Charles Publisher Comments Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement. --The New York Times Book Review A gutsy, American patriot and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter (Modern Library Classics) by William Wells Brown Publisher Comments The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Jacqueline Bernard Publisher Comments First published in 1967 and based on extensive primary research, Jacqueline Bernard's widely praised biography of the remarkable woman known as Sojourner Truth is an important historical document, as compassionately told as it is engrossing to read. In... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Southern Debate Over Slavery Volume 1 Petiti by Loren Schweninger Publisher Comments Arranged chronologically, with their original spelling and idiosyncratic phraseology intact, these documents reveal the grim and brutal nature of human bondage, the fears of whites who lived among large concentrations of blacks, and the workings of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 by Jack E Davis Publisher Comments While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed primary documents in Natchez, Mississippi, and absorbed... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fifty Black Women Who Changed America by Amy Alexander Synopsis From Harriet Tubman to Oprah Winfrey, Fifty Black Women pays strong tribute to proud, heroic Americans with vivid detailed portraits telling the story of each woman's personal journey and contribution to society.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What I Know for Sure: My Journey Growing Up in America by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments In a compelling memoir, the noted talk-show host recalls his own youth as he details what it was like to grow up black in an all-white Indiana community, describing what it was like to be an outsider because of his race, religious beliefs, and poverty... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Walter White: Mr. NAACP by Kenneth Robe Janken Publisher Comments Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--And What We Can Do a by Juan Williams Publisher Comments One of the country's best known and most respected black journalists attacks the failure of the post-Civil Rights generation of African Americans to seize on the gains of that historic movement.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments "An exquisitely detailed study of a brilliant and powerful life". -- Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, San Francisco Chronicle Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist of the mid-nineteenth century, a figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (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   A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice by Robert Cochran Publisher Comments A historical portrait of small-town African American life in the middle of the twentieth century. Over 100 black & white photos.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $7.05 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in America (Sexual Cultures) by Dwight A Mcbride Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents.   Read the Preface. "Possibly the best title of the season."—Books to Watch out For "A thrilling, imaginative, and brilliant reading of contemporary cultural politics from one of the freshest voices in the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches by Leslie Dunbar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-175).... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Bl by Nelson George Publisher Comments One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Passion for Equality: George Wiley and the Movement by Kotz Nick Publisher Comments 'A Passion for Equality' traces the life of George Wiley, one of the most original and controversial leaders of the social movements of the 1960s and early 1970s.... (read more) List Price $11.25 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Juli Wilson Publisher Comments "The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and all... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Malcolm X as Cultural Hero: And Other Afrocentric Essays by Molefi Kete Asante Synopsis Molefi Kete Asante explores major intellectual themes confronting African... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A White Preacher's Memoir: The Montgomery Bus Boycott by Robert S Graetz Publisher Comments In 1955, a young white minister was sent to pastor an all-black church in Alabama. When the famous bus boycott began, he was the only white preacher supporting it. His home was bombed, he and his family were threatened, but he stayed the course.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Freedom's Child: The Remarkable Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter by Carrie Allen Mccray Publisher Comments In her late seventies, long after learning that she was the granddaughter of a Confederate general and that her grandmother was a former slave, Carrie Allen McCray (b. 1913) set about trying to unearth the family secrets that had been haunting her all... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $8.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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