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by Roger Waldinger  Publisher Comments America's most serious social problem and offers fresh approaches to attacking it.... (read more)  List Price $20.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Clarence G Williams Publisher Comments Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.93 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Edw Carter Publisher Comments A collection of essays about prominent African-American Benjamin E. Mays, a clergyperson, educator, ecumenist, counselor, civil rights activist, and author. As president of Atlanta's Morehouse College in 1948, Mays introduced Martin Luther King, Jr., to... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabor S Boritt Publisher Comments Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Manning Marable Publisher Comments A bold new collection of essays by one of America's most prominent scholar/activists, Black Liberation in Conservative America defines the crises and challenges confronting black America on the eve of the 21st century.<P>Manning Marable chronicles... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bobby M Wilson Publisher Comments This pioneering book explores the implications of postmodernism for the black community through an analysis of the civil rights and neighborhood movements in Birmingham, Alabama. Grounded not only in class struggle, the Civil Rights Movement was tied to... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Loren Katz Publisher Comments The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S., the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost every aspect of our culture. Sadly, as is the case with... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Weldo Johnson Publisher Comments First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Mcmurray Review "A superb book that will supplant the two dozen or so Carver biographies already on the library shelves. It is an engaging treatment of a fascinating man."--History: Reviews of New Books "A remarkable study of a remarkable man."--The History Teacher "An... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Steinberg Publisher Comments Turning Back is a challenge to conservatives and liberals alike who have fueled the backlash against policies designed to alleviate racial inequality. "Committed, anti-racist scholarship. . . . A useful contribution to clear thinking about race... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harvard Sitkoff Publisher Comments "The Struggle for Balck Equality "is an aresting history of the civil-rights movement--from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas," through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M Franklin Publisher Comments Robert M. Franklin provides first-person advice and insight as he identifies the crises resident within three anchor institutions that have played key roles in the black struggle for freedom. Black families face a crisis of commitment evident in 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 Patricia Raybon Publisher Comments Renowned African American journalist Patricia Raybon comes face-to-face with her own race-driven instincts and past in this powerful book that is part journal, part memoir, part social commentary. In a brave and elegant narrative that owes much to the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Natalie Y Moore Publisher Comments A portrait of today's African-American male evaluates both archetypes and stereotypes, exploring black masculinity as it is represented by a range of personalities, from professionals and hip-hop figures to family men and criminals. Original.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrik H Bass Publisher Comments The first visual document of black social and cultural history in America from World War II to the present, In Our Own Image is also a fascinating scrapbook that recounts simple, eloquent stories about home life, family reunions, worship, weddings... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Al Sharpton Publisher Comments Reverend Sharpton delivers his manifesto for change and puts forth a powerful, often controversial, and inspiring vision of a new America, one that is inclusive of all Americans, not just a chosen few.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $5.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick Salvatore Synopsis Salvatore tells the story of C.L. Franklin, father of Aretha, alongside the rise of gospel, blues, and soul music, with a cast of characters including Martin Luther King, Jr., B.B. King, Art Tatum, Coleman Young, Jesse Jackson, Clara Ward, Mahalia... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Milton A Combs Publisher Comments THE AFRICAN AMERICAN QUIZ BOOK for ALL AMERICANS contains a wealth of information about a select group of individuals whose achievements, heroic acts, and creation of landmark organizations have contributed significantly to the creation and greatness of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allan H Spear Publisher Comments Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination. This is the first historical study of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Melvin Patrick Ely 
Publisher Comments Thomas Jefferson condemned slavery but denied that whites and liberated blacks could live together in harmony. Jefferson’s young cousin Richard Randolph and ninety African Americans set out to prove the sage of Monticello wrong. When Randolph died... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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