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Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Publisher Comments In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Martin Luther King, JR., Encyclopedia by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments As editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Clayborne Carson, with the assistance of his staff at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, had complete access to the papers of Dr. King. From their unique... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $45.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Truth at Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by John Larry Ray Publisher Comments In Truth At Last, Ray’s eldest brother John Larry Ray and Martin Luther King Jr. historian Lyndon Barsten, offer incontrovertible evidence that James Earl Ray could not have assassinated Dr. King.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Soul on Fire 1ST Edition by Eldridge Cleaver Publisher Comments Drawing from personal "his, mine and ours" experience, Grammy Award-winning singer and Women of Faith speaker Sandi Patty provides insight on how to stay focused when life threatens to spin out of control--a much-needed resource for any woman in a... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry by Jason Chambers Publisher Comments Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements. As the first comprehensive examination of African American participation in the industry, Madison Avenue and the Color... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks Publisher Comments One of our country’s premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-468) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals by Nikki Giovanni Publisher Comments With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, Nikki Giovanni tells the story of Africans in America through the glorious words of spirituals. Ever since she was a little girl attending three different churches, poet Nikki Giovanni has... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Fire in the Flint: A Novel of Individual Courage in the Pre-Civil Rights South by Walter Franci White Publisher Comments Written by a lifelong champion of civil rights, this is the story of Kenneth Harper, a young black physician who, after having studied in the North in the early part of the twentieth century, returns to his hometown of Central City in South Georgia to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Cavalcade African American Writ Volume 1 by Arthur P Davis Book News Annotation Comprises half of a two-volume update of the 1971 anthology of representative African American writing. Volume one covers up to 1954 (Ralph Ellison), the selections arranged chronologically by period. Most of the works are complete, but a few excerpts... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.00 (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   George Washington Carver by William J Federer Publisher Comments From a slave birth to international fame, Carver advised presidents, Congress, and world leaders. Discover the faith that motivated this great African-American scientist to create hundreds of uses for simple crops that revolutionized the economy of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves by China Galland Publisher Comments Love Cemetery is the story of one woman trying to come to terms with racismandndash;andndash;on both personal and public levels. When China Galland visited her childhood hometown in east Texas, she learned of an unmarked cemetery for slavesandndash... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arts and Letters: an A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience (Africana) by Kwame Anthony Appiah Publisher Comments Here's an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia "Africana. Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory by James Oliver Horton Publisher Comments Takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history--"the existence of slavery in a country dedicated to freedom--"and offers a bracing analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw from it... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fifty Black Women Who Changed America by Amy Alexander Publisher Comments The contributions of Black women have helped to make America a place of freedom and opportunity. Yet their monumental importance has long been ignored in the media and classroom. While Oprah Winfrey's astonishing success is widely recognized, the work of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics) by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Dr. King\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s remarkable account of the struggle for civil rights in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, tracing the history of the movement back to its beginnings three centuries ago and looking to... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top by Patric Reid Merritt Publisher Comments "Extensive . . . inspired . . . forty-five of the most recognizable and powerful black women in the country." &mdash; USA Today <P>"This book, about the tenacity of black women, reminds me of 'testimony service' in the true gospel tradition. By... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Givens Collection) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War. The child and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shadow of the Panther PB by Hugh Pearson Publisher Comments The first complete and balanced history of the Black Panther... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Reimagined Life of an African American by John Mitchell Publisher Comments Thirty years ago in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over two thousand antique glass plate negatives. He was told that the photographs had been taken by nineteenth-century ornithologist and conservationist... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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