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Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life by Jerry Gafio Watts Publisher Comments Before and after writing "Invisible Man," novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison's cultural politics, Jerry Watts examines the ways in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York 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 add to wish list Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at Mit, 1941-1999 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 add to wish list Walking Integrity 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 add to wish list Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation 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 add to wish list In Our Own Image: Rituals, Journeys, and Traditions of Contemporary African America 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 add to wish list W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader by W E B Dubois Publisher Comments The essential writings of Du Bois have been selected and edited by David Levering Lewis, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Al on America 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 add to wish list A Rage for Order: Black/White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation by Joel Williamson Publisher Comments "If you hear a dinosaur/Knocking loudly on your door,/Through the keyhole firmly say/'Nobody is home today.'/If the bell should start to ring,/Tell the beast, 'No visiting.'/If you see there's more than one,/Turn around and start to run." Here's a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $3.50 (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   Religious Leaders (A to Z of African Americans) by Nathan Aaseng Publisher Comments Religion and spirituality have been key elements of African-American life since the earliest days of the slave... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reconstruction Era Biographies (Reconstruction Era Reference Library) by Roger Matuz Publisher Comments The "Reconstruction Era Reference Library" provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877. <P>"Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Biographies" examines key figures from the era,... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992: Revised Edition 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 add to wish list Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities 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 add to wish list Slavery, Resistance, Freedom 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 add to wish list Black Liberation in Conservative America 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 $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race Place in Birmingham 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 add to wish list Beyond the Whiteness - PB by Jane Lazarre Publisher Comments "I am Black", Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me". She understands, she says - but he tells her, gently, that he doesn't think so, that she can't understand this completely... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black West a Documentary & Pictorial His 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 add to wish list Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America 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 add to wish list

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