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Voices from the Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvi Huggins Publisher Comments The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication - the final shaking off of slavery from the minds, spirits, and characters of African Americans. It was a period when the African American came of age - when the "New... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorriane Hansberry Publisher Comments In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations by Roy L Brooks Publisher Comments Reframing one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of modern times, this book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans based on a model of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim, Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. He warns that society must acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law by David J Armor Publisher Comments School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controversy today whenever it is proposed. A quiet rage smolders in hundreds of public school systems, where court-... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $2.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic by Kwando M Kinshasa Publisher Comments Where were the first African American churches founded? When did Frederick Douglass deliver his first anti-slavery speech? Who de-segregated Major League Baseball? The turbulent history of African Americans unfolds in "historical waves," through rights... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 by Kent Anderso Leslie Book News Annotation The story of an elite woman of color in 19th-century Georgia. Dickson, whose mother was a slave on her father's plantation, was raised in her father's household. She achieved independent social status when her father's death made her the largest... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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

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   American Patriots: A Young People's Edition: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Buckley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price $3.70 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Speak My Name by Don Belton Publisher Comments Including the work of Derrick Bell, Trey Ellis, Haki Madhubuti, Clarence Major, Walter Mosley, Quincy Troupe, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson, among others, Speak My Name explores the intimate territory behind the myths about black masculinity.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Papers of Martin Luther King JR Volume 4 by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments Dedicated to documenting the life of America's best-known advocate for peace and justice, "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. "breaks the chronology of its series to present King's never-before-published sermon file. In 1997 Mrs. Coretta Scott King... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery by Stephan Palmie Publisher Comments Featuring essays by historians and anthropologists, this volume focuses on the cultural dimensions of slavery in a wide variety of geographical and historical settings. The contributors examine the historical manifestations of slavery not only as legal... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John R Rickford Publisher Comments In Praise of spoken soul the story of black english Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture.-Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university A lively, well-... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Salt City and Its Black Community: A Sociological Study of Syracuse, New York (Sociology) by S David Stamps Book News Annotation David Stamps (sociology, U. of South Florida) and Miriam Stamps (marketing, U. of South Florida) provide insights into the growth and development of minority communities and the historical context within which it occurs. The authors use their city of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture, and Religion by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $8.95 (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 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

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