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Celia, a Slave by Melton A Mclaurin Publisher Comments Avon has compiled a varied list of books that focus on issues and concerns for women everywhere -- from notable fiction to detailed healthcare guides.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.43 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ticket to Exile by Adam David Miller Synopsis This is a memoir by poet Adam David Miller about his experience growing up in the Jim Crow South. The story opens with Millers arrest for attempted rape for pasing a white girl a note that reads I would like to get to know you better Adam David Miller... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (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 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 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 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 $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 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

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   Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psy Williams Forson Publisher Comments Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement by Govenar Alan Publisher Comments <BR>"Untold Glory "offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history--the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Death & Life of Malcolm X 2ND Edition by Peter Louis Goldman Publisher Comments For this paperback edition of a major work on one of the most important black leaders of this country, the author, a senior editor of Newsweek, has added a substantial epilogue which argues convincingly that three of the five accomplices in Malcolm X's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D Genovese Publisher Comments 'The most profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery to appear since World War Il.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $8.95 (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 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 $4.95 (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 $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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