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Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) by David Brion Davis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-106) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community by Scott C Davis Publisher Comments The grandfather of Patience Gromes escaped from slavery at age 14. This book traces Patience and her family for a hundred years -- from the Civil War to the War on Poverty.<P>After the War Patience and her peers left the country and came to the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.23 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Passion of My Times: My Fifty-Year Journey Through the Civil Rights Revolution by William L Taylor Publisher Comments In 1954, William L. Taylor, a recent Yale Law School graduate, joined Thurgood Marshall's NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he would later write the victorious 1958 Supreme Court brief that forced Little Rock, Arkansas schools to desegregate. In this... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion by Natasha Tarpley Publisher Comments From runaway slaves to the Great Migration, black people have uprooted themselves in search of a better life. Yet migration has also meant loss: rootlessness, separation from family, disconnection from ancestors and the past. In this family memoir told... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor by Charles A. Beardsley and William B.Gould and Mark O. Hatfield Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-364) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pierre Toussaint by Arthur Jones Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-326) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll Publisher Comments With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak by Dr. Camille A. Cosby and Renee Poussaint Publisher Comments A Wealth of Wisdom Legendary African American Elders Speak Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint believe, as do legions here and around the world, that the wisdom of our elders is our most valuable resource. "Longevity has its virtues," said Martin Luther... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $7.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity by William Wells Brown Publisher Comments Largely ignored by scholars, "The Negro in the American Rebellion"--written by a former slave--is a powerful transitional text, one that confronted squarely the neo-slavery of the Reconstruction era.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shadow and ACT by Ralph Ellison Publisher Comments Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (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   Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will by Gene Stowe Publisher Comments The history of a legal fight in which an all-white jury awarded African Americans a North Carolina... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife by Carleen Brice Publisher Comments Forty-five black women writers--known and new--discuss midlife in the first anthology of its kind. "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" celebrates, considers, contemplates, even criticizes "midlife" from a black woman's point of view.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations by Raymond Winbush Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-382) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century by Arnold Adoff About the Author Arnold Adoff has written over twenty-five books of poetry for young readers, including Slow Dance Heartbreak Blues,illustrated by William Cotton; and Street Music: City Poems,illustrated by Karen Barbour, both of which are available at your local library.... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson Publisher Comments Joseph Gomez, an A.M.E. minister who rose through the ministerial ranks to be ordained a bishop in 1948, was also a teacher, civil rights pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. Gomez's daughter draws on his letters, journals, and church records for... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $7.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells (Black Women Writers Series) by Ida Wells Publisher Comments '\"DeCosta-Willis makes it possible to look back in a new way into the character of Wells and, more than that, into the daily life of African Americans a century ago.\" — Chicago Tribune \"A unique look at the life of an independent, unmarried... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Time and Place That Gave Me Life by Janet Cheatham Bell Publisher Comments A coming-of-age memoir that confronts race and gender issues in middle America during the preCivil Rights... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Home Grown: Conversations on Race and Culture by bell hooks Publisher Comments While the black/Latino divide has been addressed in progressive newspapers and magazines, "Home Grown," is an inclusive call to reflect and act. Amalia Mesa-Bains, a pioneer scholar and producer of Chicana art, with bell hooks, one of the most acclaimed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Legacy by William D Piersen Publisher Comments "Piersen draws on an impressive array of evidence . . . to assess the significance of African and African American culture in shaping the American South... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home by Deborah Mathis Synopsis In a provocative examination of the state of race relations today, Deborah Mathis provides personal and sociological perspective on what it feels like for African Americans who continue to be segregated spiritually and emotionally from the rest of the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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