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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 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 The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown by Theodore Taylor Publisher Comments Jesse Leroy Brown was raised in the segregated South by a hard-working, loving family who instilled values of dignity, education, and perseverance. A star athlete and an outstanding student, he was determined to become a Navy pilot, although such a thing... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps by William Dusinberre Publisher Comments Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery's horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance by R J Smith Publisher Comments This book, like a major archaeological dig, unearths a littleknown, now vanished civilization and changes how we understand history. In the 1940s, when FDR opened up the defense industry to black workers, it inspired a massive wave of black migration to... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights by Clive Webb Publisher Comments Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on black-Jewish relations in the civil rights-era South. Clive Webb begins by ranging over the experiences of southern Jews up to the eve of the civil rights movement. He then shows how the historical burden... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (Real Voices, Real History) by Patrick Minges Publisher Comments Far More Terrible for Women contains first-hand accounts of what life was like for women in slavery. These accounts are drawn from interviews conducted in the 1930s and stored in the Library of Congress.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (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   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 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle Publisher Comments An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from... (read more) List Price $16.00 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 Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murder of Eleven Plantation Slaves by Gregory A Freeman Publisher Comments The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using “peons,” but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education by Charles J. Ogletree Publisher Comments On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was unconstitutional. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., was not even two at the time, and his family, farm workers in southern California, had scant knowledge of how... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $2.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson Publisher Comments In the first essay, Patterson analyzes the very latest survey data to delineate the different attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women, dissecting both the external and internal causes for the great disparities he finds.In... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Theology Volume 1 1966 1979 by James H Cone Publisher Comments First published in 1979, this is the classic sourcebook for the emergence of Black Thelogy in the United States. Born out of the Civil Rights Movement and the emerging demand for Black Power, Black Theology has tried for 25 years to relate the gospel to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Vibe Q: Raw and Uncut by Vibe Publisher Comments To celebrate "Vibes" 15-year anniversary, the magazines editors have selected 20 of the hottest, rarest, and most controversial interviews to be published here for the first time in their full, expanded, uncut form. Illustrated.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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