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Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television by Donald Bogle Synopsis Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of African Americans on network television. Donald Bogle not only examines the stereotypes that too often continue to march across the screen today but also shows the ways in which television has been... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star by Camille Forbes Publisher Comments It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir by Dexter Scott King Synopsis In this intimate portrait, Dexter King reveals for the first time what it was like growing up in the shadow of greatness, and how his father's lessons continue to inspire and inform his own ideas on race in America today. photo insert.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Autobiography of Malcom X (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Ray Shepard Publisher Comments This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim movement, his life story is provocative and engrossing.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Negro Classics by John Hope Franklin Publisher Comments UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom by Deetta Demaratus Publisher Comments In the Late 1980s, author DeEtta Demaratus happened upon a story that wouldn't leave her alone. She had been intending to write an article about Biddy Mason, a former slave who, at the time of her death in 1891, had become a well-known philanthropist and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.65 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Libation: A Literary Pilgrimage Through the African-American Soul by Estella Conw Majozo Synopsis Libation explains how the cakewalk reaffirms connections with the past among African Americans; how its intricate patterns reflect the landscape of the American South and the pilgrimage of Black Americans from Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Choice of Weapons (Borealis Books) by Gordon Parks Synopsis A compelling autobiography by the award-winning photographer and artist who was only 16 when he moved from Kansas to Minnesota in 1928.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas by Janet Langhar Cohen Publisher Comments Janet Langhart Cohen's life has always seemed to defy the naysayers. She's an African-American Democrat married to the white, Republican former Secretary of Defense; a poor girl from the projects who grew up under the crushing legacy of segregation to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Cliffor Larson Publisher Comments Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (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   Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America by Keith Boykin Publisher Comments Bolstered by national television exposure on Oprah and a cover story in the New York Times Magazine, the "down low"—a term used to refer to "straight" men who have sex with men—was thrust into the open in 2004. Keith Boykin, a former Clinton... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics) by Harold Cruse Publisher Comments First published in 1967 in the wake of race riots and integration fears, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual is an indispensable history and urgent critique of the black left from the Harlem Renaissance through the black arts movement. Memorably... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns to the Warner list with this stirring and authoritative companion to the Fall 2003 PBS documentary America Behind the Color Line. A companion to the eponymous PBS four... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inquality by Melvin Oliver Publisher Comments Taking issue with those who point to an expanding black middle class as evidence of greater racial equality, Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of wealth--total assets and debts rather than income alone--uncovers a qualitatively... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr (Nabat) by James Carr Publisher Comments "When I was nine years old I burned down my school." James Carr started fighting when he was very young, and never gave up. A child prodigy of crime in the streets of the L.A. ghettos and scourge of half a dozen boys' homes, his career in armed robbery... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $2.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Up from Slavery (Penguin Classics) by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments Vividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held that the black man's salvation... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Free Ride by Kweisi Mfume Publisher Comments Courageous. Uplifting. Triumphant. The story of Kweisi Mfume is a classic American saga. Uprooted from the rural tranquillity of Turners Station and thrust upon the gritty streets of west Baltimore, the child born Frizzell Gray seemed fated to become... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Parallel Time: Growing U: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples Publisher Comments In this evocative memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the oldest son among... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Myths of American Slavery by Walter Dona Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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