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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions) 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 $3.00 Your price $1.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America by Cornel West Publisher Comments Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing voices in America today < BR> < BR> & mdash; Marian Wright Edelman< BR> < BR> < BR> < BR> < BR> < BR> Nine of America's most... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Brown Vs. Board of Education #1: Brown V. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents by Waldo E Martin Publisher Comments Brown v Board of Education of Topeka was one of the most important legal decisions in the US of this century, and the effects of desegregation and the legacy of the civil rights movement still influences race relations today. In this book, over 30... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton Publisher Comments This is a long-overdue historical work on one of the most important figures in American history, written by an acclaimed historian of the antebellum era. Harriet Tubman was the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South by Dan Carter Publisher Comments In a chapter written especially for this revised edition of his modern classic, Carter recounts the latest turns in the case. Included are the surprising story of the last surviving Scottsboro defendant and the vivid description of Victoria Price's libel... (read more) Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South by Hugh Pearson Publisher Comments Hugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, encouraged by his parents to believe that nothing was beyond his reach. If he needed any further inspiration, he could look to his great-uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin. Although Griffin had stayed in the Deep... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still by George Hendrick Publisher Comments Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Feminist Thought Knowledge Con 2ND Edition by Patricia Hi Collins Publisher Comments In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Athena Revisited by Mary Lefkowitz Publisher Comments Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians? Have scholars ignored the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.95 (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   Nurturing Young Black Males: Challenges to Agencies, Programs, and Social Policy by Ronald B Mincy Synopsis Examines mentoring programs aimed at helping young African-American males.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick A Bell Publisher Comments When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision finding public school segregation unconstitutional could become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience by Juan Williams Publisher Comments More than 30 people tell personal stories about the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, then and now, not only the leaders but also ordinary citizens who bear witness to transforming moments when they suddenly found the courage to try to change things.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Powells.com Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West Publisher Comments From the bestseliing author of Race Matters, a bold and eloquent call for the deepening of democracy both at home and abroad in this threatening post-9/11 age of imperial overreach and fundamentalist rage. In his major bestseller, Race Matters... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman by Charles W Dryden Publisher Comments A moving personal account by one of the first Tuskegee airmen which illustrates the period of racial integration in American military and civilian life. A- Train is the story of one of the black Americans who, during World War II, graduated from Tuskegee... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America by Jacob Levenson Publisher Comments As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hopand why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics. One of the most outspoken voices in America... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin Publisher Comments Born in 1915, John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining 20th-century transformation, the dismantling of segregation. He has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience, earning the Presidential Medal of Freedom... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karoly Smardz Frost Publisher Comments It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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