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Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912 by Paul D Nelson Publisher Comments The biography of a pioneer in early desegregation, anti-lynching, and civil rights cases, as well as a tireless activist and organizer for African American civil rights.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book #52: The Black Holocaust for Beginners by S E Anderson Synopsis Breathing new life into a horrific period of history, this book takes readers back to the roots of African slavery in 1441 and brings them forward. Told from the point of view of one of the captive African women, the story shares her suffering, shame and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rosa Parks by Douglas G Brinkley Publisher Comments Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye Publisher Comments Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America by John L Jr Jackson Publisher Comments Harlem is renowned as the epicenter of African American culture, a key reference point for blacks who seek to define themselves in relation to a certain version of African American tradition and history. The neighborhood is arguably the most famous in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding Synopsis In these eloquent essays that reflect upon King's legacy over the past two decades and the meaning of his life today, a portrait emerges of a man constantly evolving and going deeper into the roots of violence and injustice--a man whose challenge remains... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Voices from the Future: A Contemporary Look at African Wisdom That Provides a Blueprint for the Future by Bob Law Publisher Comments "Voices from the Future" is written by one of the most respected radio talk show hosts in the country, Bob Law, who over the years has heard pearls of wisdom from some of the best African American minds in the country. From that experience, he brings... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward Publisher Comments The award-winning author applies his grasp of American history to the most admired and most reviled African American of his era, heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, drawing on a wealth of contemporaneous documents, including Johnson's never-before... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice by Christopher Br Alan Publisher Comments The and#64257;rst book by an African American liberal about black conservatism and its growing appeal among African Americans today What exactly is a black conservative, and why would any¬one choose to be one? wonders Professor Christopher Bracey... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Their Own Interests by Earl Lewis Publisher Comments Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.75 (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   My Soul is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 by Bett Collier Thomas Publisher Comments A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights. From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values for African American Families by Joyce A Ladner Publisher Comments &quot; Dr. Joyce A. Ladner brings profound insight to the challenge of raising strong children in ambivalent times, and offers abundant reasons to rejoice in renewing family ties. A treasury of time-tested virtues.&quot; &#9; &#9; &#9;... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution by Lisa Brock Publisher Comments The relationship between two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery, their struggles for political power, and their parallel race consciousness<P>FOR MANY BLACK AMERICANS, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 50 of the Most Inspiring African-americans by Patricia M. (edt) Hinds Publisher Comments This extraordinary commemorative book takes an inside look at some of today's most inspiring African-Americans. With dynamic photos and captivating biographies, it features prominent women and men who have enriched readers lives and brought them joy.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad by Mary Kay Ricks Publisher Comments A story of people, politics, and power, this gripping narrative is about a schooner named the "Pearl" and of the 70 slaves who embarked on one of the most audacious escapes in American history. 16-page photo insert.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wrig Edelman Publisher Comments Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this cantury's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles.In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extrordinary mentors who helped light her way... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History by Robert H Allen Synopsis A classic study of the Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight by Lorna Mcdaniel Publisher Comments The Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 129 of the ceremonial song texts and dances that call and entertain the ancestors who are central to Carriacou religious experience.<P>... (read more) Your price $59.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915 by Dickson D Bruce Book News Annotation A selected bibliography offering a historical overview of commentary on black women novelists and their most important works. The first section provides an annotated list of books and articles pertaining to the study of the subject. This is followed... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Place Safe by Kim Reid Publisher Comments In this powerful and riveting memoir, Reid shares the extraordinary story of growing up in the shadow of a serial killer who terrorized Atlanta, murdering 29 black children.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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