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Black Rituals by Sterling Plumpp Publisher Comments Sterling Plumpp contrasts the rituals of Africa with African American rituals that have emerged in the twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth century. As an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, orator and statesman, Douglass dedicated his life to the... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (Da Capo Press Paperback) by Albert Murray Publisher Comments The Omni-Americans is a classic collection of wickedly incisive essays, commentaries, and reviews on politics, literature, and music. Provocative and compelling, Albert Murray debunks the "so-called findings and all-too-inclusive extrapolations of social... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs Publisher Comments "More than a deeply moving memoir, this is a book of revelation. Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese American, middle class, highly educated, discovers through her encounters with remarkable rebels, blue collars as well as philosophers, where the body is buried... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 (Circles of the Twentieth Century) by Steven Watson Publisher Comments It was W.E.B. DuBois who paved the way with his essays and his magazine The Crisis, but the Harlem Renaissance was mostly a literary and intellectual movement whose best known figures include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways) by Michael Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Michael Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure recounts how postwar financial missteps and other... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary by Nelson Peery Publisher Comments Black Fire is the story of Nelson Peery's battle to find a political voice as an African American who comes of political age during the Depression and World War II. Peery shows us an American history we have rarely glimpsed — the world as seen... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails by Erik Calonius Publisher Comments On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded its cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, thirty eight years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Adam Clayton Powell: Portrait of a Marching Black by James S Haskins Synopsis A biography that captures the essence of a remarkable black leader, the symbol of hope for blacks for two decades.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynol Nelson Publisher Comments The ballad John Henry is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (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   Mama's Girl by Veronica Chambers Publisher Comments In 1970s Brooklyn, Veronica Chambers strove to excel in everything from double-dutch jump rope to her studies -- but her mother, a hardworking Panamanian immigrant, was too often overwhelmed by the task of singlehandedly raising Veronica and her troubled... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Coming Clean: A Tale Told from the Heart by Bakari Shab Shabazz Synopsis It's a real life coming of age story for a Black Man Child in Urban America, It's about love and the lack thereof. It's gangs, drugs, violence and sex. It's about brotherhood and wanting to belong, Coming clean is about choices... the wrong choices and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nappy (Trade) by Aliona L Gib0on Synopsis Drawing on personal experiences, a young black woman offers her thoughts on dealing with the politics of race and identity, relationships, body-image issues, higher education, and employment opportunities, in an intimate, candid, and delightful glimpse... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Measure of Our Success: Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wrig Edelman Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestseller is a thinking person's Life's Little Instruction Book, with simple yet inspirational messages about living.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Buffalo Soldiers: The Colored Regulars in the United States Army (Classics in Black Studies) by T G Steward Publisher Comments This is the single best source of information on the role of black soldiers in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Dr. T. G. Steward, chaplain of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry, recounts many intriguing episodes, including the rescue of the Rough Riders led... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Lives, White Lives by Bob Blauner Publisher Comments One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Blacks in the New World) by W F Brundage Publisher Comments In 1905, the sociologist James Cutler observed, "It has been said that our country's national crime is lynching". If lynching was a national crime, it was a southern obsession. Based on an analysis of nearly six hundred lynchings, this volume offers a... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Take a Lesson: Today's Black Achievers on How They Made It and What They Learned Along the Way by Carolin V Clarke Publisher Comments Great minds reveal why you should Take a Lesson <P>&quot; Take a Lesson is a treasure trove of insight on what it takes to lead and to achieve success in today&#146; s world. These lessons from African-American leaders transcend race. They... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (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 Boyle recounts the electrifying story of the sensational 1925 Ossian Sweet murder trial, an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times, a city divided, and the advent of the civil rights struggle in Detroit.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lion in the Lobby Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws Revised Edition by Denton L. Watson Publisher Comments Lion in the Lobby chronicles Clarence Mitchell's life story and mission of getting Congress to join the courts and the Executive Branch in upholding the Constitution in order to fulfill the NAACP's egalitarian philosophy. This revised edition features a... (read more) List Price $151.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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