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Sweet Release: The Last Step to Black Freedom by James Davidson Publisher Comments In this candid assessment of the problems and potentials facing African Americans, psychologist Davidson argues that in order for achieving individuals to advance to the final step of freedom, they must break free from the mental shackles created by the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Crossroads #16: Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 192 by Paul Ortiz Publisher Comments In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Mem (Penguin Classics) by Sojourner Truth Publisher Comments A symbol of the strength of African-American women, and a champion of the rights of all women, Sojourner Truth was an illiterate former slave in New York State who transformed herself into a vastly powerful orator. Dictating to a neighbor, she began her... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr by Ben Green Publisher Comments Fifty years ago -- before Martin Luther King, Jr., began to preach from his pulpit in Montgomery, Alabama, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, or Rosa Parks's famous bus ride -- a man named Harry T. Moore toiled in Jim Crow Florida on... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust by Mary Stanton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-241) and index.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why L.A. Happened: Implications of the '92 Los Angeles Rebellion by Haki Madhubuti Publisher Comments A series of essays discussing the reasons for and the solutions to the rioting that took place in Los Angeles in 1992 and the violence that grew out of it in Atlanta. The contributors are some of the nation's leading Black intellectuals and writers.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth by Derrick Bell Publisher Comments Deeply affecting and uplifting, "Ethical Ambition" is a series of meditations that not only challenges readers to face some of the most difficult questions that life presents, but also dares to offer some solutions.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Only Son: A Memoir by John Johnson Book News Annotation The only son of a hardworking but violent father, John Johnson overcame his difficult upbringing in Harlem and went on to enjoy a distinguished career in journalism. When his father became seriously ill in 1997, Johnson quit his job to care for the man... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list For Us, the Living (Banner Books) by Myrlie Evers Publisher Comments An extraordinary woman tells a moving story of her courtship and marriage to heroic civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Myrlie Evers describes her husband's devotion to the quest for achieving civil rights for black Mississippians and his ultimate sacrifce... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (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   Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross Publisher Comments In this poignant memoir and follow-up to Cross' Emmy Award-winning documentary, she deftly portrays the strains of a complicated family structure, ruptured by race, secrecy, and human fallibility.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril by Kevin Merida Publisher Comments Over the last 100 years, perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males. The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions, black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America by Truman K Jr Gibson Publisher Comments Sixty years ago, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington, D.C. was a southern city in its unbending segregation as well as in its steamy summers. Gibson had no illusions, but as someone who'd enjoyed the best of the vibrant... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress by David Leverin Lewis Publisher Comments Selected by W.E.B Du Bois and published together for the first time, a collection of 150 rare and beautiful photographs of African Americans out of slavery and beyond, with essays by Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis and the MacAthur fellow... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Aesthetic Unbound Theorizing The by April C E Langley Publisher Comments During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories, ideas, beliefs, and practices would forever reshape its history and cultures. April C. E. Langley’s The Black Aesthetic... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America by Laura Wexler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264).... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race by Richard Delgado Publisher Comments "An excellent starting place for the national discussion about race we so desperately need." —The Washington Post Book World "A novel in which two 'intellectuals of color'—the narrator, a middle-aged law professor, and his protege, Rodrigo... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America (Religion in America Series) by Theophus H Smith Publisher Comments This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. Theophus Smith argues for the central importance of "conjure"--a magical means of transforming reality--in... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-174) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jauanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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