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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 Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy by James S Hirsch Publisher Comments A bestselling author investigates how the deadliest race riot of the 20th century erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, how it was covered up, and how its victims and their descendants are fighting for belated justice. Two 8-page photo inserts.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.75 (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 $9.95 (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 Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro by John David Smith Publisher Comments A compelling story of racial self-hatred in America and of a black man who became a pariah among his own people.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century by Claudia Tate Publisher Comments Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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   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 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 $18.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The African American Church in Birmingham Alabama,1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm (Studies in African American History and Culture) by Wilson Fallin Publisher Comments This book offers a comprehensive history of the African American church in a community which played a crucial role in the civil rights movement. While the church in Birmingham was indeed a spiritual community, it was also the central institution in the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $48.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Festivals of Freedom: Meaning and Memory in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 by Mitch Kachun Publisher Comments A highly praised study of how the public commemoration of emancipation from slavery helped shape African American political culture.... (read more) Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Measure of Our Success by Marian Wrig Edelman Publisher Comments The Measure Of Our Success is a book to turn lives around: a compassionate message for parents trying to raise moral children, a tough and searching book.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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