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African-American Males and the Law by Floyd Weatherspoon Publisher Comments African-American Males and the Law analyzes the plight of African-American males in the United States and identifies how their status is directly or indirectly impacted by the justice system. The author initiates a dialogue on legal issues facing African-... (read more) List Price $57.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Black People Should Do Now by Ralph Wiley Publisher Comments "Probing, entertaining and agitating." Essence<BR>By the acclaimed and controversial author of WHY BLACK PEOPLE TEND TO SHOUT, this is an unblinking look at African-American life, including explosive essays on education, Rodney King... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis by Cyprian Clamorgan Publisher Comments The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis is both a serious analysis of the social and legal disabilities under which African Americans of all classes labored and a settling of old scores. Somewhat malicious, Clamorgan enjoyed pointing out the foibles of his... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint Publisher Comments Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint have a powerful message for families and communities as they lay out their visions for strengthening America, or for that matter the world. They address the crises of people who are stuck because of feelings of low self... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 2 by Martin Bernal Publisher Comments What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders by Mark Perry Publisher Comments Praise for Conceived in Liberty: ?An ambitious book, a history of the North and South from before the war to the end of Reconstruction. . . . Remarkable.? (The New York Times Book Review) In the late 1820s, Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $1.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life by William Van Deburg Publisher Comments Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, "Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American history and popular culture.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Can Anything Beat White?: A Black Family's Letters (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) by Elisabeth Petry Publisher Comments A trove of correspondence among novelist Ann Petry's articulate ancestors. Spans from the 1890's to the early twentieth century, a period not often documented by African American voices.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family by Donna Franklin Publisher Comments There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent Publisher Comments An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $1.24 (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   The Notorious PH.D.'s Guide to the Super Fly '70s: A Connoisseur's Journey Through the Fabulous Flix, Hip Sounds, and Cool Vibes That Defined a Decade by Todd Boyd Publisher Comments In an exciting look at one of the most influential periods in pop culture, Todd Boyd (known as The Notorious Ph.D.), delves into the personalities, passions, and politics that swept across America and the world in the '70s and introduced a style and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember by James Mellon Publisher Comments In the mid-thirities, the Federal Writer's Project, an adjunct of the W.P.A., dispatched interviewers to capture the personal memories of the last few thousand survivors of American slavery. In Bullwhip Days, they tell, in their own voices, of the harsh... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture by George Kent Publisher Comments "Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture" is an analysis of some of the most influential twentieth century Black writers.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Just Plain Folks by Lor Johnson Coleman Synopsis In celebration of Black History Month comes a paperback edition of the popular NPR commentator's tribute to rural African-Americans and their folk traditions.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma by Charles V Hamilton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-527) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S Morgan Synopsis This work, through an analysis of colonial Virginia, examines a major American paradox, namely the marriage of slavery and freedom.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T Campbell Publisher Comments A groundbreaking history of African American journeys back to Africa over the course of three centuries, a book whose enormous accomplishment reveals to us that without understanding the long-evolving place of Africa in the African American imagination... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam by Sonsyrea Tate Publisher Comments From the highly acclaimed author of Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam -- a taboo-breaking memoir about a Muslim girl who explores her freedom through the expression of her sensuality and sex, defying the cultural boundaries that denied her a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America by Andrew Young Publisher Comments "With extraordinary insight and humanity, Andrew Young brings to life major campaigns of the movement and illuminates with rare honesty the key personalities on all sides and their motives. An Easy Burden  is required reading for everyone who wants... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History by Sterling Stuckey Publisher Comments Upon his arrival in the North, Frederick Douglass found, to his utter astonishment, "persons who could speak of the singing among slaves as the evidence of their contentment and happiness." As late as 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois observed that African American... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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