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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 Creole Mutiny by George Hendrick Publisher Comments A tale of revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship and the story of the slaves' heroic leader, Madison Washington.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What's Going on by Nathan Mccall Publisher Comments With the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his bestselling memoir, Makes Me Wanna Holler, Washington Post columnist Nathan McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races in today's America. In... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $1.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography) by Frank Marshal Davis Publisher Comments Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a prominent African American poet and journalist in the 1930s and 1940s. Although not as familiar a name as his contemporaries Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes, Davis was a significant figure... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $5.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of the African American People: The History, Traditions & Culture of African Americans (African American Life) by James Oliver Horton Book News Annotation This is the paper edition of a British-published reference (Salamander Books Ltd., London, 1995). Nine chapters (written by American historians) are abundantly illustrated with well-chosen photos and paintings shown in generous size (in a 10x13... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Abolitionists (Profiles in History) by Karin S Coddon Publisher Comments Fulfills the standard: "Individuals, Groups, and Institutions" from the National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Standards for Middle School.... (read more) List Price $33.70 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: The Biography of a Black Cowboy by Bailey Hanes Book News Annotation Paper reprint of the 1977 account of the life of the first black to be elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.94 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century by Farai Chideya Publisher Comments As America ceases to be defined by the black/white divide and enters a more complex multiethnic era, one of the most articulate young correspondents on television today offers a fast-paced road trip through the country's racial terrain.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (John Harvard Library, Belknap Press) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $1.95 (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   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 The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream by Sheryll Cashin Publisher Comments On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, sounded the death... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writers and Readers #53: Malcolm X for Beginners by Bernard Aqui Doctor Synopsis Since his assassination 27 years ago, Malcolm X's legacy as one of the greatest African-American leaders has survived. In time for the release of Spike Lee's long-awaited movie biography this fall, Bernard Aquina Doctor provides insight into Malcolm X's... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson Synopsis A classic book of reflections by Woodson, the African American scholar thinker of the first half of the 20th century, on the mistakes made in the education of the Negro... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Militant Mediator by Dennis C Dickerson Publisher Comments In this exciting new biography, Whitney Young--the "black ambassador to white America" and the director of the National Urban League in the 1960s--emerges as a bridge between deprived blacks and powerful whites who mobilized the resources of white... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island by Cornelia Wal Bailey Publisher Comments Equal parts cultural history and memoir, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man" "recounts a traditional way of life that is threatened by change, with stories that speak to our deepest notions of family, community, and a connection to one's homeland... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Search of Black America: Discovering the African-American Dream by David J Dent Publisher Comments Exposing myths and exploding stereotypes, In Search of Black America is a landmark work that looks at the lives of African Americans throughout the United States. David Dent, a noted journalist and professor, set out on a cross-country road trip into... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wisdom of the Elders by Robert Fleming Publisher Comments In these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom, gained through long hard years of struggle by those who have gone before. Wisdom... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wake Up & Start To Live an Analysis Of by Bobby Willia Austin Publisher Comments Wake Up and Start to Live is based upon a poll commissioned by Village Foundation and conducted by the Gallup Organization in March 1999, for the purpose of examining perceptions of U.S. citizens with regard to African-American men in American society.... (read more) Your price $6.73 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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