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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Isis Papers Keys To the Colors by Frances Cre Welsing Synopsis A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments This insightful book, written by a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions) by James Weldo Johnson Publisher Comments African-American writer's pioneering novel parallels his own life, probes the psychological aspects of "passing for white," and examines the American caste and class system.. Major contribution to American literature.... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $0.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beat of a Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life by Dax Devlon Ross Publisher Comments The author presents an inspiring portrait of 30 African Americans--including a guitar designer, a cartoonist, a circus ringmaster, a scientist, and a zoo curator, among others--who have refused to accept the cultural and social barriers around them.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (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   Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas by Joyce King Publisher Comments On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas by Joyce King Publisher Comments On June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was walking home from a party when three white men in a pickup truck offered him a ride. They drove Byrd out to a lonely country road, tied him to a logging chain, and dragged him three... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Complete Kwanzaa: Celebrating Our Cultural Harvest by Dorothy W Riley Publisher Comments Kwanzaa is the joyous and meaningful holiday when African-Americans reunite with family and friends and pay tribute to their rich cultural heritage. Celebrated from December 26 through January 1, it is an important part of the lives of 18 million people,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Confessions of Nat Turner: And Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Nat Turner Publisher Comments This textbook offers the complete text of the actual confessions of Nat Turner, the Virginia slave preacher who in 1831 led the bloodiest slave revolt in US history. An introduction provides the historical context for the revolt and allows students to... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball Publisher Comments Slaves in the Family is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for nonfiction and hailed by The New Yorker as "a brilliant blend of archival research and oral history." First-time author and award-winning journalist Edward Ball confronts the legacy... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to... (read more) Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y Davis Publisher Comments A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Afrolantica Legacies by Derrick Bell Publisher Comments  Derrick Bell is perhaps best known for the principled stand he took at Harvard in 1990 when he quit his tenured position on the law-school faculty to protest the school's failure to grant tenure to a black woman. Now a visiting professor at New... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The End of Blackness by Debra J Dickerson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-290) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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