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Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives by Paul D Escott Publisher Comments This is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives in the Federal Writers' Project. Escott read nearly 2,400 narratives to establish 81 categories of information for computer analysis. Tables presenting this data are set within a well... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 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 Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973 by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Voices in Black and White: Writings on Race in America from Harper's Magazine by Katharin Whittemore Synopsis Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, James Bladwin, William Faulkner, Maya Angelou, Shelby Steele, William Styron and others examine race in America.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearless and Grace by Angel Kyod Williams Synopsis An ordained Zen priest teaches how a "warrior spirit" of truth and responsibility toward oneself and others can be developed into the foundation for real happiness and personal transformation. Her down-to-earth spiritual handbook is for all black... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry Publisher Comments “My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man.” ~Callie House (1899) In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins Publisher Comments The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (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   Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision by Peter Irons Publisher Comments This award-winning study weaves together vivid portraits of lawyers and judges, sketches of numerous black children throughout history, and gripping courtroom drama scenes to reveal why schools are more segregated today than they were before "Brown v... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.50 (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 Marie Or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America (Race in the Americas) by Gustave De Beaumont Publisher Comments Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (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 $2.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life After Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption by Evans D Hopkins Publisher Comments Life After Life is the haunting and gloriously redemptive tale of Evans D. Hopkins's many lives, a sweeping journey from promising middle-class youth to civil rights militant, from criminal and convict to celebrated writer and enlightened man. Evans D... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Everywoman: Studies in History, Literature, and Culture) by Gloria Hull Publisher Comments This volume is a biographical/critical study of three poets--Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Days of Rondo (Minnesota) by Evelyn Fairbanks Publisher Comments Evelyn Fairbanks grew up in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s along Rondo Avenue -- the heart of St. Paul's largest black neighborhood. Her book tells the warm and human stories she recalls from those years in the then-vibrant community that was doomed to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Children of the Dream Our Own Stories by Laurel Holliday Publisher Comments ""I let somebody call me 'nigger.' It wasn't just any old body, either; it was my friend. That really hurt." -- Amitiyah Elayne Hyman" Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed of a day when black children were judged not by the color of their skin, but by the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Condoleezza Rice: An American Life by Elisabeth Bumiller Publisher Comments Condoleezza Rice, one of most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family by Neil Henry Publisher Comments Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery. In it, Neil Henry--a black professor of journalism and former award... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.43 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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