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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 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 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 The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine (Modern Library) by Sondra Kathr Wilson Publisher Comments Modern Library Harlem Renaissance <BR>In 1923, the Urban League's Opportunity magazine made its first appearance. Spearheaded by the noted sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it became, along with the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine, one of the vehicles... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Affirmative Action Is Dead; Long Live Affirmative Action by Faye J. Crosby Publisher Comments Americans still argue over the merits of affirmative action. This important book explains why. Affirmative action is a much-debated policy, in employment as well as in education, in the Supreme Court as well as on the street. Yet as this book shows... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Darlene Clark Hine Publisher Comments "The history of African-American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country in the last fifteen years; and Darlene Clark Hine has been one of those most responsible for bringing the subject to its current level of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance by Carole Marks Synopsis A lively, illustrated tribute to the men and women of the Black Renaissance (1917-1932), whose talent, fortitude, and style pioneered a new image of black America. 150 photos.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Katherine C Bassard Publisher Comments The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women'... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.60 (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   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 The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the New Negro around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.00 (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 In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gretchen Sull Sorin Publisher Comments In the Spirit of Martin is the companion book to the first museum exhibition -- opening in January 2002 at the Smithsonian Institution -- to demonstrate the compelling outpouring of responses to Dr. King’s life. This richly illustrated, large... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of Thenaacp by Carolyn Wedin Publisher Comments "By highlighting the life of a key figure in the NAACP Wedin has given us a welcome addition to the literature of that organization."--Library Journal "In its densely researched, sensitively interpreted, and crisply written evocation of her subject's... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Calling the Wind 20TH Century African by Clarence Major Publisher Comments Pivotal stories from post-slavery days through the Harlem Renaissance and into the nineties.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $2.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life by Manning Marable Publisher Comments In his boldest and most accessible book to date, Manning Marable lays out a new way to think about the past and the future of race in America. Exploding traditional lines of left and right, Marable stakes out such controversial and seemingly incompatible... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Nightmare by Jerrold M Packard Publisher Comments For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life-... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crowns by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black women of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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