Used Books

There are 4401 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers by Dori Sanders Publisher Comments This monograph of a speech made by Sanders at the Southern Foodways Alliance chronicles her family's triumphs and struggles as black farmers in the South.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Negro Plot: An Urban Historical by Mat Johnson Publisher Comments In 1741, New York City was thrown into an uproar when a sixteen-year-old white woman, an indentured servant named Mary Burton, testified that she was privy to a monstrous conspiracy against the white people of Manhattan. Promised her freedom by... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slave Religion the Invisible Institution by Albert J Raboteau Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill Publisher Comments A classic study of govenrment repression against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South by Steven Weisenburger Publisher Comments The first in-depth historical account of the events that inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Garner gathered up her family and raced north... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lasting Valor by Vernon J. Baker and Ken Olsen Publisher Comments Lasting Valor tells of some of the most dramatic acts of courage attempted in the entire Mediterranean theater during WWII — acts that resulted in Baker's being awarded the Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and Distinguished Service Cross. On April 15... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Folktales in the New World (Folkloristics) by William Bascom Publisher Comments These essays, devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the New World, represent the last major research project of William Bascom (1912-1981), eminent authority on African art and folklore. His intention was to demonstrate the African... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 by Kathleen Ann Clark Publisher Comments In the first book-length study of African American commemorations in the South following emancipation, Clark shows how traditions such as Emancipation Day created unique opportunities for southern black communities to memorialize slavery and celebrate... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves by Gregory A Freeman Publisher Comments The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves-and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using "peons," but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class by Robin D G Kelley Review Monthly Review It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley, barely thirty years old, a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough...His work, seen in a certain light, is less about the past than the future...To listen... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (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   Roots by Alex Haley Publisher Comments It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem by bell hooks Publisher Comments World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African American Folktales by Roger D. (edt) Abrahams Publisher Comments From the canefileds of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" (Choice). Full of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color (Harlem Moon Classics) by Carole Ione Publisher Comments “From the moment I read the words [my great-grandmother] Frances Anne Rollin wrote in Boston on January 1, 1868—“The year renews its birth today with all its hopes and sorrows”—she became my beacon, the foremother who would... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) by Sondra Kathr Wilson Publisher Comments This collection of writings offers a glimpse into the minds of three N.A.A.C.P. leaders who occupied the center of black thought and action during some of the most troublesome and pivotal times of the civil rights movement. The volume delineates fifty... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments Mosley has crafted a deeply personal and political proposal, offering a commonsense approach to the challenge of finding world peace in a post-9/11 world. He explores what the terrorist attacks meant to him and challenges African Americans to use their... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E Wilson Publisher Comments The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today by Alan Huffman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-315) and index.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP by Kenneth Janken Publisher Comments White is portrayed here for the first time in his full complexity, a man whose physical appearance enabled him to negotiate two very different worlds in segregated America, yet who saw himself above all as an organization man, "Mr NAACP." Deeply... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James Mcbride Publisher Comments With a new Introduction to this touching homage to his mother, the author paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Page   1-25  |  26-50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56-60  |  61-65  |  66  | 

by Title | by Author | by Price

There are 4401 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in African American Studies $7 or Less Anthologies Audio Books Black Civilization Studies Black Heritage Civil Rights Movement Coming Soon! Display eBooks Folklore General Kwanzaa Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr New Arrivals Pacific Northwest Sale Books Schomburg Library Slave Narratives Slavery and Reconstruction Textbooks