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W.E.B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of the Souls of Black Folk (Voices of the African Diaspora) by Chester J. Jr. Fontenot Publisher Comments This collection of essays emerged from a symposium held at Mercer University which examined the ways in which W. E. B. DuBois's theories of race have shaped racial discussion and public policy in the twentieth-century. The essays also examine the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wisdom of the Ages: The Mystique of the African American Preacher by Rober Johnson Smith Publisher Comments Johnson-Smith has extracted these "gems of wisdom" from his interviews with more than one hundred preachers in fifteen denominations.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook by Richard W Leeman Publisher Comments This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the present--of 43 representative public speakers, from W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King Jr. and... (read more) List Price $145.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era by Samuel W Black Publisher Comments - African American Vietnam veterans views of the Civil Rights era- Looks back at the horrors of war and complexities of race through oral histories, art, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Face Forward: Young African American Men in a Critical Age by Julian C R Okwu Publisher Comments Defying the statistics, destroying the stereotypes, this inspiring collection of portraits trumpets the achievements of thirty-nine young black men. This handsome volume combines luminous photographs with intimate interviews of young men leading... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story by Michael Datcher Publisher Comments As a teenager raised in L.A.'s inner city without a father, Michael Datcher had already committed theft, learned the ways of the street, and developed a mortal fear of police. But Datcher had a dream about a very different kind of life-and a second... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War by Bruce Levine Publisher Comments In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The African American Book of Values by Steven Barboza Publisher Comments In The African-American Book of Values, Steven Barboza has gathered together a wealth of stories that make up a moral map for modern living. Relying on the words and stories of (to name a few) the well-known: Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglas, Sojourner... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $4.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Odyssey by Nathan Huggins Publisher Comments This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty by Lawrence Oti Graham Publisher Comments Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune and became the first black man to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. He married Josephine Willson--the daughter of a wealthy black Philadelphia doctor--and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (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   Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965 by Frank R Parker Publisher Comments Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America by Robert M Entman Publisher Comments Winner of the Frank Luther Mott Award for best book in Mass Communication and the Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology. Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 by Farah Jasmi Griffin Publisher Comments Rebecca Primus was the daughter of a prominent black Connecticut family who was sent south during Reconstruction by the Hartford Freedmen's Aid Society to teach newly freed slaves. Addie Brown was a domestic servant in Connecticut and New York City--as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History by James Mellon Publisher Comments In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. "Bullwhip Days" is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Notable Black American Women #01: Notable Black American Women, Book I by Jessie Carney Smith Publisher Comments Narrative biographical essays, edited by noted scholar Jessie Carney Smith, discuss each woman's significant achievements and the public response to those achievements. Book I features approximately 425 entries; Book II provides approximately 300... (read more) List Price $198.00 Your price $27.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line by Paul Gilroy Publisher Comments 'After all the \"progress\" made since World War II in matters pertaining to race, why are we still conspiring to divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin color? Did all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement and the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black and White by Kathy Y Wilson Publisher Comments <div>Ranging from riot-torn Cincinnati, Ohio, where the nation's racial and police issues have boiled over into the streets, to illuminating community concerns from coast to coast, Kathy Y. Wilson's big, bold perspectives on urban living... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South (American South Series) by Dianne Swann Wright Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Theology Volume 2 1980 1992 by James H Cone Publisher Comments Volume II brings the development of Black Theology up to date, covering the relevance of Black Theology to pastoral ministry, Black biblical interpretation, womanist theology, and the increased dialogue with other third-world theologies.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Liberty Bell Era: The African American Experience (Insight) by Charles L Blockson Publisher Comments With essays from one of America's preeminent African American historians, this book fulfills the missing story of Black America during the era of America's proclamations of liberty and justice as symbolized by the Liberty Bell.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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