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by Albert T. Raboteau  Publisher Comments Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America's best-known champion of civil liberties-was a Baptist minister. Father Divine, a fiery... (read more)  List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David Walker Publisher Comments Walker's Appeal represents one of the earliest African-centered discourses on an oppressed people's right to freedom. African American political philosophy has evolved from many of the themes that it articulates. Order David Walker's Appeal here.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcia Y. (ed.) Riggs Publisher Comments A chorus of voices of African-American women, from slavery times to the present, documenting the crucial links between faith and the struggle for justice.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter P. Hinks Publisher Comments In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth M. Chin Publisher Comments What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sidney W. Mintz Publisher Comments This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past. "A classic. The most cogent and detailed attempt to think through what... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael C. Dawson Publisher Comments Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David (edt) Northrup Publisher Comments A volume in the "Problems in World History" series, this book features a variety of secondary-source essays that are carefully edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Frey Publisher Comments An exploration of the conversion of African-born slaves to Protestant Christianity, a reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John W. Blassingame Publisher Comments Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas M. Shapiro Publisher Comments Shapiro, the author of "Black Wealth/White Wealth," blends personal stories, interviews, empirical data, and analysis to illuminate how family assets produce dramatic consequences in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Finkelman Publisher Comments Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture. Nationally, it was... (read more) List Price $14.40 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugh Thomas Publisher Comments In a balanced approach to an explosive subject, a history professor portrays the rise, apogee, and decline of the slave trade, exposing its impact on world politics and civilization. of photos. Maps.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Betty Wood Publisher Comments Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional social and economic forces that affected the growth of slavery in early America. In addition, Wood provides a window into the... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Schmidt Campbell Synopsis In the 1920s, Harlem was "the capital of Black America" and home to an epochal African-American cultural flowering called the Harlem Renaissance. This book presents the work of the most important visual artists of the day, including Meta Warrick Fuller... (read more) List Price $17.98 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurent Dubois Publisher Comments The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael C. Dawson Publisher Comments In Black Visions, Michael Dawson brings us the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationship of black political thought to black political identity and behavior. Combining a historical perspective with conceptual sophistication and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Joyner Publisher Comments Reconstructs daily life in a Lowcountry slave community.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James H. Cone Publisher Comments Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues. He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nathaniel Norment Book News Annotation The 2001 anthology of published African American Studies articles is here expanded and revised with new selections to represent the full array of exponents and critics that have shaped the discipline from 1968 to 2006. The emphasis is on the history... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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