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African American Legislators in the American States (01 Edition) by Kerry L. Haynie Publisher Comments Analyzing the behavior of African American state legislators in multiple legislative sessions across five states, Haynie has compiled a wealth of valuable data that reveals the dynamics and effectiveness of black participation in the legislative process.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (02 Edition) by Marcyliena Morgan Publisher Comments African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book covers the entire field--grammar, speech, and verbal genres. It also reveals the various historical strands that must be identified in... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slaveholding Republic : an Account of the United States Government's Relations To Slavery (01 Edition) by Don E. Fehrenbacher Publisher Comments William Lloyd Garrison argued--and many leading historians have since agreed--that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. Garrison called it "a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell." But in The Slaveholding Republic... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scholarships for African-american Students (03 Edition) by Peterson Guides Publishing Staff Synopsis Features include: - Information on eligibility requirements, application deadlines, award amounts, and more- Simple steps on how to research and identify scholarships, grants, and other financial aid opportunities- Key contact information for each... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mutiny on the Amistad Rev Edition by Howard Jones Publisher Comments This book is the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history in which African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. In 1839, Joseph Cinque led other blacks in a revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad in... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $1.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers by Adam Nossiter Publisher Comments The history is well known: On June 12, 1963, Mississippi's courageous NAACP chief, Medgar Evers, was gunned down by white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith. Tried twice by all-white juries, Beckwith escaped conviction for three decades. But then... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Success Runs in Our Race: The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the Black Community by George C. Fraser Publisher Comments “ A networking bible for African American professionals.”... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $2.48 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bulletproof Diva : Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair (94 Edition) by Lisa Jones Publisher Comments In "Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous "Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ordeal of Integration (97 Edition) by Orlando Patterson Publisher Comments For many years Orlando Patterson has been a major contributor to the public discussion of race in America. In this eagerly anticipated new volume, the author of the National Book Award–winner Freedom in the Making of Western Culture presents a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ties That Bind : African-american Consciousness of Africa (87 Edition) by Bernard M. Magubane Synopsis An interpretation and analysis of the phenomenon of ambivalence so persistent in the Afro-American consciousness of Africa... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $17.00 (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   Narrative of My Escape From Slavery (03 Edition) by Moses Roper Publisher Comments Published in 1838, Moses Roper's autobiography ranks among the most important and authentic accounts of life in slavery. The North Carolina native was separated from his mother at the age of six, and sold or traded many times to plantation owners... (read more) Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bad Boys : Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (00 Edition) by Ann Arnett Ferguson Publisher Comments Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African-american Christianity : Essays in History (94 Edition) by Paul E. (ed.) Johnson Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, seven leading scholars give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present. This volume illuminates the fusion of African and Christian traditions... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Liberating Visions : Human Fulfullment and Social Justice in African-american Thought (90 Edition) by Robert M. Franklin Publisher Comments 'This book not only introduces a new voice in African-American scholarship. It also sets forth the basic elements for significant interdisciplinary dialogue among moral-development theorists, Christian social ethicists, and moral philosophers.' - from... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Without Consent Or Contract : the Rise and Fall of American Slavery (89 Edition) by Robert William Fogel Publisher Comments 'Robert William Fogel's exceedingly careful testing of all possible sources and his pioneering methodological approach have allowed him both to increase our knowledge of an institution's operation and disintegration and to renew our methods of research.'... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Popul Vuh by Allen J Christenson Publisher Comments The Popul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Mayas is a completely new, scholarly and accessible translation of this great classic of Central American spirituality, one of the world's greatest creation stories.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Time Longer Than Rope : a Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950 (03 Edition) by Charles M. Payne Publisher Comments More than simply illuminating a hitherto marginalized fragment of American history, "Time Longer than Rope" provides a crucial pre-history of the modern civil rights movement. In the process, it alters our entire understanding of African American... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba (03 Edition) by Gabino La Rosa Corzo Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Here's to You Jackie Robinson: The Legend of the Prichard Mohawks by Joe Formichella Publisher Comments With a novelist's gift for storytelling, Formichella breathes life into a South long gone and creates a hero's story, sometimes heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking, that begins in a sandlot and ends in the Baseball Hall of Fame.... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slavery in American Society (3RD 93 Edition) by Lawrence Goodheart Synopsis This anthology reflects the sweeping changes of recent years in historians' views of slavery, featuring essays from the growing fields of social history, women's history, and comparative history.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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