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Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience by Mumia Abu Jamal Synopsis A testament to the invincibility of the human spirit, this is a collection of short essays on nature, politics, culture, race and religion. The author examines the truest dimensions of existence.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Home Grown: Conversations on Race and Culture by bell hooks Publisher Comments While the black/Latino divide has been addressed in progressive newspapers and magazines, "Home Grown," is an inclusive call to reflect and act. Amalia Mesa-Bains, a pioneer scholar and producer of Chicana art, with bell hooks, one of the most acclaimed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity by Mitchell Duneier Publisher Comments At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Up from Slavery (Signet Classics) by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE.<P>Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hoop Roots by John Edgar Wideman Publisher Comments 'Hoop Roots is John Edgar Wideman's memoir of discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitably, the story of the roots of black basketball in America — a story inextricable from race... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Foremothers Three Lives Womens 2ND Edition by Dorothy Sterling Publisher Comments ??????Three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells, th firebrand journalist... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White Publisher Comments Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J Giddings Publisher Comments From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history, comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells--a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight against segregation and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (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   Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll Publisher Comments With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson Publisher Comments In the first essay, Patterson analyzes the very latest survey data to delineate the different attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women, dissecting both the external and internal causes for the great disparities he finds.In... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes Publisher Comments A major history of Civil War America through the lens of its two towering figures: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. "My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Quitting America by Randall N Robinson Publisher Comments Randall Robinson is quitting America, and this book charts his journey from the most powerful nation on earth to the tiny tropical island where his wife was born. His search for a more peaceful and hospitable place grew out of the disappointment and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Larger Education: Chapters from My Experience (Classics in Black Studies) by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments The leading African American leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was Booker T. Washington. His conciliatory stance toward the white majority, preference for working behind the scenes rather than public protest to remedy... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Negro Classics by John Hope Franklin Publisher Comments UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Black Infantry in the West 1869-1891 by Arlen L Fowler Publisher Comments After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Pauline E Hopkins Review "A gift to the profession (and to our students) to have the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women's Writers in affordable paperback."--Janet Gabler-Hover, Georgia State Univ. "Brilliant...her masterwork."--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Confessions of Nat Turner: And Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Nat Turner Publisher Comments This textbook offers the complete text of the actual confessions of Nat Turner, the Virginia slave preacher who in 1831 led the bloodiest slave revolt in US history. An introduction provides the historical context for the revolt and allows students to... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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