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by Rosetta Quisenberry  Synopsis Show case a museum-quality collection of postcards, photographs and memorabilia (circa 1880-1950) and their positive and negative portrayal of African-Americans.... (read more)  List Price $16.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Flora Wilson Bridges Publisher Comments The roots of African American spirituality arise from the African origins of the enslaved who were brought to the West in chains. Flora Wilson Bridges explores these "African retentions" from their manifestations in Africa, through their presence in the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mende Nazer Publisher Comments Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments The acclaimed writer, preacher, and "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve of class and generational warfare in black America with this provocative defense of poor African Americans.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W. E. B. Dubois Publisher Comments When it was published "The Souls of Black Folk" revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States. It probes fundamental issues of race and justice, and documents W.E.B. Du Bois' conviction that the "soul" of the... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodney Stark Publisher Comments Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katie G. Cannon Publisher Comments This study articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community. Beginning with a reconstructive history of the Afro-American woman's situation in America, Katie G. Cannon goes on to trace the emergence of the Black woman's... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alphonso Pinkney Publisher Comments This comprehensive and contemporary book presents a brief yet complete assessment of the lives of African Americans in the United States. Covers many areas, including anthropology, history, economics, political science and other pertinent areas relevant... (read more) List Price $48.20 Your price $39.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aminah B. Mccloud Publisher Comments This volume challenges these myths by contextualizing the experience and history of African American Islamic life. The book presents an overview of the history of African American Islamic expressions in the 20th century and examines the diverse... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments Six years' worth of symposiums come together in this rich collection of essays that plot a course for African Americans, explaining how individuals and households can make changes that will immediately improve their circumstances in areas ranging from... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments Black Genius is both an extraordinary forum of distinguished individuals who have demonstrated intelligence, courage, and the ability to communicate, and a project for sharing among people interested in the future of people of African American descent... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Derrick A. Bell Publisher Comments Through parables and essays, Derrick Bell offers an eloquent work of social commentary on the permanence of racism.“Gospel,” says Derrick Bell, “and particularly the gospel choir at its best, echoes the tempos of the soul searching for... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samuel A. Floyd Publisher Comments When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen,... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $26.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Class And Schools Rothstein Publisher Comments Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, "Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Todd Boyd Publisher Comments As the haunting sounds of Isaac Hayes's 'Walk On By' filled the theater, I was moved by the film's enthralling, through depressing, conclusion. Larenz Tate's character, Anthony Curtis, rode off into the abyss that has prematurely claimed the lives of so... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Herbert S. Klein Publisher Comments A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W. E. B. Dubois Publisher Comments Well-documented classic examines the South's plantation economy and its influence on the slave trade, the role of Northern merchants in financing the slave trade during the 19th century, and much more.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nelson George Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $0.97 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Manning Marable Publisher Comments One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries.... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $28.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hope Franklin Publisher Comments The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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