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Society and Culture in the Slave South (Re-Writing Histories) by J William Harris Publisher Comments Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic area. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at Mit, 1941-1999 by Clarence G Williams Publisher Comments Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.80 (Used - Softcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rough Amusements by Ben Neihart Publisher Comments From acclaimed novelist Ben Neihart, a vibrant portrait of gay Harlem's most memorable diva: A'Lelia Walker. <BR>When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Woodholme: A Black Man's Story of Growing Up Alone by Dewayne Wickham Publisher Comments DeWayne Wickham was just eight years old when his father murdered his mother and then killed himself. Woodholme is his poignant memoir about growing up haunted by this traumatic event and about how he eventually overcame the reality of his loss. A... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Project Success: The Right Thing for the Right Person by Sheila P Moses Publisher Comments The 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc. celebrates their 20th Anniversary in 2006. Since 1986, this organization has been a pillar of love, inspiration and resource to hundreds of young people in Atlanta. For Americans who do not know the rich history of this... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations by Michael Rudolp West Publisher Comments This major reinterpretation of one of the most complex and controversial figures in American history reexamines the ideas that shaped the civil rights movement.... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson by Rayvon Fouche Publisher Comments "In debunking some of the myths, including financial success and race pride, Fouch humanizes them and examines the greater significance of their work in the context of American sociological and commercial history... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fire in My Soul by Joan Steinau Lester Publisher Comments Impassioned civil rights activist, champion of women's rights, hard-driving legislator -- U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is known in Washington as the "Warrior on the Hill." "Fire in My Soul" is the story of Norton's extraordinary political... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Search of African American Life, Achievement and Culture: First Search by John C Cothran Publisher Comments This book reviews the accomplishments, courage and struggles of African Americans over the past 500 years. This reference contains over 420 images and 1800 facts in a unique question-and-answer format, allowing the book to be used in games and integrated... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 by Richard Follett Synopsis Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create an insidiously oppressive labor... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.50 (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   March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968 by Al Kuettner Publisher Comments Veteran reporter Al Kuettner begins: You had to walk in the footsteps of these people--black and white--to get some understanding of their deep feelings, their prejudices, the sad deprivation suffered by so many blacks, the fear in whites. You had to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers by Charlene Gilbert Publisher Comments Homecoming traces the history of black farmers from Reconstruction to the present, as they struggle to survive today. Homecoming pays tribute not only to the devastating losses they have suffered throughout the century, but also to the legacy of hope... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850 by Aileen S Kraditor Publisher Comments The debate among those who sought to abolish slavery in America was a crucial one in the history of the nation, for it raised a great many questions we are still debating. Studying the abolitionists' thinking on the goals, strategy, and tactics of their... (read more) List Price $18.90 Your price $2.58 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Claiming Kin: Confronting the History of an African-American Family by Afi Odelia Scruggs Publisher Comments A touching story of a woman's search for her family roots in the wake if the sudden death of her father. Claiming Kin is a powerful and compelling story about a woman's quest to search out her roots upon the death of the father she barely knew. A former... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Handbook of Black Studies by Molefi K Asante Publisher Comments The Handbook has three main divisions: historical and cultural foundations; philosophical and conceptual basis; and critical and analytical concepts and brings together all the main research and scholarship in the field of African-American or black... (read more) List Price $130.00 Your price $120.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Bondage and My Freedom (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Seventh Child by Freddie Mae Baxter Publisher Comments "Charming.... An uplifting story of tough breaks, hard work, and a generous heart."--"People <BR>In The Seventh Child, Freddie Mae Baxter--75 years old, compassionate, hauntingly wise--tells her story and the story of the twentieth century in her... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last Plantation: A Memoir of Race, Conflict, & Healing by Itabari Njeri Publisher Comments In the 1980s, when most Americans considered black a racial reference, many multiracial people began to see themselves as part of a heterogeneous ethnic group linked by history, culture, and blood - a distinction that has led to considerable conflict... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom by Sarah Louise Delany Publisher Comments After charming an international audience, taking bestseller lists by storm with Having Our Say, and delighting theatergoers with the Broadway play, America's best-loved, bestselling sisters are back to warm the hearts of paperback readers with their... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The African American Almanac 9ed by Jeffrey Lehmen Publisher Comments Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and in 1916 Carter G. Woodson published the first issue of Journal of Negro History — all on January 1... (read more) List Price $195.00 Your price $42.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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