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Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867 by Patricia C Click Publisher Comments In February 1862, General Ambrose E. Burnside led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Roanoke Island. As word spread that the Union army had established a foothold in eastern North Carolina, slaves from the surrounding area streamed across Federal... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $26.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Heritage Sites #2: Black Heritage Sites: The South by Nancy Curtis Publisher Comments Curtis details places of national and local significance in the South, including churches and schools, battlefields, cemeteries, and landmarks of the 1950s civil right movement. 150 photos.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man: Recollections of H.C. Bruce (Blacks in the American West) by Henry Clay Bruce Publisher Comments Born to black slaves in 1836, H.C. Bruce took the name of his master, a farmer in Prince Edward County, Virginia. After years of slaving on the plantation in Missouri and working in tobacco factories, Bruce escaped to freedom in Kansas with his future... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad Publisher Comments The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century — Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of an innocent young black... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro by John David Smith Synopsis A compelling story of racial self-hatred in America and of a black man who became a pariah among his own people.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 Gilber 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

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   Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora by Charles Green Publisher Comments Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL PROFILES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Black Power Politics by Komozi Woodard Publisher Comments Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots by Thulani Davis Publisher Comments Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her-and uncovers a history... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial by Bethany Kandel Publisher Comments A series of photographic essays, Meeting the Challenge demonstrates how young people facing a variety of special challenges make the adjustments their situations require. Each book tells the story of one child's day-to-day life, from the child's point of... (read more) List Price $21.27 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African American Yearbook the Resour 5TH Edition by Tiym Publishing Comp Publisher Comments Recognized as the premier national resource and referral guide for the African American community in the areas of employment, business, education, government, and health, this guide includes detailed listings of community organizations, publications, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $14.95 (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

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