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by Hank Aaron  Publisher Comments Henry Aaron left his mark on the world by breaking Babe Ruth's record for home runs. But the world has also left its mark on him. "Hammering Hank" Aaron's story is one that tells us much about baseball, naturally, but also about our times. His... (read more)  List Price $7.50 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by George M. Fredrickson Publisher Comments Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In this beautifully written book-length essay, Berry explores the “hidden wound” of racism and its pernicious effects on white people in America. Rigorous, honest, and deeply felt, The Hidden Wound is essential reading for anyone hoping to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nagel Publisher Comments Nagel tells the captivating and irresistible story of Mary Nisbet, whose life and letters give readers an intimate and astonishing insider's look into the British aristocracy during the Romantic era.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruby Bridges Publisher Comments Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a 6-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. An icon of the Civil Rights movement, Ruby chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynne Withey Publisher Comments Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest Friend" is the first full biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia J. Williams Publisher Comments result is a testament of considerable beauty, a triumph of moral tactfullness, The result, as the title suggests, is magic.... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Lorber Publisher Comments Is feminism dead, or has it gone mainstream? Are we into a third wave or still in the second wave? What did feminism accomplish in the past 40 years? What still needs to be done about persistent gender inequality? Do we need a new feminism? In Gender... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry L. Kitano Publisher Comments Kitano uses his own experiences as a Japanese American—including growing up in a World War II concentration camp—as one motivation behind this book. He views race relations from an Asian-American perspective so that many of the models and... (read more) List Price $63.50 Your price $41.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jackie Robinson Publisher Comments A Dream Deferred My grandfather was born into slavery, and although my mother and my father, Mallie and Jerry Robinson, lived during an era when physical slavery had been abolished, they also lived in a newer, more sophisticated kind of slavery than the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zachary Lockman Publisher Comments An accessible and broad ranging survey of Western perceptions of Islam and the Middle East.... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates 
Publisher Comments From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles A. Gallagher Publisher Comments This anthology of current research and writings examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $42.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Borstelmann Publisher Comments The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. In so doing, it recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context,... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Assata Shakur Publisher Comments This presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mabel Barbee Lee Publisher Comments Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole place turn to gold. <BR>With his divining rod... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Toi Derricotte Publisher Comments An extraordinary and courageous account of race--as seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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