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by Dan T. Carter  Publisher Comments In this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T. Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad knowledge of recent political history, he traces the "counterrevolutionary" response to the civil rights movement... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Dick Gregory Publisher Comments Published in 1964, the autobiography of comedian Dick Gregory is by turns funny, poignant, and thought-provoking.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Sheehan 
Publisher Comments "A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia." <BR>-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic <BR>"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Penn Warren Publisher Comments First published in 1956, Segregation is a collection of Robert Penn Warren's informal conversations with southerners in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Warren, who in his own writing often explored the theme of race in American life,... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marshall Frady Publisher Comments Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re- creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational leader. Deftly interweaving the story of King's quest with a history of the African... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Berida Ndambuki Publisher Comments Together they present a well-rounded portrait of a contemporary African woman who refuses to submit to stereotyping and claims our respect in sharing her fears and her triumphs.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adalberto Aguirre Publisher Comments This brief text provides an accessible introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. After summarizing key concepts and theories, the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the... (read more) List Price $73.45 Your price $50.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Mosley Publisher Comments This second edition of TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS ON AFRICAN ISSUES presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Born a slave, Douglass became outspoken force in antislavery movement. The best of Douglass's autobiographies. Graphic description of slave life.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan M Dershowitz Publisher Comments From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah comes an urgent, thought-provoking book which explores the uncertain future of Jews in America. At once provocative, constructive, and a call to action, A World Without Jews points out what it... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Douglass Synopsis This is the first paperback facsimile edition of a work which contributed strongly to the Black people's struggle for freedom and equality. Born in slavery in Maryland in 1817, Frederick Douglass escaped from servitude twenty years later, joined the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut Publisher Comments The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Baldwin Publisher Comments This edition of a classic work by one of America’s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Ellis Publisher Comments In Anne Ellis, readers will discover the perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary, a pioneer who, "like the most valued of friends, is a woman of wry wit, plain courage, keen perceptions" (Molly Gloss). Powerfully conjuring up the world of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Novak Publisher Comments A special silver anniversary edition of the classic collection of Jewish humor features contributions by both famous and obscure comics, as well as from literary and historical sources, including such notables as the Marx Brothers, Shel Silverstein, Neil... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William T. Hagan
Publisher Comments The son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanak Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealth with local Indian agents and with presidents and other high officials in... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carl Van Vechten Review The case for Van Vechten, admiringly presented by a well-versed expert who lets Van Vechten do most of the talking. He may never have an abler advocate.American... (read more) List Price $81.95 Your price $31.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Brass Publisher Comments Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural... (read more) Your price $64.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Whitewolf Publisher Comments Exciting autobiography of Jim Whitewolf, a Kiowa Apache born in the second half of the 19th-century, offers excellent inside-look at Indian culture. Ethnological classic details childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Theodore L. Kazamiroff Publisher Comments As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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