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No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

By: David Cole

Price: $8.48

Publisher: New Press: February 2000

Seller ID: 158437

ISBN: 1565845668

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A devastating critique of race-and class-based inconsistencies in the American criminal justice system.
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Nobody Knows My Name

By: James Baldwin

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Vintage: February 1993

Seller ID: 267058

ISBN: 0679744738

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Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Beacon Press: October 2012

Seller ID: 258506

ISBN: 0807006238

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A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in "Notes of a Native Son "capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everythin...
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Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

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Publisher: Beacon Press: October 2012

Seller ID: 264377

ISBN: 0807006238

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Arkana S.)

By: Patrice Malidoma Some

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): May 1995

Seller ID: 226519

ISBN: 0140194967

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"A vision that encompasses two worlds and weaves the lessons of both into a fine tapestry."--Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
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On the Morning Tide: African Americans, History & Methodology in the Historical Ebb & Flow of Hudson River Society

By: A. J. Williams-Myers

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Africa World Pr: November 2001

Seller ID: 162678

ISBN: 0865437599

Binding: Trade Paperback

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One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America

By: Glenn C. Loury

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Free Press: May 1995

Seller ID: 7420

ISBN: 0029194415

Binding: Hardcover

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America stands poised on the brink of an explosive period in race relations. Affirmative action, for a generation the major public-policy program aimed at reducing the disparity between blacks and whites, has been under strong intellectual and institutional attack by its critics and is very likely soon to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Glenn Loury views this crisis as an opportunity to move beyond our racial myopia, to assess our progress and take stock of our failures. In "One by One from the Inside Out", a pointed and often eloquent look at race in America, Loury calls on America...
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Our America

By: Lloyd Newman, Lealan Jones, David Isay

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Publisher: Scribner: June 1997

Seller ID: 27420

ISBN: 0684836165

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Panther Baby

By: Jamal Joseph

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Publisher: Algonquin Books: February 2012

Seller ID: 52190

ISBN: 1616201290

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In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he's chair of their School of the Arts film division. Jamal Joseph's personal odyssey--from the streets of Harlem to Riker's Island and Leavenworth to the halls of Columbia--is as gripping as it is inspiring.Eddie Joseph was a high school honor student, slated to graduate early and begin college. But this was the late 1960s in Bronx's black ghetto, and fifteen-year-old Eddie was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party, which was just gaining a national foothold. By sixteen, his devot...
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Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King

By: Michael Awkward

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Publisher: Temple University Press: October 2013

Seller ID: 229004

ISBN: 1439907099

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Michael Awkward's "Philadelphia Freedoms "captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city's history have been entwined. He introduces each of these moments with poignant personal memories of the decade in focus and explores representation of African American freedom and oppression from the 1960s to the 1990s. "Philadelphia Freedoms "explores NBA players' psychic pain during a playoff game the day after Mart...
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Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King

By: Michael Awkward

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Publisher: Temple University Press: October 2013

Seller ID: 229193

ISBN: 1439907099

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Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

By: Shane White

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press: October 2015

Seller ID: 267967

ISBN: 1250070562

Binding: Hardcover

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Race Matters

By: Cornel West

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Publisher: Vintage: April 1994

Seller ID: 244761

ISBN: 0679749861

Binding: Trade Paperback

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With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters""affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. Cornel West is at the forefront of thinking about race. In Race Matters""he addresses a range of issues, from the crisis in black leadership and the myths surrounding black sexuality to affirmative action, the new black conservatism, and the strained relations between Jews and African Americans. He never hesitates to confront the prejudices of all his readers?or wavers in his insi...
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990

By: Manning Marable

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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi: April 1991

Seller ID: 170683

ISBN: 0878054936

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Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons

By: Howard Winant

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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: April 1994

Seller ID: 5864

ISBN: 0816623872

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Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders

By: Renee C. Romano

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Publisher: Harvard University Press: October 2014

Seller ID: 158606

ISBN: 0674050428

Binding: Hardcover

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Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

By: N/A

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Publisher: Routledge: April 1993

Seller ID: 151369

ISBN: 0415907357

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle Crenshaw; Mike Davis; Thomas L. Dumm; Walter C. Farrell, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Robert Gooding-Williams; James H. Johnson, Jr.; Elaine H. Kim; Melvin L. Oliver; Michael Omi; Ga...
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Remembering Future Africa

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 108373

ISBN: 9110013377

Binding: New Trade

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Restoring Hope

By: Cornel West

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Beacon Press: January 1999

Seller ID: 79062

ISBN: 0807009431

Binding: Trade Paperback

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'Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing voices in America today' --Marian Wright Edelman Nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures-Maya Angelou, Bill Bradley, Harry Belafonte, Patricia Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Washington, James Forbes, and Haki Madhubuti-talk with Cornel West about their political awareness, art and politics, and the possibility of hope among African-Americans today.
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Ritual: Power, Healing and Community : The African Teachings of the Dagara (Echoes of the Ancestors)

By: Malidoma Patrice Some

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Publisher: Swan Raven & Company: February 1993

Seller ID: 171576

ISBN: 0963231022

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Since time out of mind, ritual has been the public expression of private beliefs. It makes use of pageantry and familiarity to confirm the individual's commitment to the group. Grief rituals serve as a prototype for an intensive examination of the uses and dangers of traditional ritual practice. The author not only examines the purpose of various rituals, but describes how they are performed.
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Brown Thrasher Books)

By: William Craft

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Publisher: University of Georgia Press: April 1999

Seller ID: 268986

ISBN: 0820321044

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship--in plain sight and relative luxury--from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England.This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts' story w...
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Sable Arm : Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865

By: DUDLEY TAYLOR CORNISH

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Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas: March 1987

Seller ID: 15663

ISBN: 070060328X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A bona fide classic, the Sable Arm was the first work to fully chronicle the remarkable story of the nearly 180,000 black troops who served in the Union army. Hailed by such distinguished historians as T. Harry Williams ("superbly written") and George B. Tindall ("a volume of permanent value"), this work paved the way for the exploration of the black military experience in other wars. The present edition, with a new foreword and bibliographical essay, makes available once again a pioneering work that will be especially useful for scholars and students of Civil War, black, and military history....
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Searching for the Promised Land: An African American's Optimistic Odyssey

By: Gary Franks

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Publisher: Harpercollins: April 1996

Seller ID: 6820

ISBN: 0060391561

Binding: Hardcover

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Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (Reith Lectures, 1997)

By: Patricia J. Williams

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: March 1998

Seller ID: 158334

ISBN: 0374525331

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustaine...
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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

Price: $9.98

Publisher: NYU Press: November 1998

Seller ID: 223831

ISBN: 0814719058

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Despite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale.Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslim slaves, following them from Africa to the Americas. It details how, even while enslaved many Black Muslims managed to follow most of the prece...
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Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

By: Dan Bergner

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Publisher: Lee Boudreaux Books: September 2016

Seller ID: 176436

ISBN: 0316300675

Binding: Hardcover

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Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad

By: Eber Pettit

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Publisher: North Country Books: December 2000

Seller ID: 145552

ISBN: 096589553X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Soul on Ice

By: Cleaver, Eldridge

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Publisher: Delta: January 1968

Seller ID: 268514

ISBN: 0440381630

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Soul on Ice

By: Cleaver, Eldridge

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Delta: January 1968

Seller ID: 270708

ISBN: 0440381630

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Southern History Across the Color Line

By: NELL IRVIN PAINTER

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Publisher: Not Applicable: March 2002

Seller ID: 158383

ISBN: 0807853607

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy, their lives were thoroughly entangled. In this powerful collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and...
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Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)

By: Susan Willis

Price: $6.48

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press: November 1989

Seller ID: 269557

ISBN: 0299108945

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Stories of Freedom in Black New York

By: Shane White

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: September 2007

Seller ID: 149740

ISBN: 0674025784

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Stories of Freedom in Black New York" recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture. Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls, and the grubbiness of the Police Office. It allows us to observe the style of black men and women, to watch their public ...
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Price: $23.99

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: January 2017

Seller ID: 108779

ISBN: 1250135990

Binding: Hardcover

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The African American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900-1940

By: Ingrid Overacker

Price: $17.50

Publisher: University of Rochester Press: September 1998

Seller ID: 145580

ISBN: 1878822896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This work examines the connections between the faith foundations of members of the African-American church community in Rochester, New York and the work the community engaged in to nurture and protect its members during the first four decades of the twentieth century. The book concentrates on four local churches (Memorial AME Zion, Mt. Olivet Baptist, Trinity Presbyterian, and St. Simon's Episcopal) and explains how each addressed the human service, educational, economic, and political needs of African Americans in Rochester. the book highlights the role of women in the church community and re...
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The Algiers Motel Incident

By: John Hersey, William J. Eisen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 143615

ISBN: 0801857775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In 1967 three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in "The Algiers Motel Incident," an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen, and private guards who had been directed to the scene." Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the police group invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten black men and two white women, none of whom were armed, for an hour. By the time the interrogators left, three men had been shot to death and the others, including the women, beaten.
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The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

By: Stanley Crouch

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage: January 1997

Seller ID: 126926

ISBN: 0679776605

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: November 1992

Seller ID: 269472

ISBN: 0345350685

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By: Ernest J. Gaines

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback: January 2009

Seller ID: 125283

ISBN: 0385342780

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

""Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines's now-classic novel--written as an autobiography--spans one hundred years of Miss Jane's remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope--as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane's eloquent na...
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By: Ernest J. Gaines

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Bantam: August 1982

Seller ID: 250437

ISBN: 0553263579

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in "The Sound And The Fury."" Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured, ' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works "The Odyssey" for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and "Huckleberry Fi...
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The Black Nation

By: Amiri BARAKA

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Unity & Struggle Publications: January 1995

Seller ID: 50330

ISBN: B0048AF0KS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood