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“We Ain’t What We Was”: Civil Rights in the New South

By: Frederick M.Wirt

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Duke University Press: April 1997

Seller ID: 6217

ISBN: 0822318938

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demonstrates in ""We Ain't What We Was,"" a remarkable look inside the New South. In this follow-up to his highly praised 1970 study of Panola County, "The Politics of Southern Equality," Wirt shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the past quarter-century has altered racial reality that ...
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'All Labor Has Dignity' (King Legacy)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Beacon Press: January 2012

Seller ID: 206017

ISBN: 0807086029

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have pencil marks.
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30 Years of the Freedom Charter

By: Raymond Suttner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr: January 1987

Seller ID: 6647

ISBN: 0869752995

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club (Empire State Editions)

By: Howard Eugene Johnson

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Fordham University Press: April 2014

Seller ID: 92868

ISBN: 0823256537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a "multiclass/multiethnic" family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem's Cotton Club to Communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies. A Dancer in the Revolution is a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States.
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Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle (New York State Study)

By: Milton C. Sernett

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: July 1986

Seller ID: 183102

ISBN: 0815623704

Binding: Hardcover

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About Face: Race in Postmodern America

By: Simone T. Malikalim

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Autonomedia: November 1992

Seller ID: 7306

ISBN: 0936756357

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Simone melds the theoretical insights of postmodernists like Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Derrida with Afrocentric ethnology, psychology, and anthropology to expose the political ethics of race and racial experience in contemporary America.
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Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery

By: Patricia Smith

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harvest: November 1999

Seller ID: 212188

ISBN: 0156008548

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on the ideal of liberty but dedicated to the perpetuation of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of the colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present an utterly original document, a s...
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Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor

By: Patricia J. Williams

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Publisher: Harvard University Press: October 1991

Seller ID: 158332

ISBN: 0674014715

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. "The Alchemy of Race and Rights" is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of critical literary and legal theory, she sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events, from Howard Beach to homelessness, from Tawana Brawley to the law-school classrom, from civil rights to Oprah Winfrey, from Bernhard Goetz to Marth Beth Whitehead. She also traces the wor...
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All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

By: John McWhorter

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Publisher: Gotham: June 2008

Seller ID: 260705

ISBN: 1592403743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop?and why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics. One of the most outspoken voices in America's cultural dialogues, John McWhorter can always be counted on to provide provocative viewpoints steeped in scholarly savvy. Now he turns his formidable intellect to the topic of hip-hop music and culture, smashing the claims that hip-hop is politically valuable because it delivers the only ?real? portrayal of black society. In this m...
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Anatomy of Racial Inequality

By: GLENN C. LOURY

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr: December 2001

Seller ID: 10885

ISBN: 0674006259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals--and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of both left and right, one of the most controversial. A major statement of a position developed over the past decade, this book both epitomizes and explains Loury's understanding of the depressed conditions of so much of black society today--and the origins, consequences, and implications for the future of these conditions.Using an economist's approach, Loury describes a vicious cycle of tainted soc...
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Anxiety Disorders in African Americans

By: Steven Friedman

Price: $41.95

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company: January 1994

Seller ID: 35702

ISBN: 0826185401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Assimilation Blues: Black Families In White Communities, Who Succeeds And Why (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies)

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Basic Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 158416

ISBN: 0465083609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness? What price must one pay for paradise? Is the price too high?Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, interviewed Black families in depth to identify the sacrifices and achievements necessary to survive and prosper in a white community. For the Black citizens of "Sun Beach," dual-income households, religious affiliation, and extended families help maintain stability. But with assimilation comes an insidious...
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

By: Elizabeth Keckley

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: December 1989

Seller ID: 131097

ISBN: 0195060849

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman--an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker--we see a wide range of histor...
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Between Father And Son : An African-American Fable

By: ERIC V. COPAGE

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Publisher: Harpercollins: October 2005

Seller ID: 6350

ISBN: 0060828617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Thirteen-year-old Jordan Garrison is at a crossroads. He's just about to enter high school, and his biggest worries are his new bottom-of-the-totem-pole status as an incoming freshman and his father's constant lectures about becoming a man. Growing further apart from his younger siblings -- precocious eight-year-old twins -- Jordan thinks his only ally is his grandmother, a hip sixty-two-year-old with a youthful glow that comforts Jordan, especially in the absence of his mother.But when his widowed father suddenly dies, Jordan finds the journey through puberty to adulthood all the more d...
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Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

By: Jones, Nikki

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: October 2009

Seller ID: 271197

ISBN: 081354615X

Condition: Used - Good

Notes in ink.
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Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: July 2015

Seller ID: 240547

ISBN: 0812993543

Binding: Hardcover

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Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: July 2015

Seller ID: 259373

ISBN: 0812993543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

By: Manning Marable

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Publisher: Verso: July 1996

Seller ID: 96344

ISBN: 1859840493

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A generation removed from the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power explosion of the 1960s, the pursuit of racial equality and social justice for African-Americans seems more elusive than ever. The realities of contemporary black America capture the nature of the crisis: life expectancy for black males is now below retirement age; median black income is less than 60 per cent that of whites; over 600,000 African-Americans are incarcerated in the US penal system; 23 per cent of all black males between the ages of eighteen and 29 are either in jail, on probation or parole, or awaiting trial. ...
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Big Book of Sailing: The Sailors, the Ships and the Sea

By: Grube

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Barron's: January 1981

Seller ID: 191369

ISBN: 0812053249

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)

By: Richard Wright

Price: $5.98

Publisher: HarperCollins: August 1998

Seller ID: 216775

ISBN: 0060929782

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. "Black Boy" is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright' s journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man' s coming off age during a particular time and place, "Black Boy" remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America. "Superb...The Library of America has insured that most of Wright' s major texts are now available as he wanted them to be tread...Most important of all is the opportunity we now have to ...
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Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

By: Richard Wright

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics: April 2007

Seller ID: 66682

ISBN: 0061130249

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indic...
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Black Experience in Contemporary America

By: Daniel Boamah-Wiafe

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Bw Wisdom Pubns: January 1990

Seller ID: 6593

ISBN: 0962456780

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Black Folktales

By: Julius Lester

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Grove Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 269047

ISBN: 0802132421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pencil marks.
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Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems

By: Spike Lee,Melvin Van Peebles,George Curry,Angela Davis,Bell Hooks,Jocelyn Elders,Manthia Diawara,Clyde Taylor,Regina Austin

Price: $6.98

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: February 1999

Seller ID: 244894

ISBN: 0393047016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Black Genius is both an extraordinary forum of distinguished individuals who have demonstrated intelligence, courage, and the ability to communicate, and a project for sharing among people interested in the future of people of African American descent. Originally a series of community conversations where visionaries with solutions" explored the role of black people shaping cultural consciousness, conceived by Walter Mosley and sponsored by the New York University Africana Studies Program, the book of Black Genius reprints these lectures and many responses to questions. The speakers focus on su...
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Black Panthers For Beginners

By: Herb Boyd

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners: August 2015

Seller ID: 160281

ISBN: 193999439X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

By: Mary Pattillo-McCoy

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press: October 2000

Seller ID: 128396

ISBN: 0226649296

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"Black Picket Fences" is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.
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Black Power 50

By: N/A

Price: $24.95

Publisher: The New Press: February 2016

Seller ID: 93547

ISBN: 1620971488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Black Psychology, 3rd Edition

By: N/A

Price: $28.98

Publisher: Cobb & Henry: August 1991

Seller ID: 207242

ISBN: 0943539056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Grove Press: September 2008

Seller ID: 257514

ISBN: 0802143008

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste

By: Mark S. Weiner

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Knopf: October 2004

Seller ID: 6116

ISBN: 0375409815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning the period from colonial times to the present, "Black Trials" tells how the place of blacks in American society evolved through the actions of our courts of law. Some of the cases discussed are legendary, such as the ordeal of John Brown, the fiery abolitionist who was hanged for raiding Harpers Ferry in order to equip an army of insurgent slaves. Some are forgotten, such as that of Joseph Hanno, an eighteenth-century free black man c...
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

By: Patrick Phillips

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2017

Seller ID: 153471

ISBN: 0393354733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

By: Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Basic Books: October 2016

Seller ID: 93096

ISBN: 0465093221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Born along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement

By: Eben Miller

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 2012

Seller ID: 188437

ISBN: 0195174550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with "the coming leaders of Negro thought." It was a fascinating encounter that would transform the civil rights movement. With elegant writing and piercing insight, historian Eben Miller narrates how this little-known conference brought together a remarkable young group of ...
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Born in a Mighty Bad Land : The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction

By: JERRY H. BRYANT

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr: April 2003

Seller ID: 87830

ISBN: 0253215781

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers--McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s--saw the "bad nigger" as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. "Blaxploitation" novels in the '...
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Amistad: February 2006

Seller ID: 97437

ISBN: 0060524316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for changeThe civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically di...
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Class and Race in Cities and Suburbs

By: Leo F. Schnore

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Markham Publishing Company: 1972

Seller ID: 3296

ISBN: 9110001565

Binding: New Trade

Condition: New - New

Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town

By: Mike Kelly

Price: $10.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: August 1995

Seller ID: 6183

ISBN: 0688117953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols. 1-4

By: Jawanza Kunjufu

Price: $18.95

Publisher: African American Images: April 2004

Seller ID: 14654

ISBN: 0913543969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as "Why are there more black boys in remedial and special education classes than girls? Why are more girls on the honor roll? When do African American boys see a positive black male role model? Is the future of black boys in the hands of their mothers and white female teachers? and "When does a boy become a man? The significance of rite of passage activities, includi...
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