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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (Voice of Witness)

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Verso: July 2017

Seller ID: 428822

ISBN: 1786632241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Innocent, but imprisoned--troubling stories of wrongful conviction

Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-- overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification--found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring.

Among the narrators:

Paul Terry, who spent twenty-seven years wrongfully impriso...
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Futures of Black Radicalism

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Verso: August 2017

Seller ID: 428826

ISBN: 1784787582

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism

Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key intellectuals--inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson--recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires.

In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, ...
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Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature (Mentor)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Signet: September 1968

Seller ID: 430780

ISBN: 0451626605

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought Series) by Elliott Liebow (2003-07-08)

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: January 1852

Seller ID: 443593

ISBN: B01FEK4ENY

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

By: Acharya, Avidit,Blackwell, Matthew,Sen, Maya

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: May 2018

Seller ID: 442610

ISBN: 0691176744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South

Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are ...
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

By: Anderson, Carol

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 411486

ISBN: 1635571391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award
Best Books of the Year--Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Bustle, NYPL

From the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin, now with a new afterword by the author.

In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black prog...
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Gracism: The Art of Inclusion (BridgeLeader Books)

By: Anderson, David A.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: IVP Books: May 2007

Seller ID: 432725

ISBN: 0830834400

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Street Wise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

By: Anderson, Elijah

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2011

Seller ID: 88954

ISBN: 0226018164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground--prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood--but for shared moral community. Blacks and whites from a variety of backgrounds speak candidly about their lives, their differences, and their battle for viable communities.

"The sharpness of his observations and the simple clarity of his prose recommend his book far beyond an academic audience. Vivid, unflinching, finely observed, Stre...
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

By: Anderson, Elijah

Price: $7.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2000

Seller ID: 172870

ISBN: 0393320782

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules--based largely on an individual's ability to command respect--is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
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Best Intentions: the Education and Killing of Edmund Perry

By: Anson, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 295235

ISBN: 0394552741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Explores the paradoxes of the life of Edmund Perry, a lonely, vulnerable Black honor student at Phillips Exeter Academy, who preached Black nationalism and who was shot and killed on a Manhattan street by a policeman.
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Africana

By: Appiah, Kwame

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 366171

ISBN: 0465000711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Inspired by the dream of the late African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and assisted by an eminent advisory board, Harvard scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah have created the first scholarly encyclopedia to take as its scope the entire history of Africa and the African Diaspora.Beautifully designed and richly illustrated with over a thousand images - maps, tables, charts, photographs, hundreds of them in full color - this single-volume reference includes more than three thousand articles and over two million words. The interplay between text and illustration conveys th...
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History)

By: Arsenault, Raymond

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 2006

Seller ID: 440874

ISBN: 0195136748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Here is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling chapters in the history of civil rights. Arsenault recounts how in 1961, emboldened by federal rulings that declared segregated transit unconstitutional, a group of volunteers--blacks and whites--traveled together from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses an...
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We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival

By: Asim, Jabari

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Picador: October 2018

Seller ID: 416755

ISBN: 1250174538

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari Asim
In We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight wide-ranging and penetrating essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy ...
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I am a Nigerian, Not a Terrorist

By: Ayeni, Toyin

Price: $7.00

Publisher: January 2013

Seller ID: 223444

ISBN: 1608447359

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Toyin Ayeni is the author of I am a Nigerian NOT a Terrorist. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria as well as a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Management (MSISM) from Loyola University Chicago. She works as a Project Manager and lives with her husband and three children, Anthony, Elizabeth and Andrew, in Chicago, Illinois. Toyin is a past president of a Chicago chapter of Toastmasters International among other organizations she has helped lead.
The purpose of this book, which started prior to the December 25th, 20...
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The Black Power Revolt; a Collection of Essays

By: Barbour, Floyd

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Extending Horizons Books: January 1968

Seller ID: 414246

ISBN: B000H7N8IC

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

By: Bass, S Jonathan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Liveright: August 2018

Seller ID: 413861

ISBN: 163149452X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Caliph Washington didn't pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South.
Widely lauded for its searing "insight into a history of America that can no longer be left unknown" (Washington Post), He Calls Me by Lightning is an "absorbing chronicle" (Ira Katznelson) of the forgotten life of Caliph Washington that becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era. Washington, a blac...
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

By: Beals, Melba Pattillo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: July 2015

Seller ID: 54162

ISBN: 0671866397

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this compelling autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement's most powerful figures, Beals explores not only the power of racism, but also the ideas of justice and identity.
In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock's Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.
Throughout her harrowing or...
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Warriors Don't Cry

By: Beals, Melba Pattillo

Price: $3.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 199259

ISBN: 1416948821

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this compelling autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement's most powerful figures, Beals explores not only the power of racism, but also the ideas of justice and identity.
In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock's Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.
Throughout her harrowing or...
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Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor

By: Beatty, Paul

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 407279

ISBN: 1596911484

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edited by the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic anthology of the funniest writing by black Americans.
This book is less a comprehensive collection than it is a mix-tape narrative dubbed by a trusted friend--a sampler of underground classics, rare grooves, and timeless summer jams, poetry and prose juxtaposed with the blues, hip-hop, political speeches, and the world's funniest radio sermon. The subtle musings of Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, and Harryette Mullen are bracketed by the profane and...
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

By: Bell, Derrick

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Basic Books: October 2018

Seller ID: 414768

ISBN: 1541645537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice, now with a new foreword by Michelle Alexander
In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed to fail so long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the status quo. Bell calls on African Americans to face up to this unhappy truth and abandon a misplaced faith in i...
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Category: Black Studies [P]