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By: Anderson, Elijah
Price: $7.50
Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC: 12/17/2011
Seller ID: 9780393320787
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk. The most powerful force counteracting this code and its reign of terror is the strong, loving, decent family, and we meet many heroic figures in the course of this narrative. Unfortunat... View more info
By: Anderson, Elijah
Price: $6.00
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR: 10/15/2011
Seller ID: 9780226018164
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... View more info
By: Anson, Robert
Price: $5.00
Publisher: 3/26/2015
Seller ID: 9780394552743
Price: $6.50
Publisher: NEW PR:
Seller ID: 9781595583321
The epic struggle for black equality in the twentieth century, told through the deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis. Sunflower County, Mississippi, is a land of seeming contradictions. It boasts some of the world's richest soil, yet has produced widespread poverty that lingers to this day. It stood at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, yet still suffers from racial inequality. It has been on the forefr... View more info
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Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR: 7/17/2012
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780226035383
Price: $5.00
Publisher: 3/6/2016
Seller ID: 9780671866396D
Price: $6.00
Publisher: POCKET BOOKS: 7/22/2015
Seller ID: 9780671866396
In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, "Brown v. Board of Education, " Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and i... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: SIMON PULSE: 7/11/2014
Seller ID: 9781416948827
An innocent teenager. An unexpected hero. In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, "Brown v. Board of Education, " Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's r... View more info
By: Bell, Jeannine
Price: $8.00
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIV PR:
Seller ID: 9780814791448
"Hate They Neighbor shows in devastating detail the rise and persistence of tactics for preventing residential racial integration, starting in the 20th century and continuing into the present. Although many minorities can find good housing in areas they can afford, just enough of their neighbors still greet them with cross-burnings, firebombs, and violence to send an ongoing warning: integrate at your own risk." --Amanda I. Seligman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Des... View more info
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Publisher: AMISTAD: 9/1/2017
Seller ID: 9780062201003
By: Bergner, Daniel
Price: $6.50
Seller ID: 9780316300674
By: Betts, Dwayne
Price: $6.50
Publisher: AVERY PUB GROUP:
Seller ID: 9781583333969
A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an adult under state law. A bright young kid, he served his nine-year s... View more info
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Publisher: TOUCHSTONE PRESS: 6/11/2013
Seller ID: 9780671677091
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Publisher: 10/9/2011
Seller ID: 9780385506250
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensi... View more info
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Publisher: TWAYNE: 5/5/2012
Seller ID: 0805797343
Social Movements Past and Present offers thorough analyses of the ideas and actions that have changed the way Americans think and live. Each volume is written by a specialist drawing on the insights and methodologies of history, sociology and political science. View more info
By: Borchert, James
Price: $6.00
Publisher: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR:
Seller ID: 0252010035
By: Boyle, Kevin
Price: $6.00
Publisher: 12/11/2016
Seller ID: 9780805079333D
By: Brown, Claude
Price: $4.00
Publisher: 10/17/2009
Seller ID: U000622