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Publisher: AVON BOOKS: 10/27/2012
Seller ID: 0380015811
UP FROM SLAVERYThe autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society.THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKW.E.B. DuBois's classic is a major sociological document and one of the momentous b... View more info
By: Anderson, Elijah
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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: Ani, Marimba
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Seller ID: 9780865432482
Yurugu removes the mask from the European facade and thereby reveals the inner workings of global white supremacy View more info
By: Anson, Robert
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Publisher: 3/26/2015
Seller ID: 9780394552743
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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
By: Bales, Kevin
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Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR:
Seller ID: 9780520272910
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global... View more info
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Publisher: 3/6/2016
Seller ID: 9780671866396D
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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
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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
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Publisher: AMISTAD: 9/1/2017
Seller ID: 9780062201003
By: Bennett, Lerone
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Edition: 5
Seller ID: 9780140072143
By: Betts, Dwayne
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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: 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
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Publisher: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR:
Seller ID: 0252010035
