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By: Anderson, Elijah
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Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC: 12/17/2011
Seller ID: 9780393320787
ISBN: 0393320782
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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. Unfortunately, the culture of the street thrives and often defeats decency because it controls public spaces, so that individuals with ... View more info
By: Anderson, Elijah
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Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR: 10/15/2011
Seller ID: 9780226018164
ISBN: 0226018164
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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, "Street... View more info
By: Anson, Robert
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Publisher: 3/26/2015
Seller ID: 9780394552743
ISBN: 0394552741
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Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR: 7/17/2012
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780226035383
ISBN: 0226035387
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By: Baldwin, James
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Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS:
Seller ID: 9780679744726
ISBN: 067974472X
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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two " letters, " written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book ... View more info
By: Ball, Jared
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Publisher: A K PR INC:
Seller ID: 9781849350570
ISBN: 1849350574
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"Jared Ball is determined to rescue hip hop "and" left activism from increasingly subversive corporate control. This book is a manifesto that needs to be read, argued about, and yelled from the rooftops. Let the bricks fly "--Todd Steven Burroughs, co-author of "Civil Rights Chronicle ""The Funkiest Journalist breaks it all down for all servants of Soul/Funk music and Art in the 21st Century. His "Mixtape Manifesto" explains what we are up against battling corporate empires that control the coveted consumer-merchant access points, and offers us an option to distribute, connect, and popul... View more info
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Publisher: BASIC BOOKS:
Seller ID: 9780465002962
ISBN: 046500296X
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Publisher: 3/6/2016
Seller ID: 9780671866396D
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Publisher: POCKET BOOKS: 7/22/2015
Seller ID: 9780671866396
ISBN: 0671866397
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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 injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down. Thi... View more info
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Publisher: SIMON PULSE: 7/11/2014
Seller ID: 9781416948827
ISBN: 1416948821
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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 rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with di... View more info
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Publisher: AMISTAD: 9/1/2017
Seller ID: 9780062201003
ISBN: 006220100X
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By: Berlin, Ira
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Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR:
Seller ID: 9780674016248
ISBN: 0674016246
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Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive gener... View more info
By: Betts, Dwayne
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Seller ID: 9781583333969
ISBN: 1583333967
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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 sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state. "A Question of Freedom" chronicles Bet... View more info
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Publisher: TOUCHSTONE PRESS: 6/11/2013
Seller ID: 9780671677091
ISBN: 0671677098
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Seller ID: 0385722702
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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.Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the... View more info
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Publisher: TWAYNE: 5/5/2012
Seller ID: 0805797343
ISBN: 0805797343
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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: Bolster, W.
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Publisher: 3/27/2010
Seller ID: 9780674076242
ISBN: 0674076249
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Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard shi... View more info
By: Borchert, James
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Publisher: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR:
Seller ID: 0252010035
ISBN: 0252010035
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By: Brink, William
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Publisher: 10/28/2012
Seller ID: 20419
ISBN: 20419
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