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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: Anderson, Maggie
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Publisher: 10/26/2013
Seller ID: 9781610390248
ISBN: 1610390245
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Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers--unlike consumers of other ethnicities-- choose not to support black-owned businesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders.On Ja... View more info
By: Anson, Robert
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Publisher: 3/26/2015
Seller ID: 9780394552743
ISBN: 0394552741
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Publisher: DOVER PUBN INC:
Seller ID: 9780486452722
ISBN: 0486452727
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The first full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history, this meticulously researched document explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. Aptheker's book includes Turner's "Confessions," recorded before his execution in 1831. View more info
By: Askew, Kelly M.
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Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780226029818
ISBN: 0226029816
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Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history. As Askew shows, the genres of "ngoma" (traditional dance), "dansi" (urban jazz), and "taarab" (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of resear... View more info
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Seller ID: 9780814254998
ISBN: 0814254993
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Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR: 7/17/2012
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780226035383
ISBN: 0226035387
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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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Publisher: TWAYNE: 5/5/2012
Seller ID: 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: Brent, Linda
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Publisher: HARVEST BOOKS: 11/8/2013
Seller ID: 0156443503
ISBN: 0156443503
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An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship. Edited by L. Maria Child; Introduction by Walter Teller. View more info
By: Brink, William
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Publisher: 10/28/2012
Seller ID: 20419
ISBN: 20419
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