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By: Akbar, Na'Im
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Seller ID: 9780935257052
ISBN: 0935257055
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By: Akbar, Na'im
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Seller ID: 9780935257014
ISBN: 0935257012
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Seller ID: 9780226014678D
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By: Anderson, Carol
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Seller ID: 9781632864130R
ISBN: 9781632864130R
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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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By: Appiah, Kwame
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Seller ID: 9780465000715
ISBN: 0465000711
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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... View more info
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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: 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
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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
By: Beatty, Paul
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Seller ID: 9781596911482
ISBN: 1596911484
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Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, "Hokum" is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by black Americans. This book is less a comprehensive collection of African-American humor than 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 of... View more info
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Publisher: AMISTAD: 9/1/2017
Seller ID: 9780062201003
ISBN: 006220100X
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Seller ID: 9780307277053
ISBN: 0307277054
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"My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man." -Callie House (1899)In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as re... View more info
By: Betts, Dwayne
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Publisher: AVERY PUB GROUP:
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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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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