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Price: $16.50
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Sale: $12.40
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vivian Gussin Paley
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.8299073
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Publication Date: 2000-03-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a "white teacher."
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $10.04
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas M. Shapiro
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2005-01-27
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these encouraging signs, Thomas Shapiro argues in The Hidden Cost of Being African American, fundamental levels of racial inequality persist, particularly in the area of asset accumulation--inheritance, savings accounts, stocks, bonds, home equity, and other investments. Shapiro reveals how the lack of these family assets along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find themselves trapped.
Shapiro uses a combination of in-depth interviews with almost 200 families from Los Angeles, Boston, and St. Louis, and national survey data with 10,000 families to show how racial inequality is transmitted across generations. We see how those families with private wealth are able to move up from generation to generation, relocating to safer communities with better schools and passing along the accompanying advantages to their children. At the same time those without significant wealth remain trapped in communities that don't allow them to move up, no matter how hard they work. Shapiro challenges white middle class families to consider how the privileges that wealth brings not only improve their own chances but also hold back people who don't have them. This "wealthfare" is a legacy of inequality that, if unchanged, will project social injustice far into the future.
Showing that over half of black families fall below the asset poverty line at the beginning of the new century, The Hidden Cost of Being African American will challenge all Americans to reconsider what must be done to end racial inequality.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $4.09
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Manufacturer: Plume
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gregory Howard Williams
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Publisher: Plume
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073092
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Publication Date: 1996-02-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: The author recounts the shock he experienced when he learned that his father's relatives in Muncie, Indiana, were poor and black, and describes the prejudice that he and his brother endured from both sides. Reprint. NYT.
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Maya Angelou
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.54092
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Publication Date: 1991-06-04
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: "Thoroughly enjoyable . . . an important document drawing more much-needed attention to the hidden history of a people both African and American."--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $6.87
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Lewis
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 810.8089073
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Publication Date: 1995-06-01
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Reading Level: 816
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Description: This collection magnificently represents the great voices of this era. The volume includes the work of some forty-five Renaissance figures: short fiction and self-contained novel excerpts by Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, and Jean Toomer; poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay; essays, manifestos, speeches, and nostalgic reminiscences by Romare Bearden, W. E. B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.71
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Manufacturer: Kensington
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nick Adams
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Publisher: Kensington
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 2006-03-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $4.87
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: E. Lynn Harris
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Publisher: Doubleday
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2006-05-02
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today’s toughest and most timely issues.
Chauncey Greer is the owner of Cute Boy Card Company, a thriving company in Atlanta. As a teenager, he was a member of a popular boy band, but left in disgrace when word got out that he and his bandmate D were more than good friends. Chauncey is a free spirit, on the brink of forty with a body admired by both men and women. Not into being categorized, Chauncey’s been known to hook up with men and women, but now in the age of the “down low,” he’s found that women ask too many questions, so he’s just focusing on the fellas.
After one too many bad dates, Chauncey finds himself in church, where the minister’s message inspires him to follow his dream of a singing career once again. Although he’s lost touch with D, as he starts writing songs his thoughts inevitably turn to his former lover. Chauncey’s powerful performance at the church earns him a standing ovation and an invitation to participate in an upcoming revival. But Chauncey soon discovers that an ambitious fundamentalist preacher plans to use the revival to speak out against gays and gay marriage. Feeling angry and betrayed, Chauncey and other gay members of the church decide to take a stand against the church’s homophobia by staging a “Day of Absence” when all of the gay members and their friends and family stay home. Everything is going as planned... until D appears on the scene and Chauncey has to confront his past and make some hard decisions about his future.
I Say A Little Prayer is filled with the delicious plot twists, humor, compassion, and up-to-the-minute controversy fans expect from their beloved “E. Lynn.” Harris has returned with another gem of a novel that will rocket to the top of bestseller lists nationwide.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.04
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Manufacturer: Black Classic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George L. Jackson
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Publisher: Black Classic Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 1996-12-19
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Reading Level: 195
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Description: Blood In My Eye captures the spirit of Geogre Jackson's legendary resistance to unbridled oppression and racism. His unique and incisively critical perpective becomes the unifying thread that ties this collection of letters and essays in which he presents his analysis of armed struggle, class war, facism, communism and a wide array of topics.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $1.25
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Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ronda Racha Penrice
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Publisher: For Dummies
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
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Publication Date: 2007-04-30
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Understand the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans Get to know the people, places, and events that shaped the African American experience Want to better understand black history? This comprehensive, straight-forward guide traces the African American journey, from Africa and the slave trade through the Civil War, Jim Crow, and the new millennium. You'll be an eyewitness to the pivotal events that impacted America's past, present, and future - and meet the inspiring leaders who struggled to bring about change. - How Africans came to America
- Black life before - and after - Civil Rights
- How slaves fought to be free
- The evolution of African American culture
- Great accomplishments by black citizens
- What it means to be black in America today
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.90
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Manufacturer: Bantam
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Wolfe
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Publisher: Bantam
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1999-10-05
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongrous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment.
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