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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Houston A. Baker
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9896
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Publication Date: 1989-01-15
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Reading Level: 132
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Description: "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"--Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.45
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wilbur H. Siebert
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7115
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Publication Date: 2006-05-22
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Reading Level: 560
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Description: This pioneering work was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and other firsthand accounts.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.00
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Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Walter Donald Kennedy
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Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.3620973
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 278
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Description: The true history of slavery in the United States. Few issues have inspired as much debate, disgust, and dissent as that of slavery. While modern Americans are unanimous in their condemnation of slavery as cruel, unjust, and contrary to our nation's basic creed of individual freedom, it must be acknowledged that, less than 150 years ago, upstanding citizens legally bought and sold other human beings. This appalling contradiction has inspired a host of incorrect and unjust myths about slavery that have, over time, attained the widely accepted credence of historical fact. Among the beliefs that Mr. Kennedy decries in this book are: slavery was devised by Christians; slavery exclusively exploits blacks; slavery was a purely Southern institution; the church condemned slavery as a sin; slavery was uncommon and had negligible economic impact in Northern states; the North ended slavery for moral reasons; freed blacks enjoyed equality in the Northern states; and racial discrimination and segregation are legacies of Southern slavery. Myths of American Slavery is not a defense of slavery but instead a sincere attempt to defeat the spread of misinterpretations and misrepresentations that continue to bedevil race relations and contaminate America's political landscape.
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Price: $17.75
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Sale: $15.97
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Manufacturer: Cosimo Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: W.E.B. Du Bois
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Publisher: Cosimo Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2007-11-01
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Reading Level: 540
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Description: Originally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct the study, under what some believe to be false pretenses. Some suspect that the study was meant, by those funding it, to show how the black community was responsible for a number of problems within the city. The report they received, however, was of quite a different nature. The Philadelphia Negro was the first sociological study of black urban Americans ever conducted. It detailed their lives, their social structures, their education, their marriages, and their jobs. The study sought to illuminate ways in which philanthropy could help the people living in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward. It did not presume, as many people did at the time, that blacks lived in poor conditions due to an innate weakness in their race. This scholarly work serves as an excellent reference for students of history and sociology. American writer, civil rights activist, and scholar WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DUBOIS (1868-1963) was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University. A cofounder of the NAACP, he wrote a number of important books, including Black Folk, Then and Now (1899) and The Negro (1915).
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $13.78
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John D'Emilio
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.092
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Publication Date: 2004-10-01
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation's consciousness. But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, the openly gay Rustin is not the household name that many of his activist contemporaries are. In exploring history's Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D'Emilio explains why Rustin's influence was minimized by his peers and why his brilliant strategies were not followed, or were followed by those he never meant to help.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920.7208996073
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Publication Date: 2000-06-15
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Reading Level: 258
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Description: This comprehensive pictorial history tells the story of Black women in eight parts: Family Life, Work, Hair, Resistance, Class, Education, Religion and Community, and Inner Life. In addition to 302 carefully chosen images, the editors provide descriptive captions and quotations from letters, diaries, journals, and other sources.
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $17.91
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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: Michael Eric Dyson
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.54092
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Publication Date: 1996-01-25
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial authenticity and "selling out," and the participants in these debates--from politicians to filmmakers to rap artists--often draw on Malcolm's scorching rebukes to such moves. Meanwhile, Malcolm's "X" is marketed in countless business endeavors and is stylishly branded on baseball hats and T-shirts sported by every age, race, and gender. But this rampant commercialization is only a small part of Malcolm's remarkable renaissance. One of the century's most complex black leaders, he is currently blazing a new path across contemporary popular culture, and has even seared the edges of an academy that once froze him out. Thirty years after his assassination, what is it about his life and words that speaks so powerfully to so many?
In Making Malcolm, Michael Eric Dyson probes the myths and meanings of Malcolm X for our time. From Spike Lee's film biography to Eugene Wolfenstein's psychobiographical study, from hip-hop culture to gender and racial politics, Dyson cuts a critical swathe through both the idolization and the vicious caricatures that have undermined appreciation of Malcolm's greatest accomplishments. The book's first section offers a boldly original and penetrating analysis of the major trends in interpreting Malcolm's legacy since his death, and the fiercely competing interests and ideologies that have shaped these trends. From mainstream books to writings published by the independent black press, Dyson identifies and examines the different "Malcolms" who have emerged in popular and academic investigations of his life and career. With impassioned and compelling force, Dyson argues that Malcolm was too formidable a historic figure--the movements he led too variable and contradictory, the passion and intelligence he summoned too extraordinary and disconcerting--to be viewed through any narrow cultural prism.
The second half of the book offers a fascinating exploration of Malcolm's relationship to a resurgent black nationalism, his influence on contemporary black filmmakers and musicians, and his use in progressive black politics. From sexism and gangsta rap to the painful predicament of black males, from the politics of black nationalism to the possibilities of race in the Age of Clinton, Dyson's trenchant and often inspiring analysis reveals how Malcolm's legacy continues to spur debate and action today.
A rare and important book, Making Malcolm casts new light not only on the life and career of a seminal black leader, but on the aspirations and passions of the growing numbers who have seized on his life for insight and inspiration.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.57
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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: Terry Alford
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 30th anniversary
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.362092
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Publication Date: 2007-09-19
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier. "The Prince," as he had become known to local Natchez, Mississippi residents, had been captured in war when he was 26 years old, sold to slave traders, and shipped to America. Slave though he was, Ibrahima was an educated, aristocratic man, and he was made overseer of the large cotton and tobacco plantation of his master, who refused to sell him to the doctor for any price. After years of petitioning by Dr. Cox and others, Ibrahima finally gained freedom in 1828 through the intercession of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay. Sixty-six years old, Ibrahima sailed for Africa the following year, with his wife, and died there of fever just five months after his arrival. The year 2007 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Prince Among Slaves, the only full account of Ibrahima's life, pieced together from first-person accounts and historical documents gathered on three continents. It is not only a remarkable story, but also the story of a remarkable man, who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or his hope for freedom. This thirtieth anniversary edition, which will be released to coincide with a major documentary being aired on Ibrahima's life, has been updated to include material discovered since the original printing, a fuller presentation and appreciation of other African Muslims in American slavery-Ibrahima's contemporaries-and a review of new and important literature and developments in the field.
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Price: $11.00
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Walker::Peter P. Hinks
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 2000-03-01
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Reading Level: 137
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Description: In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his 'afflicted and slumbering brethren' to rise up and cast off their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via underground networks in the South, and he was so successful that Southern lawmakers responded with new laws cracking down on 'incendiary' antislavery material. Although Walker died in 1830, the Appeal remained a rallying point for African Americans for many years to come, anticipating the radicalism of later black leaders, from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, Jr. In this new edition of the Appeal, the first in over thirty years, Peter P. Hinks, the leading authority on David Walker, provides a masterly introduction and extensive annotations that incorporate the most up-to-date research on Walker, much of it first reported by Hinks in his highly acclaimed biography, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren. Hinks also includes a unique appendix of documents showing the contemporary respons—from North and South, black and white—to the Appeal itself and Walker's attempts to distribute it in the South. Historians and political activists have long recognized the importance of Walker's Appeal. At last we have an edition worthy of its persuasive immediacy and its enduring place in American history.
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $5.59
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Manufacturer: Basic Civitas Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Camille F. Forbes
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Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
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Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and-ready “medicine shows” that then dotted the West, he rose through the ranks of big-time vaudeville in New York City, and finally ascended to the previously all-white pinnacle of live-stage success: the fabled Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Inspite of his triumphs-he brought the first musical with an all-black cast to Broadway in 1903-he was often viewed by the black community with more critical suspicion than admiration because of his controversial decision to perform in blackface. Modest, private, and conservative in his personal life, Williams left political activism and soapbox thumping to others. More than the simple narration of a remarkable life, Introducing Bert Williams offers a fascinating window into the fraught issues surrounding race and artistic expression in American culture. The story of Williams’s long and varied career is a whirlwind of inner turmoil, racial tension, glamour, and striving-nothing less than the birth of American show business.
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