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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Publisher Comments “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle Publisher Comments An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Publisher Comments The junior U.S. senator from Illinois speaks out to all Americans on how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can be adapted to such controversial issues as globalization, the function of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet Classics) by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments By 1944, over six thousand ex-slaves had written moving stories of their captivity, providing a prolific testimony to the horrors of bondage and servitude. Noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. compiles four of the most important "slave narratives" in... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race Matters by Cornel West Publisher Comments With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. <BR>Cornel West is at the forefront... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Unabridged republication of 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave' written by Himself, published by The Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, 1945. New Introductory note.... (read more) Your price $0.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Classic African-American Novels: Clotel, Iola Leary, the Marrow of Tradition (Vintage Classics) by Henry L Gates Publisher Comments William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Synopsis Destined to become a classic, this powerful and inspirational autobiography of America's greatest civil rights leader calls upon Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including Dr. King's previously unpublished writings... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in African American Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Publisher Comments The author tells of his experiences after he darkened his skin and traveled through the South in order to find out how it feels to be black.... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Liberation and Socialism by Ahmed Shawki Publisher Comments A sharp and insightful analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States-from the separatism of Marcus Garvey, to the militancy of Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party, to the eloquence of Martin Luther King Jr. and much more-with... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White Publisher Comments Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, scared... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing by Deirdre Mullane Publisher Comments The history of African-American life and thought presented in this anthology represents a far-reaching written and oral tradition, which is thought-provoking, inspiring, and impressive in its breadth. It includes poetry and prose by today's best and most... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments Somehow, the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement had bypassed rural McIntosh County, Georgia. In the 1970s, the white sheriff there still wielded all power; he controlled everyone and everything. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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