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Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition (Teaching for Social Justice) Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition (Teaching for Social Justice)
by Charles Payne

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Featuring articles by educator-activists, this collection explores the largely forgotten history of attempts by African Americans to use education as a tool of collective liberation. Together these articles explore the variety of forms those attempts... (read more)

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The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama
by Culpepper Clark

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On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace physically blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama's campus. His intent was to defy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach... (read more)

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Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-Violent Takeover of the House of Representatives Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-Violent Takeover of the House of Representatives
by Walter Mosley

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In this powerful, humorously honest work, Mosley examines his own sense of cultural dislocation as an African-American writer and attempts to transcend his earlier feelings of living a "life out of context" and seeks instead to find a political context.... (read more)

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Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor
by Paul Beatty

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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. <BR>This book is less a comprehensive collection of African-American humor... (read more)

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From Niggas to Gods From Niggas to Gods
by Akil

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This is a compilation of individual essays written during the summer-fall of 1992.The essays are designed to inspire thought within the Black Mind.These writings are primarily targeted toward the Black Youth of this day, of which i am a part of.I am not... (read more)

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Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World
by Ralph Wiley

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In this collection of essays, Wiley--in an immediate and unmistakable style--takes on popular culture as it relates to Black Americans today, adding a new dimension to the dialogue about race. Everyone and everything make their appearance: from Marion... (read more)

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper)
by Sojourner Truth

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Sojourner Truth, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of... (read more)

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King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Charles Johnson

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Man, martyr, and myth – an American giant in a photobiography of unprecedented scope and depth. King is the first true photobiography of a hero's journey. Never before has his life been so richly chronicled from so many different points of view.... (read more)

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The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present
by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin

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What faces do they choose to present to the world and what faces has the world forced them to acquire? We can look in vain to most pictorial histories of America and even of African America for images of Black women. With noteworthy exceptions, even most... (read more)

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Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and Their Struggle for Equality Changed America Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
by Stephen Kendrick

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The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schools. One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white... (read more)

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
by Catherine Clinton

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This is a long-overdue historical work on one of the most important figures in American history, written by an acclaimed historian of the antebellum era. Harriet Tubman was the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the... (read more)

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We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
by Seth Cagin

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The incredible story that became the movie "Mississippi Burning"--the crucial campaign for civil rights in Mississippi, which centered on the 1964 murder of three freedom workers. "Riveting . . . stirs anger and tears with a dramatic recounting of the... (read more)

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Emerson's Antislavery Writings Emerson's Antislavery Writings
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians -- writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are speeches and lectures... (read more)

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Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and the American Civil War Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and the American Civil War
by Roger L Ransom

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No series of events had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves. This book examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the... (read more)

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A New Look at Black Families A New Look at Black Families
by Charles Vert Willie

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and index.... (read more)

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Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents
by Ronald Takaki

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1992 has been an explosive year for racial relations in the United States-from the reactions to the Rodney King verdict to debate about Malcolm X and the film portrayal of his role in American history. What relations do the recent events in Los Angeles... (read more)

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From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist
by Sara Mitche Parsons

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As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped... (read more)

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Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line
by Paul Gilroy

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After all the "progress" made since World War II in matters pertaining to race, why are we still conspiring to divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin color? Did all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement and the decolonization... (read more)

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself
by Frederick Douglass

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The classic autobiography of Frederick Douglass joins the the affordable Pocket Books Enriched Classics series, which offer such features as a chronology of the author's life and career; a critical analysis; discussion questions; and a list of... (read more)

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The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start
by Richard Price

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Anthropological iconoclasts Richard and Sally Price have spent the last two decades not only creating an unparalleled oeuvre of scholarship in several areas of anthropology but also unabashedly calling foul on any untenable or patronizing concepts of "us"... (read more)

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