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The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Bl Ack Americans and Politics in America
by Wahneema Lubiano
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Like Race Matters and Playing in the Dark, The House That Race Built is a cutting-edge work that confronts, honestly and passionately, the most critical issues facing American culture today along the fissure of race. In these essays, brought together by... ( read more)
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Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth
by Jacqueline Bernard
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First published in 1967 and based on extensive primary research, Jacqueline Bernard's widely praised biography of the remarkable woman known as Sojourner Truth is an important historical document, as compassionately told as it is engrossing to read. In... ( read more)
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Malcolm X as Cultural Hero: And Other Afrocentric Essays
by Molefi Kete Asante
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Molefi Kete Asante explores major intellectual themes confronting African... ( read more)
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Race Matters
by Cornel West
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First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as... ( read more)
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter
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Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong... ( read more)
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Live from Death Row
by Mumia Abu Jamal
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National Public Radio refuses to air him, his publisher has received threats, and "patriotic" citizens across the country have tried to ban him from the shelves. It's not hard to see why. In this brilliant collection of vignettes on life inside... ( read more)
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Alchemy of Race and Rights
by Patricia Williams
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result is a testament of considerable beauty, a triumph of moral tactfullness, The result, as the title suggests, is magic.... ( read more)
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Brown V. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
by Michael J Klarman
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A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition... ( read more)
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Walking With the Wind
by John Lewis
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The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student... ( read more)
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Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson
by Michael Eric Dyson
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Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat... ( read more)
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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
by Melvin Patrick Ely
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Thomas Jefferson condemned slavery but denied that whites and liberated blacks could live together in harmony. Jefferson’s young cousin Richard Randolph and ninety African Americans set out to prove the sage of Monticello wrong. When Randolph died... ( read more)
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
by Angela Y. Davis
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Civil rights activist Angela Davis lays bare the situation and argues for a radical rethinking of US rehabilitation programmes.... ( read more)
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The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by W E B Du Bois
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The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, 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 carefully... ( read more)
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Malcolm X: The FBI File
by Martin Luther King
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The FBI opened its file on Malcolm X shortly after his release from a Boston prison in March 1953. Twelve years later — on February 21, 1965 — he was assassinated in a hail of bullets. Yet his fascinating story survived his violent death... ( read more)
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
by David Blight
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Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.... ( read more)
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We Shall Overcome
by Herb Boyd
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This dramatic evocation of the forever poignant and courageous struggle of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is told in words, pictures, and the voices of participants, and is accompanied by two audio CDs.... ( read more)
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Race Matters
by Cornel West
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First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as... ( read more)
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Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50
by Michael Cunningham
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Bestselling novelist Briscoe and photographer Cunningham profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful in this celebration of the spirit of extraordinary African-American women.... ( read more)
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed... ( read more)
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Soul on Fire 1ST Edition
by Eldridge Cleaver
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Drawing from personal "his, mine and ours" experience, Grammy Award-winning singer and Women of Faith speaker Sandi Patty provides insight on how to stay focused when life threatens to spin out of control--a much-needed resource for any woman in a... ( read more)
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